Personality: As a friend or ally Benji is one of the most loyal men you will ever met, he’d do anything to help a fellow supernatural being and cares about those he sees as his people. He is fierce in a fight, unafraid to put himself at risk for another and hates to give up or back down. His hate for the scientists that use supernatural beings is absolute and felt with every fiber of his being. He doesn’t trust humans and hates those he sees using products made from supernaturals. Benji doesn’t trust easily and he can be a bit paranoid from a life on the run but when he does put his faith in someone that trust is almost unconditional. Benji tends to react on impulse, he has never been one to rely on wits or rational thinking and will always make the choice he believes to be morally right over one that is smart or safer.

History: Benji grew up in a small rural town in Montana, he was the middle child out of three boys and had a younger sister as well. His family was very close and they enjoyed having a lot of free space to run and play both as human and as werewolves. His siblings and he were homeschooled, with a strong emphasis on training to control and understand the wolf within. His family had been werewolves for as long back as anyone could remember and followed many ancient traditions and rites that helped them access their full potential. This sort of intense training does not always go well and his younger brother lost himself to the wolf and was put down by the pack leader; Benji’s father. While it necessary for the entire family’s protection and to keep werewolves a secret, this event destroyed his father who lost himself to drinking. One night while his father was drunk he bragged about his abilities to man who had been trying to pick a fight with him. That drunken boast of being a werewolf caught the attention on a man in the bar who turned out to be a scientist on the hunt for supernaturals. Benji was sixteen at the time and he was the only member of his family to escape the night black vans came for his family.

For the next few years he moved around constantly while he tried to stealthily find others like him and find out what happened to his family. It wasn’t long before he learned of the scientific experiments and where all of humanities advances came from. Benji was disgusted to learn that human scientists were using supernatural beings for these frivolous products. He grew to hate humans and his anger culminated one night when he slaughtered a human woman in an alley. The woman had been wearing a werewolf fur coat, which smelled a lot like his mother, and he lost control of his anger. He travelled halfway across the country to avoid being linked to his crime but he felt a strong sense of satisfaction with the crime itself; like he had started to avenge his family. He has tried to stick to himself, just get by and keep moving to avoid drawing attention to himself but when he sees a black van he can’t help but check for scientists preying on supernaturals. He tries not to go looking for trouble but tends to find it anyway.

Abilities: Benji has the power to shapeshift into the fiercest of beasts; a terrifying hybrid of wolf and man known to most as a werewolf. His werewolf form is faster, stronger, more durable, and with heightened senses and reflexes. As a man, Benji is stronger than most with an excellent sense of smell and hearing and strong intuition for sensing danger. He can shift at will but does this only when necessary due to the problems associated with it and the attention it draws. He can also partially shift giving him fanglike canines, bright yellow eyes, and sharp claws. While a partial shift allows him more control but less power it still draws more attention than he usually wants.

Weakness/weaknesses: The trouble with being a werewolf is that most of their weaknesses are well known as part of popular lore, like being highly allergic to silver and Wolfsbane. Wolfsbane is extremely poisonous and usually causes a slow and painful death with just a moderate dose. Silver causes burning and blistering with prolonged skin contact as well as general weakening of a werewolf’s abilities and silver in the bloodstream can be anywhere from debilitating to deadly. To kill a werewolf one does not need a silver bullet to the heart although they do the trick, but just about anything that would take out a large animal would work on a werewolf. The werewolf form itself can be an issue as well; the werewolf form draws attention and their pelts fetch a high price. The longer he stays in his beast form the harder it becomes to control the animal instincts and there is the danger that he could lose his humanity to the beast.

The light of the full moon demands that Benji transform into a werewolf and on that night it is extremely difficult to control the wolf’s instincts. He occasionally shackles himself up on those nights or give himself an extremely small dose of Wolfsbane, enough that it looks like really bad food poising, in order to suppress the change. When he finds himself in places with a large forested area he allows himself to run free as a werewolf, to hunt and struggle to keep control as a mental exercise and to appease the wolf within.

Other: Benji has a variety of wolf-like idiosyncrasies. He has a strong prey drive hardwired in him when he sees small animals, especially cats, it takes a lot of self-control not to chase them. Cats, sensing the wolf in him, hate him just as much as he hates them. He always bonds naturally to dogs who see him as an alpha presence. After a meal he tends to absentmindedly chew on any leftover bones and he enjoys red meat. He enjoys beer and dark liquor but hates wine as it gives him headaches. Benji loves the outdoors and gets anxious with too much time spent inside or being stationary. His werewolf form is just under 7’ tall on his hind legs while his human form is 6’3. He is naturally athletic with lean muscle and has a tattoo of a tribal styled wolf howling on his upper left arm. He dresses causally favoring jeans, button up shirts and leather jackets. He never uses scented products as they mess with his sense of smell.