Werewolves

"*Some werewolves have an ability, a sort of mastery over their bodies where they can actually inhibit their scent.*"
—Derek Hale to Malia Tate about **wolves** in *Orphaned*
**wolves** are the predominant supernatural species in the*Teen Wolf* universe, and was the first supernatural creature to be introduced in the series. They are shapeshifters who have the ability to transform from an ordinary human appearance to a partially-lupine form that includes pointed ears, mutton chops, wickedly long and sharp claws and fangs, and a ridged brow. In rare cases, werewolves can have such advanced shapeshifting abilities that they can actually turn into a real wolf, or can transform into a large, monstrous, bipedal wolf-man. Along with shapeshifting, all werewolves also possess super-human strength, speed, agility, healing, and senses, among other powers.

In the supernatural community, being a werewolf is considered a gift, but it is a gift that has a cost-- because a werewolf's powers stem from the moon, the full moon will cause their abilities and emotions to be so heightened that many lose control of themselves, which can cause death and destruction if not handled properly. For this reason, all newly-turned werewolves need to be trained in order to resist the urges that the moon forces upon them and remain in their human form unless its absolutely necessary to change. In order to be a werewolf, a person must either be born to at least one werewolf parent or be bitten (or, in some rare cases, deeply scratched) by an Alpha werewolf in order to change, but even these methods are not 100% successful; not all children of werewolves will be born one, and the bite has been known to kill their recipients rather than transform them in the past.

wolfs is strongest when in a pack with one Alpha (who is the leader of the pack) and at least three Beta werewolves total which constitutes a basic pack, and there is usually a defined hierarchy within the pack. In packs, the Alpha draws power from their Betas, and vice-versa, which makes them stronger and more effective in battle. However, there are many werewolves, known as Omegas, who do not belong to a pack, though they are generally regarded as weaker and easier than their peers who have packs to back them up though this is not always the case i.e Scott McCall, who as an omega, defeated a beta. There are enough werewolves in existence that the community even has its own culture, which includes legends and folk tales passed down through the generations, mystical rituals for certain events, and societal protocols for how to deal with intense situations, such as how to respond to the death of one of their fellow packmates.

In order to be a wolf, one must either be born to at least a single werewolf parent or be bitten (or, in some rare cases, deeply scratched) by an Alpha werewolf in order to change. These methods are not completely successful. Not all children of werewolves will be born one, and the bite could actually kill their recipients rather than transform them. Also, in one known case, one daughter of a werewolf, , inherited her mother's heritage instead of her father's, and several former humans who were turned by an Alpha have become other kinds of shapeshifters, such as a in 's case (albeit temporarily) and a in the case of

## Supernatural Rules

Like humans and natural wolves, wolves on Teen Wolf are social beings. The actual wolf lives in a family group called a pack.

The werewolf, and the werecoyote, are described as symbiotic, conspecific creatures. They are naturally drawn, sensitive, stimulated by and attuned towards their own kind. Due to this symbiosis, werewolves naturally organize themselves into, and live in Packs.

The leaders are the Alphas, with the followers being the Betas. wolves form, or join Packs, not only because of strength in numbers, but because their Wolf status improves. They become more mature, more powerful, or more balanced. This supernatural conspecific relation can be shared with others including humans officially declaring them as members of the Pack.

The supernatural basis of a Pack requires a single Alpha and a minimum of three Betas, as in the case of Derek's Pack. Scott McCall's circle of inter-species friends, are shown to function similarly to the basic concept of a Pack. As exemplified by the Alpha Pack seen in Season 3, a Pack can also be comprised of only Alphas, with one overall leader and all the others fulfilling the roles of followers,

Werewolves who have no position in any Pack, who have no Alpha, are Omegas. This status leaves them weaker and vulnerable.

## Culture

There is a relatively strong culture among the international werewolf community, particularly the born werewolves, which, for most, includes the belief that their lycanthropy binds them all together as family. For this reason, peaceful packs often see each other as siblings, regardless of their blood ties; for example, Derek Haletold Scott McCall that they were now brothers after Scott had been bitten by Peter Hale, and Scott repeated the sentiment to Liam Dunbar after Scott had given him the bite. In a similar vein, the sight of the dozens of werewolves from Satomi Ito's pack who had been killed by a modified form of canine distemper brought the typically-unemotional Derek to tears out of sadness for the loss of so many fellow werewolves. However, this culture can be hard for newly-bitten werewolves to understand, particularly if they don't have an older or more experienced werewolf to guide them.

Despite the camaraderie between werewolves of all bloodlines, they are still a predatory species, and battles among and within packs for either political or territorial reasons are not uncommon; this was evidenced by the conflict between the Alpha Pack and the Hale and McCall Packs in order to convince Derek and Scott to join them. However, alliances between packs to fend off a common enemy is also a frequent occurrence, particularly when it involves werewolf hunters-- for example, the Hale Pack, Deucalion's Pack, Ennis' Pack andKali's Pack all gathered to determine how they would react to the Argent hunter family going after the werewolves in the region in the early 2000s. Because of the threat the werewolves face from the werewolf hunters, all werewolves are trained to know what to do if they are confronted by hunters-- fight their way out, hide, and heal. This also puts enormous pressure on the individuals in the werewolf community to do everything possible to learn control over their transformations so they don't risk exposing themselves to the humans and hunters alike.

There are several rituals used by werewolves that are unique to their species. One is a memory manipulation ritual that is typically only performed by Alphas, due to the amount of control and experience necessary to do it without paralyzing or killing the person whose memories are being accessed. To perform the ritual, the Alpha (or an especially experienced Beta, in rare cases) stabs the back of the target's neck with their claws, piercing their spinal cord and making a metaphysical connection to their minds. In most cases, this ritual is used to search through a person's memories and see specific events so that the werewolf can experience a particular memory through the target's eyes. This can also work in the reverse, as well, with the werewolf performing the ritual to share their own memories with the target, such as when Peter Hale shared his memories of the Hale Fire with Scott. However, some especially skilled Alphas can also use this ability to suppress or entirely remove memories, such as when Talia removed her brother Peter's memories of his daughter Malia Tate's existence for yet-unknown reasons. Because of the amount of risk involved, this ritual is usually performed on supernatural creatures with accelerated healing abilities who can recover from the damage much more quickly than regular humans. However, the ritual has, on several occasions, been done to banshees, though in Lydia Martin's case, this caused her to become temporarily catatonic, since the person who performed it on her was an inexperienced chimera.

Another ritual, which is also only performed by Alphas, is one that can transfer their Alpha "spark" to a dying Beta in order to heal them, at the cost of their own Alpha powers. When performed, the Alpha absorbs the Beta's pain to the point that the ill Beta absorbs the Alpha power, allowing them to enhance their preexisting healing factor to a high enough level that they can overcome their illness or injury. This ritual has only been demonstrated once in the series, in Season 3's *Alpha Pact*, when Derek gave up his Alpha powers to heal his younger sister Cora from the mistletoe poisoning inflicted upon her by Jennifer Blake. It is possible this ritual can also be used to voluntarily transfer Alpha power to another Beta in a method similar to a king or queen abdicating a throne, though this has yet to be confirmed in canon.

Finally, there is one last ritual that can allow a werewolf to communicate with the spirit of a deceased werewolf, though this is a risky ritual that is not commonly done. To do this, a werewolf needs the claws of the deceased werewolf in question, along with another werewolf who is willing to push the claws into their own nail-beds. The assisting werewolf will then pierce the back of the other werewolf's neck with the claws of the deceased, which will mystically form a connection with the deceased's spirit inside the main werewolf's mind. Derek Hale performed this ritual with Peter Hale's assistance and Talia Hale's claws, which allowed him to talk to his mother, who informed him that the Hales not only lived in Beacon Hills, but they protected it.

