Adam Ashby

**Adam** **Gregory** **Ashby** is a powerful supernatural creature specifically being a werewolf apart of Lorenzo's pack.

## History

Adam was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to a small werewolf pack led by his parents as they were blood descendants of the Alpha Wolf. When he was five years old, his parents were killed by Vampires hunting werewolves the day before the full moon to ensure that no stray wolf kills any of them.

Fortunately for Adam, one of the vampires had a soft spot for him seeing as he was but a child and had not yet reached the age of lycanthropy. To protect him, the vampire known as Angelus, stole him and left him at the front door of a hospital.

Soon after, he was adopted by his uncle and his wife who lived in a small town in georgia.
As a teenager, like other Werewolves, he suffered from sudden hormonal changes due to puberty that caused his body to start rapidly changing with urges to transform becoming more and more frequent. He also experienced intense desires to mate, he became physically larger, and was extremely angry and tempermental becoming virtually homicidal.

He transformed for the first time in his uncle\adoptive parents' living room wreaking havoc on the house due to his untamed psychological state. When sun struck, Adam reverted to his human form naked and past out on the floor where his cousin wrapped a blanket around him while he slept clearly exhausted from his first turning.

Realising he inherited the werewolf gene unlike his own son, Adam's uncle began training him specifically this was during winter where every night they would go into the snowing woods and were taught to withstand the freezing cold and cold temperatures to strengthen his body as well as numerous combat fightings and self control, pain tolerance, etc. Adam also obtained the unusual habit of stripping unconsciously from the training methods.

This training continued for years and he mastered self control while in wolf form because of it though the pain was still extreme.

In high school, he played for the basketball team. One day at school, a magical spell was cast upon the area which caused every werewolf within miles to turn in daylight despite their being no moon present. During this incident, Adam was in the locker room when he began turning causing a panic in those near him. The spell repressed Adam completely with his consciousness being pushed down to a mental chamber while the spell caused his wolf form to slaughter his entire class before coming to his senses and reverting to human form where he was devastated.

His family believed it to be Adam's fault given his ancestry dating back to one of the children of the Alpha Werewolf and simply assumed that this would grant him the eventual ability of transformation control. As so, he was kicked out of the home and onto the streets.

Occasionally, he would travel with werewolf packs becoming quite connected in that world and when he heard of Lorenzo Gilcrest's pack and the exciting prospect of not being tied to the full moon. Adam immediately left the current pack he was staying with and travelled to him where he participated in Lupercalia and later moved into the pack penthouse.

He adored Lorenzo and became romantically involved with one of his fellow pack members despite Lorenzo's rule which led them to hide it which caused some awkward instances. During a training session in the woods with his pack, they were ambushed by hunters and Adam was wounded before Lorenzo managed to massacre them all.
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## Personality

Adam has a laid-back personality and is playful even during training sessions but is serious during actual fights. He appeared to be quite obstinate and reckless when he was younger, but over time, he has attained a more cautious attitude towards life, and deals with problems carefully.

He has extreme loyalty to Lorenzo Gilcrest and his fellow pack members seeing Lorenzo as sorta his god as the hybrid "liberated" him from his full moon curse. Also, he has a disturbing habit of unconsciously removing his clothes including underwear.

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## Physical Appearance

Adam is a handsome, medium-height young man with olive skin, dark brown eyes, curly dark brown hair, and a lean but muscular build.

He typically dresses in a casual style that features suede or corduroy jackets, henleys, flannel or denim shirts, hoodies, and jeans with boots or sneakers.

When channeling his werewolf powers, his irises will transition into a dull green colour while his werewolf form is that of a large tan brown wolf.

## Powers and Skills

### Powers

* **Shapeshifting:** When it is a full moon, Adam will uncontrollably turn into a magnificient large black wolf. In doing so, every bone in his body breaks and he grows fur as his irises turn green. After becoming a member of Lorenzo Gilcrest's pack before Lupercalia started, Adam gained the ability to control his transformation enabling him to withstand the effects of the full moon. He has also learnt overtime how to only transform a few selective features as needed, such as only extending his claws or fangs to bite something. However, he has has not demonstrated being able to turn into a wolf at will likely due to inexperience but it is just as likely if not more so that due to the amount of pain that comes with turning he restrains himself from doing so.
	+ **Werewolf Bite:** Like all werewolves, Adam's fangs contain specialised venom that is extremely lethal to most vampires and other supernaturals. It acts as an poison of sorts that will enter the bloodstream and deliver the toxin throughout the body, producing discomfort and weakness, developing uncontrollable hunger that progresses to delusions, hallucinations, rabid rage, and dementia, culminating in death.
* **Enhanced Strength:** As a werewolf, Adam's strength is at a level far superior to that of a human enabling him to easily overpower humans and can snap necks casually. As a member of the Blood Eclipse pack, Adam is stronger than typical werewolves being able to draw additional power from his hybrid alpha. The full moon will also increase his physical strength.
* **Enhanced Agility:** His agility is far greater than humans, often allowing him to perform leaps across incredible heights and distances, and can even scale vertical surfaces. Adam can also jump down from incredible heights with almost gravity-defying grace.
* **Enhanced Stamina:** Adam does not tire easily as his muscular system produces far less fatigue toxins than humans allowing him to physically exert himself for longer, and in a superhuman physical capacity.
* **Superhuman Senses:** Like all Werewolves, he has extremely keen and heightened senses of smell, sight, taste, hearing, and touch that exceed normal animals and humans.
* **Regeneration:** Thanks to his superhuman regenerative abilities if he is physically injured, his body will heal efficiently in a quicker time period. Because of his rapid cellular regeneration, he does not properly age as his healing factor replaces aging cells at a constant rate allowing him to live much longer and healthier than normal humans.
* **Pain Absorption:** As a born werewolf blood descended from the alpha werewolf, he has a unique ability to absorb pain from animals, humans, and other creatures through tactile skin-to-skin contact. When drawing the pain into himself, darkening veins manifest as he experiences it which travel up his body starting in his hands and fingers, which will grow up his arms and into his chest, neck, and face as he siphons away more and more.

## Weaknesses

1. **Link to Alpha:** Because the source of an Evolved werewolf's power is through the link Adam shares with Lorenzo Gilcrest through the Lupercalia Ceremony, that link can be exploited. In addition, if other members of his pack channel too much strength from Lorenzo at once, there may not be enough for Adam to manifest his Evolved qualities.
2. Emotions
3. Magic
4. Higher Beings
5. Silver
6. Heart Extraction
7. Decapitation
8. Angel Blades
9. Wolfsbane
10. The Colt
11. Vampires