Please not that the Omega portion of this character can be ignored and thus this character can be used as a standard werewolf if desired.
Name - Lance Nelson
Age - 27
Gender - Male
Orientation - Bisexual
Species - Omega/Pureblood Werewolf(both parents were werewolf)
Hair Color - Dark brown with reddish highlights(auburn)
Eye Color - Right eye is bright silvery blue, left eye is amber.
Height - 5ft 11in
Weight - 157 lbs
Occupation -
Part time web designer, graphic designer and computer/software programmer/coder, freelance photographer, and bartender(some nights).
Hidden Features -
A tattoo brand of his clan mark on his right shoulder blade. A few scars from sparing, actual fights and other causes. Slightly longer canines than normal(typical in pureblood werewolves).
Weapons -
Usually keeps a small pocket knife on hand(taught to never leave home without one as one never knows when it would come in handy).
Personality -
Lance is a very calm and collected guy, often wearing a neutral blank look on his face. He's calculating and puts a lot of thought into much of what he does when it comes to his professional life. He's laid back and easy to get along with. Due to being a pureblood werewolf, he's a natural leader and has naturally high charisma. He holds the pack leader instinct and has a habit of seeing other people that he cares about as packmates and wanting to guide them to be stronger despite them being human. While he feels it's not a bad thing to want to see those he cares about to be guided on the right path to success, he has to remind himself that this is work and he's working with humans and not young wolves. He often chuckles about it when he catches himself taking on his wolf side and others get a bit of amusement out of it as well. He's highly protective of those he's especially close to and will protect them with a fierceness seen only in very, very angry wolves.
Likes -
Computers, late night walks, meat heavy foods, the sound of nature, warm fires, reading, good liquor.
Dislikes -
Sour and bitter foods, overly strong perfumes/colognes, computer malfunctions, the full moon(messes with his schedule), people that disrespect nature and abuse animals, hostility.
Fears -
Lance, surprisingly, is afraid of needles. He also fears that he might hurt someone close to him while in wolf form by accident due to his more animalistic nature while shifted.
Abilities -
* Lance's abilities are enhanced to higher levels than normal half-blood werewolves. His strength, speed, stamina, agility, endurance, and flexibility are at least double that of normal werewolves. While humans bite at about 125 psi, wolves at 400 and werewolves at about 250, Lance bites at about 500 psi(in regards to strength in werewolf form). His sense of smell is heightened to at least double that of normal werewolves and he has gained a Jacobson's organ in the roof of his mouth which allows him to detect scent particles as well as 'taste' them that normal werewolves can't. His eyesight has gained the ability to catch tiny details and movements too small or quick that normal werewolves often miss. His hearing can pick up smaller sounds from further away, up to 25 miles away compared to the average 15-20 miles of normal werewolves and wolves.
* Pureblood werewolves have abilities that normal werewolves don't. They have the ability to control when they shapeshift so they can change at any time they wish. However, they are still controlled by the moon and are forced to shift during the full moon. They also have higher silver resistance both due to being a pureblood and even more so due to the silver content in the serum given throughout the pregnancy. Purebloods also have higher intelligence and tend to have a habit of catching even tiny details.
Weaknesses -
Full Moon - Lance is susceptible to the phases of the moon. Every full moon, he is forced to shapeshift into his wolf form and gains a much more animalistic mind than he normally would if he controlled when he shifted. While he still holds human intelligence, it's limited to a point as his animal instincts are far stronger.
Silver - Lance has a much higher resistance to silver than half-blood werewolves due to a special serum that his mother took during the duration of the pregnancy in order to keep her body from terminating the pregnancy by shapeshifting. However, despite this resistance, he is still susceptible to some effects of silver. While it won't stop him completely, silver will slow him down and keep wounds from healing as they normally would. It is often considered the only true 'sedative' that can be given to a werewolf as normal sedatives will either wear off very quickly or simply will not work. Normal sedatives are laced with a light, non-lethal dose of silver according to the age, weight and strength of the werewolf and then slowly injected into the bloodstream. Silver also irritates the skin, causing a rash to appear around the area the silver has been in contact. Wounds inflicted by silver tend to permanently scar and will not return to clean flesh when cut off. However, with purebloods, the body can heal the scar a bit more each time it is removed, making it smaller each time.
Fire - Fire or red hot objects will cause werewolf skin to scar. However, cutting the scarred flesh off will encourage the skin and muscle to reheal as it used to be prior to being burned. Purebloods will still scar when burned but not nearly as badly.