## Full Moons

Because a werewolf gains their power from the moon, full moons (and especially on supermoons, when the full moon is even closer to the Earth than it normally is) are when they are at their strongest. However, this also means that their animal instincts and heightened aggression are at their peak as well, which makes them much more likely to lose control and harm or kill someone. This makes werewolves vulnerable to exposure and also makes it easier for them to be captured or killed by hunters. Due to this risk, most werewolves are trained to control themselves on a full moon, typically by using an "anchor" to help them retain their humanity. An anchor can be a person, a relationship with a person, an emotion, a mantra, or even just their own strength. For example, Scott's anchor was his relationship with Allison Argent, and after they broke up, it became his own willpower; Derek's anchor is anger; Isaac Lahey's anchor is the memory of his father before he became abusive; Liam Dunbar's anchor is listening to music on his iPod and his friendship with Mason Hewitt, and the werewolves from Satomi Ito's pack use a Buddhist mantra to help them stay in control-- "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, the truth."

Until werewolves gain full control of their transformations on full moons using their anchors, they are typically restrained in some way to prevent them from running loose and attacking people. This often involves locking the wolf in a secured room, like a boiler room, that they can't break through, or tying them up with large amounts of heavy chains, though the latter is not always strong enough to keep a full-moon-crazed werewolf at bay. Werewolves who already had anger issues prior to being turned, such as Liam, who was diagnosed with intermittent explosive disorder before he was bitten by Scott, can often have a much harder time learning to control their shifts than the majority of werewolves because a werewolf's anger is already heightened to begin with, and it is usually the trigger for an involuntary transformation.

Supermoons, or full moons that are especially close to the Earth, only make werewolves even more bloodthirsty and aggressive than on normal full moons, and they can feel the effects strongly even during the day when exposure to moonlight is at a minimum.

A lunar eclipse will suppress a Werewolf's powers for a short time, the Darach attempted to use this short opportunity to kill Deucalion, who was otherwise too powerful for her to handle.

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## Biology

### **Nutrition**

wolves are natural hunters, and are carnivores, much like the wolves themselves. As such, they are known to only consume meat, but unlike the animal, they are capable of consuming any meat, even of other wolves, and humans as well. They are known for having a large appetite, and can consume large amounts of meat, even in human form, and even after being full.

This does, however, mean that Werewolves still require their food in order to survive, making their immortality absolute. A Werewolf, regardless whether it is a "true" or "false" one, can survive almost a year without any food, but only a month without water, but even then, the Werewolf becomes severely weakened after long periods of time without any nutrition, and become easier to kill.

Like normal humans, werewolves can eat human food if they wish. However, because they turn into ferocious beasts during the full moon, they are carnivores. When in werewolf form, they can feed on human or vampire body parts and organs, but they are not required to ingest them in order to prolong their existence, like vampires must do with blood. There are no known consequences from abstaining from human or vampire flesh while in werewolf form. It seems that most werewolves do not get to feed on humanoid flesh, because most tend to lock themselves up during the full moon, or are scared or distracted away from their victim before they can eat them. Werewolves have not been seen to attack each other in human or lupine form, but have been known to hunt both human and vampire prey while transformed under the full moon. Jules, for example, was seen to be horrified when she woke up to find she'd slaughtered a group of campers after she had attacked Rose the previous evening. Unstable hybrids also have the urge to attack vampires regardless of what form they are in, as witnessed in *The Hybrid* when a werewolf, Ray Sutton, instinctively attacked the vampire Damon Salvatore instead of pursuing its first choice, Elena Gilbert. werewolves are flesh eating creatures instead of blood drinking creatures. When feeding, it is absorbed throughout the body, and it satiates their lupine urges and gives the werewolf a total control during its lunar transformations, but not necessary for life. The absence of devouring victims will result in them lacking all control mentally in werewolf form, inhibiting their ability to have control in which they achieve in when they feed, and ultimately resulting in them losing all sense of humanity and rationality in their transformed state. Despite lacking no bit of control in their werewolf form if they do not feed, a werewolf will 100% of the time devour prey. Some newborn werewolves attempt to lock themselves up during their transformations in order not to harm anyone, but either that night or shortly after they will eventually break out. Werewolves have and will attack humans, but instinct and centuries of rivalry have hardwired them to hunt their prey of choice: Vampires or Primordial vampires. This especially began after vampires drove werewolves almost to extinction. So, if a werewolf finds prey, whether it's a human, a vampire or a shape-shifter it will be mauled, ripped apart and devoured. To a werewolf, the taste of vampires varies on a massive basis. A transformed werewolf will most likely attack a vampire who has feed of humans instead of animals. just like vampires, werewolf can subsist.

## **Characteristics**

Being shapeshifters, Werewolves can easily change their form between three forms; a human, a wolf, and their famous wolf-human hybrid form, a Werewolf. Their human forms function as disguises, not ones they create, but ones they are born with, and have their own unique face, just like any other human or animal born. Werewolves, most commonly True Werewolves, that are master shapeshifters, can allow their animalistic traits to become visible, even if it is merely their ears, tail, eyes or fangs.

## Triggers

Most werewolves have a trigger that makes them transform. For example: If a werewolves is in human form and it gets to hyper, it will transform. Other triggers are: getting to angry, getting hurt, getting too much adrenaline, or to protect something or someone.

When they die or get knock out, most of them turn back into human form.

The worst way for someone to trigger their werewolf curse is if they take a life, or simply put, kill somebody. It also does not matter if the gene was activated accidentally, or it was intentional.

But if anyone triggers their werewolf curse through any of these ways, either way, once they have triggered their curse or gene, their eyes will change color and their powers will activate instantly. A Werewolf who has yet to trigger his or her curse will only exhibit increased aggression and overwhelming fits of rage during nights of the full moon.

## Traits

A werewolf can only change during the night, when the full moon has reached its highest apex. Once the transformation is complete, the individual will lose all awareness of their human self; becoming extremely aggressive and violent toward any being who might cross their path. Although werewolves are commonly known for running in packs, some werewolves choose to isolate themselves from others, especially loved ones.

Only during a full moon will a werewolf's speed and strength exceed those of a vampire. Due to their newly amplified abilities, werewolves are capable of completely destroying vampires and are incredibly difficult to kill.

**Vampire Hatred**: At first it was presumed that werewolves hatred for vampires in human form was automatic this has since benn proven false and has to be learned such as when Tyler had no idea at that Caroline was a vampire. In fact when he confronted her in her house because of how strong she was, he made the mistake of thinking she was another vwrewolf, causing her to laugh at him, then a little scuffle causes her to reveal herself as a vampire.

**Choice of Prey**: werewolves can and will attack humans but after centuries of war and rivalry Werewolves are compelled to hunt their prey of choice Vampires,this also is partially untrue Werewolves most likely hunt Vampires instinctively in their Wolf Form due to the fact that when they encounter them they see them as something not normal because of how powerful they are when attacked.

## Pack behavior

In their werewolf forms, werewolf show the general behavior of their titular animals, though they don't have their human intelligence, memories and character under the full moon. Unlike the Shape-shifters, werewolf packs are not linked to each other telepathically, greatly increasing their coordination during hunts and fights but allowing them all of their privacy.Alphas can control other werewolves (in human form). The dominant male or female, the Alpha one, can force the other members to obey orders against their will. Alpha status is related to dominance, and by having fights to the death, they can select a new alphas to lead the pack. Though entirely possible, it's clear that a lower-ranking pack member can challenge the Alpha for the status. Like the Shifters, someone like Bella Swan is able to mentally shield a whole pack of werewolves by focusing on their Alphas, with the protection cascading down through the ranks. It was intitally believed that because they have no Telepathic link, Children of the Moon do not make good pack members, however this is false, and a single pack of Werewolves are considered to be strong enough to take down a sized group of Newborns.

## Family - The Pack

Werewolf society is based on the pack. The pack is a family, biological or adoptive, of werewolves who live and function together as a unit. The emotional ties of the pack are very strong and are the central focus of werewolf existence.

Much like wolf packs, werewolf packs are led by one strong leader, often male, but sometimes female. Newly adult members must "prove" themselves in order to earn a place within the pack hierarchy. All members of the pack are loved. All members of the pack who have proven themselves as valuable members of the pack are respected. Only one may rule, and that one must prove themself to be the strongest and most capable member of the pack. Packleaders are self-elected and must prove themselves before their rule is fully accepted.

In addition to packleader, another mainstay of the werewolf pack is the packmother. Almost always a female, the packmother is the primary caretaker of the pack. The packmother is also the spiritual leader of the pack; providing guidance, perspective and a stable ever-loving presence. Aged packmothers will pass on their responsibilities of every-day pack maintenance to younger women and recede in to the background as Grandmothers, the mystics and oracles of the werewolf race.

