Selena Romero

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## Selena Romero

* Human
* Werecheetah
* Evolved Werecheetah

## Biographical Information

### Turned

* By the Dread Doctors into a Werewolf/Werejaguar Chimera in 2012
* By Adella McCall into a Werecheetah in 2012

### Occupation

* High School Student  (Graduated)
* Server at Sinema  (Formerly)
* Member of the McCall Pack

### Species

* Human  (Originally)
* Genetic Chimera Human  (Formerly)
* Werewolf/Werejaguar Chimera  (Formerly)
* Werecheetah  (Beta; Formerly)
* Evolved Werecheetah  (Beta)

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Valerie Clark  (Older Sister; Former Guardian)
* Liam Dunbar  (Boyfriend)
* Hayden Romero  (Older Twin Sister)

## Supernatural Information

### Cause Of Death

* Modified Mercury Poisoning  (1st Time)
* Erased from Existence  (2nd Time)

### Killed By

* Dread Doctors  (1st Time)
* Unidentified Ghost Rider  (2nd Time)

## Physical Appearance

### Eye Color

* Brown  (Human)
* Glowing Yellow  (Werecheetah)

## Appearance

### Played By

* Yessenia Hernandez

**Selena Valentina Romero** was a recurring character who made her first appearance in Season 5 and is a main character in Season 6 of *Teen Wolf*. She was first introduced as a sophomore at Beacon Hills High School who worked as a server at the Sinema nightclub and who was a classmate of her close friend Mason Hewitt and her boyfriend, former frenemy, and fellow Beta Werewolf Liam Dunbar. She is the twin sister of Hayden Romero and younger sister to Valerie Clark.

Though she was initially believed to be an ordinary human, it was eventually revealed that she had been turned into a Chimera by the Dread Doctors in the late summer or early autumn of 2012 due to the fact that she had two sets of DNA as a result of a heart transplant. After her pseudo-supernatural status was revealed, she demonstrated Werewolf characteristics, such as glowing gold eyes, claws, fangs, and supernaturally-enhanced senses, though the other half of her Chimera nature was unknown for some time.

However, her condition soon began to deteriorate, and it became clear when she began bleeding mercury that she would be considered a "failed" Chimera. Though she ultimately died from a mercury overdose in *Status Asthmaticus*, she was resurrected by Theo Raeken at the end of the episode using a mysterious green compound of the Dread Doctors' design.

At the start of Season 5B, she was informed by Theo that she was also part-Werejaguar, and it appeared as though she had joined his Chimera Pack out of gratitude that he brought her back to life. However, after several illuminating conversations with Deucalion and after seeing for herself that Theo treated the members of their pack like pawns for his own agenda, she ultimately pledged her allegiance to Liam, Scott McCall, Adella McCall, and the McCall Pack.

In the season finale, after being gravely injured by the Beast, Selena requested that Adella give her the Bite, a request that she granted out of fear that she would die again from her wounds. The Bite was successful, and Selena is now officially a Beta but not a Werewolf, she was turned into the first Werecheetah in the series and quickly integrating herself as an official member of the McCall Pack due to being Adella's first bitten Beta.

**Selena** is a member of the **Romero Family** and the member of the **McCall Pack**.

## Early Life

Little is known about Selena's early history, but she and Hayden have apparently been raised by their older sister, Sheriff's deputy Valerie Clark, for quite a while. When Selena was in sixth grade, she walked into the hallway to find Liam Dunbar and another fellow student in the middle of a violent fight. When she tried to intervene, Liam, overwhelmed by rage, punched her in the face and broke her nose. Selena then became so angry that she punched him back, breaking his nose as well to get even. Unfortunately for them, this happened right before school picture day, and both Selena and Liam had their yearbook photos taken with black eyes and taped noses.

At some point between sixth grade and tenth grade, Selena had a heart transplant, which forced her to have to take expensive anti-rejection medication to keep herself well. Feeling guilty about the financial burden she put on her sister, Selena got a job as a "shot girl," or drink server, at the Sinema nightclub, though she has openly admitted that her boss, Phil, takes advantage of the fact that she's underage by taking a large portion of her tips and paying her under the table so he doesn't have to pay taxes for her work. It was this heart transplant that made her a genetic chimera, or a human with two sets of DNA, which is what made her a perfect candidate for the Dread Doctors to turn into a pseudo-supernatural Chimera.

