The Beast of Gevaudan

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## Biographical Information

### Title(s)

* La Bête du Gévaudan
* La Bête
* The Beast of Gevaudan
* The Beast
* Prehistoric Animal
* The Last Chimera
* The Beast of Beacon Hills

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Kills

* 100 to 500 French Citizens (18th Century)
* 30 Beacon Hills Citizens (2012)
* Electrician
* Mr. O'Quinn

### Cause Of Death

* Stabbed with Rebekah's Katana and Impaled by a Mystical Pike (1st and 2nd time)

### Killed By

* Rebekah Mikaelson and Marie-Jeanne Valet (1st time)
* Hope Mikaelson (2nd time)

## Physical Appearance

### Eye Color

* Glowing Blue-White (Werewolf)

***La Bête du Gévaudan***, also known as **The Beast of Gevaudan**, is a monstrous Werewolf who terrorized France in the 1700s. The Beast was eventually killed by one of the ancestors of the Argent family of Werewolf Hunters. In 2012, a trio of ancient parascientists known as the Dread Doctors resurrected the Beast by summoning his essence into the body of their final Chimera, who was revealed to be Mason Hewitt.

## Early Life

The Beast was originally born in France in the early 1700s as Sebastien Valet. What his early life was like is still a mystery, but it is known that he eventually became a soldier in the French military and served during the Seven Years' War in North America, fighting alongside the Native Americans against the British. He and his comrade Marcel were running from British soldiers on a rainy night when he tripped and fell face-first onto the ground, accidentally drinking water from a puddle in the ground made by a wolf's paw print. As a result, Sebastien was inadvertently transformed into a monstrous form of a Werewolf made of shadows who took pleasure in violently tearing apart any living thing that crossed his path, all while Marcel helped him cover up his role in the killings.

This caused the legend of "the Beast of Gevaudan" to begin even before Sebastien and Marcel officially returned to their hometowns of Gevaudan, France, where a young boy named Emil was slaughtered, causing a hunting party led by Sebastien's sister Marie-Jeanne Valet and his girlfriend Rebekah Mikaelson, the best hunter in the village. With help from Henri Argent, Marie-Jeanne and Rebekah was able to identify Sebastian as the murderous Beast and began hunting him through the Auvergne and South Dordogne regions of France between 1764 and 1767.

It was after three years old hunting that Marie-Jeanne and Rebekah finally caught up with Sebastian and was able to slay him with Rebekah's magical katana and a mystical pike made of steel, Valet blood, wolfsbane, and mountain ash under a full moon. However, by this point, the Beast had already killed upwards of *five hundred* innocent humans. To ensure that Sebastien could not die satisfied that history would always remember him for being the most vicious and feared Werewolf in history, Rebekah and Marie-Jeanne gave him the final punishment of *damnatio memoriae*, Latin for "condemnation of memory;" Marie-Jeanne and the town destroyed everything associated with Sebastien and that acted as evidence of his existence, leaving the real name of the Beast to be lost to time and unknown in the 21st century.

However, Marcel, desperate to resurrect his friend Sebastien, who he believed was the world's most perfect killer, augmented his medical knowledge by deep research into the supernatural, artificially bestowing powers upon himself and two other like-minded scientists; the three would become known as the Dread Doctors, and their mission was to create the perfect vessel for the resurrected spirit of the Beast, though they were not successful until late summer 2012.

## Personality

The Beast, in his Werewolf form, was an incredibly vicious and bloodthirsty creature who relished in violently tearing apart any living thing in his vicinity. He did not discriminate between victims and was known to have killed the young and the old, students and teachers, soldiers and civilians, and his kill count was near five hundred.

As a human, he was known as Sebastien Valet who was the original Beast and was allegedly a serial killer or mass murderer even before he became a Werewolf. However, it was revealed that he was a part of the French military and the brother of the maid of Gevaudan and he, in his own words apparently become a "demon wolf" by drinking rain water from the paw print of a wolf, a reference to the folklore of Werewolf mythology.

Upon being resurrected, Sebastien's spirit did not remember who he was when it was first placed in the Chimera Mason Hewitt's body; as a result, Mason was ignorant to the supernatural spirit within him during the day, and then at night (after being triggered by the Dread Doctors' frequencies) transforming into the Beast and mindlessly killing while the Doctors tried to get it to remember who he was by leaving messages saying "DAMNATIO MEMORIAE." According to The Surgeon, resurrecting "the perfect evil" required corrupting something genuinely good, suggesting that Mason's personality and temperament was necessary to house the Beast's spirit.

## Physical Appearance

The Beast of Gevaudan's "beast" form is a more larger version of an Alpha Werewolf's beast form, being almost twice the size and with more fur covering its body as well as large red visible veins. The face of the Beast is also peculiar, being more feline than canine and with an oversized mouth with no lips. Additionally, the Beast almost appears as though it is made up of black smoke or shadows, and has been described as looking both solid and shapeless at the same time. Instead of eyes like typical Werewolves, which have either red, blue, or gold irises, the entire surface of the Beast's eyes are a glowing white-blue. specifically an electric blue. It is shown that the Beast had these traits in its original life, meaning it was never a "normal" Werewolf to begin with; thus the strange powers and appearance has nothing to do with the Dread Doctors or it coming from a Chimera.

## Powers and Abilities

The Beast possesses the common powers of a Werewolf, but they are extremely heightened and powerful. It appears to be the most powerful Werewolf ever to appear on the series thus far, and it was even able to gain the upper-hand in a battle against the Hellhound, Jordan Parrish. Even Deucalion, an Augmented Alpha Werewolf who was self-described as "the Demon Wolf," saw the Beast as an incredibly dangerous and formidable force to be reckoned with, which says a lot about his level of power.

The Beast's ability to "transform" itself is also unusual in that it is able to keep its clothes intact, which was proven when the Beast's bloody paw-prints at a crime scene were shown to morph into bloody shoe prints. It's implied that it morphs into its bestial form by wrapping shadows around its "human" body, though how it does this is not fully understood as of yet. It was recently revealed that it could do this in its original life and was apparently turned not by a bite or a scratch but by drinking rain water from a paw print of a wolf.

## Weaknesses

In the Beast's original life, it would have presumably had the same weaknesses of a typical Werewolf though it has been stated that even in the past, it was never a "normal" Werewolf. According to Sebastien himself, he could not be killed by ordinary steel weapons, and according to Gerard Argent, the only effective weapons against it was a magical katana and a special spear (made of mistletoe, mountain ash, wolfsbane, and Valet blood under a full moon) in the hands of a powerful vampire and a young woman.

Mountain Ash is effective as a barrier against it, suggesting that does indeed have the typical weaknesses of a typical Werewolf. Deucalion suggested that the Beast should also be vulnerable to Kanima Venom; however, this was proven false when Theo Raeken attempted to paralyze him in order to steal the Beast's power.

Since the resurrected Beast was inhabiting the body of a Chimera, it was even more of a mystery as to whether it has any weaknesses typical of a Werewolf, though it was ultimately still susceptible to being killed by the same spear that killed him in his first life.