**Alphas:** are the leaders of a pack of werewolves. The strongest, most powerful, most dangerous, and by far the most lethal variety of the lycanthrope, Alphas are generally larger, faster, stronger, more powerful, and more animal then Omegas, Betas, and even Pure-Breeds in every sense of the words. When in canine form they are noticeably bigger. An Alpha is stronger with or without pack. if an Alpha kills another werewolf member of his own Pack, the power of the deceased will be added to that of the Alpha's. They will "become stronger, faster, more powerful". Three lead Alphas Deucalion, Kali and Ennis carried out this capability. They murdered each and every member of their own individual Packs, subsuming all their power. Subsequently they formed the basis of the dastardly and dreaded Alpha Pack.In Currents, Kali and the twins forcedly had Derek kill Boyd by his hand. As Boyd dies, Derek's eyes glow a much brighter Alpha red as he absorbs Boyd's power.. Alphas also possess a variety of special powers and abilities that other werewolves don't possess, including the ability to control their wolf forms, abilities and tendencies very well (even on a full moon when they also have more control), empathy abilities that have progressed to limited telepathy (the ability to hear the thoughts of others). Only an Alpha has the ability to change humans into werewolves. They also have glowing bright red eyes. A Purebreed, Beta, and/or even an Omega werewolf can and may become an Alpha in two ways: 1. Either by defeating and killing another alpha, hence stealing or taking that power -- if an Alpha is not killed by a werewolf -- by being the next strongest member of the pack. Or 2. By rising purely through strength of character, virtue, or the sheer force of their own will alone. These are called "True Alphas" and are very rare. In other rare cases, Alphas can literately turn into actual wolves, but in a larger appearance.

   **Beast Alpha:**Beast Alphas are somewhat similar to Full Wolf Alphas in that they have a more advanced shapeshifting ability than Regular Alphas, but instead of becoming true wolves, Beast Alphas become a humongous and monstrous animal form, though they retain their human four-curve spine in order to stand upright if necessary. Beast Alphas are also typically very powerful in their beast form and in one case required the use of molotove cocktails to defeat. Known Beast Alphas are Peter Hale (during his brief time as an Alpha) and La Bête du Gévaudan. Scott McCall almost transformed into one during a battle between Satomi's pack and the Deadpool Assassins.

    **True Alphas:** True Alphas are werewolves that gain Alpha Werewolf powers and statues based on its personality, rather than how Alphas kill and fight to become alphas or through the theft of another werewolf abilities. A Beta or Omega can become an True Alpha through strength of character or their own force of will alone. These are called “True Alphas” and are very rare. True Alphas appear at an average rate of once a century. Like normal alphas, True Alphas have red glowing eyes, but however they are stronger.

**Beta Werewolf:**A  Beta Werewolf is the middle rank and species of  werewolves. They are the second most powerful and most common breed of werewolves. They are members of a pack and, because of this association, they are considered stronger than Omegas. They do seem to have any special abilities beyond those common in all werewolves.Whereas Omega Werewolves look more human than wolf and Alpha Werewolves are more wolf than they are human, Betas are literately in the middle of both. The Alphas are the leaders and the omegas are the outcasts, but the Betas are the members of the pack. They are the most common type of   werewolf and they also have various colored eyes, but the most common color is bright shinning gold.Additionally, if a Supernatural Hunter is dealing with a Beta Werewolf, it is extremely likely that a pack is not too far away, including the Beta's Alpha. they are considered to be stronger than Omegas due to the support they have from the pack to back them up, as they are stronger in numbers. Betas are not as strong as Alphas, and typically follow the Alpha of their pack with unwavering loyalty. Betas share a mental link with their Alpha and/or with the werewolf who bit them. They possess all the listed abilities of a werewolf and do seem to have any special abilities beyond those mentioned above. Betas have various colored eyes, but the most notable and common golden.

* **Omega Werewolf**-An  Omega Werewolf is the lowest-ranking werewolves in the lycanthrope. They are literately the "*Lone wolves*" with no pack, no Alpha, not even another werewolf. They are considered the strongest and skilled of all types of werewolf. Omega can also be a label for the lowest member of a pack, thus, it is also an insult. Their eyes are normally yellow or blue.Omegas are the bottom folk in the canine shapeshifter hierarchy. These canine shapeshifters have no position in a Pack, or no affiliation with an Alpha. Like Betas, their eyes glow blue or yellow.Omegas are generally the strongest on the power level, because they are not members of a Pack, of which members gradually receive symbiotic balance, power from each other.Omegas can be the "lone wolf", one with no Pack. They could have been kicked out of their Pack, they could be the survivor of a Pack's destruction, or they could be alone by their own choice as stated by Gerard Argent.an unnamed man appears who turns out to be a werewolf. He was homeless, exhibited schizophrenia, his control and maturity was poor. Upon being captured by the Argents, his behaviour was totally animalistic, and they learn he is an Omega. He is killed by Gerard Argent to declare war upon all werewolves of Beacon Hills.At the start of Season 2, Scott McCall had fallen to Omega status because Peter Hale, his Alpha creator was killed. Subsequently, his control over his werewolf bloodlust on a following full moon in Shape-Shifted was fragile. Later, when becoming a Beta as part of Derek's Pack, he had an easier time in Party Guessed, though he later climbed back up to Beta status on his own terms.When Peter was resurrected in Party Guessed, he was at Omega status, because his Alpha powers had been usurped by Derek - his power was immensely powerful. In his own words, he didn't needed a Pack so to regain Beta status and build his power back up again.Also, similarly to the natural wolf, Omegas could also considered the lowest ranked member in a Pack but are not seen as, or accepted to be, Betas by the Alpha. This was the case twice with Ethan and Aiden. The twins were "the bitches" in an infamous Pack before they met Deucalion, and during Season 3B when Scott refused to see them as Betas of his Pack because of their murderous past and wrong doing as part of the Alpha Pack though allowed them to help with the Void Kitsune.
	+ **Augmented Alphas** :Augmented Alphas are an uncommon kind of Alpha who becomes exponentially more powerful by killing and absorbing the mystical power from their own Betas, the knowledge of this ability doesn't seem to be common amongst werewolves. So far, the only Augmented Alphas introduced in the series is the Alpha Pack, which was led by Deucalionwho proclaims himself the "Alpha of Alphas" Deucalion is so powerful that even the Darach, who had sacrificed nine different humans in a Druid sacrifice ritual to get the strength necessary to defeat him, was unable to use telekinesis on him. In his Wolf form, Deucalion's skin turned blue-black with thick fur and gained more muscles, and his forehead and the bridge of his nose became very ridged. The Alpha Pack with the exception of Deucalion had different eyes to the usual Alphas like Peter, Scott and Derek who only got red irises, the Alpha pack's wolf eyes were much wider with a dark ring around it, however, it is possible that they were merely transforming their eyes more than usual, as Ennis possessed these eyes before killing his betas, and Scott's red eyes became larger with black around it when almost transforming into the beast form. What makes the Augmented Alphas more dangerous than "regular" Alphas is that each one can possess the power of a pack if they had killed them all. The act of killing their own Betas seems to corrupt them as Deucalion was once a visionary wanting peace, however his blinding likely had a part in disillusioning him. It is unknown if the Alpha Pack gains the same symbiotic power boost that regular packs get. Known Augmented Alphas were the twins,Kali and Ennis.
	+ **Twin Alphas:** Twin Alphas are also an uncommon occurrence. They are twin werewolves who have the ability to form one extra-large werewolf by merging their bodies together, though they maintain a double spine to accommodate their separate spinal cords in order to control their body. When the Twin Alphas are in their individual forms, they don't have the ridged brow and sideburns that other werewolves have when partially transformed; instead, they only have the red glowing eyes, fangs, and claws. The only Twin Alphas introduced in the series have been Ethan and Aiden, who apparently possessed their ability to merge into one werewolf even before they became Alphas, this merging ability gave them the power to to kill their alpha, essentially allowing them to share the alpha spark . However, after their neck was snapped by Jennifer Blake while in their merged form, the Alpha part of them died even despite their individual survivals, which not only demoted them back to Omega status, but also prevented them from being able to merge together again.
	+ **Full Wolf Alphas** :Full Wolf Alphas are much less common than Regular Alphas, though they have similar physical abilities such as super strength, speed, agility, and healing. Unlike Regular Alphas, however, Full Wolf Alphas can transform into an actual wolf in addition to their human and werewolf forms. These Alphas have so far only been seen in the Hale Family by Talia and Laura Hale. Interestingly enough, Derek Hale was only able to achieve a full wolf shift several months after he had relinquished his Alpha status, and is the only Beta werewolf on the series to have demonstrated such an ability, excluding Theo who was a Chimera and thus not a true werewolf.

