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bjornwilde) wrote2014-05-19 08:33 pm
bjornwilde) wrote2014-05-19 08:33 pm
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Well, dang
I had this whole head canon/theory about Ethan Chandler but then I looked up one linchpin to the idea and it fell apart. I may run with it anyway so more behind the cut to save you from spoilers.
Ethan is not a werewolf....yet. A lot has been made about the wound on his hand. Vanessa comments on it in Ep01, we see it when he wakes on the docks in Ep02 and then later in the same episode, Brona comments on it; even asking him about how it happened. He sidetracks the question.
A far bit has been made about his shady past as well. He admits to working as a hired gun and we know there are some legal matters that required the attention of a federal marshall, so they weren't minor.
The night he does the job for Vanessa, basically helping protect her and Sir Malcolm and kill vampires, he isn't terrible shaken up about it. It is weird and unnerving but he isn't questioning his sanity. Granted this could just be him being a stone cold gunslinger as well as trusting his eyes, but the next day Vanessa asks him if he believes in a demimonde or half-realm between what is known and what isn't, he answers in the affirmative with no hesitation.
And one other bit before the theory. When he came across the scene of the Ripper-type murder, he overhears two women talking. They reveal it was a mother and daughter and then say, "Damn him that did this. Damn him straight to hell." Ethan freaks and almost acts guilty or worried.
So my theory. Back in the US, perhaps a month ago, he was involved in killing a pack of werewolves. Perhaps it was as part of a posse (the hired gun), perhaps on his own. In the course of this, he gets bit by one, perhaps a child or juvenile since the hand wound is odd. Perhaps there was a mother and child among the wolves and that is why he reacted the way he does at the crime scene. Once dead, the wolves revert back to human and so now he knows it's going to look like murder rather than him killing monsters, so he runs.
Now the linchpin to all of this is when was the nearest full moon to Sept 22, 1891, the date listed when we first meet out cast. It was actually four days before on the 18th of September. The one before that was August 19th. Passage aboard a steamer could have gotten Ethan to England in about a week (assuming he's on or near the East Coast or the Gulf of Mexico), so he could have been bit, ran and not have turned before hitting English soil but he would have change the next full moon, going by most folklore. So there goes my theory.
Then again, maybe he did turn but blacked out and so has no idea he did. Or maybe he suspects and that is why he is being drawn to Malcolm and Vanessa, the potential for a cure?
Ethan is not a werewolf....yet. A lot has been made about the wound on his hand. Vanessa comments on it in Ep01, we see it when he wakes on the docks in Ep02 and then later in the same episode, Brona comments on it; even asking him about how it happened. He sidetracks the question.
A far bit has been made about his shady past as well. He admits to working as a hired gun and we know there are some legal matters that required the attention of a federal marshall, so they weren't minor.
The night he does the job for Vanessa, basically helping protect her and Sir Malcolm and kill vampires, he isn't terrible shaken up about it. It is weird and unnerving but he isn't questioning his sanity. Granted this could just be him being a stone cold gunslinger as well as trusting his eyes, but the next day Vanessa asks him if he believes in a demimonde or half-realm between what is known and what isn't, he answers in the affirmative with no hesitation.
And one other bit before the theory. When he came across the scene of the Ripper-type murder, he overhears two women talking. They reveal it was a mother and daughter and then say, "Damn him that did this. Damn him straight to hell." Ethan freaks and almost acts guilty or worried.
So my theory. Back in the US, perhaps a month ago, he was involved in killing a pack of werewolves. Perhaps it was as part of a posse (the hired gun), perhaps on his own. In the course of this, he gets bit by one, perhaps a child or juvenile since the hand wound is odd. Perhaps there was a mother and child among the wolves and that is why he reacted the way he does at the crime scene. Once dead, the wolves revert back to human and so now he knows it's going to look like murder rather than him killing monsters, so he runs.
Now the linchpin to all of this is when was the nearest full moon to Sept 22, 1891, the date listed when we first meet out cast. It was actually four days before on the 18th of September. The one before that was August 19th. Passage aboard a steamer could have gotten Ethan to England in about a week (assuming he's on or near the East Coast or the Gulf of Mexico), so he could have been bit, ran and not have turned before hitting English soil but he would have change the next full moon, going by most folklore. So there goes my theory.
Then again, maybe he did turn but blacked out and so has no idea he did. Or maybe he suspects and that is why he is being drawn to Malcolm and Vanessa, the potential for a cure?