Nathaniel Gray

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Jul 3, 2016
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"When you're raised to be a villain, a monster, people don't give you a chance to be anything else. Don't matter if you decide to be better than those who raised you. Its like you're marked to be just like your parents. Don't matter though, maybe in the end I am a monster, but I'll be dammed if I give up and be what people expect me to be." ~Nathaniel Gray~


Name: Nathaniel Gray
Age: 18
Birthday: November 1st
Species: Werewolf
Category: Students
Class: High School
Grade: Senior
Alignment: Neutral (good tendencies)




Human Form: 6' tall, muscular build, blonde hair usually cut short, blue eyes, usually wears a black shirt and jeans, occasionally with a green jacket and a hat

Wolf Form: 6 feet tall, white and blonde fur, white blue eyes
Werewolf Form: 8 feet tall, has yellow fur, has fangs and claws.


Upon initially meeting Nathan, most would view him as very quiet, not much of a talker, decently polite if a bit gruff, not leaving much of an impression. If one were to push a bit further they'd find a hard man, he doesn't get close to people easily and tends to be a loner, he has trust issues, he doesn't give his loyalty easily but once earned it would be difficult to break, but if you do break it, he's unlikely to ever trust you again. He isn't one to judge others by their past, as a man who's murdered and killed he largely has no right to, that said there are certain things he isn't comfortable around, crimes even he would have never of committed. If you managed to get past the gruff walls of distrust and silence, you'll find that Nathan at his core is a man haunted by his past crimes with a desire to be better, to start over and live in peace, though be often questions if he deserves such a thing and often if his father's cruel and evil nature is in him somewhere, waiting to be freed, causing him to be afraid of developing connections with people, afraid he's doomed to hurt anyone he knows. Nathan currently has a very loose view on relationships and sex, largely because relationships weren't really a thing in his pack, he'll generally sleep with whoever he finds attractive for fun and is up for having friends with benefits, though he would be up for being in a monogamous relationship it would be a new experience and he's not sure what he'd think of it. His morality is largely gray, he isn't a villain anymore but isn't a law abiding citizen eithet, he takes part in cage matches for extra cash, he's unlikely to join in any criminal organizations but won't go out of his way to support or speak out against them, he's no hero, but he would protect those who cannot defend themselves particularly children, but he doesn't really view himself as a hero or in general a good person.


Wind Manipulation: He was born with the ability to create and manipulate wind. This ability ranges from a strong gust able to tear through a brick wall to a small tornado about eight feet tall and four feet wide.
Limits:
-His artificial wind can only affect things with seeing distance. This doesn't mean he has to actually be looking at it, as the wind could affect things behind him.
Weaknesses:
-The tornado is difficult to maintain, he can create one for a few moments with no issue but it drains him the longer he keeps it. Extended tornado use can cause unconsciousness and temporary inability to use wind manipulation.


Enhanced Skills: Though still young, his combat and stealth skills are on par with that of people who've had years of experience. He also generally learns such skills at about twice the speed of humans.


Eternal Life: He'll stop aging in his twenties and live forever if not killed

Human Form: While human his senses are on the level of a normal wolf, he can bend steel and has the healing factor of his other forms. Aspects of his other form like fangs, claws and wolf eyes tend to appear when angry

Wolf Form: Has enhanced senses twice as strong as the common wolf, can run 50 miles an hours and rip through steel. Healing factor makes most flesh wounds heal within a few minutes and grants an immunity to most toxins poisons and deseases.

Werewolf Form: Has enhanced senses twice as strong as the common wolf, can run 50 miles an hour in short bursts and rip through steel. Healing factor makes most flesh wounds heal within a few minutes and grants an immunity to most toxins poisons.

Weaknesses:
-Silver: Like many werewolves, he has a bad vulnerability to silver. It burns his skin, it touching his important organs will likely be lethal, and it turns off his healing factor making it to where those injuries heal at the rate of a human. Silver entering his system is toxic, he'll become more and more sick the longer its in him. His body will naturally remove smaller amounts given time, but if enough enters his system without it being quickly removed it'll likely be deadly. Small amounts of residue would make him ill but not be lethal, small splinters and shards will be lethal. The speed of which it kills him depends on the size, a small splinter could take up to a week, a larger shard could be lethal within twenty four hours.

