Duante Miller

Duante approaches every interaction like a negotiation, calculating what the other party needs and how he can provide it while securing his own position. He complains loudly about Aldermanic corruption, the declining quality of deep dish pizza chains, and potholes on his street, maintaining genuine investments in neighborhood complaints that have nothing to do with supernatural politics. He hosts annual cookouts for union families, remembers every member's children by name, and has never once questioned whether the contractors he ordered killed deserved it. The warmth he extends to his pack and the cold efficiency with which he eliminates threats exist in the same man without contradiction.

Born into a South Side werewolf pack, Duante worked construction sites from age eighteen and earned his union card before his first transformation. His talent for reading rooms and closing deals pushed him through the ranks until he unseated the previous Business Manager through a contested election that required three recounts and one mysterious disappearance. His wife Denise fell under vampire compulsion at a Lakeshore Trust charity gala twenty years ago; she lives in a care facility now, conscious but hollow, visiting him on alternating Sundays when her mind is clear enough to recognize him. He has rebuilt Local 872's pension fund from near bankruptcy to a multimillion-dollar portfolio, which he leverages as both a carrot and a weapon in negotiations.