Geoffrey Rowlands

Geoffrey Rowlands
Geoffrey's appearance before he was bitten, seen in a vision by Ginger
Biographical information
Status	Deceased
Date of death	1815
Cause of death	Gunshot wound
Nationality	Canada
Relatives	Wallace Rowlands (father) Elsbeth Rowlands (mother) (deceased)
Physical description
Species	Werewolf Human (former)
Appearances
Appears in	Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning
Portrayed by	Stevie Mitchell

Geoffrey Rowlands was Wallace Rowlands' son, who was bitten by a werewolf that killed his mother and was then transforming himself into one. He was the figure mentioned in the Elder's prophecy told to Ginger.

History

Geoffrey was born as the son of Wallace Rowlands, the chief factor of Fort Bailey and Elsbeth Rowlands, a women of Native American descent. He had his own room in the fort's main house where he had a toy fort populated by pewter figurines.

A few weeks before the events of the movie, Geoffrey was bitten by a werewolf in an attack that also led to his mother's death. To protect him from being killed by his own men, Wallace hides him in a secret room.

After Brigitte and Ginger Fitzgerald arrived at the fort, they were allowed to stay in Geoffrey's former room. When wandering the main house one night, Ginger discovers the half-transformed boy in his secret hiding place and is then bitten by him, infected with the lycanthropy curse. He subsequently breaks loose and roams the fort. He later revisits Ginger again, pulling a strand of her hair from her face. After Geoffrey happened to kill Seamus, Ginger's strand of hair is left at scene, causing the other men at the fort to suspect Ginger to be the one who killed the man. A mob apprehended her and urged Doc Murphy to test her for lycanthropy with leeches. Brigitte then threatened Rowlands with revealing Geoffrey's true fate to the other men if Rowlands didn't order them to release Ginger. He then told Doc Murphy to let Ginger go. When he didn't follow suit, Rowlands shot him and his jar of leeches, killing him.

Believing to be able to rid herself from the curse by killing the boy after misinterpreting the Elder's prophecy and Claude's childhood stories, Ginger seeks out Geoffrey but can't bring herself to kill the him.

After Geoffrey was later seen on the fort's cemetery visiting the grave of his mother, the men rounded him up and eventually found out about Rowlands' deception. When they confronted him about it, he attempted to reach out to his son, appealing to his remaining humanity, but the boy lashed out at him and ran away towards the well. Rowlands then shot his own son before the others could, killing him and causing him to fall into the well. His body was later pulled back up with a rope.

Significance

When Geoffrey was in his advanced stages of transformation, he still retained some of his memories and personality, proven when Ginger sees him crying and mourning at his mother's grave. However, he seems to have lost memory of his father when he tries to talk to him. Changes include his developing of aggression caused by lycanthropy.

Appearance

Geoffrey had a grotesque look, where one half of his face was human and the other half severely deformed, when Ginger first meets him. Later, he as his transformation into a werewolf progressed, his limbs extended and grew hair, and is face elongated to that of a werewolf's snout.