Aurelian Locke

**Aurelian Locke** is a storyborn, and son of Goldilocks and Papa Bear II (the former baby bear).

## Lore

Everyone knows the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, but what if I told you there is more to the story after the first encounter happened? After the whole incident, Goldilocks eventually went back and apologized to the Three Bears (or, more accurately, Three Werebears) for what she did. She didn’t know the house was locked when she found it, and, due to an ancestral connection to Hermes, the Grecian Immortal of, among other things, thieves, doors tended to unlock and open of their own accord when she’s around. The werebears forgave her, and eventually, Baby Bear and Goldilocks became fast friends. Soon, as they grew older, their friendship blossomed into romance, and eventually, marriage. Eventually, the former Baby Bear became the second Papa Bear, when Goldilocks gave birth to their son, Aurelian. Like most weres and part-weres, Aurelian experienced his first change during the first full moon after his thirteenth birthday.

## Appearance

Since he's only part-were, Aurelian only possesses a human and a therian form. In his human form, he inherited his mother's light skin, blue eyes, and blond curls. His wardrobe mainly consists of blues, whites, and yellows, and could be considered light academia. Objectively speaking, people could definitely say that he is attractive.
In his therian form, Aurelian's hair becomes longer and shaggier, and gains white and pink streaks throughout. His eyes become bear-like and turn pink in color. His ears become bear-like, his nose and mouth elongates into a snout, complete with fangs, his fingernails elongate into claws, he grows patches of blond fur on his arms, legs, and face, his legs and feet contort to become ursine in appearance, and he grows an ursine tail from his lower back.

## Personality

If Aurelian was placed on the D&D alignment chart, he would most likely be Chaotic Good. He definitely loves helping others whenever he can, and definitely has a good heart. However, like his mother, his good intentions tend to get him in trouble if he's not careful. One thing he also inherited his mother, is the fact that he likes things to be "just right". Also, due to the influence of the Heart moon of February, Aurelian also tends to have a somewhat flirtatious nature.

## Powers

* **Form swapping:** Due to his werebeast heritage, Aurelian possesses the ability to switch between his human and therian forms at will.
* **Enhanced bite:** Due to his ursine heritage, Aurelian possesses fangs and a strong jaw that gives him an extremely powerful bite.
* **Enhanced climbing:** Due to his ursine heritage, Aurelian possesses the ability to to climb anything effortlessly.
* **Enhanced durability:** Due to his ursine heritage, Aurelian possesses the ability to sustain numerous blows of internal or external assaults.
* **Enhanced endurance:** Due to his ursine heritage, Aurelian possesses the ability to survive with little to no energy for an extended period of time.
* **Enhanced mauling:** Due to his ursine heritage, Aurelian possesses the ability to effectively rip enemies to shreds.
* **Enhanced smell:** Due to his ursine heritage, Aurelian possesses the ability to detect specific beasts, beings, objects, places, substances, etc., locate their origins, and even track, using nothing but his sense of smell.
* **Enhanced speed:** Due to his ursine heritage, Aurelian possesses the ability to move at extraordinary speed.
* **Enhanced strength:** Due to his ursine heritage, Aurelian possesses the ability to exert a large amount of strength from his muscles.
* **Claws:** Due to his ursine heritage, Aurelian possesses claws that he can use as effective natural weapons.
* **Crushing:** Due to his ursine heritage, Aurelian possesses the ability to effectively crush and deform objects and people, using sheer brute force.
* **Hunting intuition:** Due to his ursine heritage, Aurelian possesses extraordinary talent and instinct in/for hunting all things.
* **Thick skull:** Due to his ursine heritage, an abnormally strong and durable skull.
* **Speed swimming:** Due to his ursine heritage, Aurelian possesses the ability to swim at high speed.
* **Conversion:** Due to his werebeast heritage, Aurelian possesses the ability to transform others into werebears by infecting them, either through a bite or a scratch.
* **Mental lockpick:** Due to his ancestral connection to the Immortal Hermes, Aurelian possesses the ability to open any door and unlock any lock with his mind. However, he doesn't yet have full control of this power, so nearby doors and locks tend to open on their own when he's around.
* **Pheromone manipulation:** Due to the influence of the Heart moon of February, Aurelian possesses the ability to release pheromones for various effects, from making himself look more attractive, to attracting prey, to (potentially) attracting a partner.
* **Ursine communication:** Due to his ursine heritage, Aurelian possesses the ability to communicate with and command bears and other ursine creatures.

## Weaknesses

* **Silver:** Due to his werebeast heritage, Aurelian cannot stand silver, and touching silver burns him. However, unlike full weres, silver is not the only metal that can kill him, it's just the only metal that burns him when he touches it.
* **Wolfsbane:** Due to his werebeast heritage, Aurelian cannot stand, and is repelled by, the smell of wolfsbane.
* **Lunar eclipses:** Due to his werebeast heritage, most of Aurelian's powers are completely neutralized and/or severely weakened under a lunar eclipse.