-Wolf's Bane: The flowering plant known as wolf's bane can be dangerous to him, skin exposure to him causes an itching rash, accidentally eating it would cause temporary paralysis lasting about twenty minutes, being injected with the extract of the plant would render him extremely ill, he could survive via medical attention, but it's not guaranteed.

-Full Moons: During the day of a full moon, his transformation becomes anger triggered, becoming angry will trigger partial or full transformations depending on how angry he gets. During the night of the full moon he shifts fully and his mind reverts to a bestial state, he'll hunt, kill and eat any creature he can.


-Once Upon A Time, that's how the old fairy tales always began. There often presented as children's tales, stories used to put the little ones to sleep. But there's always been a darkness behind them, elements of horror and death often omitted.
-Whether the tales were true or not is unknown. Perhaps there is truth behind them, or perhaps there all just stories made to entertain and teach lessons.
-But, there is a realm where they exist, or at least versions of them. Their world was a place of magically conflict and war. They fought for power and the right to rule.
-Unfortunately, unlike in many of the fairy tales of Earth, the heroes didn't win. The villains, under the leadership of the Witch Queen were victorious. They conquered their world, killed the legendary heroes and enslaved the people.
-Throughout this conflict, none of the Witch Queen were as feared as the Big Bad Wolf of legend. In this reality he was a werewolf, cruel and vicious, killing and eating anyone who stood against him and the Witch Queen's forces.
-For many years he ensured fear was spread throughout the conquered world. His back acting as the queen's black guard. Rule by fear was their motto.
-Then the Big Bad Wolf had a son, a werewolf with gold hair in human form and gold fur in his other forms. They named him Nathaniel, and he was to be trained to be an enforcer and his father's right hand.
-But his mother was different that the other wolves, she wanted out of the violent life, she wanted something more for her and her son. So she tried to escape with him, she failed and was killed by Big Bad.
-Nathan was always told that she'd been killed by rebels, told she'd died serving the queen.
-For years he was trained this way, showed that he was to serve his father and the Witch Queen. But despite how he was raised, he didn't enjoy any if it. He didn't like hurting people, and dreamt of a different life.
-Despite his dreams, he became a gruff and isolated person. The abusive nature of his upbringing and the brainwashing took a toll on him. He had to push his emotions back into order to deal with the things he saw and was made to do.
-Then he turned fifteen, and everything fell apart. A member of an ongoing resistance movement was brought before the werewolves for interrogation. The pack members tortured him, both physically and emotionally. In the end Nathaniel was brought in, and ordered to execute him, in front of the man's captured family as an example.
-Now, if this was a fairy tale that you'd tell your kids before bed, you'd say Nathaniel refused to execute the man, that he said no and turned on his father right there and then. Unfortunately, this is not one of those tales, unfortunately Nathaniel did kill that man.
-As he killed that man, he saw the man's daughter's eyes. The horror and the pain they held, it seemed to burn into his soul, awaken his dream and a desire for a different life, a better life for him and the others. He'd never forget what he saw in that girl's eyes.
-The look in her eyes haunted him, made him start thinking about things, about how he could change things. Then he found out the truth, one of the pack members dying of old age told him the truth about his mother out of guilt. So, he decided to follow that dream, her dream, and make his world a better place.
-He started slowly, making sure an enemy escaped here, making sure the pack missed taking down the resistance's supply train. Things that couldn't be directly be traced back to him, at least not at first.
-Eventually Big Bad began suspecting the pack had a traitor, so he began searching for him. He didn't expect his own son, the wolf he'd personally raised. A few of the pack members were mistakenly executed for Nathan's actions. A part of him wanted to step up, tell the pack he'd done it so others wouldn't be executed, but he knew that would be harmful to his cause and that the people being executed were a few more enemy soldiers the resistance wouldn't have to deal with.
-As his internal sabotage continued to hinder the pack, he began contacting the resistance and leaking info. Soon it became apparent though that his efforts could only do so much and that in order to make real lasting affect, to give the resistance a chance, Big Bad had to die.
-Evil or not, Big Bad was still his father, and the possibility of him having to kill him weighed heavily on him. It had to be done, and he was in the best position to do it.
