Tanya Colbert

**Tanya Colbert** is the main antagonist in Season 1, and recurring character in Seasons 2 and 3.
She was formerly known as Marianne de Villefranche, born into a noble French family and married to aristocrat Henri de Villefranche. Her abusive relationship with her husband, which resulted in her giving birth to a daughter, gave a powerless Black the opportunity to contact her and corrupt her soul. Soon after, he turned her into a werewolf. After murdering her family, Marianne, now called Tanya, briefly lost contact with Black. Tanya met Shalima by coincedence, and the two of the developed a relationship, which ended when Black found Tanya again.

Black then sent her to meet the Fallen Guardians, and by Cecilia she later was tasked to establish a pack of her own in Summerton, to eliminate it and procure The Key, who Tanya believed to be Shalima, but was actually Isabella.

## Biography

She was formerly known as Marianne de Villefranche, born into a noble French family and married to aristocrat Henri de Villefranche. Her abusive relationship with her husband, which resulted in her giving birth to a daughter, gave a powerless Black the opportunity to contact her and corrupt her soul. Soon after, he turned her into a werewolf. Unable to control her abilities however, she frequently massacred citizens of a neabry town, which attracted her husband's attention. On a hunt after the monster, Henri managed to cut off a paw. On the way back home, he found it transformed into a woman's hand. Afterwards, he found Marianne in her room nursing the baby, with only one hand. Black's corruptioin had gone so far, that Marianne murdered the entire staff, Henri and even her baby daughter that night.

[What did she do then? Relationship with Shalima, return to Summerton, other wolves etc...]

### Season 1

At the start of Season 1 we meet her again. Now going by the name of Tanya Colbert, she is a renowned doctor at the local hospital. After getting orders from Cecilia upon Shalima's arrival, she sets the plan in motion to wipe out the New Guardians and procure The Key. Her first action is to revive the comatose Marie Fisher by turning her into a werewolf.

Over the course of the next weeks, she and the rest of the pack terrorize the town by killing one citizen every night. When her friend colleague Simon Smith starts to investigate the murders, she is the only one to keep the rest of the pack from making him their next victim. After he finds out who she really is and confronts her, she threatens him: either he keeps his nose out of her business, or she will kill his wife and child. That night, Simon sacrifices himself to the wolves to keep his family safe. Scared that she lost control over the pack after they killed Simon against her direct orders, she starts distancing herself from the others and spends time with Marie, growing more irrational in the process. When the wolves kill Sebastian Lindberg and the ceasefire between Guardians and wolves breaks, she hides while the town burns to the ground in the ensuing battle. She listens to Shalima and the teenagers plan their move to New York after the fight is over. Then she calls Cecilia to tell her that she failed in her mission.

### Season 2

Now much more timid and alone, Tanya has moved with Cecilia to New York, who effectively strips her off her werewolf abilities. Tanya is forced to help her find the other three Fallen Guadians, simultaneousely keeps an eye on the New Guardians. Her role with the Fallen Guardians is much more subserviant as opposed to her leadong function in the Summerton Pack. She is ther servant, messenger and doormat. She tolerates a lot of verbal and physical abuse. Under their noses, she reaches out to the New Guardians and asks them for help, though she is rejected due to her past actions. When Cyrus confronts her about the betrayal and tries to sexually assault her, she pushes him off a high building in self defense, which is witnessed by Azrael. Afterwards, she goes home to Cecilia and blames the New Guardians for Cyrus and Atlas' death, which accelerates the plan. At this point, Cecilia shares a truth with her: The Key, which would help them restore Black to his former glory isn't Shalima, but Isabella. The night the ceremony is to be doneshe contemplates to desert the Fallen Guardians one last time, but is too closely monitored for her to do anything. Thanks to Cecilia's manipulation, Isabella accompanies the Fallen Guardians and Tanya to the old church. When Isabella realises that the plan involves Simon's corpse, she tries to back out, but is forced to take part in the resurrection. As a last resort, Isabella blurts out the secret: that it was Tanya who pushed Cyrus to his death. Tanya tries to flee but is captured and restrained. Both her and Isabella, now on the same side as captives of the Fallen, helpessly watch as Black rises anew by posessing the body of Simon Smith.

### Season 3

The third and final season starts where we left off: at the resurrection site, with Bella and Tanya as the Fallen's prisoners and Black standing before them. Tanya watches as the Fallen, especially Cecilia, greet their master. When Cecilia tells Black about Cyrus' fate at the hands of Tanya, she expects as much as everyone for Black to kill her, and is extremely surprised when instead of doing that, Black massacres Cecilia, Nora and Benedict. Then, he frees Tanya and names her his General.

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