Need help with a Villain
For context this is what i have so far.
Dr. Devan Braye renowned biologist specializing in Canidae (wolves, foxes, etc.)
was discovered by her peers to have an obsession about cryptozoology, after this was made public she became the laughing stock in her field.
Funding for her studies was withdrawn, academic papers were pulled from scientific journals and no university would offer her a teaching position due to her belief in unsubstantiated theories and myths.
forced into a Teaching assistant position at Dublin she felt she had hit rock bottom.
However on one of her exploratory hikes she was came across remains of a wolf like creature, but the proportions of the skeleton were not innline with any previously known species that would have once inhabited Ireland, further studies confirmed her suspicions that what she was looking at was the remains of a werewolf.
despite her success the remains would draw further scrutiny from her former peers, she needed a live specimen to study for her research and proof, extracting the viable DNA all she required now was an test subject.
a biology major in the program by the name of Michael Fallon would be the target. One evening after a late lecture she orchestrated a dog attack that left him severely injured and unconscious, injecting him with the compund containing the Werewolf DNA, the needle mark obscured by the trauma of the dog bites.
she then proceeded to monitor his changes amd behaviours over the next couple months before witnessing his first transformation.
after this latest development she sedated him with tranquilizer darts and collected his DNA whilst holding him prisoner in her small basement lab.
The issue I'm having is i want Devan's character to admister the perfected compound herself. Becoming a werewolf herself but i'm struggling to find a rationale.
The reason why im looking to go this direction being that the idea of a fight between two of these wolflike beings feels compelling, as one is just trying to survive (Michael) while the other is trying to assert dominance having become the superior werewolf (Devan).