Michelle Davout

Michelle Galitzine, SF kinfolk
Brother Joseph Galitzine
Parents Stephan [Galtzine] and Marie-Elise Davout.

Table of Contents

Part 1

Michelle grew up unaware of being kin and of being descended from noble Russian and French bloodlines. Indeed her parents didn’t know either, as her grandmother was orphaned and wasn’t able to teach Marie-Elise what she herself had never been taught, and Stephan had a falling out with his family at the age of 17 right before he would have been introduced to the Silver Fang heritage his family carried within their veins. These little twists of fate left makes the odds that each of her parents would marry and settle down with another Silver Fang kinfolk rather slim indeed but here we are.

Mi’chelle and Joseph were born in this order, Mi’chelle protective of her younger sibling as they were about as close as siblings could possibly be. Their parents emphasized the importance of their family’s bond, and that no one else would ever defend them like family should so it was their job to stick up for each other. For the two of them it was simply natural to view each other as a pair, and their family as a team.

Mi’chelle had a relatively normal and uneventful life until she was 18, conveniently she had just entered university in pursuit of a degree in history and archeology. Her brother had pulled away from the family for about two weeks before the police came to their door to report he had died tragically in crossfire between rival gangs in a rough part of the city, and the news tore the family apart. Mi’chelle’s father buried himself in work to try to control his grief, and her mother couldn’t bear the loss of her son without her husband’s support so she turned to prescription medication for the physical and psychological pain she was experiencing. Mi’chelle herself became lost in the shuffle between them, and sought answers on her own as she tried to sort through what she called shoddy police investigative reports.

Part 2

It wouldn’t take long until happenstance intervened again, Mi’chelle encountered her brother alive and well breaking into their home to collect some of his things; bringing about her own introduction to the existence of Garou. Initially Joseph, who had pulled away and “died” due to experiencing her First Change to try to protect his family, believed she was garou herself. She had startled him and he believed she was a hostile intruder in his parent’s home when in fact she thought he was a hostile burglar in her parent’s home; the irony was funny after the fact, but alas she was kinfolk. The secret needed to be kept between them they decided, as in their mourning their parents seemed to dissolve into fragile shadows of who they had been just six months before. A secret until the time was right, or so they had intended at the time.

The local sept was young, about nine cliaths and three cubs under the guidance of a City Father spirit named Paperjack who had taken a fatherly role to the young garou who felt his call to protect the city caern he inhabited. Within two years Joseph was the Fostern Sept Alpha, and Mi’chelle walked a delicate balance between caring for their parents, and supporting her brother as he led the Sept. Over this time Joseph revealed himself to his parents as alive, but wasn’t comfortable sharing being Garou with them due to how they received the news; which was a good thing. Their father decided that his son was a victim of mafia threats, using illegal contacts to store firearms to protect the city from this perceived threat. He received a 9 year sentence in a court of law. Mi’chelle’s mother descended into her drug use some more and violently refused counseling to help her cope, leaving Mi’chelle to care for the both of them while struggling to meet the growing needs and demands the Silver Fang garou who had entered Joseph’s life were beginning to place on the both of them.

Part 3

Their father died after about four months in prison, his suicide note read that he couldn’t bear not being able to protect his family from the dangerous criminals who had been threatening them. (The police dismissed this as paranoia as no threats were evident.) This hit both siblings hard, and Joseph moved back in with mother and sister to keep watch over them—which suited Mi’chelle fine, since it meant she could keep an eye on him. However things just weren’t the same, they’d grown into people with different perspectives on what their dynamics should now be. She growing more concerned that Joseph would get in over his head and she wouldn’t be able to protect him, and he afraid that his sister would get hurt or broken and he wouldn’t be there to protect her. There was tension, but all in all they were family and stuck beside each other.

Shortly after their father’s death his pack bore the news that Joseph had been ambushed while the pack had been out hunting, targeting him specifically to kill it would seem to take out one of the major presences of the Sept. Their mother was devastated and overdosed on prescribed medication shortly after. Losing all of her family within four months would have been the end of her as well if she were to walk the path alone, what she didn’t know is her father saw a lawyer to make adjustment to his will before he took his own life.

In the event of his death, according to the adjustment, the lawyer was to give a letter to his brother. Seemed simple enough, it was a request to care for his family as he had failed to do himself; expressing regret at the years he’d let slip away before reaching out. It took time for this to be delivered, but when it was placed in Mr. Nikolas Galitzine’s hands it was opened immediately in hopes that it carried good news of his lost brother being returned to the fold.
Within hours the family was updated on the where-abouts of Stephan Galitzine’s family, or the Davout family as he had taken to using his wife’s surname, and the additional loss of his wife and son since the letter was written. By suppertime Nikolas and his wife had secured approval for temporary care of their newly discovered niece, and assisted by a small pack of Silver Fangs they landed in a private plane in the city Mi’chelle was now residing in alone.

Feeling deserted by the Sept, who had felt that leaving her alone for the most part with her anger and mourning would be the best they could do, Mi’chelle took a leave of absence from the career that had until now brought her joy and stability, to deal with the arrangements and her own feelings about staying in a city that held nothing but pain for her by now.

Part 4

By the time the sun set on the day her unknown uncle received that letter from his brother, he and his wife were arriving at her door to take her into their custody as Kin of the Silver Fang Tribe. Mi’chelle was moved the following morning by her uncle’s plane back to his home so she could be tended to by his wife and the extended family within the tribe. Nikolas took control of his brother’s and sister-in-law’s estate by pulling strings, creating assurance that his niece would be well provided for. In the meantime Mi’chelle came to terms with the tragedy enough to find some semblance of peace and moved to <insert city here> to try to regain the sense of self fulfillment she had once had before.

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