ABOUT YOU
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Age: 19
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CHARACTER INFO
Character name: Ray Benjamin
Nicknames: None
Character age: 27
Birthdate: June 15, 1980
Gender: Male
Lycan Species: Werehyena (more specifically spotted hyena or laughing hyena)
Level: Alpha
Strengths: Can resist turning slightly, resist the call slightly, call forth spiritual animal, all powers of a non-alpha, can call animal, and partial change, and quick shift.
Weaknesses The obvious weaknesses of a lycanthrope. Weakness to silver, turning during a full moon, and hard to resist the call of a vampire. Is also more in tune with his animal side and thus is harder to resist it when he wishes (more so then an alpha). It is also hard for him to make allies do to his not caring attitude and love of a fight.
Weapons carried on person: Holds with him a M1911 .45 pistol tucked into his pants.

Tell me about yourself
Hair colour/style: black and in dreadlocks.
Eye colour: Black
Portrayal: Lenny Kravitz
Picture: Please insert a picture here

Physical description: Ray is a well tanned man who when standing straight can be measured at about 6 feet 2 and a half inches and about 186 pounds. Ray has always been able to be picked out of a crowd thanks to the cafecito color of his skin. Ray has also maintained the build of a soccer player thanks to his daily workout and lycanthrope metabolism. His stomach has the indentions of a six pack and both his arms and legs have visible muscle definition. The body itself holds no real scars from his past or current life, but he does have a beauty mark on his left arm. The mark is small and barely noticeable unless pointed out. Even when the mark is shown to a person they must get truly close to Ray to notice the fish shaped beauty mark slightly above his elbow. Ray also has a small formation of freckles along his waistline directly below his belly button. They hold no particular formation and are simply spread on the front of his body (exact number would have to say 13-18). The last noticeable thing on Ray’s face is that one of his eyebrows has a small spot where hair does not grow. On Ray’s left eyebrow there is a small slit that does not grow, barely large enough to notice. It is said that Ray cut his eyebrow long ago and when the hair grew back where the cut was it curved away thus creating the hairless area.

Ray has black eyes and keeps his hair generally in dreadlocks though occasionally he will take them out in order to have an afro. His hair is black, but due to staying a werehyena form for too long there is the occasional speckle of light brown. Right above his waistline is the tattoo of a crescent moon in honor of the fact that he had become a lycanthrope. On his shoulder he has the tattoo of a skull crying blood as symbol of the gang he once belonged too. He can also be seen generally wearing a piercing on his lip, eyebrow, and earlobes depending on the day. His clothing style is very laid back, very against the average. He generally wears leather jackets, old vintage t-shirts; beat up denim jeans, and black boots. His t-shirts are generally band related favoring bands of the 60s-70s era. The bands he wears can vary to anything like the Grateful Dead, Jimmy Hendrix, Led Zepplin, and others.



Lycanthrope Physical Description:
When Ray changes into his lycanthrope state he grows another foot and an inches (a total of 7’3”) as well as gains about one hundred pounds. The hair on his body grows out turning into a light brown, almost gold. Along that light brown fur is the occasional darker brown spec, almost golden as if those individual spots are dirt. Along his back he grows a long almost mohawk feature, where the golden specs are far more noticeable. Ray also gains the average changes in body stature, teeth size, and just about everything else that is common among all canine lycanthropes.





Likes: Booze, chicks, partying, hunting, doing whatever he feels like.
Dislikes: Restrictive authority, preachy people, clean cut individuals, pacifists, and rich snobs.
Fears: Dieing of something completely boring like old age (wishes to get killed in a fight) and getting locked up for the rest of his days.
Nervous habits: Has none, doesn’t usually get nervous about anything.

Personality description: Ray is pretty much your stereotypical rebel. Since childhood the guy has been doing just about anything that authority types wouldn’t condone. He doesn’t necessarily go out of his way all the time to break the rules, but he doesn’t like the ideas of rules trapping him. He has had to leave several towns he has lived in due to either trouble with the law or trouble with the supernatural communities. Ray also dislikes all female authority which is why he has not joined any sort of a pack in the werehyena community. He also doesn’t plan on joining any if that were the case. He also believes that underlings with a pack system who are content with their spot are weak. He believes that it is their nature to act like an animal and thus they should embrace it. He is the epitome of alpha and enjoys showing off his muscle no matter if the person is lycan, vampire, or human. He also enjoys showing off the fact that he isn't human. One of the more subtle ways he has done this was actually performed inadvertantly. He stayed so long changed that now when he laughs it isn't human. When he laughs it comes out as the croaking birdlike bark of the spotted hyena.

