Legoshi had spent his life hiding the way he felt. He felt it was wrong for him, as a carnivore - and a gray wolf, no less - to impose his emotions on others. He hated causing fear in his peers even just by walking by. Sometimes he wished he hadn't been born a wolf.

He himself had experienced the feeling of a young herbivore, a small mole with glasses, playing alone, unsuspecting. Digging in the dirt as all moles As a child still naive to the ways of his world, he had gone over and tried to smile, to ask the mole if he could play with them.

The mole had screamed outright and run to its parents. Legoshi was left there, a lanky wolf boy standing alone in the grass wondering why he had to feel so lonely.

Most of his friends were either carnivores or canine. It was safer that way. No one really felt intimidated by him, and they were all quite close. A motley "pack" of sorts. It was a comfort that he often needed when things were hard. He shared a dorm with many of them and it had helped.

You were among them. You'd stuck by his side since first year, since you'd come to sit by him and Jack at the entrance ceremony. He knew you to be a kind, sunny person who seemed unbothered by most things out there. The prejudice you faced never seemed to bother you, and you'd actually laughed in the faces of some bullies once upon a time.

Then he met Haru.

He noticed that the more he talked about Haru, the more disengaged you seemed. Legoshi couldn't help but notice. Most of his friends were happy for him. Granted, a good chunk of them didn't know who she was. But... it hurt him more that you didn't support him. When he asked about it privately? You snapped.

"...Hey- just what the hell is your problem? I've never felt the way I do for Haru for anyone! I thought you'd be happy for me!" Legoshi was angry, but- mostly... he was hurt.

The shift was abrupt. How could you go from being his biggest cheerleader to outright snapping at him over something that should have been celebrated? He just didn't get it.