Werecoyote

> "Coyotes are nocturnal, and when we smell something off...like blood, we go crazy, since it's a fresh kill."
>
> - Malia Hale about Werecoyotes

* Beta Shift
* Evolved Werecoyote Shift

## Species Information

### Related Species

* Human
* Shifter Werewolf
* Kanima
* Chimera

### Distinction

* Shapeshifter hybrid species that is distantly related to  werewolves

**Werecoyotes** are distantly related to the Shifter Werewolf. It was unknown if they can gain power from being in a pack or if an Alpha can draw upon more power with a Werecoyote in its pack, until Malia Hale joined the newly built Hale Pack, and has shown during the induction process of a new member into the pack, that the entire pack draws power from the new bond. An Alpha's roar has the exact same effect on a Werecoyote as it does on a Werewolf, forcing the shapeshifter in question to transform or allowing them to fight through pain and other weaknesses to order to shift. Additionally, the Werecoyote shares the same kind of family classification as Werewolves as well, due to the fact that mundane coyotes and wolves are both canine creatures. Werecoyotes have the power to shift their features into that of a coyote, with pointed ears, furry sideburns, glowing eyes, fangs, and claws, and at least some Werecoyotes can fully-shift their bodies into that of a true coyote.

Malia was the first Werecoyote to be introduced. It was revealed that Malia had been trapped in her coyote form for eight years and had lived in the Beacon Hills Preserve as a forest animal the entire time until Scott McCall used his Alpha roar to force her to return to her human form. After she had begun to adjust to human life again, Malia later joined the McCall Pack as its first and only Werecoyote, allowing her packmates to help her how to actively and consciously use her powers rather than relying purely on instinct. Though it took some time to achieve, Malia recently learned to full-shift into a coyote at will after stealing back the power of her mother, Corrine, and getting some formal training from Danae Tlanta, another member of the Hale Pack.

Theo Raeken was revealed to be a Werewolf/Werecoyote Chimera, and as such, possessed many abilities of a Werecoyote, including the ability to full-shift into a wolf. Malia's mother Corinne, an assassin better known by the code-name the Desert Wolf (which is another term for "coyote") was also confirmed to be a Werecoyote as well, though she was greatly weakened after Malia somehow absorbed a portion of her powers during childbirth. Now that Malia has stolen Corinne's remaining powers, Corinne is now presumably a regular human, leaving Malia as the only full-blooded Werecoyote.

