Michael Turner

Michael Turner (1830-1989) is a half-English half-American occult detective and pricolici. He is also the elder half-brother of Maxwell Turner.

## Biography

Michael Turner was born on November 1st, 1830, in Savannah, Georgia. At the time, he was born with the surname "Locke." His mother, Alice Locke, was a British nurse. His father, Abe Locke, was a murderous American criminal and pricolici who had married Alice only through force. Abe also unknowingly passed his curse down to Michael genetically, although the family would not know for sure for numerous years. In his early years of life, his father Abe would do his best to imprint his cruel beliefs into his son. His mother, however, kept his pricolici bloodline a secret from him and did her best to raise him as a good person, hoping that keeping it secret would prevent that side of him from developing. She was only partly successful, as his abilities simply remained dormant for a period of years rather than disappearing entirely. The divide in moral teaching would also cause Michael to have severe personality swings while his father was alive, caused by his father's teachings and his pricolici side clashing with the concept of morality and his mother's desires for him.

Abe would die during a crime-gone-wrong shortly after Michael's second birthday, and his mother would remarry to a hardworking and polite American sailer named Samuel Turner shortly after, and both Michael and his brother's names changed accordingly. The new family of three stayed in America for a few years, before they all moved back to England shortly before the birth of Michael's younger half-brother Maxwell in early 1835. Sam Turner was the moral opposite of the both figuratively and literally monstrous Abe Locke, and his traditional Southern hospitality rubbed off on Michael, helping him grow into a well-behaved and courteous, though a bit emotionally unstable, child. Michael had his demons, but he was still noble, moral, and did his best to be polite to seperate himself from his father thanks to his adoptive father's moral lessons. However, Michael could enter a rage quickly if his loved ones were threatened and would call upon the full extent of his dark powers in an instant to protect them.

In spite of his mother's best efforts, his pricolici side was impossible to fully bury. Thanks to his human half, he had few of the usual pricolici weaknesses, but he still had some. Since his birth, the smell of garlic repulsed him and could even make him sickly with prolonged exposure. His adoptive father Samuel would also discover (by accident) that Michael had a weakness to silver shortly after the family moved back to England. He decided to show the young Michael various coins he had collected over his worldly travels, and at one point handed him an American silver dollar to inspect. The silver dollar didn't cause a reaction at first, thanks to his human half, but it started to scald his hand after he held it for longer than a few seconds, feeling as though the coin was hundreds of degrees hot. He yelped in pain and quickly tossed the coin aside. Samuel, while unaware of his pricolici blood, was still quite concerned. He asked what was wrong, and Michael, not understanding what happened and not wanting to cause his father distress, lied and said that he had simply been frightened by a bug.

Inspecting his hand throughly in private later, the young Michael was suprised to see that the coin hadn't left any visible damage on his skin. Because the gold coins hadn't hurt him, Michael correctly assumed that it was the silver that was the cause of the sudden pain, not the coin itself. For years afterward, Michael avoided all silver-colored metals out of fear that they were actually silver.

Michael spent most of his time playing with Maxwell, as their father was often away working. Their games could often turn rough, but Michael never seemed to get hurt. Over the years, an unbreakable bond would develop between the two, and Michael would grow very protective of him and his family as a whole. Though he knew he had a different father from his brother, he did not know his identity.

When he entered puberty, Michael's awareness of his differences to others slowly escalated. Once, while exploring his father's room, a six-year-old Maxwell cut his hand badly on his father's sailing knife and went through the house in tears trying to find help. When he found his elder brother, currently the only one home, he cried that he was hurt and begged him for help. Michael hadn't ever seen serious bleeding injuries for himself before, but he quickly brought him to the medicine cabinet in the bathroom and applied skills his mother had taught the two of them. As he tended to his wounds, Michael found his attention inexplicably drawn to the dark red blood gushing from his brother's palm. He found himself unable to focus on anything else as something seemed to awaken deep within himself. Then, a powerful and unexplainable urge to drink the blood suddenly coursed through his entire body as a mysterious voice called to him in his mind, commanding him not to resist and to consume the blood. The urge and frightening voice terrified him and filled him with shame, and he used every ounce of his strength to resist them and finish wrapping Maxwell's hand.