## Werewolf Eye Color

A werewolf's status and power is also reflected by it's supernatural eye colour. there are three eye colors for werewolves: gold, bright blue, and red.

# Gold

Every werewolf, born or Bitten, starts out with gold eyes. After being Bitten by Peter, Scott's eyes as a werewolf were gold until he became an Alpha. Other werewolves with gold eyes include Isaac Lahey and Liam Dunbar, both of whom were also Bitten while Cora Hale was born.

# Blue

A werewolf's eyes change from gold to blue after killing an innocent. Derek Hale's werewolf eyes changed from gold to blue when he gave his his girlfriend, Paige a mercy-killing. Peter and the twins have blue eyes from being supernatural serial killers. When Derek became an Alpha his eye color switches to Alpha red, but after he descends in Alpha Pact they change back to blue.

If a werewolf with blue eyes were to be losing their power, their werewolf status, their eyes will change back to gold as in Derek' case in 117.

# Red

A werewolf with red eyes is an Alpha. This is the easiest way to distinguish an Alpha. When a werewolf ascends to Alpha status, their eye color, gold or blue, will change to red. Derek's blue eyes changed to red after killing an Alpha, his uncle Peter. Scott McCall gains an Alpha's red eyes when he becomes a True Alpha. In Alpha Pact, we see that if a werewolf descends to Beta status, they lose the red eyes.

## Nature

Werewolves are known to be aggressive, strong and fast, even in human form. Tyler Lockwood often had trouble controlling his temper, especially leading up to and during the full moon. Those with the werewolf curse still latent can exhibit some supernatural traits which can be triggered by aggression, along with unusual physical strength for the person's given size and age, but they cannot fully transform, and they also have a tendency to black out when they become overwhelmed in fits of rage. Werewolves seem to have a strong sense of duty and loyalty to protect their own, and feel a responsibility to help their fellow werewolves whenever they can. Also, werewolves have a higher body temperature than humans. When Tyler first activates his curse, he states that his skin feels as if it's on fire. Once a werewolf has triggered their gene, their eyes turn yellow (the eyes of a wolf) while enraged, as Mason's eyes did when he stopped the fight between Tyler and Carter(*Brave New World*), or when feeling threatened, such as when Hayley's eyes turned yellow while she was defending herself against a group of witches. Activating the curse is also painful, as werewolves have been seen to double over in pain before their eyes change for the first time. . It is known that humans can be turned into werewolf, and werewolf venom is nothing more than a deadly poison to animals. Shape-shifters and Vampires can't be turned, however much like animals, the venom acts as a deadly poison giving them a slow and very painful death if severe injuries are added. werewolf are feral, predatory creatures, far more savage and beast-like than their Vampire rivials. They growl, snarl, roar, and curl their lips back baring their teeth as signs of aggression. Even older "civilized" werewolves (ex. Alima) can break their human facade and show their animal instincts. When they sense danger, they go almost immediately look around for the presence, after which they bare their teeth and instantly attack with a feral roar and attack. When fighting transformed, werewolf go in for the kill and often times succeeding in doing so. Their bites can sever the limbs of their opponent ( Werewolf teeth are known to be able to severe vampires in half) as well as kill (biting their head off like a toothpick). Their grips can also snap limbs and is common for some werewolves who play with their prey. Despite their nature, they are also capable of human feelings, such as love, beauty, protection, compassion, caring, respect, self-control, empathy and remorse is enhanced.

Despite their nature, werewolves are also capable of human emotions, such as compassion, love, and self-control. However, it's in a werewolves nature to be violent, and no matter what their morality or kindness, they will always resort to such acts if it's necessary. While werewolves typically maintain their human personalities (though magnified by the magical properties of the lycanthrophy), they are usually dehumanized to some degree, and due to in-fighting within the werewolves community and tensions between vampires and the other human and supernatural communities, violence, tragedy, and death seem to follow werewolves wherever they go, even despite their best efforts to avoid it. Many werewolves are inherently selfish and consider other beings, particularly humans, to be inferior to themselves; even the most compassionate of their kind will often resort to cruelty and torture if it means protecting themselves and their loved ones from danger.

## Powers & Abilities

Werewolves possess the following powers, though the strength of the powers are based on their rank. Alphas are generally the strongest, followed by Betas, and then Omegas.Werewolves are demihumans who are granted superhuman abilities by their lycanthropy. Werewolves' powers and abilities are enhanced and are at their peak during time under a full moon, but somewhat increase as they age. When angered, these abilities are temporarily enhanced; these abilities are common to all three types of werewolves. Even in human form they appear to possess all of these abilities, though not as powerful as other supernaturals. Some werewolves have shown the ability to sense illness and, in one case, the onset of an epileptic seizure. This seems to be due to a combination of their "Heightened Senses" working in concert on a subconscious level. While in human form werewolves, mostly mutts are powerless until the days before the full moon. Purebreds on the other hand have their senses and presumably their strength heighten all the time.Werewolves are known for being incredibly powerful creatures.

Even in human form, a Werewolf's physical strength is enough to overpower a human with ease, and even break bones and walls with punches. A Werewolf's physical strength varies between forms, while the human form being the "weakest" and the full wolf form being the strongest.The bite of a Werewolf is also considered devastating, the few lucky to survive it would later be turned into Werewolves themselves. But, a Werewolf bite is known for easily tearing humans and animals to shreds, and even be capable of ripping steel apart with their jaws alone.Their speed is also remarkable, being capable of outrunning their prey with ease. Their speed also varies, and changes in accordance to their form, with their full wolf form being the fastest, as well as the strongest physically.However, that applies mostly for the average Werewolf. There exists Werewolves whom are capable of becoming even more powerful than that. Their strength tends to come with their age, the longer they've lived and hunted, the stronger they became.

Even in human form, Werewolves boast inhuman strength and speed, even if their human bodies don't appear muscular or well built.As for their stamina, and endurance, Werewolves are capable of lasting hours upon hours in battle, and endure severe, and almost life-threatening injuries. Their regeneration only further adds to their terrifying strength in battle.

