Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, 11 Jan. 1902

( Prelude: Renaissance Hotel, Paris, Before Dawn. )

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At first, and for many hours, Jack knew nothing at all.

The monster's claws and teeth had so badly hurt him that the surgeons needed copious amounts of chloroform and morphine just to keep him from thrashing as they stitched over the wounds and pumped clean blood into his depleted system. After that -- and as they, uneasily, noticed that his flesh seemed to be knitting far faster than would have been expected -- he slept a rough drug-fueled sleep.

The sleep came with voices in it.

An oracle: Beware the stalking wolves that prowl the deep cold and dark places.

Felix's: You were hurt and Sebastien helped you

His own:Do you think the wolfman is going to get you?

(There'd been more to that class, he knew, stored in some corner of his brain he couldn't touch.)

The effort to remember was enough to awaken him. He looked around enough to get a rough idea of the setting, and sniffed the air, breathing in what felt like a noxious hospital smell of floor cleaner, damp linens, and pus. Then he touched the pad of one finger to the reddened band of flesh at its base where Sebastien's ring used to rest.

He had the uneasy feeling he should be noticing something. It was so hard to think.

He closed his eyes again, ready to slip away.

( It was entirely possible that Sebastien had not moved since he followed Jack to this room, taking a chair well away from the windows once he had closed the curtains. )

[OOC: NFB, NFI. harpy_daughter was my Sebastien, for she rocks. OOC post to come in a sec!]

OOC: The Care & Feeding of the Lycanthrope

So Jack is a werewolf now.

What this means:

☾ Three nights a month at moonrise, he transforms into a black-furred, largish wolf. Yeah.
☾ If you can smell or sense werewolf, you can smell or sense that he's one. He won't be sending out a PSA about it, but he'll be open to discussing it if someone asks.
☾ Jack's canon is mixed on the age-old question of vampires vs. werewolves. Mainly, werewolves are long extinct, and vamps helped put things that way. But that's so long in the past there's not much of a left-over grudge -- at least not on Jack's end. (Especially because the only werewolf from his universe he's ever met is the monster that bit him, and they did not exactly have a lengthy conversation.) Vampires smell strange to him, but not in a way that's repulsive at a normal conversational distance: Just "cold," scented by whatever they've fed on most recently, and generally different from living people.
☾ If you want him to, he might notice something similarly "off" about gods, aliens, witches, shapeshifters, fairies, mutants, etc. If you don't, he won't. Canon's unclear, and I am easy that way.

( Strengths )

( Weaknesses )

( Human Appearance )

Thanks for letting me spam with the 17 posts it took me to get to this one, guys. Also I have to give credit where it's due: The former brandyforapples came up with making Jack a werewolf years ago. I just knew a good idea when I saw one.

Jack's in 1902 healing up for a couple more days, but he's going to turn up on the island on Wednesday.

Any questions or comments? OCD is below.