Amon Shaw was born to a mother who came to the US as a college student from Scotland, then had a brief marriage with a man of French and Greek ancestry. They had a son, and then they both realized they preferred other people. She joined a coven of lesbian witches, and he was last seen running with an all-male wolf pack in South America. Young Amon was raised, quite happy, between their two worlds.
Having done a lot of traveling, he's found he never quite fit anywhere. He's recently returned to the Port-Au-Feu area for the first time in years, looking for what his instincts tell him he needs but life has yet to provide: a pack.
Background
According to family lore, which is backed up by the research he's been able to do, Amon Shaw is descended on his father's side from Lycaon of Arcadia. Family legend tells the story a bit differently than classical myth, but they do name him as the first in their line to be a werewolf. His father was Ares Javier Ochoa, whose family line includes not only Lycaeon, but also prominent French and South American werewolf bloodlines, all mingled into one very worldly heritage. His mother, Sara Shaw, has a family line is no less mixed, though less well-traveled. Her people are from Scotland, but her ancestors are from all over. They all ended up part of the Shaw family, though. She went to the Untied States for college, and she met Ares. They had a whirlwind marriage, got married, and had a child. They realized it wasn't meant to be. They still made a remarkably healthy family out of it, even if they ended up living across the planet from each other, with their young son often traded quite lovingly between them.
They had decided to name him "Amon Ochoa Shaw," since Sara had more regular custody of him when he was small. As a result of this unusual upbringing, Amon was worldly, especially when it came to supernatural affairs. He did not become an expert in everything, but he learned a little about a lot, and more importantly, he learned how to find experts where he needed to. He's turned this into a business, serving the needs of the supernatural community, who aren't always as great at managing mundane matters. He's done quite well for himself, but at the same time, he's an alpha werewolf by nature. He years for a pack, and so he finds himself seeking one.
SKILLS
Amon's in excellent shape and top physical condition.
Charisma - Competent Level
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Amon's good at talking to people and being charming when he has to. It helps to know when to smile and shake hands or lend a listening ear.
Amon's even better at reading people than he is at being charming. His alpha instincts make him very sensitive to the emotions and moods, even needs, of those around him.
Amon has tended many a scrape and cut, and he knows all the important elements of how to perform first aid. He also has the knowledge of how to tend ailments specific to werewolves, from wolfsbane poisoning to how to deal with an undisciplined shifter on the full moon.
Intimidation - Expert Level
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Amon is a werewolf. He's good at being a werewolf. He's also good at using that, whether physically or psychologically, to be quite intimidating when he wants to be.
Knowledge - Competent Level
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Amon has a lot of general knowledge about the world from being so well-traveled and broadly educated. Whether it's science or werewolf lore, he knows a good bit about a lot of generally knowledge-based topics, though he's not an actual expert on any of these. He's better at knowing how to find an expert than being one, himself.
Amon is reasonably well-educated on the occult. He's not a master practitioner of the craft, but he knows the book-learning side of it rather well for someone whose spellcasting is, on the whole, quite weak.
Perception - Expert Level
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Amon has keen senses and is highly observant of the world around him. His werewolf heritage only makes that come more naturally to him.
Piloting - Competent Level
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Amon is decent at driving and piloting boats, and he's even flown a few times, unofficially, but he doesn't have his pilot's license.
Stealth - Competent Level
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Amon's good at moving carefully and quietly, and when he needs to, he knows how to stay out of sight.
Amon has a reasonable working knowledge of technology, enough to get by in the world.
Unarmed Combat - Expert Level
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Amon's a skilled fighter when it comes go going bare knuckles or claws out. He's not trained much in armed combat, but he's an expert at knowing how to fight using his body as a weapon.
ABILITIES
Power: Alpha Werewolf - Supreme Level
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As an alpha werewolf, Amon is able to obtain shapes that some other werewolves cannot. He is able to enter the hybrid shape of a bipedal "war form," as well as a four-legged direwolf shape. None of his alternate forms are as subtle as those some werewolves can manage, so it's very obvious when he does shift. This is due to a combination of his wolf blood, witch blood, and his status as an alpha. His physical werewolf abilities are appropriately increased in these forms.
He can also apply his alpha status to many of his natural werewolf abilities, enhancing them, but this comes with a cost. For instance, he can upgrade his pain transfer to healing others, but he must take the wounds on himself and then heal them with his own natural werewolf healing. He can exert higher-level dominance, but if he does not have the strength of a pack to draw on, this will cause him to suffer a kind of psychic shock as he tries to channel more raw power than he can handle, alone. As a pack creature, his power can only reach full potential when he has a pack.
Natural: Willpower - Supreme Level
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Amon was born with the potential for a strong will, and his life has helped him achieve a stability and mindfulness to support it. That, coupled with the bolstering of being a naturally born alpha wolf, has granted him an indomitable will, making his mind especially resistant to outside influence or control. He's also much harder than usual to deceive or attack using mind- or spirit-based powers and illusions.
Magic: Witchcraft - Basic Level
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Born with a talent for magic, a witch can accomplish quite a variety of effects through spellcraft. These range from conjuring, enchantment, transformation, warding, or illusion to the summoning or banishment of spirits or creatures, to a variety of other effects. For thematic, role-play, and plot purposes their abilities are nearly endless so long as they have the right spell available. For practical purposes, their castings all operate at the Enhanced level in most instances. With ritual preparation these may all be expanded, but any exceptional use would have to be approved by staff.
Amon's witch blood is, on the whole, very weak. He can cast spells, but mainly he's limited to minor, cantrip-level effects. The main use for his witchcraft is the ability to support other casters, participate in rituals, and otherwise serve as magical support. His talents remain, mainly, physical. As such, the most notable way his magical talents manifest is by giving him a bit of resistance to element-based damage, such as from heat, cold, and electricity.
ADVANTAGES
Amon's not exactly rich, but he makes a good income as a self-employed problem-solver for supernaturals, especially witches and werewolves. Not all supernaturals are good at managing in the world today, and Amon's been around enough to know how to figure out how to help them do it. Maybe they need a dark spirit exorcised, but Amon knows who to call. Maybe they need help finding the right lawyer to ensure pack lands are protected, Amon can find one. A witch might need to source a rare ingredient, and Amon knows someone in Carpathia who can find that strange mushroom that only grows in dark forests by moonlight. Thanks to his unique set of skills, he lives quite comfortably and is his own boss.
Thanks to the witchy heritage he gets from his mother, Amon is just especially magical. Normally he can't use this for much, but it does mean he's very useful to have around in magical rituals, as an aid to spellcasters, and otherwise in a magical support role. Magic-users who became part of his pack would find their powers fed and strengthened by him, and he would be especially able to share magical blessings or positive spells with his pack through the Alpha bond.
WEAKNESSES
As a born alpha, Amon has a need for a pack. Until he has one, he will feel the urge to form one. When he does form one, he will feel the urge to protect them and care for them driving him more than any other force or desire in his life. He does not see this as a weakness, but it's a driving force in his world that will always hold strong influence over him. In whatever form it takes, his pack will always come first.
The intermingling of werewolf and witch blood has left Amon with some oddities. One of these is that he feels a primal bond with nature, and so anything that causes sufficient harm to the ecological world can cause him physical discomfort. He can handle this to a point, but especially egregious impacts may have a heavy impact on him. The way it usually manifests is when issues are beyond the natural. Supernatural imbalances in the world heavily impact Amon, and he will be unable to ignore them, compelling him to act in preservation of the supernatural world. The forms these take are varied, but the most obvious example would be strong forms of supernatural corruption, such as spiritual abominations, requiring him to take action.
