Caleb Lockwood is a major recurring character on Vampire Diaries. Caleb is the son of the late Joseph and the late Hannah Gray-Lockwood, Caleb is a werewolf resident in Mystic Falls, Virginia. Caleb is the nephew of Mason and Richard Lockwood, nephew-in-law of Carol Lockwood, paternal first cousin of Tyler Lockwood and the paternal cousin of Gracie Lockwood and Jeffery Lockwood-Hamilton.
Caleb is a member of the Lockwood Family and the Apisi Werewolf Bloodline as well as a former member of Tyler's Hybrid Pack.
Early History[]
Born in Mystic Falls, Caleb is the only son of Joseph and Hannah Lockwood. When he was twelve, he would always stay over his uncle's house a lot and he would spend time with his cousin, Tyler. Later, both of his parents passed away in 2006, and Mason allowed his nephew to stay with him for a long time. It's currently unknown when did Caleb triggered his werewolf curse, and Caleb did always had Tyler and Mason help with managing his lycanthope powers. Caleb is currently traveling with his cousins, Tyler, Gracie and Jeffery Lockwood. Through childhood and adolescence, Caleb's best friends were his cousin, Tyler Lockwood and Tracy Walker, who is his girlfriend now. Caleb used to play on the high school football team along with Tyler, Matt Donovan and Stefan Salvatore.
Appearance[]
Caleb is known to be at least 6 feet tall and muscular, with brown eyes and black hair. He has russet skin like his cousins, and he always wear a gray t-shirt and a pair of black shorts, a black leather jacket.
As a wolf, his fur is black and gray, and he has the typical glowing yellow eyes that comes with lycanthropy.
Personality[]
Caleb has a noble personality, kind, gentle, compassionate and mature. He can be playful, especially around his family, usually fooling or goofing off while around them. Caleb is shown to be very loyal to his family, friends and his fellow werewolves. Caleb always had a close relationship with his parents, cousins and his uncles. Caleb does enjoys reading about the lockwood family history a lot and he is trying to figure out how to help his relatives and himself with controlling their transformation.
Caleb was a very kind kid that would always spend time with his cousins, Tyler, Gracie and Jeffery Lockwood. Caleb always had a closer relationship to Tyler and Gracie than any of his relative besides his parents. Caleb does enjoyed being a werewolf, since he has a moonlight ring along with his cousins to help them control their transformations.
Powers and abilities[]
- Super Strength: Werewolves possess supernatural strength that makes them far stronger than immortals, Supernatural Hunters, and humans, such as when Tyler pulled the door off his locker or when Diego ripped apart a bully. There have been several occasions to suggest that untriggered werewolves possess more strength than any average humans, which would indicate some form of enhanced strength even before the activation of their curse. However, werewolves in their human form are not as strong as a vampire and have even been shown to be far weaker on several occasions. They've also shown to be strong enough to at least defend themselves, such as when Mason punched Damon across the room or when Hayley pinned Diego up against a wall. When they are in their wolf form, their powers amplify to a degree that excels of the non-Original vampires, making them more powerful than non-Original vampires. In wolf form, a werewolf can overpower and kill any non-original vampire with ease, and are strong enough to overpower an Original vampire in small groups. Such examples in wolf form include: when Mason tackled and overpowered at the time newly-turned vampire Caroline; when Tyler overpowered Damon, a vampire over 170 years old; when Jules tackled and bit Rose, a 560-year-old vampire; or when four werewolves took down Rebekah, an Original vampire.
- Super Speed: Werewolves are much faster than humans and some other supernatural beings. They possess this ability both in and out of transformation, with an animalistic quickness. For example, while in human form, Rafael Waithe scaled up and down the side of a building in under twenty-seconds. Another example, Mason, while transformed was able to easily hunt down Caroline and Stefan in the woods, despite their vampire-enhanced speed. Some werewolves are shown to become nearly a blur like their vampire enemies; others have not.
