Hookwolf

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Brad Meadows was a member of the Empire Eighty-Eight.

Personality

Hookwolf had "a tendency for violence and a thirst for blood", and sometimes thought that he would have done better in an era where martial glory was more valued<ref name="11.e"/>. Related to this he followed something of a personal "warriors code" that supposedly guided his actions.

He refused to turn his back on the Chosen, calling them "his people". Shatterbird, who had studied him, left instructions to target his followers as part of his "tests" for the Nine if she were killed or if he refused to join, blackmailing him<ref name="11.e"/>.

Appearance

Brad is a big man, hairy, with long, greasy blond hair, an "E88" tattoo on one bicep, and a wolf superimposed on a swastika on the other. Usually wears a metal wolf mask in human form, as a reference to his favorite metal form.

Abilities and Powers

Hookwolf can transform into a shifting mass of hooks, blades and other weapons. He prefers to assume of the form of a large wolf-like creature, but is not limited to that shape<ref name="11.e"/>, being able to become things like a Wolf headed serpent or even an amorphous glob of blades.^{[citation needed]} Even when he appeared human, Hookwolf had metal encasing each of his muscles<ref name="11.e"/>.

Hookwolf perceives his power as him pushing metal out from a 'core', into which he can draw his fleshy human body for protection<ref name="11.e"/>. Hookwolf's eyes still remain human, but are protected by a shifting screen of blades<ref name="11.e"/>. It took him energy to create metal, although he was able to "recycle" it by drawing it back into his core<ref name="11.e"/>.

His alternate form can take an amazing amount of damage, being torn in half by Leviathan. However when this happened the 'core' remained undamaged. This allowed Hookwolf to shift his remaining half back into his unscathed human state. He was unable to change back for a while afterwards being so depleted^{[citation needed]}.

History

Background

Hookwolf was a trained fighter "before he was a fighter with powers"<ref name="11.e">Interlude 11e</ref>. He fought in illegal parahuman fighting rings alongside Stormtiger and Cricket before joining the Empire Eighty-Eight before getting into trouble by murdering someone^{[citation needed]}. Hookwolf had murdered someone who was considered an acceptable target by the Empire Eighty-Eight and would fight alongside them for protection<ref name="7.7">Buzz 7.7</ref>.

Story Start

Hookwolf had risen to being the right hand man of EE8. He also gained income from several illegal dog fighting rings.

Staged ambush on the police barricade during the rampage caused by the E88's [[Collapse of the Empire Eighty-Eight |identities being revealed]]<ref name="7.7">Buzz 7.7</ref>.

Post-Leviathan

With the Empire Eighty-Eight leadership dead, Hookwolf formed his own faction - Fenrir's Chosen, and started claiming territory and recruiting people in the post Leviathan Brockton Bay.

Slaughter House 9

He turned down recruitment by the slaughterhouse 9 but after exposure to Bonesaw's agnosia miasma he was successfully recruited. Following this he was further twisted into a loyal member of the Nine and fought alongside the Slaughterhouse 9000.

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