Mason Greyback

Mason Greyback is a character and Alex Russo's love interest from Wizards of Waverly Place. He is a purebred werewolf.
==Background==
Mason was a transfer student from England, who fell in love with Alex. They date, and she later finds out he is a werewolf.
Wanting to help her brother, Justin, find his girlfriend, he sniffs her dental floss. It brings them all the way to Transylvania, and his past is revealed when Juliet announces they used to date. He blurts out that he still loves her, and Alex transports home with her heart broken.
==Biography==
===Early life===
Mason Greybeck is the son of Linda and Grant Greybeck and has always been pressured by his parents to date only werewolves. ("Alex Meets The Parents") Mason is a purebred werewolf, unlike one of Justin's ex-girlfriends Isabella, who is apparently a mutt. ("Wizards vs. Werewolves") Mason is shown to be a great artist, just like his love interest, Alex. ("Alex Charms a Boy")
When Mason was living in London, he dated Justin Russo's girlfriend, Juliet van Heusen. Mason and Juliet were apparently in love, but somehow lost contact and haven't spoken in over three hundred years. ("Wizards vs. Werewolves") He also has a fear of Clowns.
===Personality===
Mason is described as "Charming" in Wizards Unleashed, and in some episodes, he is fairly relaxed. He shows mood changes, as shown in Beast Tamer when he gets suddenly angry when his sculpture doesn't fit through the door. Like most werewolves, he is loyal, impulsive and easily angered. He is extremely polite, in "Wizard of the Year", he apologizes to Harper for stepping in her salad, even in full wolf form.
Mason comes from a wealthy family, as revealed in the aforementioned episode since he stated that their house in Manhattan cost a fortune.
Following losing Alex, he became almost desperate to get her back, trying several times to convince her to.
===Abilities===
In his first appearance, Mason showed that he could be quite a good artist. He was able to paint and draw rather realistic and detailed pictures.
In werewolf form, Mason possesses the traditional powers other werewolves have, such as: 
*Enhanced Sense of Smell: He was able to track scents thousands of miles away (i.e. Juliet, perfumes, sausage, turkeys, his favorite meat, and his bone.)
*Transformation: Unlike the legends in Wizards of Waverly Place, not all werewolves transform during every full moon. However as a purebred, first, his behavior would change, then his eyes would glow and his teeth would form into fangs, his facial structure would morph, then finally his hands and the rest of him.
*Enhanced Strength: He was shown to be incredibly strong, able to jump quite a large distance, and trade blows with a vampire.
*Enhanced Speed, Reflexes, and Agility: All demonstrated during his fight with Justin and Juliet. In "Ghost Roommate" it's mentioned that he can "Run faster than a squirrel".
*Enhanced Pain Resistance and Durability: Shown by the fact that during the battle, no matter what hit him, he did not react in any way other than continuing.
*Delayed Aging: Although he looks the same age as Alex, Mason is over three hundred years old. He also showed that like in the legends, he loses control when he turned full wolf.
*Eating things whole: Dean did get to his shoulders before Max shrunk him.
==Relationships==
===Family===
In Meet the Werewolves, Mason's parents are finally introduced. Mason had told his parents that Alex was a werewolf, revealing that his parents have been so judgemental about his other girlfriends because they wanted him to date a werewolf. In an attempt for her not meet his real parents, Mason paid Bill and Molly to pretend to be his parents instead but didn't pay them as Alex found out.
When she is introduced to Mason's parents, Grant Greybeck and Linda Greybeck, Alex pretended to be a werewolf and acted badly during their encounter as she wanted Mason to tell them about who she really is. Her plan didn't work out, though, as Grant and Linda said that she acted as an ideal werewolf would. This disappoints Alex so Mason changes his mind, telling his parents that Alex really is a wizard and not a werewolf. His family was both shocked and disappointed by his revelation and wanted to eat Alex as she destroyed their feast. With that, Mason and Alex make a hasty escape.
During the episode, it was hinted that the Greybecks may be a wealthy family as Mason revealed that their house in Manhattan cost a fortune than other werewolf houses. Despite this, however, Mason is known to have moved out from their house and lived in the thirteenth floor of an apartment and has admitted to Gorog in the episode "Wizard vs Everything" that he was housebroken.
