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Clayton "Clay" Danvers is a bitten werewolf. He the beta wolf and enforcer of the North American Werewolf Pack. He is the adoptive son of Jeremy Danvers, the husband of Elena Michaels, and the father of Kate and Logan Danvers.

About[]

Appearance[]

Clay is incredibly attractive, to his own misfortune. He has close-cropped golden curls, blue eyes, and a rugged face. He is six feet tall with a well-muscled build. And for all of that, he would rather be unremarkable because his looks garner him so much unwanted attention.

Personality[]

Because Clay was bitten so young, his personality is largely shaped by werewolf instincts. He is extremely antisocial. He only likes socializing with members of the Pack, and even then he can be standoffish and surly toward them.

He is devoted to those he considers family: Jeremy as his Alpha, and Elena as his mate.

Clay is known to have an aversion to; public places, crowds, public transport, humans in general, humans and any non-Pack member on his territory, needless conversation, small talk, dancing around a subject rather than approaching it honestly

Clay doesn't have a firm grasp on modesty or privacy and will walk in on people when they're in the bathroom as he views it as a natural behavior that doesn't need to be hidden.

Clay's behavior is influenced not only by the way that he became a full Werewolf as a very young child, but also because he grew up in an abusive and neglectful household where he was beaten and left to fend for himself.

Clay drives a black mustang convertible and treats the speed limit as a suggestion. Jeremy learned early on that fast, fancy cars are about the only indulgence Clay will allow Jeremy to spend money on for him.

Profession[]

Clay attended Syracuse University as an undergrad and then did his graduate work at Columbia.

Clay is brilliant with an IQ of 160 and a Ph.D. in anthropology. He studies anthropomorphic religions and animal shape-shifter deities. He occasionally gives lectures at the University of Toronto but doesn't like committing to a whole semester of teaching, since it keeps him away from home.

As a Werewolf[]

Clay acts as the bodyguard and Pack enforcer for the Alpha, a position he has held since Jeremy was Alpha and which continued on when Elena became Alpha. Clay grew up in a physically abusive and neglectful household, his high intelligence was obvious from a young age and his home life influenced his distrust of others and independence from them even before he was bitten. Clay is one of only two characters known to have sought out the bite of a Werewolf and is also the youngest to have been successfully turned, somewhere around the age of five or six.

Clay is the fastest to Change in the Pack and does so with no complaint about the pain, stating 'if you grow up with pain, it becomes a fact of your existence' referencing not only the fact that he underwent his first Changes when he was around 5 years old but also the fact that he was beaten as a human child before that.

When he was young his Changes were emotion based and could occur two or three times a day.

As a child Clay was incapable of going against Jeremy's orders even when angry with him and viewed him as his 'god', whatever Jeremy did was good and right.

Clay is aware that he should feel something when someone dies but if that person isn't Pack or otherwise close to him then their death means very little, to nothing, to him. When it comes to life and death Clay's mind operates on an animal level, that you kill to survive, in defense of yourself and for food, anything else is inexcusable.

Clay was trained by Antonio Sorrentino, Jeremy Danvers and Malcolm Danvers and grew to be the best fighter in the Pack.

There is a running trope throughout the otherworld series of characters believing Clay to be a psychopath for his actions in cementing his reputation (by mutilating a living Werewolf and distributing pictures of what he did) as well as Werewolves believing Clay to be the one to have become Alpha rather than Elena, with those who believe this rationalising that with Clay's reputation the Pack couldn't justify having him be Alpha so they're pretending Elena is instead.

In the Series[]

Savage[]

Clay encounters Malcolm Danvers while camping with his family. Malcolm bites and abandons him, expecting him to die, but he survives in the bayou until Jeremy takes him in. Jeremy tries to get Clay adjusted to civilized life, but Clay has very much embraced his wild nature. Jeremy keeps at it until Alpha Dominic Sorrentino agrees Clay is allowed to join the Pack.

The werewolf who bit Clay is never mentioned again and little is known about him, except that he was an older mutt who lived near Baton Rogue in a cabin in the woods during the summer of 1967.

The birth date that Jeremy chose for Clay is the day he first found him.

Clay wouldn't sleep in his own room when he first came to Stonehaven and instead stayed in Jeremy's room.

Ascension[]

Clay grows into a teenager and young man, and Malcolm takes an interest in him as a surrogate son. Clay has no interest in Malcolm personally, but recognizes the need to learn fighting skills from him. When Clay is seventeen, he decides to make a reputation for himself as a brute and psychopath in order to prevent mutts from attacking Stonehaven.

Beginnings[]

Clay is a professor at the University of Toronto and falls in love with Elena Michaels. He keeps her secret from the Pack for months. When he eventually proposes and brings her home to Stonehaven, he realizes Jeremy is going to separate them and bites Elena.

Becoming[]

Clay is banished while Jeremy helps Elena through the first year as a werewolf, but Clay disobeys orders a couple times to sneak in and see her.

Bitten[]

Clay has continued to wear his wedding ring even after Elena broke things off with him. Now, when she returns to deal with the mutt uprising, he pushes her boundaries and tries to win her back. Eventually, he succeeds.

Stolen[]

Clay is beside himself when Elena is captured. Cassandra DuCharme flirts with him, earning extra animosity for decades to come.

