Accelerated Healing

> **Diana**: "You just got stabbed, and now you have a clean shirt and no wound!"
>  **Danae**: "Well, I changed my clothes, and I healed. Not much to say since you're new in the hunter game when it comes to hybrids."
>
> -Diana Winchester to Danae Tlanta about the  hybrid's healing.

**Accelerated Healing** is an ability of Werewolves, Immortal, and Mortal Hybrids, Immortals, Immortal Werewolves, Immortal Witches, and, occasionally, Witches to heal from physical injuries at supernatural speeds. This allows users to regenerate and fully recover from injuries such as gunshots, broken bones, blood loss, snapped necks, burns, bite wounds, and brain aneurysms in a matter of seconds/minutes, depending on the injury.

Accelerated healing varies from user to user although, it is usually the oldest who are able to heal faster than younger users. This ability is also shared with Chimeras, Shifter Werewolves, Werecoyotes, and Werewolf-Witch Hybrids.

## Species

### Werewolves

Werewolves possess a healing factor only for small wounds such as small cuts, slight burns etc. They cannot however heal as quickly when it comes to more serious injuries such as gunshots, stab wounds (with the exception of silver) etc. They also cannot heal from fatal injuries e.g. broken neck.

* If they are physically injured, their bodies will heal rapidly. Werewolves can heal from the most grievous of injuries, even in human form, albeit more slowly in comparison to vampires. However, unlike vampires, when a werewolf's neck is broken, they stay dead. Contrary to popular lore, these werewolves are not affected by silver, they actually heal from it on an incredibly efficient level

### Witches

Witches also possess this ability. However, many have spent years learning how to do such spells, implying that they are very difficult to master or they require a greater power and focus.

* These spells have there limits and seem to only work on the physically (or mortally) wounded, however, witches who have been born with a greater magic, or who have trained specifically for healing, such as Nixie Snow, who is a part of Conri's Bloodline and an extremely powerful immortal witch from France, who even as a human was fascinated by healing spells and was training herself to master them before she was transformed in 1747, during the summer.

### Immortal Werewolves

Immortal Werewolves experience the best of both worlds with their healing, because unlike werewolves as mortal beings, they heal extremely fast, and are able to withstand nearly any injury, except decapitation and heart extraction, but they are incredible fighters and it is extremely hard to get the upper hand on them.

* Immortal Werewolves, such as Ash, who was imprisoned by Nazi Germany, during World War II and was experimented on by doctors had to suppress his healing in order to make the doctors believe that he was a normal human, so that they wouldn't start experimenting on him to find out what was making him heal rapidly. This weakened him considerably, to the point that his healing was as slow as that of a mortal werewolf, until Conri Tlanta arrived in the camp to break him out.

### Immortal Witches

Immortal Witches are largely the same as normal witches when it comes to their abilities in healing with spells, but are much more amplified because their power is given an extreme boost when they turn, and their immortal side heals them at a rapid pace.

### Werewolf-Witch Hybrids

These hybrids have the biggest boost from this, because they are the sires of two species and are able to heal from explosions and extreme pain as long as their head and heart are intact. Even if they are either temporarily killed or gravely injured, it only takes a little bit of time for the healing to kick in before they wake up.

* Conri was able to survive a gassing in the Nazi death camps, despite succumbing to the gas, when it was turned off, he woke up when the soldiers came in, to take out the bodies, and he killed every one of them on the day that the camps were liberated, and was joined by Ash, who had been a fellow prisoner.

## Weaknesses

* **Magic:** Witches can exploit accelerated healing in most supernatural creature. For example, they can give vampires brain aneurysms over and over again, causing them great pain and incapacitating them. This also seems to affect other supernaturals with accelerated healing, like werewolves and hybrids.
* **Severe Physical Damage/Trauma:** A vampire or hybrid can not be recovered in great bodily harm, or the removal of a body part. The heart and the spine are two important elements that can not be regenerated, because they are the main elements for the flow of blood and other organs restoration. The brain can be damaged but regenerates after a while.
* **Werewolf Venom:** Non-original Vampires cannot heal from werewolf venom without the use of Danae's, Conri's or Klaus' blood, due to all three of them being of the same bloodline, and powerful hybrids. Without the blood and depending on the werewolf that bite them, a vampire will hallucinate and die anywhere from a day to multiple days. Original Vampires have a resistance to werewolf venom unlike normal vampires.
* **Cancer:** Accelerated healing boosts the rate in which cells grow which usually heals the user. However, if a person who has cancer was turned into a Vampire the cells will grow out of control due to the vampire blood not differentiating between cancerous cells and healthy ones.