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Tyler Smallwood is a Werewolf resident in Fell's Church, Virginia. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Smallwood and cousin of Caleb Smallwood; his best friend is Dick Carter who plays on the high school football team with him.
Klaus helped him trigger his werewolf gene by assistingg him in killing Sue Carson and feeding him her blood. He later had sex with, or possibly raped, Caroline Forbes, his ex-girlfriend, which made her pregnant with a child. Though he was presumably unaware of this, he fled the town after Klaus's death and is current status is unknown.
History
Early Life
Born in 1974, Tyler grew up as a spoiled child, due to his father having a high status in Fell's Church, as they were descended from one of the town's founders, Jacob Smallwood. He often remarks that the Smallwoods were the real founders of the town instead of the Fells, and is also very prone to anger.
The Awakening
Elena saw Tyler as a world class jerk and disliked the fact that he was picking on Stefan. She didn't like him, but after finding out that Stefan was with Caroline Forbes, she started flirting with him out of jealousy. On the night of Homecoming in their senior year in 1991, Elena decides to leave and ask Tyler to take her home, but he convinced her to go see his grandfather's grave first with Dick Carter and Vickie Bennett. While there, Tyler tried to take advantage of her, but Elena fought back. As he was about to assault Elena, Stefan arrives just in time to rescueher and slams Tyler against Honoria and Thomas's tomb, knocked unconscious.
Later, during the Haunted House Fund- raiser, Tyler come wentat school and arrives at the fund- raiser. Bonnie later finds Mr. Tanner's lifeless and dead body. This gives Tyler the chance to blame the attacks all on Stefan and, when Stefan is no where to be found, it adds to the suspicions of everyone and a huge mob is created all intent on one thing- to find Stefan.
The Struggle
Determined to prove to the town that Stefan is the reason for the recent events, as Elena's diary reveals her suspicions about him, Caroline begins talking with Tyler due to his family's influence and gets closer to him. They plan for Caroline to read Elena's diary aloud during Founder's Day. When the time comes, however, Caroline finds that Elena's diary has been switched with her own. Later that day, Stefan goes into the Quosnet Hut to feed on humans for the first time in centuries in order to face off with Damon to the death. He drinks Tyler and two other boys to the point of unconciousness and is about to feed on Caroline when she screams, and he just decides to influence her to forget the event.
The Fury
Tyler's father knows that Stefan is behind the attack, probably because Tyler shared the information and was not in his usual self, and makes him undergo hypnosis by Alaric Saltzman to try to get him to remember it.
Dark Reunion
On June 6, 1992, Klaus, an Old One, comes to Fell's Church to vengeance the death of his protegee Katherine. Here, he reveals to Tyler that he was meant to be a werewolf and of all the power it can give him. He convinces Tyler to let him help turn him into a werewolf so they can cause chaos together, and Tyler breaks into Caroline's house (during the surprise birthday party organized by Caroline, Bonnie, Vickie and Sue Carson for Meredith) that night to let Klaus in, as the others are using a ouija board to try and contact Elena. Elena tells them that "he" is in the house and Klaus lures Sue upstairs, letting Tyler push her out of the window, killing her and completing the transition. Klaus then makes an incision on her chest and then lets Tyler drink her blood. Tyler, later, went ahead to discriminate Bonnie and Meredith that Sue wasn't murdered by Vickie, but Bonnie noticed Tyler knew something only the killer would know.
The Salvatore brothers returned to Fell's Church at Bonnie's summoning and together with Matt, Stefan (investigating Sue's body and the Smallwood family) realizes that Tyler Smallwood is a werewolf. To confront Tyler, Bonnie and Meredith stage a fake fight during graduation about respecting Elena, making it loud enough for everyone to hear. It ends with Meredith saying that she will visit Elena's grave that night. She does so, and Tyler shows up to rape her as expected, but the others stop him and force him to reveal that Klaus had come to town and had been helping him. When he told them that Klaus was after Vickie, they fled to save her and left Tyler who escaped. They failed in saving Vickie and Tyler went back to Klaus.