Industrial Magic[]

Clay and Elena watch over Savannah Levine while her guardians Paige Winterbourne and Lucas Cortez figure out who is murdering cabal children.

Broken[]

Clay is extra protective of Elena while she is pregnant, especially once she is being targeted by zombies and an apparent Jack the Ripper. His right arm is scratched by a zombie, becomes infected, and must have muscle and tissue surgically removed. The aftereffects of this injury follow him the rest of his life, although he will eventually learn to compensate for the weakened muscle.

Personal Demon[]

Hope Adams consults with Clay and Elena over the phone, given their past experience with immortality questers.

Stalked[]

Clay and Elena try to enjoy their honeymoon, but end up terribly bored until they are stalked by a mutt.

Living With the Dead[]

Clay and Elena help protect Hope and Robyn Peltier while they are being hunted by Adele Morrissey, Rhys Smith, and the Nast Cabal.

Frostbitten[]

Clay and Elena travel to Alaska to address rumors of mankiller mutts.

Hidden[]

Clay, Elena, and the twins spend vacation in an isolated chalet that is visited by a mutt. Clay wants to tell the kids about werewolves, and Elena eventually agrees for their own safety.

Forbidden[]

Clay and Elena are called out to a small town where Morgan Walsh has been accused of murder.

Spell Bound[]

TBA

Thirteen[]

TBA

From Russia, with Love[]

Clay supports the Alpha transition from Jeremy to Elena.

Brazen[]

When Nick confirms Malcolm's location, he calls in Clay for help. However, this also means Nick hesitates at the opportunity to kill Malcolm because he believes Clay deserves the honor.

Bounty Hunt[]

Noah Albright calls for backup when Madison James shows up at his school. Clay is among the Pack members that come to the rescue, and he helps fight off the Australian wolves.

Forsaken[]

Clay takes the twins to their family's vacation chalet while Elena and Nick go to Bulgaria to negotiate with Malcolm. When Kate goes missing, he is integral to the search. The twins are with Elena during their first Change and Clay misses it while he is patrolling for their enemies.

The Puppy Plan[]

Clay catches Davis Cain lurking around Stonehaven, dared by his friends to approach the house. Clay scares the kid off without actually harming him, and tells Logan off for disobeying the Alpha's orders. When he learns about the puppy Logan intends to give to Kate for Christmas, he loops in Elena, knowing that Kate thinks she found the puppy and is giving it to Logan.

Driven[]

Clay backs Elena up while they deal with Malcolm and werewolf hunters.

Relationships[]

Jeremy Danvers[]

Clay has seen Jeremy as his father and Alpha ever since Jeremy rescued him from the bayou. Clay also recognizes that Jeremy leads with his head rather than his fists, and Clay acts as his enforcer to prevent Jeremy from needing to fight. When it becomes apparent that mutts will keep coming to challenge Jeremy, Clay makes an example of one of them and widely circulates photos in order to scare mutts into staying away.

According to the forged identification purchased in 1969 by Jeremy Danvers, Clay is his orphaned cousin.[2] It is not known whether Clay was later officially or legally adopted by Jeremy.

Clay has never treated Jeremy's abilities as being unnatural, something to fear or doubt or making him any less of a Werewolf, unlike others have. Even before they learned the source of Jeremy's extra powers he trusted in and believed in them.

Elena Michaels[]

Clay considered Elena is mate almost from the moment he met her. He was never interested in girls before, but after speaking to her for the first time he immediately knew she was the one. He made up a TA position just for the excuse to keep seeing her, and he slowly prodded their teacher/student, boss/staff relationship into one of romance. He is content around her in a way he isn't with anyone else.

They have a rocky first decade, with Elena frequently taking off without warning and then changing her mind and coming back to him. Even after they get together for good, for several years Clay still panics when he wakes alone.

They are passionate in every way: they are constantly turned on and having sex in inopportune places, and they also argue regularly and readily. However, they always make up. Clay can also be obnoxiously possessive, but Elena knows how to manage him and calls him out if he goes to far with it.

As parents, they present a united front to their children. Even if they privately disagree, such as when to tell the twins about werewolves, Clay always backs up Elena's decision.

Once Elena is Alpha, Clay continues the beta/enforcer position. Most outsiders from the Pack believe that Clay is the true Alpha and Elena is only a figurehead. Clay has absolutely no interest in being Alpha, and is happy to hand over his trust to Elena's decisions.

Malcolm Danvers[]

Elena Michaels suggests that Malcolm's interest in Clay as a boy and teen were predatory and sexual in nature.[citation needed] Clay himself never mentions or confirms this in anyway and may in fact have been unaware of Malcolm's possible illicit interest in him.

Nick Sorrentino[]

Nick Sorrentino has been Clay's best friend and right hand man since they were both children, in a similar way to how their parents Jeremy and Antonio have also been best friends their whole lives. As a child Clay would practice his stalking and hunting methods on Nick in the woods at Stonehaven, he also would leave Nick in the woods alone to find his own way back, hoping it would help to improve his sense of direction.[2]

Lucas Cortez[]

Clay has a mentoring relationship to Lucas, despite their different species and ages. Elena mentions that seeing Clay with Lucas is one of the ways she knew he would be a good father.[citation needed]

Trivia[]

TBA

References[]

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