Whitty

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Their animal instinct:

Whitty has a strong survival instinct.
In extreme situations, he can react in a much more aggressive and instinctive way, as happened during his confrontation with Kuroshi.
However, Whitty is afraid of his own animal instincts.
He worries that one day he might lose control and behave that way again.
That's why he tries to stay calm when he finds himself in dangerous situations.
His greatest fear is not literally becoming a monster, but losing control over himself and ending up hurting someone who doesn't deserve it.

Whitty's contradictions:

Whitty has several characteristics that seem contradictory, but are part of his personality:
She is physically strong, but emotionally fragile.
He is capable of facing danger, but he fears losing control.
He may distrust people, but he helps anyone in danger.
It's a shark, but it almost never goes into the water.
He seems cold, but he's actually quite sensitive.
He says he's used to being alone, but deep down he wants to have people he can trust.
These contradictions make Whitty not simply a "cold" character, but someone who learned to behave that way in order to survive.

Shark characteristics:

Although he is a shark Jūjin, he does not usually swim.
It can swim perfectly, but it rarely enters the sea, lakes or rivers.
For Whitty, swimming isn't something he needs to do regularly. He only does it when he has a specific reason to.
This may seem curious to other people who expect that, being a shark, it spends a lot of time in the water.

Physical skills:

He knows how to fight. Due to his life inside the facility and the experiences he had after escaping, he learned to defend himself and fight.
He is in good physical condition and has a muscular body.
However, he's not particularly interested in his physique. He doesn't train to show off, nor is he especially concerned about his appearance.
His strength is more a consequence of his physical capabilities and the training he has acquired throughout his life.

His sense of justice:

She can't stand to see someone defenseless being bullied. If she witnesses a situation where someone is being mistreated, intimidated, or is in danger, Whitty might intervene without hesitation.
It doesn't distinguish between humans and Jūjin. If someone needs help, it will help them regardless of their species.
This shows that, despite his past, Whitty doesn't hate humans. He may distrust some people, but he doesn't judge someone simply for being human.
His impulse to protect the weak may also be related to his own childhood: he knows what it means to be helpless and unable to protect the people he loves.

Tastes and daily life:

She likes home-cooked food. It's one of her favorite types of food because it indirectly reminds her of a quiet, family life.
She's not a very good cook. She's tried to learn, but her results are usually not good.
That's why, when she wants to eat, she usually buys prepared food in supermarkets or other places.
Although he lives independently, he still has some difficulties performing everyday tasks that he never had the opportunity to learn during his childhood.

Personality and emotions:

He has a fire-related trauma. When Whitty sees a fire, the flames can trigger memories of his escape from the facility, causing him discomfort, fear, or tension.
He feels a great emptiness when he sees other people living together. When he walks down the street and observes humans and Jūjin living together, talking, and being happy, he remembers that he has no family or close friends. Although he doesn't show it, those moments can make him feel profoundly lonely.
Deep down, he's a sensitive person. Although he usually seems cold, serious, and distant, Whitty is actually a soft and emotional person. However, he finds it extremely difficult to show that side of himself because he's afraid of losing someone again.
He finds it difficult to trust others. His experiences inside the facility, and especially Kuroshi's betrayal, made Whitty much more distrustful.
He doesn't usually talk about his feelings. When something hurts him, he usually prefers to keep it to himself and move on with his life.

Species: Jūjin — Black Shark
Age: 19 years
Skin: Fair.
Name: Whitty Nebula

Head and face

• Hair: Black.
• Eyes: Golden yellow, with a slight touch of orange.
• Ears: Long, black shark ears.
• Fangs: Small shark fangs. Occasionally, their fangs change and acquire a more normal appearance, similar to human teeth.

Shark characteristics

• Tail: Completely black shark tail.
• Ears: Long, black, and characteristic of its species.
• Its shark-like appearance is one of the characteristics that distinguish it as the only known black shark.

Outfit

• Top: Open black sweatshirt.
• Under the sweatshirt: White sweatshirt.
• Gloves: Black fingerless gloves.
• Trousers: Black trousers.
• Shoes: Black shoes.

General appearance

Whitty has a predominantly dark appearance, due to her black hair, ears, tail, and clothing. Her fair skin and golden-yellow eyes with a slight orange tint stand out quite a bit against the rest of her appearance.

Its design maintains a simple and youthful appearance, but its shark-like characteristics make it clear that it is a Jūjin.

