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callsignbaphomet · 14 days ago

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As of this year 2024 (actually canon due to a story) the Crossed Breed was renamed to Moonborne.

So like I said on my previous post I wanted to info dump about my good boi in his not so good boi form.

BUT before that I do wanna apologize about sounding like a self-entitled asshole but I say this because I'm hyper protective of my stuff. I've been working with this for 21 years so to say I'm protective is an understatement.

So...

The info is in regards to the werewolves in MY setting. While I took a fuck ton of inspo from different folklore I kinda threw a wrench into the engine and put my own twist in it.

This species like every other species and/or breed as well as EVERYTHING in Oracle Corp is closed. Meaning the only people that can insert a character or what have you into Oracle Corp if they so choose are long term mutuals of this site and this site alone.

General info on my werewolves can be found over here. I should update this site more, the forum is priceless for world building info...

So with that bit outta the way...

Werewolves have a pretty bad rep but at the same time they are savage balls of uncontrollable rage that need to rip anything that moves into pieces so it's kinda well earned. But none of the five breeds have a worse rep than the Crossed Breed. Why? Rumors, misinformation and a lot of disinformation.

There was a lot of info about the Crossed Breed before the first Crossed Breed was ever even born. And yes, all that info was 100% wrong.

Why? Cuz whether they're werewolves or human people like to act as if they know everything and take everything they hear at face value. But in all seriousness for the longest time werewolves had been at each other's throats since their conception and at the beginning the four different breeds hated each other but the Howling Ghosts and Outsiders took it to a whole new level after the HGs drove out the Outsiders from their homes. Since then those two breeds have been out for blood with one another.

With time all four breeds mellowed out and began to heal as a community and extended their pack mentality beyond that of their breeds. Howling Ghosts mingled with Mist Walkers, Silver Sights lived with Howling Ghosts, Outsiders roamed with Mist Walkers, in short they all banded together as one big species instead of one big breed...except for Howling Ghosts and Outsiders! Those two breeds refused to get along.

But not everyone shared that same mentality and occasionally you'd find HG and Outsider couples meeting in secret or running away together. This obviously didn't sit well with a lot of the elders so couples were hunted down and killed.

Now, it's possible for werewolves of a different breed to have pups lol baby werewolves but this is super hard and takes a lot of trying which leads to a lot of financial strain and heartbreak. However, those lucky few who do have a pup will find that the breed the baby comes out as will be the breed of the person who birthed it. This is set in stone, it's been tested over and over again and the results are always and will always be the same.

Howling Ghosts and Outsiders though have an even lesser chance to produce a pup. Hate for each other has been so strong it probably wormed itself into their DNA or something. Who knows, I don't ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

An Outsider elder spread the rumor that a child of an Outsider and a Howling Ghost would be a monster with an insatiable need to kill. It wouldn't be able to reason and the "human" part of it would be crazed and if given the chance to grow and become strong it would just kill everything in its path both human and non-human but especially fellow werewolves. Where was the evidence to back this up? Nowhere. Remember, Outsiders did NOT want to ally themselves with Howling Ghosts even if HGs tried to let bygones by bygones. The Outsiders said no. So this rumor spread far and wide. Thing is back in ye olden days werewolf packs were like clans and each had elders which were respected. Packs had no leaders or "alphas" however the oldest members of these packs were sought after for wisdom and guidance. Just because you're old doesn't mean ya can't be a bigoted piece of shi--anyway, the rumor that elder spread caused massive histeria among the werewolf population and set back centuries of community healing and once again each breed stuck with their own. Even though the rumor was centered around only Howling Ghosts and Outsiders nobody wanted to risk it.

So now we skip all the way forward to the 1700s in the colonies, more specifically, Norfolk, Virginia where a half Russian man and a Scottish woman fell in love and met in secret and then married in secret and then actually got pregnant in secret. Remember, at this time it was kinda taboo for two different breed of werewolf to mix because "the dreaded curse".

But this Howling Ghost and Outsider pretty much did the impossible and had a child. Now, all evidence would've pointed to the baby being its mother's same breed so they expected an Outsider. Nope. That baby turned out to be the first Crossed Breed and now instead of four breeds of werewolf we now have five. Which brings us to Angelus.

You know how astrology "governs" a person's entire personality? Born--and I do wanna emphasize this--BORN werewolves also have something similar. Howling Ghosts tend to be assertive, strong and natural leaders. Outsiders are snobbish, traditional and stubborn. Mist Walkers are patient, adventurous and chill. Silver Sights are active, curious and competitive.

