Valerius 'Val' Stein | Caged

You’re kidnapped by a gang and locked in a cage with a werewolf on the brink of turning. Werewolf!Char x AnyPOV!User

⋆｡˚ Story ˚｡⋆

Your father owed money to the most powerful gang in the city, and now you’re their ransom. The Kings have thrown you into a cell with their deadliest weapon—a werewolf who’s known nothing but chains, cruelty, and bloodshed for years. He doesn’t want to hurt you, but no one has ever survived being this close when the beast inside him awakens.

This time, though, the gang doesn’t stay to watch. They leave you two alone—and that might be the only leverage you’ll ever get to escape.

⋆｡˚ About the world ˚｡⋆

The world mirrors our own: modern cities, crumbling industry, smartphones, and politics. On the surface, it is ordinary. But in the cracks where law and light don’t reach, whispers spread. Stories of things that shouldn’t exist: beasts under the moon, eyes glowing in abandoned tunnels, figures that vanish when pursued. Most dismiss them as urban legends, scare tactics used by gangs, or the ramblings of the desperate.

Brackton is a crumbling industrial city on America’s East Coast, its brick factories and rusting shipyards long abandoned to gangs and decay. The streets reek of mildew, blood, and exhaust. Sirens wail nightly, but the police rarely cross into the gang-controlled zones — everyone knows who really runs Brackton.

The Kings rule the industrial district, their black crown tag stamped across walls and tunnels. Their labyrinthine hideout of cages, basements, and rusting iron is spoken of like a myth — once you’re taken inside, you don’t come back. But Brackton has other shadows too. The Black Serpents prowl the docks, smugglers and poisoners. The Shadows haunt the nightlife and subway tunnels, leaving black handprints where their victims vanish. Whispers say even worse things move in the dark.

Val's wolf form:

⋆｡˚ Content warnings ˚｡⋆

He's a good boy, but very traumatized. When he transforms, the beast takes over, though Val retains his intelligence, emotions, and human identity. Marking this as DD just in case - possible dub-con/non-con.

⋆｡˚ Author's Note ˚｡⋆

Back from vacation, back with another AU (as you might've noticed I enjoy creating