===Alex Russo===
Mason is Alex's boyfriend. He is first introduced to her in the Tribeca Prep. art class in Alex Charms a Boy where it is made shockingly clear that Mason has quite a crush on Alex. She likes everything about him except for his taste in art. She spells him into thinking of her as his muse with a magic shell she blows into his ear just to avoid him painting her as a dog (a teacup chihuahua, to be exact). Harper and Jerry talk Alex into undoing her spell on Mason when he starts drawing an entire mural of Alex in chalk on the sidewalk just outside of her own window. After Alex takes the spell off of Mason, they kiss in the rain.
It is shown he is in love with Alex in Wizards vs. Werewolves when he uses the true love necklace to prove his feelings for her. In the same episode, he accidentally says he is in love with Juliet out of impulsiveness, leaving Alex heartbroken. He later proves to her he really does love her. In Wizards vs. Werewolves, he, Justin and Juliet get in a fight and thus he is bitten by Juliet. Because he was bitten he turns into a full wolf and has to let go of Alex for her own safety. Later in Wizards Unleashed, Alex sees Mason on TV as a wolf painting pictures of her she, Justin, and Max set out to find him, as she still loves him.
They find he is being held by country wizards and eventually trick the country wizards and get back Mason. They eventually turn Mason back and they are now dating. Mason was kidnapped as well in Wizards Exposed and escaped with the Russo Family. But during Season 4, Alex and Mason go through some challenges and soon have to break up. Since Alex chose to become a mere mortal, it is forbidden for mortals and werewolves to be together. Therefore in the episode Alex Gives Up they break up and become close friends. Although Mason and Alex get back together in the episode Journey to the Center of Mason. Mason becomes jealous when Alex's old boyfriend comes with Dean asking Alex he wants to get back together with her. She turns him down saying she is in a relationship with Mason. Mason then reminds her they can't because she is a mortal but she decides to reenter the wizard's competition just to be with him.
In Wizard of the Year, he and Alex are in the wizard lair watching the news on the abraca-doodler and a news reporter says that she and Chase are together (Earlier in the episode she says that it is official and then says that she is dating Mason right after). Alex explains that they cut off the part when she said she was dating Mason and they did it only for a story. Mason objects and leaves the lair. Alex waits in the Waverly Sub Station, hoping Mason would forgive her and come back. They think he would not come back soon and they go off to the celebration (Alex is awarded for saving the world from the Angels of Darkness and gets back into the Wizard Competition). While they are there, Chase comes to the celebration and joins her family and Harper at the table. Alex accepts him to sit down with them. Suddenly, Mason comes to apologize to Alex but finds her with Chase. He goes full wolf and attacks Chase, which ruins the celebration. Alex stops the fight and Mason and Alex have another fight. Mason then asks Alex who will she choose to be her boyfriend, Mason or Chase? She makes her final decision and chooses neither of them, leaving the guests shocked. She explains to Mason that he might be her boyfriend, but she says she needs to break up with him after what just happened. She explains to Chase that they can not be together either because she thinks they are not ready yet. Alex goes off, gets her trophy, and leaves her celebration.
At the end of the episode, Mason is seen sitting down on the steps of the stairs around the stage and finds the flower wristband that he gave her on the wizard lair, and smiles. Alex goes out into the balcony of her house and looks at the full moon and hears Mason howling. Alex and Mason reconcile in "Get Along, Little Zombie", some time after the series finale, he and Alex got married.
===Juliet Van Heusen===
It is revealed in "Wizards vs. Werewolves" that Mason and Juliet dated over 300 years ago. He helps the Russos find her and out of impulse says "I never stopped loving you!" to her though he is in love with Alex. Juliet turns him down because she is in love with Justin. Mason later reveals to Alex that werewolves are loyal and impulsive and that he didn't mean what he said. He and Alex end up getting back together when he tells her he loves her not Juliet.
===Lisa Cucuy===
In Alex Gives Up, Max's picture is seen on a wizard magazine, attracting a spoiled, rich Lisa Cucuy. When Max informs her that Mason is a werewolf at her family's yacht party, she ditches him and decides that she wants Mason instead. Lisa flirts with Mason during the episode, but he, however, showed no interest in her.