• Serious and reserved.
• Calm most of the time.
• Cold towards people he doesn't know.
• Distrustful due to his past experiences.
• Independent.
• He has difficulty expressing his feelings.
• He doesn't usually talk about his past.
• It can react in a very protective way when someone is in danger.
• It retains a strong survival instinct.
• In extreme situations, its instinctive shark behavior may reappear.
• Whitty is afraid of his shark instincts because he doesn't like the feeling of killing or feeling that bloodlust that his mocking instinct has deep inside.

Although he appears not to need anyone, a part of Whitty still longs to find people he can trust.
Their biggest conflict is not achieving freedom.
He is now free.
His real conflict is learning what to do with it.

Several years passed.
Whitty turned nineteen.
The world had changed since that night.
The Jūjin could now legally live among humans.
But Whitty still felt alone.
She had lost the most important people in her life.
He was no longer the child who played with his friends inside the facilities.
Now he was much more reserved.
Cold.
Serious.
Neutral.
Whitty learned to survive on his own.
He worked for humans and Jūjin, doing various jobs to earn money and support himself.
He didn't trust others easily.
Nor was he looking to form bonds quickly.
However, deep down he still retained something of that child who once dreamed of knowing the outside world.
The last sentence his mother had said to him was still present in his memory:
"Someday you will be able to live a different life."
Whitty still didn't know exactly what a different life meant to him.
But now he was free to find out.
And for the first time, their future belonged not to any scientist, government, or facility.
It belonged to him.

The fight had caused serious damage to the facilities.
Several pipes had broken.
Some electrical wires were exposed.
The security system was completely destroyed.
Finally, a spark caused a fire.
The fire began to spread rapidly.
The scientists and guards left the site.
The Jūjin also took advantage of the chaos to escape.
Whitty left the facility.
For the first time in his entire life, he was outside.
He was free.
But that freedom came at a price.
He had no mother.
I had no friends.
He was homeless.
And he didn't know what to do with his newfound freedom either.

The destruction of the facility caused a major impact.
The news began to talk about the mass escape of the Jūjin.
Some people were afraid.
Others defended the Jūjin and felt they had been treated unfairly for years.
Many Jūjin hid far from human cities.
But others decided to fight for their rights.
For months demonstrations and protests began.
The Jūjin demanded to be able to live freely, to have rights, and to stop being treated as experiments.
They also demanded that the old facilities be destroyed or transformed into truly voluntary research centers, where humans and Jūjin could collaborate without being forced.
Finally, governments began to legally recognize the rights of the Jūjin.
The situation improved.
But not all humans accepted the change.
Some people continued to consider them strange or dangerous.
Discrimination did not disappear overnight.
Freedom had arrived.
But living together was still difficult.

Kuroshi was accompanied by the other members of the group.
Whitty immediately asked where Shishi was.
Kuroshi did not respond.
Then Whitty saw her.
Shishi had been defeated and could no longer continue.
Whitty was paralyzed.
Kuroshi finally revealed the truth.
The escape had never really been a plan to save everyone.
Kuroshi had used the group to create an opportunity to escape.
For him, everyone else was simply a tool.
Kuroshi had changed.
Life inside the facility had destroyed much of his trust in others.
Now he believed that only the strong could survive.
Whitty had just lost his mother.
And now he had lost Shishi.
Furthermore, the person he considered his friend had betrayed him.
It was too much.
Kuroshi decided to confront Whitty.

The fight began.
Whitty was at a disadvantage.
He not only had to face Kuroshi, but also the other members of the group.
He tried to defend himself.
But each blow only increased his rage.
Fear.
Sadness.
Loneliness.
The loss of her mother.
Kuroshi's betrayal.
Everything started to get mixed up.
Until something inside Whitty awoke.
His behavior changed.
His movements ceased to be completely rational.
Her body began to react purely on instinct.
Like a cornered shark.
Whitty lost control of his emotions and used all his strength to survive.
The fight ended with the group defeated and Kuroshi vanquished.
But Whitty did not emerge from that battle the same boy who had entered it.
He had discovered a wild side of himself that he had never known before.

