Application for Denouement

[lost_labonair]

Player Information
Player name: Rynn
Contact: chaneystarr@gmail.com or chaneystarr
Are you over 18: yes
Characters in the game already: Jason Schuyler (pushinglimits) and Varric Tethras (siege_harder)
Proof of Reserve: Hayley's Reserve

Character Information
Character Name: Hayley Marshall
Canon: The Originals (also briefly in The Vampire Diaries before the spinoff started)
Canon Point: 2x21 Fire with Fire. Exact point is in the junkyard, just before Klaus and Dahlia show up.
Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive: Alive. And half undead. It's complicated. Hybrid-level complicated.
History: Hayley's Wiki

Personality:
Hayley’s a rather odd choice in persons to have fallen into the group she did and it was more an alcohol-fueled accident than anything else. A one-night stand with Klaus landed her smack in the middle of Original family drama and she’s never been able to drag herself away from it. It’s an abrupt change for a wolf who has spent her entire life searching for a family she’s never known, looking for a place to belong, a place where she fits. It’s a desperate desire she’s had ever since she was a child, a sense of displacement, of being on the outside looking in, that she’s never been able to slip past. For the first time, she’s found herself with a family of sorts, as odd as and frictious as they are and while it’s overwhelming at times – and certainly more dangerous than it should be – she’s adapting.

It’s something she’s good at, adapting. She’s had to be. She’s never stayed in one place for long, always moving, always searching for something more. She’s not sure she’s found it in New Orleans, but she’s found something and she thinks it might be worth keeping, so she’s fighting harder for it than she normally would. She’s fiercely independent and she’s the sort that’s more likely to skip town when things get too tough. While she can be incredibly loyal, it takes a lot to get her past her own sense of self-preservation, which until now has always ranked first. She’s willing to gamble and take risks up to a point, but once things slip past that, she’s done and gone, without so much as a glance backwards. Having a daughter has changed that, however, and so has unexpected gaining Pack connections to a distant family she never anticipated. It’s given her a sense of responsibility she’s still trying to adjust to. Sometimes she resents that a little, but she’s also stepped up to the challenge, maturing incredibly when she learns of the plight of ‘her’ wolves, stepping in to be their voice, their representative, in matters of the supernatural community in New Orleans when they’ve lacked one for too long.

She’s incredibly stubborn and fierce, and if you back her into a corner she will tear you apart. She’s clever and thinks fast on her feet. She has a sharp tongue and can be ridiculously blunt, because she’s not at all afraid to speak her mind, especially when you’ve piqued her temper or protective instincts. While she can be spontaneous and foolish, she’s also learned the benefits of tact when necessary – spending too much time with Mikaelsons makes this a necessity – and she’s become much more observant and aware of tensions and actions and emotions around her. Granted, her heightened senses assist in this, but she’s gotten a lot better at judging situations because of it, learning when to act or speak or push. She has a sarcastic and somewhat cynical sense of humor, which she often shares freely when she’s comfortable or feeling threatened – the one time when her mouth can sometimes run away with her and get her into trouble.

She has an air about her that she’s much older than she appears, that she’s seen some terrible shit and survived it. But yet, at the same time, when it comes to interacting with her new family or her new Pack, there’s often a sense of vulnerability and insecurity in her interactions with them that hints that this sort of relationship is entirely new and strange for her, and she’s not quite sure what to do with it. It’s got her unbalanced and it’s not a feeling she’s particularly comfortable with. Especially when suddenly there’s people she cares about, whose opinions matter, who she knows cares about her and that’s terrifying in an entirely new way.

She has a temper – something only heightened now that she’s a hybrid. Her control on her emotions and moods isn’t what it once was and it’s something she’s still adapting to. She’s grown to be fiercely protective, slowly finding her way around being an alpha in charge of a pack, even if it’s as co-alpha. It still surprises her when people look to her for anything and she’s terrified of failure, of failing them, or letting them down or getting them hurt. She puts a good face on it though and even when she is feeling uncertain or insecure, you can still be sure she will fight damn hard to see them safe and protected. This sense goes double for her daughter, because there is nothing she wouldn’t do for Hope, a sentiment that always scares her with its depth and strength. She wouldn’t trade it – or her daughter – for anything, however.