-So, on a long pack mission, he used his father's trust in him to lure him away. They fought and Nathan one, he'll always bear the scars of that day, both the physical and the emotional ones. He did what had to be done, but it would haunt him.
-The pack quickly figured out what happened and captured Nathan. They tortured him for information, but he never gave them any. He refused to betray the Resistance no matter what they did.
-While Nathan was locked away, the Resistance grew stronger. With the Witch Queen's top enforcer gone, her forces were weakened, their morale was damaged. They attacked the base Nathan was being kept at, using the chaos of the battle, he escaped.
He healed and tracked down the Resistance. He wanted to join them, overthrow the queen, but the Resistance didn't want him. Because of the covert nature of Nathan's actions, there was no proof it'd been him helping them. Even with him being condemned by the queen for killing his own evil father, they still didn't trust him. Nathan didn't really blame them, he'd killed many of them in the past.
-So, he didn't join them, but that didn't mean he couldn't help. From the shadows he aided them, using his info to assassinate the queen's lieutenants. This carried on for almost two years, until the capital was taken and Witch Queen tried and executed.
-Their world was free, the good men and women would rebuild the homes and heal the wounds. But peace never came for Nathan, people still him as a monster, as a killer who murdered for the queen. He'd ensured the overthrow of the evil regime, but the rebuilt society wouldn't have him.
-So, he retreated deep into the woods and for a short time lived just as a wolf. Hunting and surviving away from the people. Perhaps one day they'd forget about him, perhaps one day he'd find a place among them.
-However, fait took another unexpected turn. A being appeared to him, a woman clothed in blue. The fairy of legend? She who brought puppets to life and raised peasants to royalty? Nathan didn't know and she didn't say. She did, however, offer him a fresh start in another world. Where the crimes he'd committed here wouldn't matter.
-At first Nathan considered saying no, a part of him wanted to stay, prove to himself that he could find a home in his world. Then the woman reminded the length of time it could take for humanity to forget and that the immortals of his world never would.
-So, after much thought, he agreed to it, and in a flash of light, he was somewhere else. It was still a forest, but it wasn't the same, it smelt different. He'd arrived at his new world.
-He found himself able to walk among the humans, no one knew him and they all believed the tales of old were false, just stories. He often broke down laughing at the often comical depiction of his father the humans of this world presented. Though their versions of the Witch Queen were often relatively close to how she really was.
-For a time he lived in an isolated hunting and logging community in Alaska. He loved it, but it couldn't go on forever, he had no ID, no evidence that he even existed in this world.
-Then some hunters made a mistake, Nathan found evidence of this mistake. He found the bodies of several wolf cubs and their mothers. They weren't werewolves, they weren't even sentient, but he'd kept an eye on them. They did no one harm, their pack stayed away from the humans, hunted what they needed and nothing else.
-Nathan was furious, he tracked and killed the hunters. He regretted it, he didn't want to kill, he was tired of death, but it seemed like, even here, he was doomed to find it. Rumors spread of a giant wolf among the community, deciding his time here was over, he planned to leave.
-But before he could begin wandering, a scout from Manta Carlos found him, told him about the island, how it was a haven for the supernatural. So, Nathaniel came to the island, he had to spend six months in on juvie island for rehabilitation, but he did well. He'd still struggle once released, but he'd found his second chance, a place to start over. He wasn't a monster anymore, he was just a citizen, a student. He'd found a home.


-Within Nathan's world the legendary "huff and puff" of the Big Bad Wolf is actually a misconception. People mistook Big Bad's air manipulation as him blowing things down as he'd often howl while using it.
 
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Name: Nathaniel Gray
Apparent Age: 18
Gender: Male
Species: Werewolf
Height: 6'
Build: Muscular, kind of intimidating

Notable Features: Golden blonde hair, tends to wear a cap and a green jacket

Physical Quirks: Reads a lot, tends to talk incredibly calmly and has a military air about him, eyes are incredibly sharp and intelligent.

Power Summary:
Wind Magic: Able to produce and manipulate wind
Species: Enhanced strength and senses. Has both a wolf and humanoid wolf-man form.

Reputation: He's a mysterious one, not much is known about him, he seems to have only a few friends, seems be somewhat of a loner. A few rumors have sprung up, one saying he works as a cage fighter.

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