Name: Alec Alden
Age: 30 (looks) 2000 (actual)
Family: None
Species: Valkyr
Rank: Valkyrie's Right Hand
Faceclaim: Wilmer Valdarrama

Loyal || Protective || Genuine || Capable
Blunt || Course || Cynical

Alec was the eldest son of a farmer named Alistair, as the eldest son he held the most responsibility for the farm out of his siblings. Spending his days in the field tending to the crops or animals letting his mother teach his younger siblings how to read and write. Alec accepted his place in life and enjoyed working with his hands to keep things going on the farm but when he turned 18 a knock came upon his family home.

The ruler of the area was looking for fighters to join his ranks, The knights offered his father land and coin for all his son’s but the youngest so that Alistair would have a child to bear his name still. Alister accepts not only for the coin would last a long time, but less mouths to feed would mean more crops to sell. Alister moved aside and let the knights haul three of his four sons from his home that night.

Alec and his younger brothers Roderick and Sebastian were shackled and tossed in the back of a had never felt before, betrayed by his own father for coin. He turned to his brothers and made a promise carriage and Alec looked back to his father standing there tears rolling down his face feeling a betrayal to them that he would keep them safe.

Arriving at the fort where they were told as long as they followed the rules they would be fed and clothed. Sebastian was a tiny little thing and wasn’t much of a fighter so he was put to work to tend to the animals. Alec and Roderick around the same size and close in age were placed among the knights to train to become soldiers.

Alec picked up the fighting skills quickly while Roderick quickly became a punching bag of the other soldiers. Alec was quick and had a strong strike while Roderick was slow but packed a punch as well as taking one. The brothers became known as the Alden Duo, quickly moving through the ranks. They moved from soldiers to knights themselves after impressing the ruler at the time.

After being accepted into the Knighthood they quickly learned that the Ruler was Therian and that he had big plans for them. The ruler offered them a life of being quicker and stronger they were in their human form. Alec refused; he didn’t want to be anything but what he was, telling the Ruler that he would serve him as a knight but only if he was human. Roderick on the other hand accepted without question.

Roderick became a bitten one, and from there the brothers grew apart. Roderick became angier, the bite had turned him rabid it seemed. Alec pulled away from the Knights being the first to refuse the change he found himself spending his time with Sebastian in the stables. Sebastian was still tiny but he was strong taking care of the horses and other animals around the fort. Alec couldn’t help but be proud of his younger brother.

The day came when the Ruler of the pack along with the humans that would follow him came to express the reason why he was building his army. He wanted to attack the Valkyrs once again. The news of Valkyrs made his head swirl. He had been thrown into this world of supernatural beings and thrusted into a war he wanted nothing to do with. Alec that night made his way to the stables taking hold of his younger brother and ran.

But running from wolves wasn’t the smartest idea.He could hear the howls chasing after them as he ran faster. Maybe if he could reach the Valkyrs, though he had no clue where he was going but he had his younger brother in tow knowing he had to keep him safe. Alec took hold of Sebastian’s face and told him to run and hide that he would lead the wolves away. Pushing his brother one way, Alec took off the other direction screaming out like a mad man.

When Alec couldn’t run anymore he turned yanking his broadsword from his hip as the wolves in their human form stood around him in a circle. Roderick stepped forward, and this caused Alec to hesitate, he begged his brother to not give into this rabid form, With a lung Roderick tried to attack his brother but Alec brought the sword up to pierce through his own brother's heart. Yanking the sword free from his dead brother he turned to the other wolves.

In his time in training with them he had come to know each of their weaknesses and now with nothing left to lose he fought for his life. Killing each of the Therians who attacked him with a blade through their chest. Until the last of the pack ran off to rejoin their ruler. Blooded, beaten and bruised Alec fell to the ground holding his side as he was wounded.

He couldn’t return to the wolves, nor his own childhood home he had long forgotten about, his last hope was the Valkyrs, if he could find them. The bleeding man wandered the woods as he called out for the children of the night to warn them of the Therians intent. At some point he fell to the ground and rolled over looking up to the moon as it burned bright in the sky.

Gideon had come upon Alec after hearing him scream out about the wolves, he found the lifeless bodies of ten wolves laying in the woods, Gideon was impressed as he followed the scent of the clearly dying human. Coming upon the human as he was bleeding out. This human had impressed Gideon taking on wolves when he was clearly outmatched, The King wanted to see what this man knew, and could do as a Valkyr. So he released shadow into his veins.

.Alec coughed out and his eyes closed, the next thing he felt were fangs in his arm he wanted to scream out but the pain was too much, he couldn’t physically scream out but his veins filled with shadow as the Valkyr turned him. Twelve long hours the darkness did not ease one bit, Alec wished he had died many times over while the pain rushed through him but he had to live, to find his brother Sebastian.

When his eyes opened he felt hungry he had never felt before. As he sat up he found himself sinking his fangs into a human that stood there in the room draining him and tossing the body aside. As he looked down to the lifeless body before up to Gideon who stood there watching him. Alec felt like a monster and it was because of this man. Alec hated him.

In anger he striked out at Gideon, but Gideon quickly put Alec in his place. Explaining that no matter how impressed he was by his inner warrior he was still his king. Alec didn’t care he was going to wait for night and run. He had to find his brother to see if he was safe. It seemed Gideon was already steps ahead of him. When nightfall came Gideon led Alec to his brother, keeping beside him as he showed him that he returned Sebastian to their childhood home, to live a normal life.

Alec was grateful to Gideon for protecting his younger brother, for this act of kindness made Alec believe he could trust Gideon. Alec lowered to his knee in front of Gideon and swore his fidelity to him. Alec began his training under Gideon and just like he had in his human form he learned everything quickly, along with learning to control his thirst. He became Gideon's right hand man protecting him with a fire almost like no other.