## Powers and Abilities

**Werecoyotes** possess abilities that are nearly identical to those possessed by Werewolves.

* **Super Strength:** Werecoyotes possess superhuman strength that allow them to do things such as break chains and locks, punch through walls, lift fallen trees and throw grown men across a room with ease. Even Werecoyotes who have passed down a portion of their power to their offspring are notably stronger than normal humans. Born Werecoyotes have been shown to need to initially activate this ability on a conscious level before it becomes a default setting.
* **Super Speed:** Werecoyotes can run much faster than even the most athletic humans. They are also capable of running on all fours in both human and in coyote form.
* **Super Agility/Reflexes:** Werecoyotes possess supernaturally enhanced agility and reflexes that allow them to move quickly, jump, climb, and run incredibly fast without difficulty or exhaustion. This includes leaping very high in the air and across large distances, jumping down from several stories high and landing lightly on their feet, and performing a multitude of acrobatic and gymnastic feats such as flips, handsprings, and spinning kicks. This also extends to their reflexes as well, allowing them to perceive and catch projectiles such as balls or arrows before they can be hit and instantly dodging oncoming strikes during battle.
* **Super Durability:** Werecoyotes can take a great amount of physical damage without being slowed down. They are much more durable to blunt force trauma than regular humans, allowing them to be thrown through walls and fall from tall heights with only minor injuries. This durability also enhances their stamina to superhuman-levels, allowing them to endure and fight much longer than a normal human would be able to accomplish even when seriously injured.
* **Super Senses**: Werecoyotes, like their coyote counterparts, have extremely sensitive senses of sight, hearing, and smell. They can see in the dark and across large distances, track scents for up to several miles while also interpreting the chemosignals that indicate identity and emotional states, and can hear whispered conversations from outside of buildings with ease. These abilities help Werecoyotes fight at night, hear approaching enemies, and locating missing people by scent.
* **Accelerated Healing:** Werecoyotes possess extraordinarily enhanced healing factors that allow them to heal from most mild to moderate wounds within moments. Throughout the series, Werecoyotes have been shown to heal from gunshots; stab wounds through the chest, abdomen, and extremities; and broken arms, legs, and spines. They are also immune to all human illnesses and conditions such as colds, cancer, epilepsy, asthma, etc., and cannot get high on drugs or drunk on alcohol because they heal the damage caused by the toxins too quickly. The only known substances that Werecoyotes are not immune to is wolfsbane and the modified canine distemper virus that was specifically designed to kill Werewolves and Werecoyotes. They are also vulnerable to the paralytic effects of kanima venom, though they will recover from their paralysis from it much faster than a regular human would.
	+ **Longevity**: Because a Werecoyote's rapid cellular regeneration prevents them from contracting any human illnesses or conditions while also replacing aging cells at a constant rate, Werecoyotes have enhanced longevity and a decelerated rate of aging, allowing them to live much longer and healthier than normal humans. It is unknown what the average life expectancy of a werecreature is.
* **Shapeshifting:** Werecoyotes have the ability to transform their features into those of a coyote, which involves glowing eyes (which can either be gold in the case of a Werecoyote who has not killed innocent humans, or blue in the case of someone who has), fangs, claws, a ridged brow, and large sideburns. With practice, Werecoyotes can learn how to only transform a few features as needed, such as only extending their claws to cut something, their fangs to bite something, or simply making their eyes glow to enhance their eyesight or identify themselves as supernatural creatures.
	+ **Advanced Shapeshifting:** Malia Hale has been capable of fully shapeshifting into a true coyote since she was nine years of age, though it wasn't until recently that she was able to consciously control it. It is unknown if this ability is something all Werecoyotes are capable of doing upon activating their powers, if it is a learned skill that any Werecoyote has the potential to achieve, or if it is a genetic trait that only some Werecoyotes possess; since the ability to fully shapeshift into an animal form seems to be common in the Hale family, and it was revealed that Malia is the daughter of Peter Hale, it is possible that she gained this ability from her paternal heritage. Malia has full control of her full coyote-shift.
* **Pain Absorption**: Werecoyotes, like Werewolves, possess the ability to absorb pain from other living beings through tactile contact. They typically do this through putting their hands on the arm or affected body part of the being in pain and drawing the pain into themselves, which manifests as a darkening of the veins in the Werecoyote's hands that travels up their arms and into their chest, neck, and sometimes even their face, depending on how much pain is absorbed.
* **Animal Instincts**: Werecoyotes possess the same animal instincts as their coyote counterparts, causing them to instinctively think and behave like a coyote would. This includes being territorial over their living environment, determining whether to fight or flee from danger, and being aroused by the scent of blood after a kill. Malia has especially developed animal instincts compared to her shapeshifter peers, and its unknown if this due to Malia being a born creature, a side-effect of living as a coyote for eight years, something all Werecoyotes possess, or if it is a combination of these factors

## Weaknesses

* **Mountain Ash**: Werecoyotes, like the majority of supernatural species, cannot cross barriers made of mountain ash or rowan wood, nor can they touch or manipulate the wood or its ash in a non-barrier form. This makes them vulnerable to being trapped within a ring of mountain ash, or being prevented from entering an area that has been warded with it.
* **Wolfsbane:** Werecoyotes can be weakened or killed by exposure to wolfsbane, depending on the species and the method of exposure. Blue wolfsbane (also known as Nordic Blue Monkshood) is an extremely potent strain that will poison and kill a werecreature, while purple wolfsbane causes intense and terrifying hallucinations, and yellow wolfsbane acts as a non-lethal sedative.
* **Full Moon:** Though being a werecreature is considered a gift in the supernatural world due to the increased speed, stamina, and healing that it provides, it also comes with a price, which is that the Werewolf, Werecoyote, or werejaguar is beholden to the phases of the moon. During a full moon, werecreatures without training will become overcome with a rabid anger that will cause them to attack any living creature they come upon, which is why they all must learn control to avoid exposure and harm to innocent civilians. The full moon will make a Werecoyote stronger, but it will also make them more rabid and chaotic, which makes them easy targets for supernatural hunters. With adequate training, a Werecoyote can learn to remain in their human form and mind through the full moon, but under the right circumstances, even the most well-disciplined Werecoyote can lose control.
* **Lunar Eclipse**: During the phase of a lunar eclipse where the moon is completely covered in the earth's umbral shadow, a Werecoyote or other werecreature will lose all of their powers, including their super strength, accelerated healing, and shapeshifting abilities, essentially making them human for that time period and thus vulnerable to anyone seeking to take advantage of this weakness and harm or kill them.
* **Electricity:** Werecoyotes can be weakened or killed by exposure to electricity, depending on the level of voltage used. Lower voltages will disable their healing abilities and prevent them from transforming, while higher voltages can severely slow or even stop their heart completely. For this reason, electricity, typically in the form of cattle-prod tasers reaching up to 800,000 volts to account for the Werecoyote's superhuman durability, are one of the most common weapons hunters use against their prey.
* **Loud Noises**: Werecoyotes, as supernatural creatures with heightened senses of hearing, are vulnerable to sounds at certain frequencies. For example, the Argent Hunters are known for using ultrasonic emitters that produce an extremely high-pitched noise that only animals and people with supernaturally enhanced senses can hear. Sounds at low frequency have been shown to cause Werecoyotes to become incredibly disoriented, woozy, nauseous, and unable to control their bodies, to the point that others have mistaken them for being drunk. In this state, they are unable to defend themselves due to the sounds making them weak and unable to stand, walk, talk, or see clearly.

