Katya Cook

> **Katya**: “Please, you’re a hometown boy, never been anywhere.”
>  **Liam**: "Wrong..."
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> Katya to Liam

* Human
* Werepanther

**Katya Cook** is an **Evolved** **Werepanther**, originally of the **Nanuq Pack,** which had once resided on the edge of the borough of Yakutat, in the state of Alaska, where they were one of the few packs that had every single one of their members able to fully shift into their animal form. Katya grew up as the niece of the pack alpha, who was her aunt, and one of the only members of the pack that tolerated Katya's wild nature. In 2013, the pack was destroyed by the hunters, led by Tamora Monroe, and Katya fled south, ending up washed up on a beach in Washington state, where she was found by Scott McCall, and taken to Beacon Hills, California, and was adopted into his pack. Katya never felt like she had a place in the pack, and did not regard Scott as her alpha, becoming friends with Liam Dunbar, before she eventually left the McCall Pack, and joined the Hale Pack, after they had rebuilt the Hale House.

Katya is a member of the **Cook Family**. She was originally part of the **Nanuq Pack** and a former member of the **McCall Pack.** She is currently a member of the **Hale Pack.**

## Early Life

Born in 1993, Katya grew up shifting between her human and panther form, because of her pack's philosophy of keeping themselves as connected to their animal nature as possible, which included living in secluded cabins on the shores of Yakutat, and inland in the forest. Katya made her first animal kill when she was five years old, and on full moons, would enjoy wrestling bears in the woods, and one time, was almost caught by the police, but ran away in panther form before she could be caught. In the Nanuq Pack, and in the day leading up to the full moon, Katya learned the tradition that the pack followed of fully shifting before, and listening solely to their animalistic side, which was how the young children learned how to shift, and how Katya herself learned the technique.

As she got older, Katya became one of the pack members to teach the young children how to shift, by nudging and play fighting with them to create the spark of anger that would get them to shift for the first time, and when she was a teenager, Katya had to keep the elder members from shifting on the full moon, because it became to taxing for them, and the only member of the pack that was unable to shift when Katya was a teenager, was her great-great grandfather, who she had to keep company.

## History

When she was seventeen, Katya went into town more, and began realizing that she felt different than many of the other humans that she came across, since she was more in tune with her animal side than the human one, she didn't understand many societal normalities of the human world, which made her irritable and cold towards humans and her pack for some time. She would use foul language to her Alpha, and aunt, Ahnah, and call out her negative traits and the bad ways in which she ran the pack, before she was given space, and sent to Anchorage, where she discovered more about herself, and entered relationships with humans. She came back to the pack when she was eighteen, and came out to Ahnah, and her mother, Quinn as Non-binary, with she/her pronouns, and despite not understanding, Ahnah and Quin praised Katya.

When Katya was nineteen, and training to take over the Nanuq Pack, since Ahnah had no husband and children of her own, she was sent out on a hunting trip on the full moon, where she and the hunters killed a grizzly, and took it back to the pack. When Katya went back out to the treeline to patrol the borders, she fell asleep, and when she woke up the next morning, she heard screaming from inside the borders, and when she was running back, she felt all of her pack bonds breaking with the deaths of her packmates. Katya collapsed in pain and heard footsteps coming that were human, and on instinct, went for the human's throat killing them after being shot with wolfsbane, and limped off into the woods, where she ended up on a boat in the middle of the night that sailed to Victoria, in British Columbia, and Katya managed to get off, and ended up in Everett Washington, where she was found in human form by Scott McCall, who took her in the back of a van, down to Beacon Hills, California.