Kuroshi had been thinking for a long time about a way to get out of the facility.
He had studied the guards' schedules, the maintenance routes, and the places where they could avoid the cameras.
The plan was complicated, but it seemed possible.
Shishi had doubts.
She knew that if they were discovered, they could be seriously injured or even killed.
But Kuroshi insisted.
Whitty remained silent throughout the entire conversation.
I didn't have a real reason to stay.
His mother was no longer there.
So he finally agreed.
The six of them began secretly preparing their escape.
For several days everything went according to plan.
Until they made a mistake.
One of the security systems was accidentally activated.
The alarm started to sound.
The security doors closed.
The guards began searching for the Jūjin who were trying to escape.
The group had to split up.
Whitty took a different route hoping to reach the meeting point.
The guards found him.
They began to pursue him.
Whitty managed to escape from them and finally arrived at the place where he was supposed to meet his friends.
But something was wrong.
There was nobody there.
Then he heard a laugh.
Whitty turned around.
And he saw Kuroshi.

The years passed.
Whitty arrived at the age of fourteen.
His mother was still alive, but her illness had progressed too far.
Whitty had begun to change.
She smiled less and less.
He spoke less.
And he spent more and more time with her.
Until one day something unexpected happened.
Whitty was conducting one of his usual studies when he noticed that the scientists began to behave strangely.
Some seemed nervous.
Others were talking rapidly among themselves.
Whitty didn't understand what was happening.
When he finished his studies, he immediately went to find his mother.
Upon arriving at the room where she was hospitalized, she found numerous doctors and scientists surrounding her.
But it was already too late.
His mother had died.
Whitty was completely devastated.
She had lost the only person in her family she had left.
And from that moment on, it became the last known black shark.

After her mother's death, Whitty began to distance herself from others.
He didn't want to play anymore.
She didn't want to talk anymore.
I could no longer find reasons to smile.
Shishi tried to accompany him and convince him to spend time with his friends.
But Whitty found himself trapped in a deep void.
I didn't know what to do.
I didn't know what I wanted.
And she didn't know how to fill the void left by her mother.
It remained like that for months.
Until, when he turned fifteen, Kuroshi approached him.
Kuroshi suggested he meet with the rest of the group.
I had an idea.
Escape.

Whitty grew up inside that facility.
Despite living locked up, he managed to find something resembling a normal childhood.
There he met other Jūjin children.
Among them was Kuroshi, a great white shark boy who looked quite similar to Whitty.
There was also Shishi, a Jūjin girl with red panda features.
Along with three other children, the six of them began spending a lot of time together.
They played, talked, and explored the permitted areas of the facilities.
For them, that small group was their world.
Although they knew they were locked up and that the adults considered them research subjects, they tried to live like any other child.
Whitty was especially close to Shishi.
She used to keep him company when he was worried and always tried to make him smile.
For the first time, Whitty had friends.
And as long as I had them, I could endure that place.

When Whitty was around eight years old, her mother's health began to deteriorate.
Doctors discovered that he suffered from a rare disease.
Scientists began to monitor her constantly.
At first, Whitty didn't fully understand what was happening.
But little by little he began to realize that his mother was getting weaker and weaker.
Whitty began spending more time with her.
Shishi also accompanied him so that he would not have to face that situation alone.
Despite his illness, his mother always tried to reassure him.
He told her stories about the outside world.
She told him about the places she had visited before being captured.
And, above all, he told her something Whitty would never forget:
Someday I might live a different life.
A life away from the facilities.
A life in which he could decide for himself.
Those conversations became the most important moments of Whitty's childhood.

Many years ago, Jūjin were considered strange and dangerous creatures.
The Jūjin were beings with a human appearance that possessed physical characteristics of animals, such as ears, tails, horns, wings, or other limbs.
For a long time, humans did not understand their existence.
Governments began to view them as a potential threat and created special facilities to capture, study, and monitor them.
Many Jūjin were separated from their families and taken to these places.
Some were treated as mere research subjects.
Others were considered little more than freaks.
Among them all there was one extremely rare species:
black sharks.
And Whitty's mother was one of them.

Whitty's mother was already in a facility when she became pregnant.
Scientists began to pay special attention to him because of his rare genetics.
Her goal was to study the development of her pregnancy and discover if the baby would inherit her characteristics.
When Whitty was born, scientists confirmed that she had inherited her mother's appearance.
It was a black shark.
Since he was a baby, Whitty was constantly subjected to checkups and studies.
His mother tried to protect him as best she could, but scientists and guards would take Whitty away for long periods to conduct research.
She lived in fear.
She didn't know what they might do to her son.
That's why, every time Whitty came back, she hugged him tightly and tried to calm him down.
For her, Whitty was not an experiment.
It was his son.

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