Okay but what about the Crossed Breed? Who knows? No, really, who knows? You can't make a basis for an entire breed off the strength of just one individual. Angelus is not only the first Crossed Breed but the only Crossed Breed and given the fact that a decade of brutal child abuse that he sustained altered his entire personality and mental and emotional state it would be unfair and incorrect to base what a Crossed Breed is like just off of him.

Now, Angelus gets a very bad rep. Not only is he a werewolf and like I said at the start werewolves are savage balls of rage that need to rip and tear everything to pieces but he is the living embodiment of a "curse". Centuries of rumors and disinformation did him no favors. Right off the bat Angelus is automatically feared by other werewolves that don't know him. Most werewolves still believe all the false rumors, the fact that out of all the other breeds Angelus is three times stronger, faster, more agile, with three times the endurance and a bite force that would make a Nile crocodile's jaw look limp in comparison, on paper he's actually at the very tippy top of the food chain. Among all other werewolves he's the draft horse of the werewolf world being much larger than a creature that's already large as fuck and his bark, snarls and howls sound vastly different than other werewolves so hearing him would make an atheist start praying. Aside from that Angelus has shown a higher degree of aggression and a tendency to be territorial with not just his things and living space but with people as well, we'll get to that. As far as most werewolves are concerned Angelus is the super apex predator. It does not help at all that if Angelus bites a human they don't turn into a werewolf, no, they die a horrific and agonizing death. If his saliva somehow gets into a human's blood it's game over. That's why he's extra careful around humans.

Knowing this a lot of werewolves feel a lot of different ways about him. Some actually celebrate his existence and believe he's the next evolutionary step for the werewolf, others don't care at all and are just fine with him as he is, after all, all five breeds differ from one another, then there's those who absolutely hate the fact that he even exists, this is due to fear and again misinformation believing the "curse" to be real and that's it's only a matter of time before he snaps and turns violent or just outright envy. Most of the hate comes from Outsiders. Remember that I said certain born werewolves have certain traits? Outsiders are often seen as the weakest of all the breeds and throughout the eons they've developed a kind of superiority complex to balance things out and they just come off as bourgeois assholes.

So with all of that Angelus tends to not parade around the fact that he's a Crossed Breed. Not only to avoid being jumped and attacked but to avoid making people uncomfortable. Not to mention that during that decade where he was being abused he was conditioned to believe he was a freak, a monster, that CBs are not natural and a threat. So being proud of being the first and only CB is a luxury that Angelus cannot afford mostly for his own safety and years of conditioning.

Now let's touch up on Angelus as a werewolf. During full moons all werewolves undergo an invasive transformation or shift, whatever you wanna call it, that turns them into hulking and beastial wolves. At first glance they look like your average wolf but upon closer inspection these things are just MAAAAAAASSIVE with muscle upon muscle, huge claws, large sharp teeth, unkempt fur that's just always puffed out, paws that easily cover a human's whole head and glowing eyes. And by glowing I mean everything glows, the sclera, the iris and the pupil. What color obviously depends on the breed. Add to that that they all constantly salivate which kinda makes them look like they're rabid. They actually are, it's just a far more aggressive and controlled form of it.

Werewolves are usually lone hunters as each full moon they must consume one human heart to sustain their regenerative and immune systems so no werewolf wants competition. However, if they know there's a group of humans then they will hunt as a pack. Once a single heart has been consumed it doesn't mean it'll just shift back into human form and carry on with the rest of the night. They will continue to hunt and often times pair up with other werewolves that have eaten a human heart as the more there are the more successful their kill rates will be. The hearts will remain intact often times they'll just eat the flesh of their victims and lap up the blood. There is literally no point in eating more than one heart so they leave the rest intact in case another werewolf that needs it can come by and eat.

But families of werewolves will hunt in packs and take down prey taking turns in eating the hearts. This has also been observed with groups of friends though their friendship needs to be solid. It's a trust thing, a bond that those in the same pack experience.

Other species have been known to team up with werewolves, most commonly are vampires as they both consume two different things and both need to gtfo to safety before sunrise.

At the end of the night the werewolf shifts back into human form often times groggy from gorging themself on flesh, blood and sometimes bits of bone and cartilage. A werewolf not eating food the day after a full moon is pretty common unless all they were able to do was eat the heart and one person.

Angelus usually teams up with fellow werewolves Trevor, Mahmud, Mason and Madison during full moons after spending the day scouting for potential prey. Think of the most vile groups of people you can think of, that's who they target. There's the blood farms but they prefer to leave that for citizens.

A werewolf in wolf form is uncontrollable. They only have the hunt in mind and that is all that drives them. They get serious tunnel vision during full moons. There is no amount of "power of friendship" or "love conquers all" that will stop a werewolf from killing your human ass. They shift, they hunt, they eat and shift back as the sun starts to rise. End of story.