Katya joined the McCall Pack for safety, since Scott told her that his pack was going to become powerful with him as the True Alpha, something that Katya had never heard of occurring naturally, and only went along with Scott for her own security against the hunters. There, she met Liam Dunbar and his friends, Mason Hewitt and Corey Bryant, while she was in foster care, in the neighborhood that Liam lived in, and was invited to Christmas dinner with Liam and his family, where Liam revealed to her, about his allies in Long Island, which Katya didn't know at the time, would be the Hale Pack. She attended a meeting at the smoked out Hale House with Liam and the pack, which was happening on illegal ground, since the house and entire preserve land had been bought back, and cameras had been installed for security, so while Katya was there, she was extra vigilant, and watched her 'alpha' get caught by the police, while she and Liam left without a single charge, due to how they entered the property. After this, Katya went to a beauty store, and bought a platinum blonde bleach and hair dye, and dyed her black hair blonde, after getting it cut a week before, and started growing out the roots.

In April, 2015, Katya was in a grocery store, and came across Conri Tlanta, who was in the middle of shopping with one of his immortal witches, Nixie Snow, after she had been subjected to Scott's preaching of his philosophy of life, and Deaton-the emissary-trying to get her to tell him everything she knew about the supernatural world. She was tired of it after Liam and his friends went off to college, and she had to finish her basic schooling, before planning what to do with her life, while still in foster care, and living off of her family's money. She knew Conri by his scent, since Liam had described it to her, where she asked him if she could possibly meet his alpha in hopes to join the pack, and was accepted, and followed Conri and Nixie back to the Hale House. She arrived, and met Derek Hale, the alpha, and many of the other adult pack members, including Nixie's sister, Naeomi and Ash, another immortal werewolf that Conri had turned, and also met Conri and Derek's three year old son, Eli.

Katya found out that Liam and his boyfriend would be coming for their spring break, and were also bringing Peter's daughter with them from their university in Long Island, and that they were on their way to the manor. Before they arrived, Katya met Conri's mother, and a very respected member of the pack when she came down from the upper floors of the manor, and got along with her well, until the door was knocked on, and when it was opened, Katya moved to the couch as Liam came in and smiled at her, giving her a hug as he introduced her to his boyfriend, and Peter introduced her to his daughter, who was a werecoyote, while Liam's boyfriend was a chimera, something that Katya needed Liam to explain to her a couple times, before she understood.

## Personality

As a kid, Katya was wild, since she was raised mostly in the forest, and was incredibly reckless when she was hunting and in her panther form, while always nearly getting the pack revealed to the world, but that all stopped as she grew up and learned that their secret had to be kept, or else they could be in danger from humans, vampires, and hunters. She was one of the strongest members of the pack in regards to strength and her hunting and tracking skills, and often led the hunts as she grew up, and became more mature, and her sense of smell got better. When Katya worked with the children of the pack, and the elders, she was kind to a degree, until they started going against her, and had to put her foot down to make them listen, and either shift, or remain human, while the others were shifted, and she had to be with them.

After the pack was destroyed and killed by the hunters, Katya became cold and angry, as she got to Washington and was found by Scott, and taken away from her homeland, where she was told that the pack she had been saved by, was the best pack in the history of the supernatural world, and she felt like she was being watched, and moved into foster care, living next to Scott's prized beta, who wasn't completely loyal to him, and she befriended him in hopes that he would be a good ally for her. When she would be in the professional company of others, Katya was kind and spoke in a professional tone, but always had an uncaring air about her voice and eyes that gave her away. Katya quickly changed her tune when she joined the Hale Pack, and became more joyful and eager to be with others, and loved spending time with the rest of the pack members.

## Physical Appearance

Katya is a young woman with a firm, curvy figure, in her early twenties, with black hair that she started dying blonde after she got it cut when she was 21, and has steely blue eyes. She has tanned skin that is rough and covered in callouses from her rural and forested life in Alaska, and the symbol of the Nanuq Pack tattooed in the middle of her back, along with a couple other tattoos. She also got a lip ring when she was a teenager, and enjoyed wearing dark eyeliner, and rings on her fingers when she was living in Anchorage, before coming home to the pack.