* **Super Strength:**The super-strength of a werewolf will amplify during the full moon, once they join a Pack, when they follow an Alpha.Derek also Evolved, being able to shapeshift into a full wolf, his power having reached its zenith, gaining new strength, being able to destroy a berserker. Werewolves possess superhuman levels of strength that allow them to break through chains and deadbolt locks, punch through brick and marble walls, and throw grown men across a room with ease. They can also use it to break deadbolts on locked doors and snap off padlocks on lockers.Werewolves are extremely strong and they can kill there opponent with brute force. They can kill there own kind and gain additional power and become more powerful. Werewolves Can lift 100 tons as a newly changed Werewolves. Strength doubles every century(200, 400,800) Werewolves can physically harm vampires. Werewolves possess supernatural strength that makes them far stronger than immortals, members of The Five and humans. For example, Tyler accidentally ripped the door off his locker and kicked a trash can several feet with ease right after he triggered his curse. There have been several occasions to suggest that untriggered Werewolves possess more strength than any average humans, which would indicate some form of enhanced strength even before the activation of their curse. However, Werewolves in their human form are way strong then a vampire, and have even been shown to be far stronger on several occasions. But they've also shown to be strong enough to at least defend themselves, such as when Mason punched Damon across the room, or when Hayley pinned Diego up against a wall. When they are in their wolf form, their powers amplify to a degree that excels that of the Original and non-original vampires, making them more powerful than Original and non-original vampires. In wolf form, a Werewolves can overpower and kill any non-original and original vampire with ease, This ability has been used to break necks and spines, ripping out internal organs and break and move heavy objects.Werewolves have and possess supernatural-human strength that is much greater than a human's, making them incredibly physically strong, both when transformed and in human form, and as they have shown to be considerably far much stronger than any regular human, however, not to the same extent as vampires, though their strength waxes and wanes with the moon, and they are almost human for most of the month. Werewolves are a strong breed; they can and are able to easily overpower adult humans and animals to pieces and easily rag-doll them, ripping flesh and bones with amazing force, but can be fought off; their strength is notable even for monsters, as they have been observed as being able to smash stone with their bare hands. Their more wolf-like form, during a full moon, is more powerful and they are capable of lifting at 100 ton. Their strength also extends into the muscles of their legs, allowing them to leap, from a crouch, roughly 18 feet into the air. Even while in human form, werewolves have incredible strength, as one newly-bitten werewolf saw no challenge in lifting an adult woman high above his head using only one hand, and would accidently rip a door off its hinges also using virtually no effort. Even untriggered wolves possess more strength than they appear in general, which would indicate some form of enhanced strength even before the activation of their curse. After activating their curse, they gain greater strength when they transform and they experience a dramatic increase in physical strength; able to bend thick iron bars in their bare hands and easily lift heavy objects with more weight that any mortal human cannot. In wolf form, a werewolf can overpower and kill any non-original vampire with ease and tear an entire group of witches apart.
* **Super Speed:**The innate speed of a werewolf will increase when they join a Pack, as will all their superhuman capabilities. They are also able to run using a combination of their hands and feet in the manner of an animal as Werewolves can run much faster than even the any athletic human beings, They can also run on all fours in both human and in werewolf form. They possess this ability both in and out of transformation with an animalistic quickness. However, the power is faster at night than in the day, due to the moon's presence, and their speed increases greatly when the werewolf is transformed during the full moon. Mason was able to hunt down Caroline and Stefan in the woods easily while transformed, even despite their Werewolves-enhanced speed. all Werewolves are shown to become nearly a blur like their vampire enemies. In wolf form, however, while under the influence of the full moon, they can use their speed to swiftly chase down their choice of prey; even vampires, as their speed rivals that of any vampires or possibly even exceeds it - during the battle between Elijah and Marcel's army, the fleeing vampires were all caught by Werewolves who managed to appear in front of them and set up ambushes. Typically, when they accelerate, a distinct *whooshing,* vacuum-like sound can be heard. They become faster with age, although once a person has active their gene, they are automatically able to run much faster than any other animal or human. This speed allows many Werewolves to outrun explosions. Werewolves super-speed makes the user almost seem invisible to the point that they look like a blur. They can also travel with a passenger, usually by establishing contact first with the recipient(s) and then speeding away. Interestingly, human passengers seems to be unfazed by the speed in which the Werewolves runs, which, due to the air friction and turbulence alone, would have otherwise ripped mere mortals to shreds. This implies that Werewolves can also impart some sort of mystical protection to their passengers while utilizing this power.
* **Super Agility/Reflexes:** Werewolves possess supernaturally enhanced agility and reflexes that allow them to leap very high and across large distances, jump from several stories up and land lightly on their feet, and perform a multitude of acrobatic and gymnastic feats such as flips, handsprings, and spinning kicks. They can also process moving objects much better than humans can, allowing them to catch arrows in mid-air and dodge speeding bullets before they can be hit. Werewolves possess superhuman enhanced stamina, flexibility, reflexes, and agility. They can move, jump, climb, and run incredibly fast without difficulty or exhaustion. they possess amazing supernaturally superhuman agility. They have shown that they are very flexible and can move, jump very high off buildings without hurting themselves, climb up walls, and run incredibly fast without difficulty or exhaustion and perform amazing acrobatic and parkour feats. They can also leap to great heights and are nimble enough to scale sheer surfaces with amazing speed, vertically or horizontally, much like a spider. This ability would allow them to access places that would be otherwise impossible for a human to reach. They can jump with their super speed too further than any normal human, such as from roof top to roof top or building to building.
* **Super Durability:**Though werewolves can still be receive open wounds like any other creature, they are much more durable to blunt force trauma than regular humans, allowing them to be thrown through walls and from tall heights with only minor injuries.Werewolves’ body is physically tougher and more resistant to injury than the body of a normal human and they can take far more trauma than Humans can without much discomfort or injury. Werewolves are highly resistant to electric shock and have a high tolerance for physical pain. They can also exert themselves without much tire. A werewolf can take more trauma being harder to injure than a vampire. They cannot be harmed by conventional weapons, as ordinary firearms and blades seem to do little more than annoy the beast.
* **Invulnerability** **:** Their extremely dense body tissue renders a Werewolf indestructible, capable of withstanding high-caliber bullets, sharp objects, extreme forces, asphyxiation, artillery shells, lasers, falls from great heights. Werewolves are also invulnerable to extreme temperatures (both hot and cold). In addition, Werewolves are immune to all earthly diseases, bacteria and viruses. Some of the few things that actually can harm Werewolves is Wolfs-bane, Fire and mountain ash and other werewolves (who can generate enough force to break through a Werewolves invulnerability).In addition, Werewolves are capable of breathing underwater and can even survive without an atmosphere, in outer space. Because of this, Werewolves are resistant to all forms of physical damage. Their enhanced durability allows them to exert much harder attacks when in battle (without them having to worry about injuring themselves in the process.
* **Immune to Witch Spells and Curses:**  Werewolves are invulnerable to, thus, they are more immune to Spells and Curses.
* **Empathy:** Being that werewolves' senses are so strong, they developed the ability to sense other's emotions through touch. With time this power grows stronger, this is used to sense a person's true intentions and if they are lying or not. At first this ability can be very annoying and hard to control, sensing everyone's emotions without meaning to. This ability can also be developed enough to absorb pain from someone.
* **Lycanthrope Enhancement:** Werewolf are capable of using their werewolf features to further supplement their powers and abilities. Werewolf can grow claws from their nails and werewolf fangs from their teeth even when they are still in their human forms. When Klaus was in Tyler's body, it was shown that a werewolf claws are sharp enough to penetrate a werewolf-vampire hybrid's very durable skin. Also werewolf can display werewolf fangs. Their eyes also change into those of their werewolf form, presumably granting them better eyesight. Due to their werewolf heritage, a werewolf strength and speed are heightened further during a full moon and at its peak in their werewolf forms.
* **Heightened Senses:**Werewolves, like their wolf counterparts, have extremely sensitive senses of sight, hearing, and smell. They can see in the dark and across large distances, track scents for up to several miles while also interpreting the chemosignals that indicate identity and emotional states, and can hear whispered conversations from outside of buildings with ease. These abilities help werewolves fight at night, hear approaching enemies, and locating missing people by scent. A werewolf's glowing eyes can also be used to see mystical or supernatural phenomenon that cannot be perceived by human eyes, such as the Nemeton, or a kitsune's aura.
* **Hunting Style Skills:**  Werewolves hunt like actual wolves does to take down prey. They can hunt very well alone or in pack. In pack shows that one will distract the prey and the other ones will ambush. Werewolves can hunt any humans, animals, or even vampires.
* **Full Moon**:The moment in which Werewolves are at the absolute peak of their strength is during a Full Moon. While the exact reason is unknown, the Full Moon's lunar lights grants Werewolves unimaginable power for one night. An opposite effect to what the sunlight does to them.Dubbed the **"Full Moon Period"**(満月期限, *Mangetsu Kigen*), it is considered a time in which even a small army of Werewolves, could whipe out an entire country and take over it in the one night, due to the sheer strength gained during that night alone, but that would still require an enormous pack, as well as being able to control said pack.Their regeneration's ability skyrockets, allowing them to heal almost instantaneously, even from decapitation, and continue fighting seconds after with no reprucussions. Even the most inexperienced Werewolf in shapeshifting can become a formidable force. Their strength, speed and senses also heightened to incredible degrees.However, the only known downside is that Werewolves, mostly Turned, become much more feral, and thus lose their reasoning, and mind, becoming more animalistic and dangerous as a result. At times, not even obeying the pack leader when ordered. In addition, most packs do not actively attack, instead becoming more active, and hunting for prey more so than often, as well as attacking any known threats.
* **Infectious Werewolf Bite Venom:** Through a bite, a werewolf can turn another person into a werewolf while in beast form. Their fangs and claws produce venom which can turn humans into werewolves by biting or scratching them. A Werewolf's bite and poison, which involves injecting a toxic venom into the wound, is extremely lethal and fatal to normal Vampires . While an Alpha Elder and Dracula can die from the bites, they are not wholly immune to the effects of the bite, as they still will experience the sickness and hallucination that accompanies it until their body heals. For vampires, the bite wound will begin to appear infected and will hurt when touched. It will cause them to hallucinate, grow severely weak and go rabid until it kills them. The infection will spread throughout the body, producing unbearable pain and the vampire bitten will have uncontrollable hunger, and will eventually develop delusions, hallucinations of moments from their past, rabid rage, and dementia before finally dying. A bite from a werewolf as the venom in the saliva will neutralize the vampire venom in their blood causing them to die and deteriorate.
* **Vampire-Toxic Blood:** Their blood is toxic to vampires, which will cause severe bleeding and seizures when ingested, but it is not fatal in small doses. It does, however, remain in the vampire's system, for an unknown amount of time, and makes it impossible for them to create new vampires without their potential progeny developing horrible mutations.
* **Enhanced Heightened Super Wolf Senses:** Werewolves gain a canus lupis like appearance, and so do their internal organs. Thus, Werewolves have the extremely keen, heightened, superhumanly, animal acute senses of smell, sight, taste, and hearing inherent in all canines similar to those of an actual wolf. Because they are supernatural and have powers that excel their wolf counterparts, they can hear, see, and smell better than that of regular canines. Even in human form, a Werewolf possesses enhanced wolf-like senses and instincts. They're able to sense and smell things normal humans can't. This trait is shared by their shifter counterparts. All werewolves are able to see far better than humans in darkness, similar to actual wolves, and they can also see all of the infrared spectrum and thus detect the heat signatures of objects or people in total darkness. Werewolves also have night vision since hunting at night very well. Additionally, they have a well-developed sense of smell, which also intensifies in the days before and a few hours after the full moon. Their smell is equally enhanced to their hearing. They can smell other living creatures within 100 feet (when upwind) and follow a scent over nearly any terrain. With this, experienced werewolves such as Jules could sniff out vampires—something vampires themselves are incapable of—and Tyler sensed vervain placed in coffee, which would otherwise be impossible since the flavor is usually hidden by the coffee. A Werewolf's hearing and smell will be equivalent to a wolf's, making them excellent trackers when it comes to scents, and their hearing improves allowing them to hear sounds from miles away. They can hear the sound of a heartbeat in a cave at a distance of 30 feet. This trait is shared by their shifter counterparts. Their senses can be even further enhanced with the use of V. Alphas also have the ability to hide their scent from other werewolves.

