Lucy’s father’s side lived in the Sichaun province on China after they was banish in the human world before he traveled to the USA. He came from the Otherworld and lived as a nobleman’s youngest son in his youth before banished. His father was a nobleman and his mother a personal oracle of the ruling family known for their loyalty to the kingdom until their “betrayal.”  The Pa could turn into snow leopards and leopards. Unlike Lucy, he turns to a leopard beast with five tails and a horn, a massive one at that as their kind are meant to be monstrous in size.

Lucy’s father, Dokeh, is perceived as a mixed Southwest man but of unknown origins but his family speaks in a Minjiang dialect. Due to his family exile, he was raised in a rural villlian that thankfully didn’t care about where his family came from. He left his family like his siblings did when he was older, but much earlier in hopes to treat his own body.

Similar to his younger twin daughters, he was born with the same curse and was told he would die a death that would devast his family. However, it never states when it will happened thus trained in order to kill anyone that might try to harm him. He was born with muteness thus relies on other ways to communicate. Eventually, he to the USA in claims to study. He met Calla, a strange human who he thought was a witch after seeing her use powers who lived in a busy city. The two eventually became lovers and had several kids including Lucy.

After Lucy’s sisters Myesia and Zinnia was born, the two moved away as Calla had a vision her youngest and him would die the longer they stayed. They went to where her family originally lived. After Myesia and Zinnia went into the hostpital, and Dokeh’s own health worsen they both left to find someone in hope to help. Leaving Joaquina their oldest at 20 to look her siblings, belieiving they would only be gone for a month at most on their journey.

It been longer than a month. And only Joaquina have realized that their parents’ presence is no longer there in the human realm.