As a teenager, Katya dressed in dark tones, and warm ones, since she was in a very cold place, despite having a warmer body temperature, and a fur coat when shifted into her panther form. After she came to Beacon Hills, and having to start her life over, Katya began wearing warmer clothes and clothes that showed a lot of skin, with varying colors of green, blue, and brown, which she enjoyed styling with leather and jean jackets, and vests. She also enjoys wearing boots, mostly in leather, and sometimes is perceived in a grunge light.

In her panther form, Katya is lean and strong, and her fur is a thick, sleek black color that shines in the sunlight, and she has a long, strong black tail that curls around her hip as she walks, and her ears are small and batted. She has bright green eyes in her normal panther form, but when she flashes her bright blue ones, they change to blue. When only shifting partially, Katya's face becomes angled, and her eyes are glowing blue, and her fangs are white and long, and she has multiple rows of fangs like she does as a panther, and her claws are long and pointed straight.

## Powers and Abilities

As a Werepanther, Katya has super strength, speed, agility/reflexes, durability, senses, healing, pain absorption and partial Shapeshifting. She is also more in tune with her panther side after living in the wild for most of her life, so she can use her abilities much more efficiently than her were-creature peers. Even though Katya possess all the abilities of a Werepanther, she also possesses abilities that seem to be more exclusive to her, which include:

### Powers

* **Advanced Shapeshifting:** Katya possesses the ability to fully transform into a true panther. Katya demonstrated this ability for the first time when she was five years old, and found it incredibly easy to shift for her entire life. She is so advanced in this power, that she is able to shift into her panther form at will, and does it often.
* **Super Strength:** Supernatural strength is common for all Werepanthers, and Katya is a incredibly strong one, since she has wrestled and killed many large animals, such as bears and moose.
* **Super Senses:** Katya has shown to be an extremely skilled tracker as evidenced by the fact that she has been able to easily track people, whereas most supernaturals find it difficult or even impossible because of the conflicting scents of sewage and chemicals.

### Abilities

* **Animal Knowledge:** Katya has very advanced knowledge of the animal kingdom and how predatory animals live and behave, and as such, her first instinct is to behave like a panther, and listen to her instincts.
* **Expert Combatant:** Katya's generally brave nature and willingness to fight in conjunction with her supernatural physical abilities have made her one of the best fighters in the Hale Pack.
* **Pain Tolerance:** Katya has shown to have a high tolerance for pain, and can handle it much better than her supernatural peers. This has led her to volunteer to get hurt if it means she can gain information or an advantage for the pack, and she always refuses any pain control measures when she's injured.

## Weaknesses

As a Werepanther, Katya possesses all the standard weaknesses associated with the species. This includes;

* **Electricity** (Which can weaken or even kill her depending on the voltage)
* **Wolfsbane** (Which can weaken or kill her depending on the potency, strain, and method of exposure)
* **Heightened Emotions** (Which can keep her from performing at her highest, due to her anger issues)
* **Full Moons** Like most werecreatures, though she has learned enough control to be able to resist transforming except for certain rare occasions.
* **Lunar Eclipse** During the period when the moon is in the Earth's umbral shadow, as Werepanthers, like all werecreatures, lose their powers, including their super strength, healing, and shapeshifting abilities.

## Relationships

* Katya and Liam (Packmates/Friends/Allies)
* Katya and Mason (Friends/Allies)
* Katya and Corey (Friends/Allies)
* Katya and Scott (Former Alpha/Beta)
* Katya and Derek (Alpha/Beta/Packmates, Friends)
* Katya and Conri (Packmates/Friends/Allies)
* Katya and Peter (Packmates/Allies)
* Katya and Danae (Packmates/Friends/Allies)
* Katya and Eli (Packmates/Babysitter, Child)
* Katya and Quinn (Mother/Daughter, Packmates)
* Katya and Ahnah (Former Alpha/Beta, Aunt/Niece)