Powers -
Shapeshifting - Like all werewolves, Lance has the power to shapeshift into an anthropomorphic wolf(wolf with a more humanoid shape). However, since Lance is a pureblood, he can shapeshift at any time he wishes without much after effects of the shift. Shifting back into human form generally leaves a werewolf with some manner of exhaustion. The exhaustion varies from person to person as each body tolerates the stress of shifting differently. Shapeshifting does put strain on the body but has no life threatening effects.
Wolven Burst - Being a pureblood gives Lance different abilities than others. While in human form, Lance can charge himself with a burst of his wolf(basically a burst of shapeshifting hormones without the shapeshifting) to boost his strength, speed and agility. When active, Lance's muscles become significantly larger, he grows claws on his hands, his teeth show a more wolf-like appearance and his voice deepens to a rumbling growl. Once it wears off he is left with high exhaustion and overall body fatigue, weakness and muscle soreness and tightness. This ability puts an incredible amount of strain on the body and therefore should only be used in emergencies where shapeshifting would either take too long or be impractical for the situation. It takes at least a day or two for the body to recover.
Extra Info -
* Lance was originally from the Orr, Minnesota area where the snow stayed heavy much of the year and only a small portion of the year when it melted away and warmed up. His pack, known as the Snowclaw Pack(name to be finalized later?), all live near a protected national park, Voyageurs National Park and the Kabetogame State Forest. Each of the member's werewolf forms all had white, grey or pale tan fur with some having darker saddles and other markings. Very rarely were darker colors seen within the pack. Lance is pure white in werewolf form. The reason he left his pack was because he wanted to seek out education and a job in a bigger city somewhere. He currently resides in Olympia, Washington. He chose Olympia for a couple of reasons. The company he joined was fairly young as well as fully accepting of him being a werewolf(other companies he applied to were weary of him and either declined his application or showed fear or disgust towards him when he went in for an interview, causing him to walk out). The area is also quite close to nature and has many wooded areas suitable for him to spend his full moons in to hunt.
* Lance holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design and Computer Science and a Minor in Web Design. He got in shortly after graduating high school at the age of 18 and studied for a little over 4 and a half years at the University of Minnesota, graduating at the age of 22. He has since moved from his hometown and state to Olympia, Washington and works at a company that does various web design as well as software programs. After just 5 years of working there, he's become the top graphic and web designer and a highly reliable programmer.
* Lance's pack is known to use primitive style tools during their monthly hunts. Many of his pack are descendants of native american people and take to heart their people's hunting traditions. While they could easily tear into their prey while in werewolf form, they instead use traditionally made spears instead to make the kill. This is their way of honoring their native blood while still using their animal hunting instincts.
* Lance is part native american as his father holds native american blood, along with a mix of other blood that's mostly European, that ties to the Chippewa(Ojibway or Ojibwe) tribe. His mother is French Canadian, Irish, and other European mix. His father is from the Orr, Minnesota area while his mother, originally from Banff, Alberta, Canada, traveled around before settling down with her family in the northern Minnesota area near the national park. Because of his father's wolf blood and how native american's symbolize the wolf as something powerful and loyal, his father has been welcomed as part of the local Nett Lake Reservation and allowed to bring his family onto the reservation lands. Other pack members were given the offer to move onto the reservation if they wanted to as many of them have some native blood ties though their tribe origins are unknown. Most have chosen to live outside of reservation lands and kindly declined the offer of the reservation chief. However, they are all welcome onto the lands anytime.
* The reason Lance's mother was forced to travel to travel around from place to place was because she was the only werewolf in her family. Not all countries have a werewolf population and many of those have issues with the existence of werewolves. The people tend to become aggressive towards those who are discovered to be werewolves and many take up weapons and hunt them down. His mother was forced to move constantly, at least every couple of years, till her parents were finally able to get her out of the country and into a place where she would be accepted. She is the only werewolf in her family due to mother having slept with one unknowingly. She's the oldest of 2 siblings, twin brothers, by 6 years. Her step- father died of cancer 10 years ago and her mother had a pacemaker implanted due to a severe arrhythmia. Lance's mom is currently 47. His father is 49. They appear much younger due to their werewolf blood as werewolves tend to age slower than humans do.
* Lance is a pureblood werewolf, something that is extremely rare. Pureblood werewolves are born when both parents are werewolves. However, werewolves generally cannot carry a child to term. This is due to the stress and rush of hormones from shapeshifting. They generally always lose the pregnancy within the first month due to having to change during the full moon. It is possible to stop the change using a special serum. However, due to the silver content of the serum and having to be injected before each change, there is a high risk of losing the child anyway due to the silver toxicity even though the silver is of low concentrations.
* Pureblood werewolves keep their werewolf eye color while in human form. Since Lance has a right bright blue eye and left amber eye in werewolf form, he retains that eye color while in human form. Blue is an extremely rare eye color among werewolves. While blue is common among humans and the silvery blue could be passed as a human color, amber is very much a wolf color and it identifies Lance as a werewolf.