* **Retractable Fangs**: Werewolves can retract their fangs, back and forth.As The extension of fangs, is one of the first steps in a shapeshift for a werewolf. The fangs can be used as a werewolf's last resort defense mechanism as in Raving, Derek Hale bites Victoria Argent to disarm her during his faceoff with her when saving Scott's life.The fangs are most commonly used by Alpha werewolves to transform a human into a new werewolf through the Bite or to wound other were-creatures and hinder their healing. more active, and hunting for prey more so than often, as well as attacking any known threats.

* **Accelerated Healing:**Werewolves possess extraordinarily enhanced healing factors that allow them to heal from most mild to moderate wounds within moments. Throughout the series, werewolves have been shown to heal from gunshots; stab wounds through the chest, abdomen, and extremities; and broken arms, legs, and spines. They are also immune to most human illnesses and conditions such as colds, cancer, epilepsy, asthma, etc, and cannot get high on drugs or drunk on alcohol because they heal too quickly. The only substances that werewolves are not immune to are wolfsbane and the modified canine distemper virus that was specifically designed to kill werewolves. They are also vulnerable to the paralytic effects of kanima venom, though they will heal from it much faster than a regular human would.Werewolves possess superhuman regenerative abilities, meaning if ever injured, their bodies will heal rapidly. Werewolves are relatively fast healers and can regenerate and heal from all non-lethal and lethal damages and injuries, purebloods are even able to completely heal their original bites. Thus, when they are shot, they can withstand the pain, due to regenerating their damaged tissue. For example, limbs can regrow in a few seconds in werewolf form. Werewolves are capable of regenerating damaged or destroyed areas of their body with much greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human. Injuries that result in massive tissue damage such as bullet wounds, slashes, punctures, blunt force trauma, and severe burns heal completely, without so much as a scar, in a short amount of time. Their ability to heal is at least 100 times that of a human. Like vampires, werewolves can heal from all grievous of injuries, even in human form, albeit quicker in comparison. like vampires, when a werewolf’s neck is broken, they stay unconsciousness. But while they heal faster, they are harder to injury. During their transformations, a werewolf's ability to heal is enhanced. This healing factor allows them to survive their transformations, and is likely the reason why they do not suffer traumatic injuries while transforming. For example, despite the massive changes to their skeletal structure, their skin does not rip open as it happens. Consequently, it is extremely difficult to slow down a transformed werewolf with anything less than wolfsbane. Werewolves have shown to heal wounds like scratches and other wounds..Werewolves can subconsciously trigger their healing by causing themselves pain. Like their senses and transformations werewolves can presumably develop control over their healing.A werewolf's healing can be hindered, and subsequently they will excrete, or vomit up black colored blood. This is possible were they to be poisoned by wolfsbane.
* **Scent:**Scott McCall detected the gum in Stiles Stilinski's jacket pocket as well as determined it's flavour - mint mojito.Scott knew about Gerard Argent's cancer because he smelled the disease off him in Abomination. Isaac Lahey also picks up the debilitating illness in a sick dog, osteo carcoma. Scott affirms that terminal illnesses have a very distinct scent. Derek Hale explains chemo-signals to Scott that a werewolf can pick up in so to identify emotion.Scott was able to smell the jealousy off ofJackson Whittemore when they're made co-captains because of the onset of the full moon.Peter Hale also warns Stiles that "deception has a particularly acrid scent".Like their hearing, and voices, werewolves are particularly cued to the scent of their own kind.Scott using his sense of smell determined DeMarco Montana was a werewolf, and could also tell he was part of a Pack.
* **Eyes:**A werewolf's eye colour is the first morphological shift during a transformation. There are both internal and external changes to a werewolf's eyes. Their eye color will change, and their internal vision will consist of binocular and night vision.

* **Longevity**: Because a werewolf's rapid cellular regeneration prevents them from contracting any human illness or condition and replaces aging cells at a constant rate, So When a werewolf is born or when a human is bitten at a young age, they age slower than humans. However, either way, once a werewolf reaches maturity, their aging stops and they become immortality in which they are exempt from physical old age and have an infinite lifespan.
* **Voice:**Because a werewolf's senses are immensely attuned to his own kind, particularly with those who are of the same Pack, they're able to communicate with their fellow members very effectively and over immense distances.They're able to use their voices to snap fellow Pack members out of non-responsive states such as a purely animalistic bloodlust or a health-related unconsciousness. The most particularly common werewolf voice is the roar of an Alpha, with is used to restrain, or force the shift upon, other lesser canine shifters.

* **Shapeshifting:**Werewolves have the ability to shape their features into that of a partially lupine form, which involves glowing eyes, fangs, claws, a ridged brow, and large sideburns. With practice, werewolves can learn how to only transform a few features as needed, such as only extending their claws to cut something, their fangs to bite something, or simply making their eyes glow to enhance their eyesight.
* **Infectious Werewolf Bite Venom:** Through a bite, a werewolf can turn another person into a werewolf while in beast form. Their fangs and claws produce venom which can turn humans into werewolves by biting or scratching them. A Werewolf's bite and poison, which involves injecting a toxic venom into the wound, is extremely lethal and fatal to normal Vampires . For vampires, the bite wound will begin to appear infected and will hurt when touched. It will cause them to hallucinate, grow severely weak and go rabid until it kills them. The infection will spread throughout the body, producing unbearable pain and the vampire bitten will have uncontrollable hunger, and will eventually develop delusions, hallucinations of moments from their past, rabid rage, and dementia before finally dying. A bite from a werewolf as the venom in the saliva will neutralize the vampire venom in their blood causing them to die and deteriorate.

