Post by ♔ Archer on Oct 2, 2015 12:14:55 GMT
This may hurt
Shifters are living humans who can transform into an animal, both willingly and forced. If a shifter, shifts when it's not a fullmoon, their transformation will go smoothly and no extensive pain will be experienced. However, during the night of the fullmoon their body will transform into the animal automatically, leaving the host no choice not to. Because of the fullmoon, the shifters are in their human state much stronger and more feral which results in the forced tranformation becoming an abnormally hurtful experience with their bones snapping into place for their transformed skeleton instead of smoothly changing as it would do every other day.
When a shifter shifts into their animal, their clothes are ripped if not removed beforehand. All clothing except for their underwear and bras.
How to become a shifter:
One way of becoming a shifter is to simply be born as one. When both or one parent is a shifter, their offspring will carry the gene and their animal will be one which is already in the family (if parents are the same animal, they would become that one). However it is rare, there is a potential of someone not catching the gene; these people are just regular humans and are seen as a disgrace in a family of shifters.
You may also be turned. A leader in the shifters, for example an Alpha of a pack (actual in rp pack) may bite a human to turn them. It also works if the claws of the shifter go deep enough into the human which will end up killing the human because they would have to be that deep. After being bitten or having claws puncture them, the human's body will go through a transformation. The body can either accept it and after a day or so, turn the human into the shifter(animal) which best represents them as people or the body could reject it.
If the body rejects the transformation and tries to fight it off it will cause the human to bleed everywhere on their head; eyes, nose, mouth and ears and cause extreme pains through the body. Even through this time, there is still a small chance the body could accept it but if it does not it results in the human's death.
Strengths:
Speed - They are able to accelerate into an abnormal speed. Move between short distances within the blink of an eye. When running for longer distances, they appear blurred for a human's vision. During the night they are at their fastest due to the moon's presence.
Strength - Shifters are far stronger than humans but when in their human forms are often weaker than Vampires. In their animal forms however, they can sometimes be found to be stronger than them - especially on a full moon.
Agility - They have the ability to jump higher and longer distances along with climbing easily with no exhaustion.
Senses - A shifter's senses are all increased in comparison to a human's, such as smell, hearing and sight.
Their hearing capability is increased to such that they can clearly hear an ongoing, hushed conversation while standing quite a distance afar.
Their smelling capability is increased to such that they can smell the trace of a vampire from several meters of distance.
Lastly their vision is increased and allows them to see in complete darkness.
Durability & Healing - Shifters are able to endure a lot more physical damage in comparison to a human without being slowed down or badly injured but less so than a vampire.
Along with their increased durability, a shifter's wounds and injuries heal a lot quicker than a human's but again, less so than a vampire.
Weaknesses:
Snapped neck - The breaking of a shifter's neck will result in instant death for them.
Blood loss - If a shifter is injured and is bleeding too much to be healed in time before blood loss, they can die.
Heart extraction - If a shifter's heart is ripped out of it's chest that shifter will instantly die.
Anger, Fear and Stress - If these emotions are strongly felt, it may cause the shifter to shift unwillingly.
Fire - Catching on fire can be fatal for a shifter, just like any other specie.
Mortality - Just like humans and witches, shifters are not immortal. They age and can die of natural causes such as heart attacks or old age.
Beheading - Behead a shifter and they will instantly die.
Shifters available:
Werewolves - of any breed
Werefoxes - of any breed
Werebears - American black bear (Louisiana state mammal)
Weredog - Catahoula Leopard Dog (Louisiana state dog)
Weregator - American Alligator (Louisiana state reptile)
There is a swamp in the woods/forests
Weredog - any domestic breed
Werecats - any domestic breed