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The Beast Within(I <3 Werewolves).

June 23rd, 2009 (03:06 am)

For some reason I found myself thinking of Werewolves when I finished my paperwork tonight, a phenomena that I really can't entirely fathom.  The paperwork took forever due to the new employees we have, not to mention a baffeling increase in reservation traffic at late hours these days, but eventually I finished it after battling with the damned thing for three hours or so.  And now it's very hot the hotel lobby, and I am thinking of Werewolves.


 

Werewolves! AND Capwolf! )

 

The real reason Werewolves should mean more to us as a society, at least in terms of the fictional creatures we use to talk about ourselves, is that actually really are social.  Or they should be.  They have squabbles, and social order and all the things we do as people without even realising it, except they tend to elevate them to a higher level- which is the purpose of all monsters.  The way I see it, a good Werewolf story should center on the idea of pack mentality, friendship, savagery and gender roles.  From domination/submission(between leader/follower and possibly between mates), to how they hunt and kill their prey(whether it be human or animal), to how they interact with each other...there's a lot of morality to be examined there.  Somebody really should do an "Interview with The Werewolf" type genre-bending Werewolf tale...and now I'm thinking of goddam doing it.  'Cause they're better than Vampires.  Did Captain America turn into a Vampire?  Nope.  Did Captain America turn into a Werewolf?  You're god damned right he did.

 

The question really becomes what you do with Werewolves...I mean, rules wise?  I'm fairly certain they'd be immortal.  Maybe.  I don't know...would they be immortal?  I guess they heal exceptionally fast, or they usually do.  Nothing short of silver or fire ever really takes them out for good, but I do stand by my "beheading kills everything" rule in general.  No brain, no life.  Period.  Perhaps I'd go with decelerated aging instead of Immortality.  I think that makes more sense.  They would get rapid healing except against silver, fire and having their stupid heads chopped off.  They'd be social, exsisting within packs that have joint mentality on how they behave; some would be vicious killers who hunt down and murder people, while others might have a more "pro-human" stance, living amongst people and feeding upon animals rather than people.  Unlike Vampires, Werewolves have a very real connection to life- they do hunt and kill, and have heightened senses about the world around them, and have their roots in both humanity and animals.  I don't want environmentally conscious hippies, but they'd have a general feeling for things around them.  They, like Vampires, would be largely selective of creating other Werewolves, and would even be more selective in mates for themselves.


There would be a lot of fun to be had with romantic roles, actually....I like the idea of a male Werewolf completley intoxicated with the sensory overload of a Woman.  Her smell, her taste, her touch....perhaps it'd be enough to make them into harmless little house pets or to drive them into a leathal psychotic frenzy rendering them capable of doing anything- including harm.  You could play with sub/dom stuff, but maybe not as pretentiously as gothy Vampire types....but it does exsist. 
 


I'd had ideas of taking the Werewolf entirely into metephor and doing a story about savage men, but I think I really do dig the idea of a full-on "I turn into a massive half-man, half-wolf creature...or can also turn into a full Wolf" idea.  Big, huge, scary, fuck-off hairy monsters who can tear you apart.  Sounds like way more fun to me.
 


A story about a Werewolf, perhaps born a long time ago or recently made, who goes through life dealing with being connected to life, being socially capable and accepted amongst his own kind, and yet finding himself seperated from the life he feels so connected to.  He probably falls in love, maybe upsetting his Pack or maybe earning the enimity of a less-friendly pack, and finds himself torn between the man and the animal.  Could be fun.  Cliche, maybe(unless you did it really well and very carefully), but fun.  'Cause it's all about the metephor.  Animal or something more?  Which are we, really?
 


Yeah....I just wasted half an hour of my life on this.  But, respect the Werewolf.  'Cause Captain America was one.
 


 


Long live Capwolf, bitches.
 


 
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I really dislike Livejournal.

June 23rd, 2009 (03:11 am)

Y'know, I've been trying to get this stupid thing to do LJ cuts right?  It isn't working.  Hasn't worked for two blogs.  Is there anybody on this thing that can't read my blogs on Facebook or Myspace?  I'm seriously considering just ditching facebook altogether.  It's never done me any favors whatsoever and I never have warmed up to it.  Ditch this bullshit.

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