Morcant

"Do not test me! Mine is an ancient and fearsome race."

- (Bleeding Heart, p22)

Morcant is a werewolf who lives in the woods near Lanyon's parents' summer home outside Lausanne. She's one of the main characters of Bleeding Heart, The Glass Scientist's prologue, as well as its love interest. She's not shown present day in The Glass Scientists, but is mentioned and alluded to on a handful of occasions as a defining figure in Jekyll's past.

Appearance[]

Fully transformed, Morcant appears as a large scarred bipedal wolf, somewhat reminiscent of Jasper's first appearance in Chapter 1 of TGS, though more humanoid (and stably so). She has digitigrade legs, but but her claws still retain human shape with five distinct articulate fingers.

In her more humanoid form, she has tan skin, long wild brown hair, messy eyebrows, and a jagged scar over the bridge of her nose, which retains a canine shape. She has long pointed and furry ears that react to her emotions, folding back or perking up visibly as she reacts. She has a lean build, tall and not incredibly curvaceous. It's likely that she typically doesn't wear any clothes, but upon meeting Jekyll, she borrows his white robe.

Personality[]

Morcant, being a wild werewolf, is assumedly rather old (over a hundred at least) and thus speaks in a bit of an old fashioned way, formal and a bit flowery even when being hostile. She holds a respect for alchemy and the pursuit of now-ancient knowledge, bonding well with Jekyll when he talks of his independent studies on the subject. She's mistrustful of humans as a whole, and declares the woods her home above all else.

In the notes of TGS, she's described as naturally having a bit of a gym rat/frat boy personality when she's in better health and typical company.^[1]

Trivia[]

• Morcant is likely one of the defining influences in Jekyll's life that eventually led him to opening the society.
• In a brief memory shown in TGS Chapter 7, it's implied that Jekyll returned to the woods after the events of Bleeding Heart to see her again, though he told Lanyon that he never did (much to Lanyon's rightful skepticism).
• She says her memory "grows weak after a change" or transformation, so she doesn't remember what exactly the creature that attacked her before the events of Bleeding Heart was.
  • She only knows that whatever he was, he was a "stranger to these mountains", neither living there or ever been seen there before. She killed him in the end, to her regret.
• She seems to like Darjeeling tea.
• In the notes of TGS, she's described as "totally ripped, bro"^[2], noted to travel with her pack of other equally gym ratty, queer, immortal frat lady werewolves in the woods.^[1]

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