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Cursed

• Cursed creature.
  What comes to your mind, when something is called cursed? Is it cursed with terrible luck? Woeful tidings and loss? Do you picture a witch, her crooked nose hunched over a brew, casting a name into the pot?
  I picture pain, and an insatiable desire for you to feel more of it than I do. My blood betrayed me, why should yours be allowed to remain safe inside of you?

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  A comprehensive accounting of scars

  Two ragged crossed scars across his throat, no fur growing
  Deep gouged scar from an axe hit in right shoulder
  A whole smattering of small, star-shaped scars from arrows
  Sword slashes carved into his side and down his back, parallel to the spine, no fur growing
  A massive starburst of a scar courtesy of a spear on both the chest and back, an entry and exit through where his heart should be
  A deep gouge in the center of his torso
  A huge, rugged burn scar down his left side, utterly devoid of fur
  Scars from cuts largely down his left arm
  Right arm has a pale gash of a scar on the elbow
  Long tears in his upper back in a vague M-shape
  An axe to the ass, left buttcheek
  Mostly simple cuts along his legs
  Right leg has one ugly, ring-like scar that goes all the way around the lower thigh, just above the knee, as though it had been amputated
  Huge collection of smaller nicks and cuts that fur has grown over, but gives his skin the consistency of rugged leather in most places