## Physical Appearance

Selena is a tall, slender young woman with medium-length, wavy, dark brown hair, warm brown eyes, and olive-toned skin. At school and in her free time, she usually wears trendy, bohemian-esque tops with skinny jeans, boots, and neutral-toned jackets, whereas when she is at work at Sinema, she wears more revealing "party" attire such as short skirts, platform boots or heels, and crop tops, typically all in shades of black. She has also been known to don active wear such as yoga pants and oversized crop tops during gym class and soccer practice. She keeps her makeup style clean and natural so as to not overwhelm her heart-shaped face, and she also keeps her jewelry to a minimum unless she's at work.

## Personality

Selena is a very strong-willed young woman who has no issues with telling people what she thinks, especially if she feels she has been wronged in some way. She has also demonstrated an ability to hold a grudge due to her long-standing rivalry with Liam Dunbar after they broke each other's noses in the sixth grade. Despite this, Selena has also proven herself to be a kind, compassionate person, as she got a job specifically to decrease the financial burden her medical problems have caused her sister, and she went out of her way to help Tracy when she was in the throes of a night terror, even despite the fact that Tracy hurt her in the process. Selena is also willing to forgive those who have earned it, such as Liam and Scott, and worries about any harm that could come to others because of her transformation into a Chimera.

Following her death and resurrection, Selena's personality became slightly darker, but upon rekindling her relationship with Liam, she slowly started to come back into her true personality and realized that she would rather do good with the McCall Pack than cause chaos with the Chimera Pack. The experience also made her extremely afraid of dying, both out of her own fear and out of concern for how her sister would handle her death. She was so unwilling to die a second time that she requested that Adella give her the Bite, which not only saved her life but made Selena her first bitten Beta and an official member of the pack.

Since becoming a Werecheetah, Selena's personality became even stronger, causing her to want to use her powers for the common good. Selena has also demonstrated herself to be a very intelligent young woman, as she has been shown to excel in school, especially in physics, which allowed her to help the McCall Pack deal with the Ghost Riders of the Wild Hunt, as their powers were based on principles of physics. This trait allows her to assist the "brains" of the pack (Stiles, Lydia, Olivia, and Mason) while also assisting the "brawn" of the pack (Adella McCall, Scott McCall, Isaac Lahey, Hayley Hale, Cora Hale, Hope Mikaelson, Josie Yukimura, and Malia Tate).

Selena is a dedicated protector and is willing to do whatever it takes to save others, as shown when she spent all of her time accompanying Gwen in order to ensure that the Ghost Riders wouldn't try to take her like she did Gwen's sister Phoebe. She has also proven herself to be an incredibly selfless person, as she urged Liam to stop fighting and let the Ghost Riders capture her so he could get away and warn Scott and Adella about what had happened, knowing that being held hostage in the Phantom Train Station was worth it if she could save the lives of others in the process. Even after her capture, Selena, with assistance from her twin Hayden and her friend Mason, did all she could to help prevent Garrett Douglas from merging the mystical dimension with the real world with the few resources she had.

## Powers and Abilities

Selena possesses all the standard powers and abilities of a Beta-level Werecheetah.

