Bigby Wolf

Bigby Wolf, formerly known as Big Bad Wolf was a chief of Fabletown before retiring.

## Appearance

In his Human Form he has brown hair with a white shirt and tie with jeans and has a muscular build and hair on his body.

In his Half-Wolf Form his eyes glow yellow and becomes more hairier.

In his Werewolf form his body becomes larger with grey fur.

In his True Form he is extremely large with grey fur and glowing yellow eyes.

## Personality

As a result of his actions back in the Homelands, Bigby has difficulty connecting with others, often closing himself off to the people around him.

This attitude complicates his work as sheriff, making him appear indifferent to the plights of the fables he is meant to protect and serve.

He is not afraid to use force in a confrontation, making many people fearful of him.

He does, however, have a compassionate side, protecting Faith from the Woodsman, showing some concern for Lawrence when he is found nearly dead, telling Holly and Lawrence that he is going to bring Faith and Lily's killer to justice, and being deeply affected by Snow's apparent death.

He also expresses a desire to help the people of Fabletown, but feels he is unable to do so due to his personality and past actions.

Bigby Wolf is pragmatic, cunning, competent, stoic, and usually even-tempered despite his animal nature.

Even after all his years as sheriff of Fabletown, he is still a bit anti-social, and can sometimes appear inconsiderate to the plights of the Fables he's meant to protect.

He can be callous, sarcastic, uncompromising, blunt, distant, hateful, cynical, manipulative, impatient, and distrustful. He holds all but his closest friends under scrutiny, and is willing to intimidate, harm, torture, and even kill anyone that is a threat to Fabletown's security or, more importantly, his loved ones.

He can come across as gruff, brutish, and certainly intimidating, but he is a firm believer in the law and due process.

Bigby is clever, intelligent, knowledgeable, sarcastic, short-tempered, foul-mouthed, destructive, vicious, and brash.

For one thing, Bigby maintains a dedication to resolving the murders of Faith and Lily (having personally befriended the former), and Bigby is regardless gentle with some people such as Nerissa, Flycatcher, and Prince Lawrence.

Bigby has secret romantic feelings for Selene Ordeis, as noted in his early conversation with Colin.

Over the course of the investigation he and Selene grow closer, and he expresses his feelings by protecting her, allowing her agency, and fearing for her safety.

Bigby will also physically attack Crane if Crane calls out his impulsiveness as the reason he is responsible for Selene's death in Episode 2.

Bigby, although he seemed to maintain composure, seemed heavily saddened by Selene's apparent death, and was enraged beyond composure when he realized it was Crane who put her in danger.

His love for Selene Ordeis has encouraged him to act against his monstrous nature, and he tries to be a man worthy of her love and devotion.

Bigby, due to his highly developed sense of smell, has to smoke heavily to avoid sensory overload in New York.

## Powers, Skills & Abilities

Being the sheriff of Fabletown requires Bigby to keep the town in line, sometimes requiring him to use force. Because of that, Bigby often finds himself fighting other Fables; these include the Woodsman, Grendel, Beast, the Tweedles, Georgie Porgie, Bloody Mary and the Jersey Devil. Bigby has proven himself to be very potent and resilient in combat. When fighting against giant Fables such as Grendel or Jersey, Bigby calls upon his bestial abilities to give him an advantage.

Bigby has a certain immunity toward metal shells.

When the Tweedles keep firing shotgun shells at Bigby, he was merely temporarily stunned but far from incapacitated.

That isn't to say that Bigby is invincible, due to his werewolf nature, he can be seriously injured by a silver bullet, which is how Bloody Mary fully subdued him in their first battle. Doctor Swineheart told Bigby that if a silver bullet were to even come near his heart, it would kill him.

* Transformation - Bigby has four different forms he morphs into. His standard human form (which is due to lycanthropy and not a glamour), his half-werewolf form (where his eyes turn red/gold and claws develop), his werewolf form (where he becomes taller, all-black and buffer) and his full-wolf form, where he becomes a larger-than-elephant form of the original Big Bad Wolf. Each episode shows him transform to some degree, though he only becomes the original Big Bad Wolf during his rematch with Bloody Mary.

* Near-Immortality - Being a very-well talked about Fable, Bigby is nearly-immortal and has a very high resistance to pain. This is most well showcased at the end of A Crooked Mile, when he is shot over 40 times (judging by the amount of blasts heard) by the Tweedles and is left hardly incapacitated by the shots. This shows that he is invulnerable to bullets. He also endures a lot of physical pain throughout the game that leaves him hardly fazed. Bigby's immune system is constantly showcased by how he smokes dozens of cheap cigarettes every day and is not affected negatively by them at all.

* Agility - Both as a human and a werewolf, Bigby (during the chase scenes in Faith and Cry Wolf) is largely fast (able to keep up with Georgie Porgie/Vivian's car in the latter case) and capable of jumping large distances over rooftops. His ability to keep up also shows he has high stamina. His speed may also be attributed to an ability to see things in slow-motion at times as. This is shown at the end of "Faith" when he had to chose who to stop between Tweedle Dee and Woodsman, he would have in reality only had a split second to decide but seemed to perceive the situation for approximate ten seconds.

* Strength - Shown in every episode, Bigby Wolf is much stronger than a normal man while in is human form, and gets stronger through each transformation. He has been shown to be strong enough to lift a man off the ground by the face, tear off the arm of a creature much larger than himself, smash the Woodsman through a sink, break open a door that was chained down, halt a car's movement after grabbing its bumper, and casually rip a fuse box out of a wall and throw it.

* Regenerative Healing Factor: - Despite being a powerful Fable in his right, it is possible to injure or possibly even kill him. If that is so, Bigby's increased metabolism enables his body to be able to heal from wounds sustained, as well as being a major contributor to his immortality. He can even restore any broken bones or even severed limbs, though that can cause pain for him. This is only showcased in the opening to In Sheep's Clothing, when he re-inserts his arm's fractured bone back into place. Bigby can also regenerate any wounds that come across him.

## Family

* Selene Ordeis (Wife)
* Several Children