Things remained mostly quiet for the next two years, but when he turned thirteen, things reached a breaking point. During most of the month, he was his usual polite and well-mannered self, but in the days leading up to the full moon, he became increasingly aggressive during the day and restless at night, being unable to sleep as he heard the same frightening voice whispering to him in his head. He later learned that the voice was of his true father, Abe Locke. He would tempt his son as he lay unable to sleep to give into his urges and become "something more." Michael continued to resist the voice's commands, and even started carrying a silver coin with him at all times to prevent it from speaking to him.

On October 31st, 1843, everything changed. While outside with his brother late in the evening, the two realized that the sun would be setting soon. Not wanting to miss such a pretty sight, they went to a nearby hill together to watch the sunset. When the sun had dipped below the horizon and the first moonbeams shined down on the two, Michael was suddenly thrust into a vision, one of events from the past. As he heard what felt like hundreds of voices whispering to him unintelligably, he watched a man, obscured by shadows and poring over occult books before proceeding to complete a strange ritual. When it was finished, Michael was forced to watch as the man screamed in pain, his body twisting and reshaping itself unnaturally. After multiple horrific minutes, the man resembling a large humanoid wolflike creature. In another flash, he witnessed that same man transform into his wolflike form before tearing numerous people apart and lapping up their spilled blood greedily from the ground before fleeing. Then, another similar horrific scene occured. And another. As he watched the wolf killer murder more and more people, the voices in the background became clearer and clearer before seeming to merge into a singular voice, continually whispering the words, "*Abe Locke... You... are... his... son*."

When he finally snapped back to the present, Michael's eyes opened and he found himself on his back, the grass torn up around him hinting that he had been seizing. He got to his hands and knees and breathed heavily, afraid, weak, and unable to get to his feet. Maxwell, who had been sitting frightened for several minutes as Michael convulsed, whispered his brother's name quietly and asked if he was okay. When Michael turned his head behind him to look at Maxwell, wanting to explain what happened to him, his brother gasped in terror and quickly scurried away. Michael's eyes were slowly changing from their normal, dark brown to a bright, burning orange. Michael, not knowing what Maxwell saw and thinking something was behind them, quickly got the strength to get to his feet. But suddenly, Michael's head snapped to one side violently and back again, as if having a seizure. Something was happening to his body. He screamed in horrible pain as he felt and saw his bones snap and shift inside of him for several agonizing minutes, reforming to make a lycanthropic skeleton. He felt his face contort as a long wolf's muzzle extended where his nose and mouth had been, and he shrieked again before falling foreward onto his hands once more. His teeth and fingernails became long, razor-sharp fangs and claws. His screams turned into a howl as he craned his neck towards the moon, dark black fur growing to cover his entire wolfish body. His muscles were also greatly expanding in size and power, violently tearing the clothes from his body. Seconds later, the transformation was over, and Michael stood for the first time ever in his pricolici form. His true power was finally unlocked. However, Michael was appalled by what he really was, and let out a screaming howl of pure anguish moments later.

Maxwell, who refused to abandon his brother, was smart enough to know that it was not a howl of murderous intent or triumph, it was one of despair. He approached Michael slowly, and when Michael saw him, he used a single claw to write a message in a patch of dirt, saying, "I'm still here." Maxwell understood what the message meant, that even if Michael's body was different, his mind remained the same. From that point on, Maxwell knew that no harm would befall him even while Michael was transformed. Moments later, the huge wolfish creature morphed back into the body of Michael Turner.

Over the next hour, Michael explained everything to Maxwell, including the vision of his true father, his reactions to silver, and his desire to consume blood when he saw it. Maxwell understood immediately, and Michael finally realized how intellegent his brother was, even at only eight years old. Maxwell brought him back home, dressed him, and showed him pages from various old books belonging to his real father, learning that the creature both Michael and his father were is called a pricolici, a werewolf and vampire hybrid. Michael actually recognized the books, he had assumed them to be storybooks in the few times he came across them.

That night, Michael decided that he would to use the full extent dark powers not to harm the innocent, as his father had, but to combat other, more malevolent forces. In doing so, he would be damned to hell, but would save countless lives from destruction. He chose to only feed on criminals and monsters, not the innocent, to gain more power.

Over the years, Michael studied the occult using his father's old books and Maxwell's help, as well as anything he could find or borrow. His knowledge grew, and with it his willpower to protect those who couldnt protect themselves.

