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Name: Seth Clearwater
Canon: Twilight Saga
Original or Alternate Universe: Original
Canon Point: Post-series.
Number: RNG, please.

Setting:

abandon hope all ye who enter here

History:

Seth's history is pretty sparse, because Stephanie Meyer doesn't care about her own characters if they're not the sparkle vampires she probably wants to bang. Seth is the second child of Harry and Sue Clearwater, and up through the start of the series he lived a perfectly normal life on the Quileute reservation in La Push, Washington.

That all changed when the fire nation attacked vampires came to live in the nearby town of Forks. For some reason in Twilight-verse, proximity to vampires triggers the latent werewolf gene, which caused Seth's older sister Leah to transform for the first time right in her own living room, giving their father Harry a fatal heart attack.

Seth himself turned as well that night, due to the panic over watching his sister become a giant CGI wolf. His shift was unusually early for their kind because of the excessive number of vampires in the area, but by then there were enough members in the Pack that someone was already there in his mind explaining to him what was going on before he could even think to ask. He took to being a werewolf pretty smoothly, much more smoothly than his sister, who blamed herself for her father's death and also had some relationship drama with the pack's Alpha, Sam Uley (guess which one S. Meyer thought was important enough for her to mention more than once: hint, it wasn't turning into a dangerous monster and causing the untimely demise of her own father. Priorities.)

Despite the Pack's best efforts to keep him out of the fighting they were engaging in due to his age, Seth's next major contribution to the plot comes when he viciously murders a 19 year old boy being manipulated by a minor villain! In typical S. Meyer fashion, this is framed as heroic. I should probably give at least a little context: the Quileute wolves were essentially waging war against an army of people-eating vampires (unlike the Cullens who only eat animals) from the nearby Seattle, and Seth was sent many miles away to watch over Bella just in case. Turns out it was necessary, since two vampires totally found their remote hiding place despite several excruciating chapters dedicated to how they were covering all their tracks super well. Long story short, Edward murdered the one vampire and Seth murdered the other and nobody ever brought up how messed up that is again! Killing sentient beings is perfectly fine as long as it's not one of the protagonists and the victim doesn't live in the Forks city limits, I guess.

Anyway, then Seth forms a friendship with Edward "Stalking is Romantic" Cullen though it's literally all offscreen because who needs character development when you can describe in loving detail the color, texture and scent of Edward's hair? Which brings us to the end of Eclipse. When Breaking Dawn opens, Seth is acting as the liaison between Bella and Jacob, who aren't talking because Bella sent Jacob a wedding invite and Jacob shit a brick before running off into the Canadian wilderness to be a wolf 4 ever. Seth was invited to the wedding, too! And he went, and despite the whole "vampires and werewolves are sworn enemies" thing, literally no vampire guests give two shits that he's there. I don't know. I really don't. Who needs plot when you can describe wedding decorations?

Anyway then Bella gets pregnant with Edward's mutant undead baby, and Sam Uley decides that the baby is going to totally murder everybody and therefore they have to kill it first. Seth, who is pals with the monster baby's dad decides that it would be a bit of a dick move to straight up kill his friend's kid, runs away with Jacob when he breaks away from the Pack. Leah follows them to get away from Sam Uley and her relationship drama, which Seth thinks is super lame because nobody wants their big sister following them around and keeping them out of trouble.

Then the baby is born after a few weeks because pregnancy plots that last nine whole months are boring amirite and Seth dedicates all of his time to guarding the Cullens from Sam's pack who still want to murder babies. Nobody explains why nobody cares that Seth isn't in school anymore. Anyway, then they come to a truce because Jacob imprints on a monster infant which is supposed to be sweet but is really super mega creepy, and the real antagonists show up! The Volturi, a ruling body of vampires, are mad about what they think is a vampire baby because that's expressly forbidden. The Cullens, instead of using a phone to call or email and explain themselves, travel around the world to gather vampire supporters to stand up to the Volturi (maybe they just wanted an excuse for a travel vacay), and then they all stand off in a field where nothing happens and everybody goes home. Happily ever after.

Then Seth wakes up in a spaceship!