===Lucy===
Mason dated Lucy, a ghost and Alex and Harper's roommate in the episode "Ghost Roommate". Lucy was incredibly depressed and haunts the people on the 13th floor at night because of the death of her lost boyfriend sixty years ago. To make her feel better, Harper and Alex try to find her a boyfriend. Unfortunately for Alex, Mason was the boy Lucy picked to go out with. Mason dated Lucy to make Alex jealous. This plan works, seeing as Alex couldn't sleep that night and tried to find Lucy's lost love, Donny, now a ghost in the Bermuda Triangle. Lucy and Alex find Donny but are trapped in the Bermuda Triangle because her powers don't work there. Mason saves her and Lucy comments that he and Alex are 'so in love'. Lucy also says that she finds Mason cute and good-looking.
==Appearances==
===Season 2===
*Future Harper (mentioned)
===Season 3===
*Alex Charms a Boy 
*Wizards vs. Werewolves
*Alex Russo, Matchmaker? (mentioned)
*Moving On (mentioned)
==Trivia==
*Mason and Juliet have been seen together only in "Wizards vs. Werewolves" and "Who Will Be The Family Wizard".
*Mason is purebred and only spreads his Lycanthropy by biting unlike Justin's ex-girlfriend, Isabella who was a mutt and could spread it by a kiss.
*Mason and Juliet used to date about 300 years ago, and Juliet is 2194 years old, which could call into question if Mason is the same age (though they could be different as they're different species and could develop at different paces).
*Mason has explained that werewolves are impulsive (proved by his response to Juliet's return).
*Mason's transformation is interesting as when he transforms to a werewolf he gets a brown fur coat (matching his hair), but when bitten by Juliet and reverted to a wolf, his fur becomes white.
*Jerry Russo kept getting Mason's name wrong, always either Martin or Jason, but when corrected claims that he said Mason.
*Max has seemed to like Mason throughout the drama he and Alex went through, making Max the only Russo who was on good terms with him during the incident.
*Chancellor Rootie Tootietootie appears to have a strong dislike for Mason, as shown in Alex Gives Up and more evident especially in Wizard of the Year, when he says "Don't curse at me Wolfie" after Mason corrects the former about his cooking, cheers for Chase against Mason during the fight, later saying "And down goes wolfie!" after Chase defeats Mason.
*Werewolves can't age which seems contradictive because Mason is a teenager, and must have developed by aging in a sense. It could mean that they don't age in terms of appearance; they age to a certain age, then stay at that appearance after that.
*It is ironic when Justin lost Juliet, Alex gained Mason when Justin got Juliet, Alex lost Mason (Justin also loses Juliet later as she returns to her real age, and Alex gains Mason again after playing the magical instruments in Wizards Unleashed).
*Mason's appearance was planned ahead of time, as future Harper asks Alex about him before his appearance (but she said: "Did Mason break up with you already?". However, this could refer to the break up that occurred after he became a permanent wolf and it is a possibility that he and Alex will remain together).
*Harper revealed in the Season 3 episode "Alex Russo, Matchmaker?" that Alex's longest relationship was with Mason and that their relationship lasted for two months before the events in "Wizards vs Werewolves".
*Mr. Laritate calls him "The Revolutionary War Part Deux". He also calls him "Our Friend from Across The Pond".
*Mason seemed to be quite fond of dogs, especially in Alex Charms a Boy; this could be a reference to his werewolf heritage.
*Mason's parents, Grant and Linda Greybeck, don't like him dating anyone other than a werewolf and have been judgmental about their son's other girlfriends.
*Mason comes from a wealthy family as their house in Manhattan was said to have cost a fortune.
*Mason and Alex have broken up several times in the series. They broke up once in Wizards vs. Werewolves then they got back together in Wizards Unleashed. Then they break up once again in Alex Gives Up and they reunite in Journey to the Center of Mason. Then they break up in Wizard of the Year. They get back together in Get Along, Little Zombie.
*Ironically, Mason's last name is similar to Fenrir Greybeck, the infamous werewolf from the Harry Potter series, possibly another purebred.
*Mason being from the United Kingdom may be a reference to the popular 1978 rock song "Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon.
*Mason's popularity as a character led to Gregg Sulkin receiving his own Disney Channel Wand ID during the production of Season 4.
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