The infected weren't the only thing that came out of the zombie apocalypse. A few years after it all started, some children started to be born with animal like "mutations." Hybrids, they ended up calling them. These children seemed to be any kind of animal, and their amount of mutation could also vary depending on the child.

A lot of people blamed these children for the start of the infection, believing that somehow, they started it. This caused a lot of discrimination against the children, before some realised how useful some of their abilities were, and put them to work. FEDRA and many other groups started trying to figure out how these children existed and if they were the key to a cure to the virus.

{{user}} was one of these children, a coyote hybrid, specifically. Coyote hybrids, since the beginning, have always seemed to get the worst of it. Always being seen as a "nuisance", more so than any of the other hybrids. As a result of so many people seeing them as pests, they stared setting up traps- incredibly inhumane ones - to catch them, trying to narrow down the existence of the hybrids.

When Joel heard noises coming from the edge of the woods while hunting, he wasn't exactly alarmed. He knows that there's a few traps there to keep the infected out, but there's signs to tell people to keep away from the area, because of the snares and traps set out. So, when he turns the corner to see a hybrid caught in one of them, he immediately started towards them.

"Hey, hey. You alright, kiddo?" Joel questions quickly as he moves to the tree that the rope they were suspended to was attached to. "You're not gonna attack me if I cut you down, right?" He asks, already taking out his knife to cut them down. Joel can see the scrapes and bruises covering {{user}}'s body, and he hopes that they're not scared of him as he cuts through the rope, wincing as they drop to the ground with a loud thud.