* The reason blue is rarely seen in werewolves but never in wolves is because of the mixing of human and wolf DNA. The only shade of blue that appears in werewolves is a bright silvery blue that does not occur in humans but occurs more in dogs such as huskies or german shepherds. No one can explain why this happens but some theorize that the blue could possibly be due to the impurity of the DNA. Lance is a very rare case where he was born with heterochromia or two separate eye colors and one eye being bright blue.
* Every werewolf pack has a unique mark that identifies their allegiance. On their 18th birthday, each pack member has to get tattooed with the mark using a special ink designed to withstand a lifetime of shapeshifting. The ink is laced with silver and a special, high heat resistant needle is used to essentially cause a burn wound, lace it with silver and then dye it. The ink fuses with the burned flesh while the silver keeps the wound healing slowly so it essentially creates a colored brand. Because of the silver in the ink, the scarred skin becomes permanent. However, the color can be removed if the mark is cut.
About The Omegaverse(My Take) -
* The three sub-genders of Beta, Omega and Alpha came about when the birth rate became so low, the human population began to suffer and drop dramatically. Betas are females and males that aren't affected by Omega pheromones. Beta is the most common and considered normal. Alphas are always male, have high intelligence, incredible looks, high charisma and are often the ones to succeed early on in life. Alpha is rare and highly praised in society, taking high positions in jobs such as company CEOs and presidents. Omegas are always male and have the ability to give birth. They are generally smaller, more feminine looking, weaker in physical ability, generally pursue lower tiered jobs that are not physically or mentally demanding. They have what's called 'heat cycles' every 2-4 months depending on the individual. During the cycle, they produce pheromones that are designed to attract a mate, an Alpha. Though all Alphas are attracted to these pheromones, only the one destined to become the mate will be completely overtaken by the scent. Once the Omega and Alpha pair, only the Alpha will smell the pheromones. Omegas are quite rare.
* Given the typical appearance and intelligence levels of Omega's, Lance does not fall in the typical criteria of what is typical for Omega's. He's tall, well muscled, highly intelligent and successful. He also holds charisma on par with that of an Alpha. People often think he's an Alpha but he denies he is an Alpha anything.
* Only humans have been known to become Omegas. For a werewolf to become an Omega has not yet been recorded in medical history. However, Lance doesn't know he's an Omega as he's never gone through a heat cycle despite being in his mid 20s.
* Research has been done on the possibility of an Omega werewolf. There are many theories as to why the heat cycle was suppressed well past puberty. The main theory is adrenaline. During the process a shapeshifting, massive amounts of adrenaline and other hormones are released all at once. This generally happens every month during the full moon but some, although very few, werewolves, like Lance as he is a pureblood, can shapeshift any time they desire. It is suspected that this massive rush of hormones cancels out the heat cycle hormones because it overwhelms the system with animal instincts instead of the Omega instincts. Another theory is that werewolves have some sort of natural ability to suppress the Omega hormones. It could also be that, due to the wolf part of the person, the Omega DNA sees the wolf DNA more than the human and because of the canine to human year conversion, see's a later age as puberty instead. There could be any number of factors that could explain why a werewolf Omega wouldn't start their heat cycle till much later than is expected but at the moment, there are only theories and nothing definitive.
* The heat cycle generally starts around the age of 12-15 when the Omega is going through puberty. Sometimes it starts a year or two later if they are a late bloomer. When a heat cycle hits, the body goes through a change. While normally their 'female' reproductive parts stay about the size of a walnut inside their body, during the heat cycle, it grows into it's full size and changes the outside of their body into a hermaphrodite(they become both male and female). The cycle lasts for 7 days. The change reverses on the 7th day and the cycle ends.
* There are medications that are designed to help control the heat cycle and pheromones. These medications suppress the heat cycle and pheromone release and prevent the body from changing. However, it doesn't fully suppress the pheromones so it is often recommended to double to dose if having to leave the house for any reason but only to double the dose then as the body can build a resistance to the medication. It is recommended to use a quick shot instead as the concentration can be increased easily in a liquid than it can in a tablet.
* Although left untested due to no Omega werewolves having existed till now, there is a theory that suppression medications may not work or that it might not be possible to create a dose high enough for the medicine to work effectively. This theory was made due to the fact that the metabolism of a werewolf is so fast that it requires a silver laced sedative for it to have any effect as the low dose of silver weakens the werewolf just enough for the sedative to take effect and hold its effect for an extended period of time. However, silver being a poison to werewolves, it's an issue of how much is too much before it becomes a serious problem.
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