CHARACTER NAME: ethan callahan CHARACTER CANON: original CURRENT AGE: 34 CURRENT STATUS: alive SPECIES: werewolf (cursed) SEXUALITY: (mostly) straight
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HUGGING: sure, but if you are a stranger he will have some choice words and assumptions about it. KISSING: sure but ill-advised FLIRTING: also sure but ill-advised ROMANCE: he is a deadbeat. this is ill-advised. also, he eats people. SEX: again: he eats people. (yes!) FIGHTING: yes but i am awful at writing these so hit me up and let's rip off the bandaid together. INJURY: he is a werewolf but not superman so if you must nuke him from outerspace, please let me know. DEATH: can only be killed by a silver stake through the heart. MIND-READING: he has an animal's thoughts so has a "slippery" mind, but is not immune to nor does he have specific defenses against mind control! let me know and i'll slip the relevant info into the narration of the tag. MANIPULATION: go for it. OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS: he is a werewolf and eats people and is generally sort of manipulative in an insidious way. gore (animal, bodily, human) may be in the narration but i'll cw for it in headers if it seems like it's going to be relevant! ANYTHING ELSE:
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PLAYER: kaye CONTACT: pm or plurk if we have each other! SHIPPING: the spirit is willing but the character is kind of a jerk really. BACKTAGGING: this is my bread and butter, please love me. sometimes i am fast and sometimes i take five days! ymmv. THREADHOPPING: network only! FOURTHWALLING: sure! OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS: n/a ANYTHING ELSE: ethan does not look like any other lewis pullmans thank you for your time i love you.
ethan is a werewolf. most, if not all, of his abilities fall under this umbrella! these include:
being a direwolf (larger than your average wolf, smaller than your average house) once a month. he can control the shift and retains awareness whenever he does, but it requires more mental fortitude the closer he is to the full moon.
enhanced senses (sight, sound, smell, taste) and reflexes (strength, constitution, speed). includes being able to sense the human (hunger, for example) and the not so human (magic). the strongest of his senses is smell, and he can easily identify separate people this way, making him great at tracking people down. this doesn't really extend to magic, as he can't differentiate between types or signatures.
weaknesses include: silver scars him in a way he can't heal. to put him down for good, you have to put a silver stake right through his heart, or he'll find some way to come back. while he has a "slippery" mind, he has no outright defenses against telepathy or mind control. wolfblood is toxic to humans in large quantities, but does not turn them into werewolves, given that he was cursed and not born as one.
in addition, ethan is familiar with the taste and texture and rigor of magic, which in his world is called the Unseen Work. he knows it, but he cannot use it, shape it, learn it, or attune to it. them's the breaks!
also, he eats people. he can survive off normal food as a normal man, but the wolf won't be happy about that, and ignoring the urge is like an animal ignoring that it's hungry. sort of doesn't make much sense.
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