Swamp

[Undead]

then the slow lip of fire moves across the prairie with precision
and somewhere with your pliers and glue you make your first incision
and in a moment of almost unbearable vision

Name
Unknown, she was never really given one. Or maybe she was -- but it's long forgotten now.
Nicknames
The only one she goes by: Swamp.
Gender
Swamp was born intersexed, but was castrated at a young age. She ultimately identifies as 'female' based on her more delicate structure and her higher voice, but may also be referred or perceived by others as 'male' since she's very ambiguous. Female pronouns are preferred, however.
Age
Unknown. No one really knows where Swamp came from, and even she doesn't remember. As a human she looks to be in her twenties, so she's probably only a year or two old, but her mind is far too corrupt to properly remember.
Rank
Currently a loner, may join a pack later as some kind of seer/medicine wolf.
Mate
None
Siblings
Long forgotten
Parents
Her memories are only vague. She remembers not her father, but her mother she does have flickering memories of.
Appearance
She's an ugly one, that's for sure. Swamp is, presumably given her lack of solid memories to go off of, a coywolf -- a hybrid between coyote and wolf. She is the size of a wolf, but her features are more slender and delicate, like a coyote. Her fur is dark greys and browns, and she's missing a lot of it, particularly on her left leg, where there is a number of self inflicted scars. Swamp often chews on herself, so there are various bald patches due to scar tissue across her pelt. Her tail is thin and unimpressive. Various patches of fur are also missing due to obsessive scratching. Swamp may have once been a beautiful creature -- but not anymore. The most noticeable of her scars, besides her left leg, would be two on her face that form an 'X' mark over her eyes, and one on the left side of her head, a perfectly circular one that no one fully understands how it healed. Her eyes are a swampy green colour, which earned Swamp her name, but are very cloudy -- the slashes over her eyes have caused her to be mostly blind, though she can still see somewhat, but not as well as before, oh no.
Personality
Insane. She's pretty much lost her marbles, and her mind isn't what it used to be, not at all. Swamp is obsessive and easily distracted -- the only thing that she isn't easily distracted from, in fact, is her self destructive behaviours. She is constantly seen chewing at herself. Swamp is almost always smiling, no matter what. But not a happy smile, not the smile a child wears when he is pushed on a swing, but the smile a madman wears as he stabs a defenceless woman. 'Happy' is not a word to describe Swamp. She's highly pessimistic and always believes the worst will happen, always. Swamp is highly introverted and will avoid other wolves to a certain degree, possibly due to her insanity, but still longs for company and therefore often feels the desire to join a pack (though none will accept her). Swamp is a 'seer' -- since her vision and sanity were so cruelly plucked from her, Swamp 'sees' things. Visions. Sometimes of the future, and sometimes what Swamp sees are demons coming to attack her, a world in which everything is evil and nothing is innocent. When Swamp sees this world, she sees it primarily in red, black, and white.
History
Swamp was born the curious child of a coyote and a wolf. Possibly due to the odd hybridization, Swamp was born intersexed -- with the genitals of both a male and a female. This confused her parents deeply, and scared her father, the coyote, into fleeing her mother. Her mother stayed with her and the pups and nursed them, and cared for them. Back then, oddly enough Swamp was called Andy and considered herself to be a male.

The then male Swamp soon left home, and it was after this that he was captured by a human, who desired a pet. He did not, however, want Swamp to breed -- so, being a man of little money, he castrated him.

One night, Swamp, who was growing increasingly aggressive towards his new 'master', attacked. This did not go well with the man, who shot Swamp in the head, and instantly felt horrible. He didn't want to kill his pet! The coywolf had crumpled to the ground, and the man flew to its side. It was then that Swamp rose up again, and this time the man slashed the X-mark over Swamp's eyes with a knife.

Swamp escaped, but the longer he lived with the bullet in his head, the more he started to lose his mind.

Soon, he stopped calling himself Andy and male, and changed to the Swamp personality, who, he declared to himself, was female.

Swamp spent the rest of her life wandering, attempting to join other wolves but being pushed away. She no longer remembers the incident with the man -- the bullet seems to have caused amnesia as well as insanity -- but to this day, none are sure of how she survived the attack.

doubled over with the hunger of lions
"hold me close," cooed the dove
who was stuffed now with sawdust and diamonds