## Known Werecoyotes

 Malia is the biological daughter of the Desert Wolf and Peter Hale, who inherited a portion of her mother's powers at birth, though this was a side-effect that the Desert Wolf loathed. When she was in a car accident with her adoptive mother and her adoptive sister, when her biological mother, the Desert Wolf, began shooting at the car with the intention of killing Malia and stealing her power back. Due to the stress and trauma as a result of the accident in conjunction with the full moon overhead, Malia's Werecoyote heritage was activated and she transformed for the first time in her life, and she immediately full-shifted into a coyote and spent the next eight years living in the Beacon Hills Preserve out of grief and guilt for what she had done.
In 2011, she was discovered in the Beacon Hills Preserve by Scott McCall and Stiles Stilinski, and, with the help of their pack, Scott used his Alpha roar to turn her back into her human form. Afterward, she joined the McCall Pack, where she acted as the Werecoyote version of a Beta. She eventually stole the rest of her mother's powers in order to prevent her mother from killing her, and gaining all her mother's power enabled Malia to have control over her full-coyote shift. She is now a member of the Hale Pack where she is influenced by her cousin and the Alpha of the pack, Derek Hale, and lives with her father, Peter Hale, rebuilding a close relationship with him. She is a travel agent and goes all around the world.

 While giving birth to her daughter Malia Hale, some of her power was inherited by Malia, causing Corinne to become much weaker than the average Werecoyote. Some time after this, Talia Hale came and took Malia away, putting her into the adoption system where she was taken in by the Tate Family. Nine years after giving birth, the Desert Wolf opened fire on Malia and her adopted mother and sister, causing them to drive off the road and into the Beacon Hills Preserve, where they crashed into a tree.
Believing Malia to be dead, Corinne continued living her life until hearing rumor that Malia was still alive, during the Deadpool, which lead her to return to Beacon Hills with the intention of finally killing Malia and taking her power back, though she was eventually informed that it would have to be a full moon for this to be successful. Corinne became impatient, though, and attempted to take Malia's power just shy of the full moon, an attempt that eventually failed when Malia absorbed the rest of her mother's powers. It is unknown if this means that she is truly human now, or if she's retained any of her abilities.

### Werecoyote Chimera

 When Theo originally arrived in Beacon Hills in Autumn 2012, he pretended to be a true Werewolf and a friend of Scott McCall and his pack. However, it was later revealed that not only was he a Chimera but he was the first semi-successful Chimera, and he had been working with the Dread Doctors. He is capable of fully-shifting into a wolf due to his Werecoyote nature.
Theo's ultimate goal was to become a real Werewolf and an Alpha, but he was kidnapped by Conri Tlanta with the help of Deucalion, and taken to the East Coast, where he was reformed, and joined the Hale Pack. With a renewed sense of self, Theo has taken great strides in becoming better, and has since enrolled in a culinary program, before moving onto the International Culinary Institute (ICE).

## Gallery

Malia Hale; WerecoyoteEvolved WerecoyoteBlue EyesWerecoyote ClawsBlue EyesDesert Wolf