Adopted into the pack by a lesbian couple, Asshusutorīmu never did feel that she was a true Duskdancer, always picked on and teased for her outsider roots and blood, which is, unlike a born Duskdancer, red rather than the icy blue that her peers had. During training as a pup, her classmates went rougher on her than they did with others, and during her adolescence and hunter's apprenticeship, she was treated as though she were an enemy. The only classmate of hers that would treat her fairly and like a friend was Dots of Hail. The two were inseparable, viewing each other as littermates.
One day, there was a "training accident" with two other adolescents while she was observing a high-stakes hunt.