In 1860, Maxwell went to college at the University of Cambridge, leaving Michael back home. There, Maxwell met a young man named Henry Reid. The two opened an office together in 1864 and became business partners. However, Maxwell never told Henry about his brother.

In 1867, Michael ended up in a rough place. His murderous father was slowly taking over his body and he needed money to afford a ritual that would exorcise him. Maxwell used some of his and Henry's money to save him and had to lie to Henry to protect his brother, saying that the money was lost in the stock market. This forced Henry to join Thomas Shaw's Hunting Group for a share of the bounty, and resulted in Henry breaking off their partnership. Maxwell felt guilty for it and asked Michael to watch over Henry from the shadows, which he accepted because Michael was eternally gratefull to Maxwell for helping him, and would also assist him in many different goals over the years to come. It was around this same time he officially became a private detective who dealt with things that couldn't be explained or solved by traditional police.

In 1888, Michael noticed and began investigating a series of bizzare and grisly murders in London's east end, ones more brutal than had ever been seen before. The murders interested him not in their nature, but in the nature of the killer themself. Unlike the police, who assumed that the multiple deep lacerations to the corpses had been caused by a large knife, Michael realized that they had been made with claws. Long, sharp claws like he himself possesed in his wolf form. It was at that point he realized that the murder was possibly not a human, perhaps a werewolf or even a fellow pricolici, but he couldn't be sure yet.

The victims were all prostitutes, and Michael began going around warning the call girls in the east end. On September 8th, 1888, at around 5:30 am, he found the prostitute Anne Chapman outside 29 Hanbury Stree. He warned her to be careful, and not to be alone in public in times of darkness. A witness to the event later told that Chapman was accompanied by a dark-haired man, wearing a brown hat and dark overcoat, and with a shabby appearance. According to this eyewitness, the man, Michael Turner, had asked Chapman the question, "Will you?" to which Chapman had replied, "Yes" (Turner was attempting to secure her safety and insure she understood). Unbeknownst to either of them, the killer, Benjamin Mercer, lurked nearby. He didn't see the man's face, because he wore a hat, but Benjamin figured he was nobody important. Thinking this new man to be protecting someone significant, perhaps even his mother, Mercer struck brutally when the man left and slashed her throat before stealing some of her organs for later consumption.

Angered by his inability to protect, Michael tried a new tactic. He began patrolling the east end at night and in the early morning, disguised in different clothes and even changing his form if necessary. If he came across a prostitute, he would give them a few silver coins hoping that they would protect them if they were indeed under threat from a supernatural monster. One of those women he gave coins to was Elizabeth Stride, and on September 30th, 1888, the Ripper struck her. However, he was only able to slash her throat because the silver coins fell from her purse, scattering and forcing him to flee due to his werewolf nature. Mercer struck again that same day, though, killing Catherine Eddowes brutally by slitting her throat and abdomen and stealing some of her organs before mutilating her face.

Reinvigerated by his learning of the Ripper's apparent weakness to silver and confirmation of supernatural abilities, Michael began patrolling more often and for longer periods, hoping to notice a familiar face. He did notice a face that appeared frequently, that of Dr. Benjamin Mercer, and Michael began stalking him in secret. However, Mercer caught on in early November of 1888 and began killing indoors, starting with the woman Mary Jane Kelly, who was found murdered in her bed and horribly mutilated. Her body was missing nearly all of its organs, including the heart (which was never found), and her throat had been cut to her spine.

Now sure that the killer had medical experience due to his skilled disembowlments, Michael's suspicion of Mercer grew larger. He began searching for him, hoping at the very least to confirm his suspicion, but Mercer struck first. He had seen Michael stalking him one night, and quickly was able to learn of the mysterious man's identity, and grew afraid of someone on his trail. Deciding to blackmail him, Mercer kidnapped his brother, Maxwell Turner, on November 14th and threatened to kill him unless Michael backed off. However, he made mistakes in his fear and underestimated Turner, not knowing of his abilities or true nature as a pricolici. Michael was able to track him down in a matter of hours to a nearby, abandoned warehouse, and took Mercer by suprise, using the full extent of his powers and transforming into his pricolici form. Michael quickly overwhelmed the overconfident werewolf, and he killed him after an intense battle. Michael then cut his heart from his body and burned both seperately. Benjamin Mercer's rein of terror was over.