There’s also the matter of her love life, which is complicated at best. While Klaus is the father of her child, their relationship is complicated and probably not very healthy as they are both very stubborn and any disagreements they have over decisions for their daughter have the potential to explode messily. In protecting her, however, they are usually united and both love Hope more than themselves, one thing they have common ground on. Whether that’s enough to have them on amenable terms on any given day, however, is a mere coin toss of chance. There’s also Elijah, Klaus’s brother, who Hayley’s felt an attraction from the very start, a passionate hunger that’s been drawn him since the day they met, one he felt similarly. Events conspired against them, however – both Klaus’ jealousy and Hayley’s own responsibilities to her Pack giving them one night of passion before they agreed to let things lie. Now she is newly married to Jackson, another werewolf she was betrothed to as a baby. They bonded in a ceremony intended to make the Pack safe from the witches and grant baby Hope a protective Pack to stand solid and firm around her, and for the most part they succeeded, but Hayley is still maneuvering her way through this mess of emotions and Pack ties, as it is still new. She knows she has feelings for Jackson, suspects it will be incredibly easy to let herself love him, it’s just the process of working herself around to it. She can honestly admit, however, that he is a good man, he’s good for her, and he’s what is best for Hope. And that, she thinks, is more than enough for her. It’s a different sort of love, not the hot passion of Elijah, but maybe the kind that will burn longer, a sustainable heat rather than a bright flare before burning out.

Items on your character at canon point:
She dresses pretty simply - in tight jeans, a loose knit shirt and a denim jacket over top. Clunky boots that are good for moving through the outdoors. Not a lot of jewelry, although there’s a wedding band on her left hand and a locket around her neck, holding a picture of Hope and a lock of her daughter’s hair. She has a dagger tucked in a sheath in her boot, because she doesn’t go many places unarmed anymore, despite being what she is – in moments when her hybrid status isn’t enough, sometimes it’s a good idea to have something sharp and pointy.

She’s got a knapsack with her, supplies packed for a long hard march – some protein bars, a bottle of water with a purifier, a lighter, a few changes of clothes, some things for Hope. A scant few mementos she’s collected in her life. A polaroid camera she might have stolen at Christmas.

Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses:
As far as lycanthrope lore in TVD/TO goes, werewolves only transform into their wolf shape on the full moon and the transition is involuntary. It is also extremely painful and can sometimes take hours of excruciating pain as their bodies shift and bones break to reshape into a wolf. They are mostly feral and feel the instinct to hunt while in their wolf form and their preferred target is a vampire – if they catch a scent of one, they will abandon everything else to hunt it down instead. They have been deadly enemies for a thousand years now and werewolves are uniquely benefitted to fight vampires because their bite is deadly to any vamp they bite. When bitten, a vampire’s hunger starts to go out of control, they start hallucinating and eventually have uncontrollable rage and dementia before their death, although most are often ‘mercy-killed’ before reaching this point. A bite from a werewolf will not kill an Original although it will cause extreme pain

In addition to this, they have enhanced speed and strength in either form. Not to the extent that a vampire does, but they are still far more hardy than your average human. In their human form, they can still call on this strength and speed but it truly shows through when they are in their wolf form, when they can be even stronger and more powerful than any vampire – even an Original. Plus, when hunting they often do so with a pack mentality, which makes them even more of a threat, gaining strength in numbers. Their speed is increased after dark due to the influence of the moon, which is intrinsically tied into their power. It’s shown multiple times that werewolves, while their human forms still leave them at a disadvantage against the vampires the night they spend as wolves more than makes up for it. Never is this more true than on the night of the full moon when all their abilities are at their peak.

They have enhanced agility and durability as well as an increased healing ability. They can heal from almost anything although not as quickly as vampires can. And unlike vampires, when their neck is broken, they will stay dead. While vampires can heal faster, werewolves are harder to injure. Werewolves have the extremely keen and heightened senses of smell, sight, taste, and hearing inherent in all canines. Because they are supernatural, these senses go beyond even what their natural wolf cousins would possess. With this, experienced werewolves such as Jules could sniff out vampires - something vampires themselves are incapable of - and Tyler sensed vervain placed in coffee, which would otherwise be impossible since the flavor is usually hidden by the coffee.

When angry or threatened, a werewolf’s nature will show through, their eyes glowing for a short period of time. These moments signal times when anger or instincts heighten their speed and strength and other senses in order to protect themselves or their pack. Werewolves in general are known to be more aggressive in personality, even in human form. They have tempers, but they are innately drawn to others of their kind, deeply loyal and pack-oriented. Even when turned they will not often attack their own kind – a recognition that also seems to extend to their hybrid cousins. When in wolf form, they look like regular wolves, occasionally a little larger, and their eyes glow gold, having all different sorts of coloring just like their natural counterparts.