Take me home to meet mom and dad:
Parents: Jordan Benjamin and Sandra Benjamin
Siblings: none
Children: none

History: Ray was born to a not so average family within the inner city of Los Angeles. His childhood wasn’t horrible compared to most within what most people would dub as the hood. For the first initial years he had a loving father who worked hard to keep a job and a mom who worked at a local diner. However, times fell hard upon the family and soon enough they had to go on welfare. Not only that, but the stress got to the Dad and he turned to alcohol. It wasn’t soon after that the once good life of Ray turned sour. His father began to become abusive to not only Ray, but also his mother. Not only that, but his mother turned to drugs sometimes in order to escape from what was going on. Because of the addictions of both parents Ray ended up having to work early on in his life taking just about any job he could.

It was when Ray was in seventh grade when he was approached by a local gang that was becoming a dangerous force within his block. Ray quickly joined up with the band of criminals not only tempted by the fact that he would be able to solve the family’s money problems, but that it would also take him away from his family most of the day. The year of Ray’s fourteenth birthday was a big year for him. Not only did his father leave the family, forcing Ray to spend more hours with the gang, but he also killed someone for the first time in a drive by shooting. When Ray was sophomore in High School he dropped out, devoting all his time to the gang. He stayed then within the gang until he was about twenty-three, even rising quickly within the ranks to become a close advisor to the leader.

Ray didn’t become acquainted with anything supernatural until his final year within the gang. The gang had confronted the wrong posse and as it turned out a few of them were werehyenas. When the fight broke out between the two groups, Ray’s was quickly slaughtered. They were ill prepared and their weapons not made for fighting the lycanthropes. Soon enough Ray was the only one left alive amongst the original group of twenty-five and not only that, but he was badly hurt from a severe bite mark on his leg. Just when it seemed that the werehyenas were going to finish him off, a cavalry arrived. Apparently, the werehyenas in the gang owed allegiance to a female werehyena, a real lycanthrope pack. The werehyenas did not like the idea of actual gangs for it would bring unwanted heat upon them from local authorities thus when they caught wind of what they others had been up to they quickly came to try and put a stop to it. In the end, Ray survived the confrontation, becoming a werehyena themselves. The original pack, known as the Sharp Teeth, took Ray in feeling obligated for his changing.

Ray stayed within the group for a year, learning everything one needed to know about when it came to supernatural creatures and lycanthrope laws. When he was twenty-four he left having had too many discrepancies with the leader and not wishing to follow anyone’s rules. From that point on Ray traveled all over not wishing to stay in anyone place for too long. Even if he had it wouldn’t have worked out for he always ended up pissing off the wrong person and being forced to leave. Throughout his travels he learned even more about supernatural creatures having met vampires, lycanthropes, and other beasties of all flavors. Finally he has reached Miami, it having taken him three years. He isn’t sure if he is going to leave as suddenly as he used to, he hopes that being on the opposite coast might due him some good. He came because he heard the clubs are hot, the women hotter, and the supernatural community tough. He wishes he arrived sooner for he can’t wait to play.

Writing Sample: Ray swerved left and right, zig zagging in between cars without a trace of fear. The cars honked, cursed, and even some of them almost hit other cars to get out of the way. However, Ray didn’t care what why should he be scared? He was a lycanthrope and so secured by it was he that he thought he could crash his motorcycle right at that exact moment and easily survive. Ray had been on the road for quite along time making his way towards Miami and he had gotten bored. He wanted to have a little fun even if it was at the expense of a few drivers. As the city became quickly in view of his visors his body began to quiver. His hair stood on end as his mind filled with all the fun things he will do. Ray breathed in deeply, taking in the sweet new aromas of Miami. Ray could hardly contain himself, he was as excited as a child in a candy store.

For the first time in a long time, Ray felt truly good about entering a city. He had heard the place was tough and could not wait. Ray didn’t have a care in the world about the new city; he even had a place to stay. After leaving the Sharp Teeth the pack had offered Ray some money in order to pay for expenses, money he gladly took. Being that it was in his nature, Ray had pissed a majority of that money away on gambling, women, and booze. However, for some odd reason he had stored just a bit of it away for a rainy day and when he had decided to go to Miami he became quite glad that he did. Ray used that stored money to buy himself a rather crappy apartment, one that he felt befitting his personality. He didn’t have that much property so he didn’t bother hiring anything like a mover. He just grabbed what he had, threw it into a backpack, and made his way.

Ray barely kept himself from crashing as he quickly got himself off the road of oncoming traffic. He had forgotten where he was for a moment so engrossed in the idea of how other lycanthropes would take the sudden appearance of a werehyena like here. Generally if a supernatural alpha like he wanted to enter a town they would need to go through the protocols of alerting leaders of certain factions. These factions included generally the vampires, whatever lycanthrope group was called by the Master of the City, and the leader of the lycanthrope group you belonged to. However, Ray never did this whenever he entered any city. He enjoyed upsetting just about everyone and immediately getting on their bad side. It made his presence more known he felt and also made his time in the city all the more delectable. Ray thought about the looks on some of the supernatural baddies’ faces as he raced off towards the city, a wicked smile clear across face.

And the rest:
Anything else? Expect some mischief to be dealt so any head figures feel free to hit him up to try and lay down the rules.

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