Unless they're wearing Moonbane.

These are enchanted pieces of meteorites that are shaped into jewelry or accessories for werewolves to wear so they can "suppress the beast". It can be a necklace, a ring, a pair of earrings, a piercing of some kind--as long as it is on the werewolf's body than it'll work.

Trevor, for example, has...gods I think they're called grillz(s?)...I'm so sorry...on his upper and lower fangs which is how he wears his Moonbane. Mason has a charm in the shape of a rabbit's foot and in the back he has his parents' and siblings names etched into it that he wears on a necklace. That charm is Mason's Moonbane. Angelus's Moonbane is the lip piercing he has. You get the idea.

Now obviously it's encouraged to have more than one backup because let's face it you could easily lose those items.

Moonbane is the answer to all werewolves' prayers. While wearing Moonbane werewolves are not forced to shift during full moons giving them the freedom to choose when and where and for how long they remain in their wolf shift. It even lessens the brutality of the shift as shifting is violent and extremely painful. Flesh is stretching, bones are stretching and snapping, muscles are tearing, tendons are under immense pressure. They can actually hear the snapping and tearing as it happens in real time. In short it ain't pleasant, it's actually pretty terrible and some people black out from the pain till it's over.

This also allows the werewolf to see a little bit of reason. Their temperament goes from 100 to about 20 give or take. Now, it's never a good idea to hang around a werewolf while they're in their shifted form even if they're under the effects of the Moonbane. It's about as safe as being around a wolf at a zoo. They're used to people and won't just randomly attack but they're still wild animals. Werewolves won't attack loved ones, friends, spouses or their non-werewolf children as they can now distinguish them from prey. This is where scent comes in. Scent is uber important to the werewolf as even in human form they can take in scents of loved one, friends and family and so on. Whether in human form or wolf form they heavily rely on scent to distinguish who is in their pack and who isn't. Still, you may wanna gtfo. Just in case.

And you guessed it, there's a but for Angelus. Remember like 20k paragraphs back I mentioned that Angelus was prone to being more aggressive, more territorial with his things, living space, and people? Even under the effects of Moonbane that man's temperament stays at 100, so what does that mean? He can be reasoned with and he'll understand what you're trying to say to him but you better make damn sure you move slowly and keep an even and low tone. Absolutely no sudden moves. And for the love of god do not display any signs of hostility either towards him or a loved one because he will NOT hesitate. However, if it's someone whose scent he knows like for example Jelani, Loke, Trevor, Ginger or the others who he's close to they're fine. They don't really have anything to worry about. New people shouldn't approach him in wolf form until he's comfortable with them and he'll be the first to say it. Upon meeting new people he first gets their scent which carries a lot of information. He actually prefers to get someone's scent before their name. Not being able to get a scent is a huge red flag for him and he instantly sees that person or thing as untrustworthy.

Ya know how your pet dog barks when someone's close to your house? If someone that's unknown is close to or in his apartment he's usually right behind Jelani studying and getting a scent to determine if this is a friend or foe. No, he's not gonna bark and sniff someone's ass. As he listens to you talk or even doing some of the talking himself he's getting a scent which with his nose is very easy as long as he's a few feet nearby. Angelus isn't the only werewolf to do this as all werewolves do this. He's just less relaxed than the rest about it. Whatever living space he deems as his is fiercely protected, items that he deems important as well. For example his drawing tablet. He has the means to go out and buy a truckload of the top of the line ones if he wanted to but a stranger going near his will kinda wire his brain to keep an eye on it. With Jelani it's like ten times worse. That's his spouse and his source of safety since he first met them. He is aggressively overprotective of them and strangers going anywhere near them is like 100 emergency sirens all going off at once. He checks the person or thing's scent, keeps an eye on body language, tone of voice, movement, eye movement and placement, space between them and Jelani and so on. If he reads the situation as safe he relaxes but is always at the ready to drop anyone that so much as looks at Jelani the wrong way. Basically Jelani married a hyper vigilant Doberman. He's also the same way with Trevor and Loke who he sees as kind of like the older brothers he never had. Ginger as well who's not only like a sister to him but his bff and by extension her wife, Abigail. In short anyone he loves. This behavior isn't just displayed in human form, in wolf form he does the same thing except it's far more intimidating in wolf form than in human form.

But how do we separate what behavior is because of the species and breed Angelus is and his own personality? It's a mix of both. **This info isn't lore this is from me. Crossed Breeds are more animalistic which is why Angelus tends to act that way when he doesn't feel safe or is uncomfy. It's just how Crossed Breeds are. If there was another one they'd also share this trait with Angelus.**

Will there ever be another Crossed Breed? Idk. It's not in my plans to have another one show up but it could happen.

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