- Super Agility: Werewolves possess superhuman agility. In both human and wolf form, they have demonstrated that they can move, jump very high, climb, flip, and run incredibly fast without difficulty or exhaustion. They can also jump down from incredible heights with almost gravity-defying grace.
- Super Durability: Werewolves can take far more trauma than humans without nearly as much discomfort or injury, however, not as much as vampires. They can also exert themselves for longer periods without tiring.
- Healing Factor: Werewolves possess superhuman regenerative abilities, meaning that if they are physically injured, their bodies will heal rapidly. Like vampires, werewolves can heal from the most grievous of injuries, even in human form, albeit more slowly in comparison to vampires. However, unlike vampires, when a werewolf's neck is broken, they stay dead.
- Super Senses: Werewolves have extremely keen and heightened senses of smell, sight, taste, hearing, and touch that exceed their wolf counterparts and that of regular canines. With this, experienced werewolves such as Jules could sniff out vampires - something vampires themselves are incapable of - and Tyler could taste vervain placed in his coffee, which would otherwise be impossible since coffee's intense flavor typically masks the taste of the herb. Untriggered werewolves are also gifted with more sensitive hearing such as when Tyler Lockwood was able to hear the Gilbert Device. When Jules first met Caroline in Daddy Issues, she knew Caroline was lying about Tyler's whereabouts, revealing it was another "wolf trick". This ability wasn’t expanded upon until This is What It Takes, when Hope reveals that Pinky was lying when his heart began to race.
- Werewolf Bite: A werewolf's venom is extremely lethal to non-original vampires. While an Original vampire cannot die from the venom, they are not wholly immune to the effects of the bite. For non-Original vampires, the venom acts as an poison of sorts that will enter the bloodstream and deliver the toxin throughout the body, producing discomfort and weakness, developing uncontrollable hunger that progresses to delusions, hallucinations, rabid rage, and dementia, culminating in death. Original vampires undergo the same effects, but do not die and will eventually fully recover.
- Lycanthrope Enhancement: Werewolves are able to make their eyes glow when angry or threatened, but only for a short amount of time. When a werewolf is furious or forced to defend themselves, their anger increases all their power and abilities for a short period of time, which allows them to access some of the power of their wolf form to give them an edge.
- Shapeshifting/Transformation Control: During a full moon, they will unwillingly transform from their human form and into their wolf form. However, if a female werewolf is pregnant, they will not turn for nine months as the transformation would kill the baby. Caleb has a moonlight ring, which allows him to control his powers and shapeshift at will.
Weaknesses[]
Caleb has typical weaknesses of a werewolf with a moonlight ring.
Name[]
- Caleb is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning is "faith, devotion, whole hearted.
- Lockwood is a surname of Old English origin. The meaning of the name is "enclosed wood.
Trivia[]
- Caleb Lockwood is based off Caleb Smallwood from the novels.
- Caleb is one of the many Lockwoods that have been to control their anger.
- Caleb is 1 year older than his cousin, Tyler Lockwood.
- Caleb is one of the last Lockwood members to be alive along with Tyler, Gracie and Jeffery Lockwood.
- Unlike his novel version, Caleb is a werewolf and not a werewolf/witch hybrid.
- Caleb is the nephew of Mason and Richard Lockwood, which makes Caleb and Tyler first cousins.
- Caleb is a direct descendant of Barnette Lockwood.
- Caleb has appeared on vampire diaries, the originals and legacies.
- Caleb's family, the Lockwoods are possibly related to Ansel, Klaus's Father. Since werewolves existed in 10th century.
- Caleb is one of Tyler's closest cousin.
- Caleb used to go to Mystic Falls High school.
- Caleb doesn't like vampires, Caleb attacked Stefan and Damon in wolf form, but he was stop by Tyler.
- Caleb was very close to his parents.
- Since Caleb is the direct nephew of Mason and Richard Lockwood, which means Joseph Lockwood is the younger brother of Mason and Richard Lockwood.
- Caleb's father, Joseph was very close to his brothers just how Caleb is close to Tyler, Gracie and Jeffrey Lockwood.
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