Elias Ross

* Human
* Werewolf

## Gallery

**Elias Ross** is a tall lanky fellow with stylishly unkempt hair who is first and foremost a nice person. His willingness to help others sometimes blinds him to larger consequences, but for him, the good outweighs the bad.

The alpha of his pack had been grooming him to take the reins of Ross Pack in due time. Elias's father is absent for large parts of his life. He has three siblings, two of which are werewolves. His sister, Patty, is the sole human in the immediate family.

## Description

### Appearance

Elias is nearly six feet tall with a lanky frame. Due to his being a werewolf, he is much stronger than he appears. He likes to dress in worn out jeans and loose shirts, possibly to accommodate the change. He has green eyes and medium length wavy brown hair.

### Werewolf Form

Elias's fur is nearly identical to his human hair in form and color. He's not quite as bulky as Malaya as a werewolf, but he *is* nearly as tall. His experience and training as a werewolf shows when he fights. When running, Elias is considered to be faster than the others.

### Personality

Elias is a good-natured soul whose impetuous nature leads him to offering himself before he considers all of the ramifications. It's this and his desire to help others that lead to his wanting to help Malaya and her family. Because of his having been a werewolf his whole life, he doesn’t want her to have to keep living in fear of who she really is. He also has a bit of a crush on her brother, Vincent.

## Background

### Childhood

Elias comes from a big, established werewolf pack, and lives about an hour away from Malaya’s hometown. While his siblings were playing games, participating in sports, just being kids, and, for Maggie and Ezra, learning how to be werewolves, Elias was helping his mother, being her able assistant, and training to become the next alpha. As they got older, Ezra and Maggie graduated high school, found jobs, moved away from Crescent Lake, got married and started families. When Elias and his human baby sister Patty graduated high school, Patty went on to study Marine Biology in Florida.

Due to how thin and spread out their pack has become, Elias kept fairly close to home by his mother, who usually uses him to investigate small things nearby and help take care of day-to-day pack operations. He has struggled to find his place in the world, feeling rather restless being kept under his mother’s thumb, and this may contribute to how quickly he was willing to throw himself into helping Malaya.

### Vincent's kidnapping

As befits his nature, no sooner did he learn of Vincent's kidnapping that he dove right in and began making phone calls. One call was to his mother, the alpha of Ross Pack. He tried to enlist the help of the pack through her and was told no. Because it involved another werewolf pack, rogue or not, the Werewolf Council of Michigan would need to be consulted and approval given before the pack could make a move. Not only was he told no, he was told that if he or any other Ross Pack members went on their own, they would be expelled from the pack, pending an investigation. So, of course, that's just what he did.

He botched the initial rescue attempt and ended up in the basement of the creepy house after fighting with, and losing to, Connie's Wolves. He claims he did more damage to them then they did to him and that he would have won if it wasn't for Tim landing a lucky kick to his head. During the escape from the creepy house's basement, Elias would have lost again if not for Malaya's intervention.

### Adulthood

With the decision to expel him from the pack, Elias friends have helped him with housing and employment. Elias is being considered for membership in Walters Pack and is an employee of the Red Moon Coffee Shop.

## Powers and Abilities

Elias is a werewolf, giving him a myriad of abilities. Among these include enhanced sense of smell and hearing, superhuman strength, accelerated healing, increased resistance to injury, and drawing power from the moon. He is also capable of turning others into werewolves through bites, as well as immunizing humans from turning through clawing.

### Fighting Style

As a werewolf, Elias's build is falls more towards the lanky and slim side. He is agile and fast, but isn't as strong compared to Marin. He tends to fight in an acrobatic-like style, making flips or climbing trees. He has the tendency to jump first into danger to protect those he cares about, disregarding his own safety first due to his confidence in werewolves' healing capabilities.

As Elias is very comfortable with his werewolf self, he tends to make his transformations more rapid and frequent.

## Trivia

* Elias's birthday is in October. He is a Libra, making his birthday somewhere between October 1st and 23rd.
* Elias's name is pronounced El-ee-as, while his nickname Eli is pronounced Eee-lai.
* Elias's preferred coffee is a flavored latte.
* Elias celebrates Hannukkah.
* Elias's texting style is based off of Shawn's.
* Elias likes to take a lot of selfies.
* Elias drives a 1997 Buick Lesabre. It has a CD player, a tape player and power seats.
	+ Elias does the maintenance on his own car and the car has 250,000 miles on it. He took mechanics in high school.
* Elias listens to classic rock mixed with "literally anything else that he just enjoys,” and is most likely a Taylor Swift fan.
* Elias is vers, as implied by his pitcher and catcher innuendo.
* Elicent is Elias and Vincent's ship name.
* In an interview, Shawn mentions that Elias, along with Vincent, are the most fun characters to write.
* Shawn has created a spotify playlist for How to be a Werewolf. Elias and Vincent share their own section in the playlist.
* The Elias and Vincent's baseball scene in Chapter 8 was originally going to be a cafeteria scene
* Elias is a little bit scared of Charlene, as he knows almost nothing about her and can't get a read on her at all.
* In an early comic that started the idea for How to be a Werewolf, it is mentioned that the two featured characters were a proto-Elias and a proto-Marin.
* In an early height chart, Elias's last name was originally Vilkas. The name is a Lithunanian family name meaning Wolf.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 13 Page 846
2. ↑ Chapter 4 Page 73
3. ↑ Chapter 1 Page 4
4. ↑ Chapter 7 Page 219
5. ↑ Chapter 7 Page 216
6. ↑ Chapter 5 Page 7
7. ↑ A million selfies, taken in Marin and Marisa's bathroom where the lighting is good, obviously
8. ↑ Chapter 10 Elias drives a late model luxury piece of junk
9. ↑ Chapter 10 Page 494
10. ↑ Chapter 10 Abrupt Change of Subject
11. ↑ Chapter 8 Murder by Baseball
12. ↑ Chapter 7 Page 280
13. ↑  How to Be A Werewolf: Interview with Shawn Lenore, Clark, Lucian, July 25, 2017, Retrieved August 15, 2021
14. ↑ Chapter 8 Connie Emerges
15. ↑ Chapter 8 Charlene would like to wash out her brain
16. ↑ Chapter 9 Don't Ruin Your Boots
17. ↑ Early Height Chart