CHARACTER TYPE: born human into shape-shifter family

Born human into a family of shape-shifters. This can go many different ways.

MC was treated different up until the day they died. Picked on by others, including their own family members. Dad told them how worthless they were, mom was embarrassed they had no form, older brother teased him around his bigger friends, etc. Then one day, MC dies a horrible death. Does the family care? Feel remorse? Wish he was still alive? Come to find out, MC had to die first for gene to kick in. They shift back to life and.....

• let them know MC's alive, go back to family and live happily ever after now that they can shift?
• NOT let them know MC's alive and NOT go back to family, start life all over somewhere else.
• NOT let them know MC's alive and terrorize anyone who made MC's life hell..
• let them know and still terrorize them
• NOT let them know until someone finds out, then MC can go back or not

CHARACTERS: Pack of Eve's wolf-shifter

Male Alpha: 

• Pure blood, leader.
• Passed from son to son. Has been challenged 3x for leadership, won all. Had to kill his own father to gain his position. 
• Fierce & very protective. 
• Recently moved his pack to get away from new pack that was doing too much damage & not enough subtlety.

Female Alpha:

• Bitten long ago. 
• Alpha fell in love with her immediately & took her in. She's been with him ever since. 

Right-Hand Man: (my wolf-boy)

• Pure blood
• Got his scars by saving alpha from a fire; almost died.
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Mother Figure:

• Pure blood
• Acts more human than anything. Hates being a wolf & tries to keep it out of her life as much as possible, but is a sucker for a person in need. She'll save first, ask questions later. 
• Very kind & generous.
• Acts like a mother although she's very young in looks/personality.

Scrapper:

• Pure blood
• Very young teen boy. Hyper and annoying, always getting into trouble.

Female New comer:

• Bitten
• Was left for dead after being attacked by one of the other gangs. Saved by "mother" & brought into pack. Very creative, noble & inquisitive. Is still learning.
• Infatuated with Right-Hand (my wolf-boy), so becomes jealous of Eve.

BACKSTORY: The First Shapeshifter

Once there was a very powerful witch. upon finding her husband cheating on her with another woman, she turned the man into a snake and he slithered away. Now the witch, taking some pity on the broken-hearted woman, gave her a choice. Did she want to die right then or did she want the witch to make HER a witch with the promise that she would serve her for all of time. The woman chose to become a witch. One day, after searching long and hard, the mistress found the snake and with her new witch powers, turned him human again. However, she didn't get the spell quite right and the man kept shifting from snake to human, until finally he was able to control it. He became the original shape-shifter. They eventually ran away together and had many children. Those were the first pure-blood shape-shifters. The mistress and the husband were never found by the original witch although she searched for them.

* The born do not know what form they will shift into until it happens for the first time. Although, there IS a prophecy of a pure blood shifter born of the full moon with the mark of ______(?) It is said that he, and he alone can shift into ANY form at any time. His blood also happens to be a cure and he is completely immortal.

CHARACTER TYPE: Siren

Siren: shape-shifter

• They can take on the form of a loved one (wife, girlfriend, fiance, etc) to lure them
• They have limited power over water (ie: can soak someone with a poof! of the hand)
• Are drawn to water, so are often found in pools, showering, swimming, living by beaches, lakes, etc..
• Are VERY good singers
• Not completely immortal, but live to be around 200 years or so. They cannot be killed by man-made things only enchanted items (swords, knives, etc...)
• Some are known to sleep with a man just to impregnate themselves before killing him

CHARACTER TYPE: were-cat

Were-cat: shifts into black panther (lion or Bengal tiger, too?)

• hates water
• strong w/advanced eye sight, hearing & sense of smell
• speedy, almost unnoticeable reflexes

CHARACTER TYPE: werewolf

Werewolf: can transform into a wolf. Also have the ability to speak to wolves over either a short OR long distance.

CHARACTER TYPE: shape-shifter

Shape-shifter: has the ability to shift into anything

CHARACTER + PLOT: Kiyusa

Kiyusa - she has light brown hair and large blue eyes. She can transform into a doe. She, like a doe, is very timid and shy, although she's trying to get over that.
[credit:] weezr @ NaNoWriMo


Possible PLOT idea: She, amongst other shape-shifting creatures, are captured & help captive until they are of use. Their captors force them to change into their animal form and are set free in a specific area that the captors arrange for "hunters" to track and hunt them down.

[credit:] me - this was an original plot idea I came up with after reading Kiyusa's description.

PLOT BABY: Vet & shapeshifter

A vet either runs over a shape-shifted wolf or someone brings it to the vet after hitting it. Vet ends up taking care of it not knowing what it is.