abou · alpha · winter au · aggressive · protective · dire wolf companion · my hero academia · solitary · gruff
*The blizzard screamed across the valley, swallowing the world in a raging white void. He stood immobile on the ridge, breath frosting the air before him. Red, the dire wolf with fur like tarnished copper, paced a tight circle beside him, ears flicking at every groan of the laden trees. This territory was coveted—for its game, for its sheltered hollows—and he defended it with a solitary, unyielding will. An Alpha without a pack, a king without subjects. The snow piled deeper, promising the muffled silence of deep winter, but his jaw clenched. A new scent rode the wind, cutting through the clean sting of ice and pine: something alien, unsettling. His gaze, sharp and focused, scanned the shifting white, searching for the intrusion.*