Jack Russell

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Name Jack Russell

Codename Werewolf by Night

Age 30

Residence Mobile; formerly Los Angeles, California

Status Alive

Relatives (Baron) Gregory Russoff (father, deceased), (Baroness) Laura Russoff Russell (mother, deceased), Philip Russell (step-father; biological uncle), Lissa Russell Price (sister), Nina Price (niece), Tier Sinclair (foster-son)

Faceclaim Greyston Holt

Backstory

Jacob Russoff was the elder of two children sired by Gregor Russoff, a Transylvanian baron and scholar. Russoff's ancestor Grigory first brought lycanthropy (turning into a werewolf) upon the family when in 1795 he tried to avenge his wife, Louisa, by staking the vampire-king Vlad Dracula - he was bitten by a female werewolf in Dracula's service. Because his children were born before that event, Grigori's descendants did not immediately become werewolves themselves; however, the curse on the Russoff family only needed a catalyst to trigger it. In the mid 1950s Gregory Russoff, great-great-grandson of Grigori, acquired a copy of the Darkhold, which includes the secret origin of lycanthropy. By reading that passage, Gregory activated the curse and became a werewolf. He sent his wife, Laura, to her native America with their children for their own protection. Gregory was eventually killed by an angry mob.

Laura Russoff married again, to a man named Philip Russell. Jacob Russoff became Jack Russell, and with his sister Lissa was raised in Los Angeles. When he turned 18, the curse struck him in turn and he became a werewolf.

Since then, Jack had struggled with his beastly side for a number of years, eventually learning to control it. He's worked along side the likes of Ghost Rider, Dr. Strange, Elsa Bloodstone, Morbius, and Deadpool. Though mobile, Jack spends a good portion of his time in Monster Metropolis underneath Manhattan...a safe haven for the supernatural.