Later, Stefan receives Caroline's scarf in the mail and a note telling him to come face Klaus alone. He does, but Bonnie, Meredith and Matt sneak along, anyway. Meredith rescues Caroline, who is tied up and then goes to help Bonnie and Matt face off against Tyler, who has transformed into a brown half-wolf, half-human. Tyler claws Meredith's leg down to the bone, but Bonnie pushes a large branch onto the side of his head and he runs off. When the spirits of the graveyard rose on summer solstice, Elena healed to wounded and Klaus was taken away to some unknown location. Frightened, Tyler fled and make contact with a burning tree, he stopped the beat the flames off him and then kept running. His current location is unknown.
The Return Series
One of the plotlines of The Return is that Caroline has gotten pregnant with his child and is turning into a werewolf because of it. Considering that she was kidnapped and that Tyler wasn't exactly boyfriend material as a werewolf, she was most likely raped by him during this book, although it is never stated.
Personality
Tyler is cocky, self-assured, and a bully. He is student and star athlete at his high school, playing on the high school football team. He sees himself in the role of alpha male, and seems to have no qualms about forcing himself on women. He is known for his arrogance and aggressive attitude towards a number of other characters within the series, particularly any man from whom he may meet competition. Student of Robert E. Lee High School he play in the school football team with is best friend Dick Carter.
Physical Appearance
Physical appearance wise, Tyler is said to be handsome. He is the stereotypical jock type who is highly athletic and somewhat overpowering and intimidating in appearance. Tyler has good bone structure although he has been frequently described to be rather "fleshy" in appearance. He has dark brown eyes and black hair. Tyler is described to be very tall (Tyler is approx. 6'5 to 6'7") and rather husky in appearance. He is significantly taller than Stefan, who is of average height and he is also twice as broad; this is observed by Elena. Meredith, Bonnie and Elena all agree that he has big teeth, probably due to the fact that he is a werewolf.
Werewolf Appearance
Tyler in his werewolf form was entirely different then he looked to be in his human form. As a werewolf, Tyler took on the appearance of a classical werewolf. By the words by Meredith Sulez used, she described Tyler's wolf form perfectly when Tyler had attacked her in the Graveyard.
"His voice was thick with saliva, and his red tongue lolled armoung the rows of long canine teeth. His face wasn't a face anymore. It jutted out grotesquely into a muzzle, and his eyes were yellow, with slitlike pupils. His reddish sandy hair had grown over his cheeks and down the back of his neck. A pelt. His breathe was so hot, and it smelled feral, like an animal. The nails he was digging into her wrist were stumpy blackened claws. The Although he still stood of two feet, his body was humped and strangly distorted. Later on in the book once Bonnie, Stefan, Meredith, and Matt were fighting Klaus and Tyler, Tyler was desribed once again but by Bonnie this time. He looked even more like an animal than he did in the graveyard".
Powers & Abilities
- Sharpened Senses: They have heightened, animalistic senses which allows them to hear, see, and smell better than humans.
- Shapeshifting: Werewolves are able to shapeshift from their human forms, to a half human, half wolf beast form at will. It is implied that werewolves are able to transform into "real" wolves.
- Animalistic Speed: Werewolves are very fast and move with animal-like quickness and speed in human or wolf form.
- Abnormal Strength: Werewolves are insanely strong in terms of abnormal strength; they can easily tear human and animals to pecies.
- Alpha Voice: The voice of an Alpha Werewolf have the ability to force the transformation of other werewolf against their will.
Weaknesses
- Decapitation: The act of dismembering or removing the head of a werewolf will result in death.
- Fire: Fire can/will most likely kill a werewolf if the flames are not doused.
- Heart Extraction: The act of removing a werewolf's heart will result in a quick, instantly fast death.
- Silver: If a werewolf is wounded by silver it will cause the werewolf to become weak and wounded. However, if a silver knife or bullet penetrates a werewolf's heart, it will result in instant death.
Template:The Vampire Diaries
In the television series, Tyler's surname is changed to Lockwood. Tyler Lockwood is portrayed by Michael Trevino. In the TV series, he was a werewolf, eventually, Klaus transforms Tyler a hybrid. His parents are turned into the mayor and the mayor's wife and he also is shown to be less violent in the show.
Trivia
- Just like his ancestor, Jacob Smallwood, in his wolf form he attacks only young girls.