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[h1][b][color=gray]Reed Hensfield[/color][/b][/h1]

[h2][b][color=gray][u]Age[/u][/color][/b][/h2]
32

[h2][b][color=gray][u]Gender[/u][/color][/b][/h2]
Male

[h2][b][color=gray][u]Species[/u][/color][/b][/h2]
Human Werewolf

[h2][b][color=gray][u]Description[/u][/color][/b][/h2]
A stout, tall and stony man, Reed is quiet, and observant of the world around him. His eyes always attentive of something even when it doesn’t look like it. He looks intimidating, but while he isn’t a bright and overtly friendly person, he isn't threatening either. Reed is reserved and prefers quiet areas where he can rest easy, like the mountains outside the city, or in his newfound hone where he can find solitude. He also doesn’t mind interaction with others, often listening more than he speaks, but when he does, his words aren’t empty. He speaks with meaning when it matters, and not at all when it does not. Reed gives offs an atmosphere of being closed off from everything around him, like he’s just shut down, but he isn’t, he is just reserved.

What some people first notice about Reed is his well-built stature. Living off the grid means you have to do a lot of things by hand, and Reed has put on quite a bit of muscle in the last few months. On a good day, you might see him carry a fallen tree over his shoulder, at least long enough to cut it into logs. This isn’t the kind of strength that wins fist fights, but the kind that comes from physically demanding conditions.

[h2][b][color=gray][u]Personality[/u][/color][/b][/h2]
While most people might simply see Reed as this quiet and distant man with no place in the world, they don’t see the part of him that he leans into when he is away from the city. On his own, Reed is explorative and curious, trudging through the hills and mountains outside the city like he lives there, having high respect for everything else that he comes across, animals, forests, and people just trying to get away from the mess of the world. To anyone who gets to know him, Reed is a very trustworthy and reliable person to have on your side. When he says he’ll be there, he means he’ll be there. When you say you need help, he’ll help. In rare occasions where he looses his temper over something, Reed can be viscous and cruel against people who do him harm, almost like he’s another person entirely.

[h2][b][color=gray][u]Skills[/u][/color][/b][/h2]
[u]Outdoor Life[/u]
[indent]From hunting skills, to gathering firewood, to staying on the right path through the woods, Reed is an expert when it comes to living in ways where your survival comes from your ability to fend for yourself. This includes proper handling and marksmanship with a lever action 44-magnum rifle.[/indent]

[u]Moss[/u]
[indent]Everywhere Reed goes, he’s followed by a Norwegian Elkhound named [url= https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.08IVNYaZHuI_KjD_Oe16SgHaE7%26pid%3DApi&f=1]Moss.[/url] Moss and Reed understand each other in ways most people don’t. While most people train their dogs to understand certain phrases and cues, these two can have entire conversations due to Reed’s werewolf blood, almost like Moss can speak English, she can only talk in the way dogs regularly do, but Reed knows what she means. This also causes most unfamiliar dogs to stare at Reed for unusually long periods of time, since they see the wolf in him.[/indent]

[u]Transformation[/u]
[indent]Reed has the power to take on the characteristics of a wolf, his body twists and contorts as his hair grows thick and thicker, and his bones rearrange until he resembles a hybrid between a man and an animal. In this form, he can run much faster, and scale buildings with enough effort. Reed’s fur protects him from some harm such as against stabbing or slashing, and it also insulated him a little from seriously cold weather. In this form, he cannot properly speak English, and he grows from 5”8’ to 6”3’, making doorways a little awkward.

A side effect of being a werewolf is that his senses of sight, hearing and smell are heightened somewhere between human and dog.[/indent]

[h2][b][color=gray][u]Weakness[/u][/color][/b][/h2]

[u]Overload[/u]
[indent]Particularly high pitched noises bother Reed a lot, in the same way that they might drive a dog crazy. It doesn’t help that Reed can faintly hear dog whistles. If they’re bad enough, they could make him nauseous. Nails on a chalkboard, for example.[/indent]

[u]Beast Inside[/u]
[indent]The werewolf form that Reed can take on has a semblance of its own will. Having the power to transform into a beast carries with it the instincts of a beast. Every now and then, he can feel it locked up inside, pawing and scratching at a cage. In recent months he’s learned to deal with it by shifting regularly and roaming the woods at night, and sometimes sneaking around the outer reaches of the city to check on things. The problem with this is that Reed and the beast don’t entirely get along, meaning that sometimes when something makes him anxious or angry, he can feel something bubble up inside him like the beast is trying to bear its teeth. Reed has been taking steps to properly handle what he can become, and so far there hasn’t been any serious incident of someone getting eaten in the middle of the night.[/indent]

[u]Distant Life[/u]
[indent]Reed does not live in the city, he lives roughly an hour and a half away by [url= https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.8YWb0myao7dB-N1xSLNW3wHaHa%26pid%3DApi&f=1]car.[/url] He fled in the early days of the apocalypse when the changes in his form were unstable, and chose to keep distance between himself and others out of safety. While he is doing alright out there, the city is the closest place to it. In order to pay for things like gas or bullets, he saves some of the meat from his hunts to trade in some of the more ran down outskirts of the city. It isn’t much, but he gets by where he can. It’s either this, or risk shifting in the city at night.[/indent]

[h2][b][color=gray][u]History[/u][/color][/b][/h2]

Will add when I’m not lazy

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