Unlike most lore, the werewolves are a supernatural species – you have to be born with the gene to become one. Some know who and what they are from birth but others don’t find out until they accidentally trigger that genetic anomaly and transform for the first time. The werewolf gene is triggered when the werewolf kills a human – either by accident or intent, and the first transformation will happen on the following full moon. Some werewolves can live their entire lives without ever triggering it and occasionally generations can pass before it pops up in someone again, although the possibility is always there in the bloodline.

As a werewolf, all this holds true for Hayley as well. She may even have a bit more than your average enhancement, because she is of the Labonair bloodline, one of the oldest bloodlines known to the wolves, making her the equivalent to werewolf royalty. She’s shown she can be possibly faster/stronger than your average werewolf because of this – one example being that she easily snapped Caroline’s neck even in her human form, where she shouldn’t have had the advantage. She is also shown, on multiple occasions, fighting off vampires and witches/warlocks who outnumber her, holding them off on her own abilities, which include sheer force and some training in hand-to-hand defenses.

However, at the end of season 1, Hayley started the transition that will turn her from werewolf into a hybrid, due to dying with her daughter’s blood in her system. A hybrid in the TVD/TO canon is one of the most powerful and dangerous races to appear so far. Their speed and strength is above that of all the other races, as they have many of the abilities of both their vampire and their werewolf sides to call on. As a hybrid, Hayley can still walk in the daylight as well as transform into a wolf at will, not just on the full moon. Her strength and speed is enhanced and she possesses new vampire abilities she never had before, such as mind compulsion. She will get stronger as she ages (due to her vampire side) and heightened emotions – especially anger – will also give her a strength boost, as well as the full moon (due to her werewolf side). As a hybrid, she is now immortal, her aging process stopped the moment she ‘died’ and transitioned into half-vampire. Because of her werewolf side now enhanced even further she will feel things much more strongly – both negative and positive emotions, this is heightened just as much as her physical abilities. They feel emotions at their peak, no matter their age.

She can now control her transformation into her wolf form, not forced into it on the full moon. The transformation is still exceedingly painful, but it is an option, should she need it. Also, as Klaus tested, the transformation can last longer – he held his wolf form well over two days when testing the limits of his newly released abilities when he gained them. Also the enhanced power also allows her a partial transformation now, manifesting only parts of her werewolf side while in human form, such as the claws and eyes and perhaps fangs. She is not unkillable – hybrids can still die if you damage something so great they cannot heal/recover from it, such as snatching out their hearts or beheading them. She still has a weakness to wolfsbane as well as vervain now although she will still heal from it with supernatural speed. She also needs an invitation to enter anyone’s home/living space, due to her new vampire side.


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Prose Log Sample:
Restlessness isn't anything new to Hayley. She’s always had a problem staying still, spending too much time in one place. She’s never been one to sit around when there are things happening. Or could be happening. And in recent weeks, that’s only grown more noticeable for her. The need to move, to do. Anything to keep herself busy and occupied. Distracted. Whether that's her new boosted instincts playing havoc with her own mental state or just a coping mechanism after all the trauma and upheaval of recent weeks is still a tossup, but she'd wager it's a little bit of both. Neither of which she's all that comfortable dwelling on for too long at a time anyway.

It's this that brings her to the bar, the need to do something to fill the empty hours with anything other than wallowing in what she's lost. What she can't change. She hates wallowing. She's never been good at it, even though she might have had enough cause in the past. What good did it do her in the long run, anyway?

Usually about now she'd be looking for a spot of trouble. Or perhaps a change of scenery. She had never been one to put down roots in one place for too long, especially when the going got rough. But the situation was different here.

Everything was different now.

She hadn't expected to find Klaus here, but as she meets his gaze across the busy bar, she doesn't feel the instinctive need to flee, to retreat, to turn away from the open-ended invitation he offers in the lift of his glass. She hesitates a long moment, uncertain, debating, before there's a stubborn lift of her chin and she saunters across the room with purpose.

The chair beside him is claimed rather than the one across. It gives her a wall at her back and as open a view of the room at large as possible. She thinks a little paranoia is well-earned at this point, considering. Being murdered would do that to you.

Not bothering with a glass - he'd been drinking for one, obviously - she plucked the bottle of whiskey from in front of him and took a long swallow, giving him a look as if to dare him to protest.

"Oh good. You saved me some."