Personality:

Seth is, at his core, just a ridiculously good kid. Edward describes him as having a sincerely kind mind, which is true: Seth is constantly upbeat, and tries to look on the bright side of everything, as well as give everyone a fair shake before passing judgment (unless S. Meyer doesn't care enough about them for the narrative to frame it as necessary.) He's just plain nice to people, even when it goes against all his built-in instincts and the better judgment of his friends and family.

To balance out that positive, he can definitely be annoying. He's prone to hero worship at the drop of the hat as long as somebody seems interesting or cool, and he never, ever shuts up; in New Moon, he is seen following Jacob around and hanging on his every word, interjecting himself into the conversation every single time it looks like Jacob has stopped paying attention to him. He tries to make friends with the most stubborn people, and is completely undeterred by being brushed off or told to shut up. He has a level of enthusiasm for everything that borders on ridiculous, and he gets on other characters' nerves constantly by trying to add his opinion in where it isn't being asked for. He's a bit of a brat, too. This shows mostly in his interactions with his sister, where his immaturity really shines through. He's idealistic to the point of making dangerous life choices, and resents being treated like a kid by everyone else in his Pack; most of them are only two years older than him, but they all tend to act more like adults while he's very much stuck in the mindset of a hyperactive high school freshman.

He deals with the unexpected well enough, in part due to his unshakable sense of optimism. He treats everything like an adventure, even while other characters have lost hope or have tried to make him face the bleakness of whatever situation they're in. He has poor impulse control and he's very unfocused; he needs constant reeling in by his Packmates and friends, especially when he gets in that mindset that something is an adventure when it's really a delicate or dangerous situation. He gets curious and asks a lot of questions, heedless of the moods of the people around him, and can definitely try anybody's patience.

Because he's got very little practical life experience, he's fairly easy to manipulate, and playing on his ideas about right and wrong is a quick and easy way to do it. He's bullheaded, and can be exceptionally stubborn when he thinks he can contribute to fixing a problem, even when people try to keep him out of it for his own safety.

In canon, after awakening as werewolves, all of the characters are supposed to experience markedly more uncontrollable tempers. Seth appears to be the exception in this, but it's mostly just because he's been sheltered and coddled by the rest of the pack, having been awarded something of a "little brother" status while he was still the youngest to turn. As a result, he gets teased often but no one ever picks fights with him, and he doesn't ever get the chance to get mad enough to display a temper. It's still there, though, beneath the surface.

On the Tranquility, he will eventually have to come to terms with the dangers of the ship without the buffer of his overprotective Pack and the guaranteed S.Meyer happy ending. It will mellow him out and make him more wary, because beneath the bouncy outer shell he has a deeply ingrained survival instinct and a level of viciousness that allowed him to rip a screaming and terrified teenage Vampire apart piece by piece with his claws and teeth. Encountering things that live outside his fairly shallow idea of "good" and "bad" will make him stop and question himself more, and he'll eventually begin to grow from it into someone who can temper all the power he currently wields as a massive werewolf killing machine with slightly more sound judgment.

Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:

ABILITIES:

Shapeshifting: Seth turns into a massive wolf, whose head reaches around the shoulder of an average grown man when standing on all fours. In this form, his teeth and claws are strong enough to pierce stone. The transformation is instantaneous, and appears to be relatively painless.

Enhanced Strength/Speed/Durability: Even in human form, he possesses enough strength to casually haul around literal tree trunks. He can run fast enough to become a blur to the human eye. In-series, a human character attempts to punch a werewolf in the face, and ends up with a broken hand for her trouble.

Enhanced Senses: As well as having vastly superior senses of vision and smell, Seth is noted as having the best sense of hearing in the pack, able to discern details about multiple approaching targets (such as number and relative size) from several miles away just by listening.

Accelerated Healing: He's able to heal so fast that it occasionally works to his detriment; for instance, several of another werewolf character's bones are broken during a fight, and they all healed too quickly to be attended to and set properly (within a minute or so), meaning they had to be re-broken and allowed to re-heal in the correct position. One character speculates that a bullet through the temple wouldn't be enough to kill a werewolf, because of the rate of healing.

Limited Telepathy: Twilight wolf packs have a telepathic bond that allows them to hear each other's thoughts and see through one another's eyes while hunting.