    **Pain Absorption/Siphon**: By touch, a werewolf can absorb the pain of a human, animal, or supernatural creature.Werewolves are able to siphon off pain of another living creature through touch. They absorb the pain, alleviate it, causing them some discomfort, but on a level out of scale with the amount of pain dissipating from the recipient.It hurts the werewolf less than it hurts the person they're helping. This indicates werewolves can't just think about taking the pain for an individual to activate it, they have to have empathy for the individuals they're helping.

* **Zoopathy:**Due to being were-creatures, werewolves can have an effect towards, and in regards to, animals. Scott McCall, due to being recently Bitten, entered the cats' room of the animal clinic where he worked, and suddenly the cats began snarling and hissing in the manner as if he were an irregular animal intruder.Later on, when an injured dog was barking and snapping at Scott and Allison Argent out of fright, because of her broken leg. Scott at once stepped forward seeing if he could calm her down. Right after, as if on instinct, his werewolf eyes flashed and the dog immediately became submissive, and Scott wasn't even aware of, nor had any conscious control over, his werewolf status at that point.When Allison was changing in a separate room of the clinic, Scott saw her take off her top baring her back, to his excitement. The dog looked at Scott, as if she was sensing Scott's libido hormonal change towards Allison. Scott gave the dog a bashful expression saying "What? I didn't see anything."Through his continued work at the clinic Scott no longer invokes irregular reactions from animal patients, presumably because he understood enough of his wolf status to mask himself from animals. Derek was being pursued by two police dogs. He scared them off by roaring them into submission.

* **Masking Mastery:**A technique a werewolf can also learn is a mastery over their physical bodies. This capability allows them to completely blend in with human society in every way. Derek outlines this mastery in the sense that werewolves can actually inhibit their own scent so they can avoid detection. Deucalion exhibited this skill, masking his scent when he first encountered Scott and so Scott didn't identify the Alpha Pack leader at that time. Scott tries to locate Lydia with his internal werewolf vision, yet externally his eyes looked completely normal, supposedly because he'd had the necessary control to mask his vision.Members of Satomi's Pack, Brett Talbot and Demarco Montana, whom lived in Beacon County were taught how to mask themselves, and so they were not identified as werewolves initially.

* **Advanced Shapeshifting:** Some werewolves, typically Alphas, can shapeshift into more animalistic forms, such as transforming into a full wolf, or into a more beast-like monstrous form.
* **Memory Sharing Ritual:**All werewolves 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 toward the target. By sticking their claws into the back of a person's neck, they can view the person's memories, share their own memories with the target, or even suppress or remove memories entirely.
* **Animal Instincts:**Werewolves are apex predators, and, as such, they can assert dominance over other animals such as dogs, cats, and deer. They 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 werewolves, especially Alphas. Werewolves also have natural animal instincts that allow them to think as true animals do, though some werewolves are more in-tune with these instincts than others.
* **Power Granting: (Alphas only)** Alpha werewolves have the ability to turn regular humans into werewolves by biting them (or, in some rare cases, by scratching them very deeply). However, this transformation is not always successful, and depending on the condition of the human, there is a risk that they could die instead of becoming a werewolf. It is also possible that an Alpha bite or scratch can cause a human to turn into a different kind of creature, such as a werecoyote or a werejaguar.
* **Alpha Roar: (Alphas only)**Alpha werewolves have the ability to roar so powerfully that they can scare away weaker creatures and force Betas and Omegas to submit, to transform into werewolf form, or to return to human form.
* **Healing Disruption: (Alphas only)** Alpha werewolves possess a mystical energy that causes injuries they inflict on lower-ranking supernatural creatures with accelerated healing abilities to take much longer to heal than a normal wound would.
* **Enhanced Endurance:** Werewolves have amazing endurance to take hits from vampires or other werewolves.
* **Increased Pheromone:** In some tales the Werewolf will appear attractive to many (women/men) in a sexual or friendly way but this is still not proven.
* **Canine ally:** Many times a Werewolf will have a canine ally that acts like a Beta in a pack taking commands and protecting the Alpha.
* **Wall crawling:** Werewolves can adhere to sheer surfaces.
* **Larger Stomach:** Werewolves can eat large quantities of food in one sitting and still be hungry.
* **Enhanced Superhuman Stamina:** Werewolves don't tire easily and are far longer fighters than humans, does making werewolves, Vampires worst Enemy. Werewolves musculature produces less fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of an ordinary human, granting him superhuman levels of stamina. They can exert themselves at peak capacity for several hours before fatigue begins to impair them.
* **Curse Bite:** Should another person survive a bite from a werewolf, they too will be cursed with the werewolf and transform during the full moon. The bite of a Werewolf is capable of cursing surviving victims with the fate of becoming a werewolf. The bite will cause a human to also gain the curse and slowly transform them every night until they are stuck with the curse forever on the final stroke of midnight.
* **Anger:** When a Werewolf is furious or enraged, their anger increase all their power and abilities for a short period of time, which as well as, allows them to have an advantage over a Non-Original vampire.
* **Sentience:** In werewolf form some werewolves are aware of whom they are and some of the people are around them. Some can remember their entire experience in werewolf form but this power is rare among mutts. For pure breeds have shown to remember well.
* **Strong Fangs, Teeth & Claws:** In wolf form, a werewolf's greatest weapons are its sharp teeth and sharp claws which can cut through steel. Werewolves have powerful teeth claws; able to cut solid walls and are nearly as strong as steel and regrow in minutes. Their fangs can tear off and eat human flesh and can rip out a human heart right out of their chest cavity. The werewolf's claws and teeth are extremely sharp and tough, enabling them to rend through a variety of substances including fabric, wood, cinder block, and even some metals. Werewolves can also use their claws to crawl along walls at great speed in pursuit of prey.
* **Lie Detection:** Werewolves are able to sense if a human or even if a vampire is lying or speaking the truth.
* **Immunity to Silver:**  Werewolves are immune to magic bonded to silver.Weapons made of silver might wound them, but the wound still heals at supernatural rates and will not be fatal to them.
* **Clairvoyance:** Being part of the supernatural 'family', they can see and hear ghosts the same way vampires and other ghosts can. It should be noted that the boost in strength and smell on the day of the full moon, and the ability to perceive ghosts only take effect after a werewolf's first transformation.
* **Telepathy:** Alpha's possess a more advanced form of this power which is known as telepathy the ability to read minds. They also manifest this through touch, they not only sense the emotions they can also hear their thoughts. Alphas also have limited telepathy and mental control over the betas that they create.
* **Superhuman Senses:** Werewolves have the extremely keen and heightened senses of smell, sight, taste, hearing and touch inherent in all canines. Because they are supernatural and have powers that exceeds their wolf counterparts, they can hear, see, and smell better than that of regular canines. With this, experienced werewolves such as Jules could sniff out vampires - something vampires themselves are incapable of - and Tyler could taste vervain placed in his coffee, which would otherwise be impossible, since coffee's intense flavor typically masks the taste of the herb.
* **Weather Adaptation:**Werewolves are unaffected by the weather, including wind, rain, temperature, electricity, fog, etc. Their senses, movement or any actions aren't affected by weather in any way.
* **Wolf Senses**: Werewolves gain a canus lupis like appearance, and so do their internal organs. A Werewolf's hearing and smell will be equivalent to a wolf's, making them excellent trackers when it comes to scents, and their hearing improves allowing them to hear sounds from miles away. Hearing and smell will be 100 times the average humans' senses while night vision will be twice the normal.
* **Good Swimmers**: Werewolves are good swimmers, making them deadly to vampires.
* **Night vision:** Werewolves have far superior vision to us in the dark.

## Weaknesses and Vulnerabilities

**Wolfsbane:** It has been shown that the effects of Wolfsbane can suppress a werewolf's heighten senses, but it also varies depending on the type, amount and delivery method. It can cause hallucinations, weaken, render unconscious or kill werewolves. When ingested, wolfsbane causes a werewolf to become severely weak and feverish. Also, if a werewolf's skin is exposed to wolfsbane, it will burn them.

