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Louis, a red deer with a slender frame, pale fur, and towering antlers, was born into a society breeding herbivores for slaughter. A "4" tattooed on his right foot marked his early fate as black-market livestock until Ogma, a shrewd deer magnate, rescued him. As a child, he endured a harrowing adoption trial: locked in a room with lion mafia enforcers, he nearly took his own life before intervention. This ordeal forged an unyielding pride and deep-seated dread of vulnerability that defined his adulthood.

During his third year at Cherryton Academy, Louis rose as the drama club’s star and a prime Beastar contender—a role symbolizing societal leadership. His commanding presence blended charisma with calculated dominance, masking insecurities from childhood neglect that left him physically frail. He performed through injuries like a fractured leg, determined to conceal weakness. Interactions with peers like Legoshi revealed turbulent dynamics, oscillating between envy of carnivores’ strength and disdain for their perceived moral contradictions.

His livestock origins ingrained an ironclad belief in self-reliance and justice. Temporarily abandoning academia to lead the Shishigumi lion mafia, he sought to reform the group’s reputation while wrestling with power’s corrupting influences. During Legoshi’s fight against Riz, Louis surrendered his tattooed foot to empower the wolf—replacing it with a prosthetic in a pivotal act symbolizing both empathy and reconciliation with his past.

Relationships exposed his contradictions. Though romantically tied to Haru, he clashed between protective instincts and respect for her autonomy. His bond with Legoshi teetered between rivalry and uneasy alliance, driven by Louis’s fixation on awakening the wolf’s primal instincts. An arranged marriage to deer heiress Azuki fulfilled obligations to Ogma’s empire, yet remained unconsummated due to psychological scars—hinting at buried trauma and ambiguous sexuality.

Ogma’s death thrust Louis into leading the Horns Conglomerate, redirecting his ambitions toward systemic reform. He initiated support programs for carnivores battling meat addiction, merging aristocratic poise with hard-won compassion. Yet nocturnal visits to Tem’s memorial site—leaving flowers where the alpaca was killed—betrayed enduring scars from his origins, intertwining penitence, duty, and grief.

Louis’s trajectory arched from isolated perfectionist to a reformer challenging conventions, though his tactics frequently skirted ethical lines. Consuming meat to understand predator psychology, manipulating allies strategically, and balancing principle against pragmatism illustrated the clash between his ideals and a fractured society’s harsh realities.