POWER LIMITATIONS:

Because S. Meyer is just really, really awful at worldbuilding (and everything else lbr), she doesn't give her monsters any weaknesses. Like, at all. So in game he will have some brand new ones.

Shapeshifting: On the Tranquility Seth will experience a much slower rate of transformation (several minutes versus the canon several seconds), which will force him to really feel it. This will make it hurt a lot more, as well as be considerably more terrifying for him, and make him warier about switching between forms unless it's necessary. He doesn't have the kind of self-control necessary to stop or reverse his own transformation once it starts, and being interrupted forcibly during it would likely kill him. He will also be more susceptible to animal urges in wolf form, and using his human intellect to recognize traps or temper himself will be difficult.

Reduced Healing: A bullet to the brain would definitely be able to kill him in Tranquility, as well as any other immediately fatal wound such as a slit throat or pierced heart. Severe enough physical trauma, period, will also do the trick.

Wolfsbane: Seth will have a severe allergic reaction to wolfsbane. Ingesting it will cause anaphylaxis (dizziness, violent vomiting, difficulty breathing, swelling of the tongue and throat, and depending on whether or not he manages to expel all of the wolfsbane during vomiting, either loss of consciousness or death), merely coming into contact with wolfsbane in any form will make him break out in hives and exposure for more than a few seconds at a time will reduce his abilities to that of a baseline human, as well as disorient him. Even being in the same room as wolfsbane will prevent him from transforming into his wolf form.

Silver: While his skin won't burn when it comes into contact with silver or anything, wounds inflicted by silver weapons will heal at a normal human rate, instead of at his otherwise accelerated rate of healing. Any wound made by silver has the potential to be fatal, if left to get infected.

Inventory:

An old grey brick game boy with a copy of tetris in it, and the clothes on his back.

Appearance:

Seth is described as having a "huge, happy grin and a long, gangly build." He has black hair cut short, and he's less built than most of the older Twilight werewolves. In the movies he's played by Booboo Stewart.

Age:

15

S A M P L E S
Log Sample:

Seth's insides have finally finished protesting their treatment in the weird blue goop tubes when he takes to racing through the ship the next day (he thinks), trying to get to a place where he can see if everyone's telling the truth.

He wants to see if they're really in space.

The place is definitely huge, though. He can't even hear from one side to the other, it has to be the size of a city, and when he presses his ear to one of the metal walls it's like there's absolutely nothing outside. Which makes sense, he supposes. In space, no one can hear you scream.

(He's holding out hope that there aren't going to be any Aliens aliens running around, because gross dude. Even if it'd be pretty cool, at least for a little while.)

He's worried about home, of course. About his Pack and his super lame sister, and his vampire bros and everything, but it's hard not to find this place a little exciting. All the new sights and smells and wow, okay, it was a little weird waking up naked in a tube (not the naked part, because he's used to that, but the naked-in-front-of-girls-who-aren't-Leah part which is new and wildly uncomfortable.) Also he could have done without the tube part. And it was probably a little weird that he wandered around disoriented and sniffing people for awhile.

On second thought, maybe he can get a mulligan on the first day. Best to just avoid thinking about the whole mess.

Seth shakes his head to dispel those thoughts and trails a hand against the wall he's following, leaving a more solid scent trail in case he gets lost and needs to wolf out to follow it back. His worn tennis shoes scuff at the floors, and he hums the X-Files theme song, because he can't actually remember what the Aliens one sounds like. It's kinda lonely and empty, and he misses the smell of the ocean and the rez and all of his friends.

But all the sad thoughts flee his mind the second he finds a view port; the second he gets his first glance out into space. It's huge and speckled with brightness, more colorful than he ever imagined. It's vast and beautiful and it makes his stomach flip. "... Whoa."

Comms Sample:

Okay, so apparently somebody heard me that one time I said I'd like to be an astronaut when I grew up. How cool is this? I didn't even have to pay for... astronaut college. Which is good because I'm pretty sure my mom spends all our money on food and replacement sneakers. Anyway, hello fellow space travelers! Or should it be "take me to your leader?" Is that cliche? That's cliche.

[He's grinning into the camera like he's barely resisting the urge to laugh at his own joke.]

I'm Seth. I come in peace. And in hunger. Is there someplace to eat around here?