    **Mountain Ash:**Rowan wood, or the ashes that result from burning it, are effective barriers against the supernatural, including werewolves. If a building is surrounded by rowan or mountain ash in an unbroken circle, a werewolf will be unable to enter it, nor will they be able to leave it if they are in the building when the circle was created. For this reason, many Druids and other humans who are "in the know" use mountain ash in order to protect themselves or to create traps for werewolves and other supernatural creatures.

**Lunar Eclipse Cycle:** Werewolves are powerless during a total lunar eclipse. All werewolves are forced to shift during the cycle of the full moon, to some this is a gift, others a curse.

**Broken Neck:** By breaking a werewolf's neck, it results in them being unconscious.

**Magic:** Witches are able to curse and inflict supernaturals aneurysms that cause the blood vessels of werewolves to explode.

**Heart Extraction:** Ripping a werewolf's heart out will result in instant death. If the heart of a werewolf is removed, it will cause instant death.

**Blood Loss:** If a werewolf is severely wounded and bleeds out before they can heal, they can die. As when Angel threw a stake into one's jugular, the werewolf bled out and died before it could fully heal, and when Petrova impaled the werewolf Paige through the chest.

**Decapitation:** The act of dismembering or removing the head of a werewolf will result in death.

**Electricity:**Werewolves are incredibly vulnerable to electricity, which, for unknown reasons, seems to interfere with the nature of their abilities. For this reason, hunters have been known to use cattle-prod tasers to incapacitate wolves in order to capture them, and will hook them up to electrical wires in order to torture them. Lower voltages will simply prevent a wolf from transforming or healing, while higher voltages can easily knock out or even kill a werewolf.

**Tranquilizers:** It's been shown that even in werewolf form, a werewolf can be affected by tranquilizers and rendered unconscious.

**Reverse Transformation:** A werewolf will revert to its human form every day when the sun rises in the day light. Thy will also revert back to human form when the moon is blocked by clouds.

**Mistletoe**: Mistletoe is poisonous to werewolves.

**Piercing Scream**: Because of their heightened senses, a Banshee's scream, if loud enough, can hurt a werewolf.

**Bloodlust** :Fueled by anger, werewolves can enter a violent, animalistic state of bloodlust. They are unable to control their desire to kill and seem largely beyond rational thought. Scott is unable to remember anything from the fugue state.

**Letharia Vulpina:**Letharia Vulpina, a species of lichen known as "wolf lichen," is a neon-green moss that has been used for centuries to poison wolves, foxes, and coyotes by mixing it in with their food. Though this lichen does not appear to be fatal to werewolves, werecoyotes, and kitsunes, it does seem to weaken them considerably for several days until it wears off.

**Modified Canine Distemper Virus:** An assassin in the Deadpool named the Chemist invented a modified version of the canine distemper virus that can weaken and kill werewolves. Those who are exposed to this virus will begin to sweat before slowly losing control over their transformations, either because they can't transform into a werewolf or because they can't transform back into a human. It then starts to cause them to start bleeding black blood from their noses, ears, mouths, and nail-beds and to develop darkened veins around their eyes, mouth, and temple. From there, the werewolf is then stricken completely blind, after which point they will only have minutes to live. Fortunately, it has been discovered that ingesting wild purple reishi mushrooms are both a cure and a vaccine for this virus.

**Full Moon:**Though being a werewolf is considered a gift in the supernatural community due to the increased strength, speed, stamina, and healing abilities that it provides, it also comes with a price, which is that the werewolf becomes extremely feral, bloodthirsty, and easy to anger on the full moon, when they are at the height of their power. For this reason, werewolves must be trained to control themselves on full moons in order to prevent harm and exposure to bystanders and to avoid the wrath of the werewolf hunters who patrol wooded areas during the nights of the full moon for just such a loss of control.

**Intense Emotions:** The transformation into a wolf can be easily triggered by intense emotions such as anger, fear, stress, or any other sensation that increases the heart rate, which, especially for newly-bitten werewolves, puts them at risk of losing control and can result in harm to innocent civilians, exposure to the human world, and can also put the werewolf at risk of being killed by a hunter as punishment for anything they did while transformed.

**Lunar Eclipse:** During the phase of a lunar eclipse where the moon is completely covered by the Earth's umbral shadow, werewolves will be cut off from the source of their powers and will be subsequently reverted the state of a normal human for the duration. Though this phase typically only lasts 10-20 minutes, it is still a very vulnerable period for werewolves, which makes it an excellent opportunity for hunters and less-powerful supernatural creatures to attack, as a werewolf will be unable to access their enhanced strength, shapeshifting, and healing abilities.

A werewolf's vision is shown to be red to indicate this state, and their field of vision fairly narrow and concentrated on movement.

**Camera Flash**: A flash from a camera can make a werewolves eyes glow in the picture, causing exposure.

**Kanima Venom**: The Kanima Venom paralyze wolves from the neck down.

**Solar Eclipse** : A solar eclipse will force wolves to instantaneously transform and lose total control of their powers.

**Loud Noises**: As a Werewolf with heightened senses, Scott is vulnerable to sounds at certain frequencies. For example, the Argent hunters are known for using ultrasonic emitters that produce an extremely high-pitched noise that only animals and people with supernaturally enhanced senses can hear. Conversely, there are also certain subsonic, low-pitched sounds that can be used against werecreatures as well, as a group of Deadpool assassins used in *Perishable*. Sounds at this low frequency can cause Scott and other werecreatures to become incredibly disoriented, woozy, nauseous, and unable to control their bodies, to the point that others have mistaken them for being drunk. In this state, they are unable to defend themselves due to the sounds making them weak and unable to stand, walk, talk, or see clearly.

## Known  wolves

* Scott McCall (True Alpha, bitten) Ayren Alpha - eyed red and Blue yellowh/ gold
* Derek Hale (Blue-eyed Omega, born) - rad ) alpha
* Cora Hale (Gold-eyed Omega, born)
* Peter Hale (Blue-eyed Omega, born)
* Liam Dunbar (Gold-eyed Beta, bitten)
* Vernon Boyd † (Gold-eyed Beta, bitten)
* Erica Reyes † (Gold-eyed Beta, bitten)
* Jackson Whittemore (Blue-eyed Beta, bitten)
* Talia Hale † (Full Wolf Alpha, born)
* Laura Hale † (Full Wolf Alpha, born)
* Brett Talbot (Gold-eyed Beta, born)
* Lorilee Rohr (Beta, born)
* Demarco Montana † (Gold-eyed Beta)
* Carrie Hudson † (Gold-eyed Beta)
* Satomi Ito (Alpha, bitten)
* Kincaid (Blue-eyed Omega, unknown)
* Deucalion (Alpha, unknown)
* Marco † (Beta, unknown)
* Kali † (Alpha, unknown)
* Ennis † (Alpha, unknown)
* Ethan (Blue-eyed Omega, born)
* Aiden † (Blue-eyed Omega, born)

## Werewolf Chimeras

There are also quite a few chimeras who have been partially turned into werewolves through scientific means rather than mystical ones. Though these chimeras are not technically supernatural, they do possess at least some of the abilities of a werewolf as a result of the experimentation done to them by the Dread Doctors. This includes glowing gold or blue eyes, fangs, claws, ridged brows, sideburns, and the enhanced physical abilities such as super strength, agility, and healing.

### Known Part-Werewolf Chimeras

* Theo Raeken (Werewolf/Werecoyote)
* Belasko † (Werewolf/Garuda)
* Tracy Stewart (Werewolf/Kanima)
* Hayden Romero (Werewolf/Werejaguar)

## Trivia

* Though most packs in the series have been fully composed of werewolves, this is not a requirement-- for example, the McCall Pack is famously known for including a variety of species, including an Alpha werewolf, a Beta werewolf, a Beta werecoyote, a thunder kitsune, a banshee, and a humans, along with a large network of supportive allies, however, Scott doesn't gain any physical power from his pack because it lacks two more Betas, the variety however, gives him a different advantages i.e Lydia's prediction allows the pack to avert some disasters.

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