On May 18th 1989, Michael finally died peacefully in Hawkshead, England.

## Powers/Abilities

* **Superhuman strength, speed, stamina, agility, and durability**: He was a very physically powerful being, his power increasing with his form. In his human form, he was capable of lifting and throwing over three tons with relative ease. In his powerful hybrid form, Turner was capable of lifting over forty-five tons. His leg muscles were also stronger than normal, allowing him to leap more than fifteen feet into the air. He could also run very fast, and had huge amounts of stamina. Because of his human side, he was weaker than that of vampires while in human/wolf form, but surpassed them in his hybrid form.
* **Superhuman senses**: Pricolici like him have potent senses of smell, and hearing, touch, sight, and taste. He could also detect the heat signatures of threats and also see things over long distances, even in complete darkness thanks to the vampiric half of a pricolici. His hearing was also enhanced, and he could hear the sound of a heartbeat from long distances, and even tell them apart.
* **Claws and teeth**: Both his claws and teeth were incredibly sharp and strong, having no trouble tearing through wood, stone, and even some metals. Only silver is resistant to his claws. Pricolici like Michael can also crawl along walls at great speed in pursuit of targets using their claws. He could also use his sharp claws to absorb the power of the undead and the life energy of the living, should he choose to do so.
	+ **Infectious Bite**: Though he refused to call upon the power, any pricolici can turn another person into either a werewolf or a vampire by biting or scratching them. The creature that the human will become depends on the person’s morals (a violent or sinful person will be turned into a werewolf while a kinde one will become a vampire), Their venomous bite can also paralyze or even kill a vampire.

* **Healing Factor**: Michael Turner had a very strong healing factor. He could easily regenerate his body much faster than a regular human whil in any form. He could heal tissue damage from minor and even major injuries such as bullet wounds, blunt force, stabs, slashes, and severe burns completely in mere seconds, with no scarring. The healing factor of a young pricolici like him is slower compared to a powerful one, and severe wounds will take as much as a few minutes to heal.
* **Shapeshifting**: Michael, like all pricolici, could transform into his wolf or hybrid form at will, as long as the moon was out. However, he was blocked from shifting form if in direct sunlight.
* **Extended Lifetime**: While not completely immortal because of his human half, Michael could still live for hundreds of years if not killed by other means.
* **Hypnosis**: Thanks to the vampire nature of a pricolici, Michael could control the minds of humans, including their thoughts and memories, which he could alter.

### Weaknesses

He had much fewer weaknesses than the usual pricolici as he was partly human. However, Michael Turner still had a few distinct weaknesses, including:

* **Silver**: Like a werewolf, being exposed to silver would prevent any wounds he has from healing and his flesh will burn if it makes contact with silver. If it enters the bloodstream, silver could kill him quickly. Blades or bullets made from silver are also very effective. and their claws are unable to slash through things made from silver.
* **Broken** **Neck**: He could be instantly killed if his neck was broken.
* **Heart** **Extraction**: Cutting or tearing out the heart will also kill a pricolici, like any man. However, unless the heart is either burned or immersed in mercury, the pricolici can be returned to life if it hasn't yet fully decayed.
* **Decapitation**: Fully cutting off his head would also kill him. Though alongside the heart, the head must have been burned seperately from the rest of his body, had mercury poured into his mouth, or been stuffed with wolfsbane to prevent his return. Any human knowledgable in the occult could return him to life if those measures were not taken.
* **Sunlight**: Direct sunlight weakens any pricolici. But because he is half-human, some of his powers remained in sunlight, albeit weaker than usual. His strength, speed, agility, endurance, and stamina are only roughly three times that of the average human. The touch of sunlight will also force a pricolici back to their human form if transformed. This also applied to Michael, part-human or not. He also could not transform in direct sunlight.

Weaknesses from his vampiric side include:

* **Garlic:** The smell of garlic would repel him just as it would repel a regular vampire, and prolonged exposure can make him feel sick.
* **Holy Barrier**: He must have been invited by someone already inside to enter an inhabited area, similar to vampires, werewolves, and all pricolici.

## Gallery

Michael Turner keeping an eye on Dr. Benjamin Mercer, circa 1888Michael Turner reveals his orange eyes to Benjamin Mercer after he kidnapped his brother