* **Super Strength:** As a Beta Werecheetah, Selena possesses superhuman levels of strength. She was seen using this strength to lift up the front end of Liam's decades-old truck with ease.
* **Super Speed:** As a Beta Werecheetah, Selena can run much faster than even the most athletic human beings. She can also run on all fours (hands and feet) in both human and in Werecheetah form, and according to her, she is faster than her boyfriend, fellow Werewolf Liam Dunbar.
* **Super Agility/Reflexes:** As a Beta Werecheetah, Selena possess supernaturally enhanced agility and reflexes, even as a Chimera she was able to leap so high that she could land on the roof of Eichen House's transformer building in a single bound with only a short running start. Since she was turned into a Werecheetah this ability has been heightened.
* **Super Durability:** As a Beta Werecheetah, Selena can still sustain open wounds like any other creature, but she is much more durable to blunt force trauma than the regular human.
* **Super Senses:** As a Beta Werecheetah Selena, like her wolf counterparts, has extremely sensitive senses of sight, hearing, and smell. She was shown to have an especially keen sense of hearing even when she was still a Werewolf-Werejaguar Chimera, and since Chimeras, as a pseudo-supernatural species, are naturally weaker than natural shapeshifters, these senses have presumably only increased in potency since becoming a Werecheetah.
* **Accelerated Healing:** As a Beta Werecheetah Selena possess an extraordinarily enhanced healing factor that allows her to heal from most mild to moderate wounds within moments. As a Chimera, her healing ability was unpredictable in that she could heal from minor wounds (such as busted knuckles from punching Liam in the face, but she was unable to heal from the deep claw gashes from her fight with Sebastien Valet/the Beast of Gevaudan, forcing her to consent to the bite in order to have a chance of surviving her wounds. Her healing ability has become more consistent and potent since becoming a Werecheetah.
	+ **Longevity**: Because a Werecheetah's rapid cellular healing prevents them from contracting any human illness or condition and replaces aging cells at a constant rate, Werewolves have a tremendously extended lifespan, so it is likely that a Werecheetah's lifespan is extended.
* **Shapeshifting:** As a Beta Werecheetah, Selena has the ability to shape her features into that of a partially lupine form, which involves glowing eyes, fangs, claws, a ridged brow, pointed ears and large sideburns. Selena maintained identical canine features in both her Chimera and Werecheetah forms.
* **Pain Absorption:** As a Beta Werecheetah, Selena has the ability to absorb pain from animals, humans, and other creatures through tactile contact. This is usually done by touching the person who is in pain, or the injured body part and drawing the pain into themselves, which manifests as the veins darkening as their body processes it. She was able to use this power intuitively to absorb pain from Liam after he attempted to defeat the Beast of Gevaudan in battle.
* **Memory Manipulation Ritual:** All Werecheetah's technically have the ability to perform a memory-sharing ritual, but it is most commonly performed by Alphas due to the level of control and practice required to avoid harm or death towards the target. Though Selena was not shown using this ritual, she possesses the capability of performing it with training.
* **Animal Instincts:** As a Beta Werecheetah, Selena is an apex predator, and, as such, she can assert dominance over other animals such as dogs, cats and deer. She can use this ability to force them to be quiet or leave the area, or to stand down if they are acting aggressively. As a result, these animals can often be frightened by the presence of Werecheetah's.

Additionally, during her brief time as a Werewolf-Werejaguar Chimera, Selena possessed many of the typical powers of a Werewolf, albeit to a much more inferior degree. She also had the ability to transform her skin into the bluish-brown shade with black spots typical of a Werejaguar (although it was only done unintentionally on one occasion) and could sense the location and current physical/emotional states of Berserkers in the vicinity. These attributes have presumably been subsumed by her transformation into a Werecheetah.

## Weaknesses

Selena possess all the standard weaknesses associated with Werecheetah, such as Mountain Ash and/or rowan wood, electricity (which includes both natural electricity such as lightning bolts, man-made electrical currents, and the electricity produced by supernatural creatures with electrokinetic and electromagnetokinetic powers, such as a Kitsune's Foxfire).

She is also vulnerable to certain noises due to her heightened sense of hearing; Hunters and supernatural assassins have been known to use ultrasonic emitters to create high-pitched, ear-piercing frequencies that only supernatural shapeshifters can hear, as well as subsonic frequencies that can make a Werecheetah or other shapeshifter feel as though they are intoxicated, causing them dizziness and nausea to the point where they are unable to walk or talk.

As a Werecheetah, Selena is also vulnerable to the effects of the various lunar phases-- full moons cause her powers to be increased exponentially, but also increase the risk of Selena losing control over her transformations and supermoons are even more powerful, to the point that they can feel their effects during the day when there is little exposure to moonlight. Interestingly enough, Selena was able to control herself during full moons exceptionally quickly for a Werecheetah, and it is unclear if the fact that she was first a Werewolf-Werejaguar Chimera made a difference in her ability to remain in her human form during this time.

Conversely, Werecheetah can also be vulnerable to lunar eclipses, as the short period of time where the moon is in the earth's umbral shadow can cause Werecheetah's to lose their powers completely for the duration, which usually lasts ten to twenty minutes and which makes them prime targets for Hunters and other beings who to take advantage of this vulnerability.