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I was reading Call of the Wild recently, and the vicious impulsive actions Buck does reminds me a bit of the "classic" werewolf. The word the author kept used to describe Buck was "primordial." And that's what I'm suggesting-- some sort of variant on "primordial." I've...

It's not necessarily true that adding in the Werewolf equation would make things much worse. So I'm actually very inclined to agree with RedEye ... Clearly, the both of you are looking at the issue " Through Rose Colored Glasses " so to speak. ... I swear, you CAN'T be serious ... FLEAS??...

It's actually reached a point in my own writing where some werewolves are starting to appear more creepy and sinister in their human forms. :evilwolf: Ditto. In my own story ("Oscar County"/*pending title*) it is the activity and psychology of the scariest lycanthrope character in the sto...

What problems would being a Werewolf cause? Since September 2007, I've been thinking about this. Still, no answer. (sigh) Clearly your perception of a werewolf is drastically different from mine. Until I came here, Lycanthropy was never suggested as or supposed to be, in any way, a GOOD thing. The ...

Stay warm and stay critical: we need you! It's good to feel needed ... I guess. At any rate, I have no plans on becoming any less critical any time soon. I question everything. What's good, what's bad, and how things should/shouldn't or COULD be done. There are things I've liked about how things we...

It would be nice... Hollycrypto? Hmmm... (CALL WEBSTERS, I THINK WE JUST FOUND A NEW WORD! And i'm being absolutely serious... that works very well... now... what about the romance werewolves, hmm? There's like, sixty plus books out right now, all having to do with paranormal romance... of which th...

Generally speaking, we are all going to define our own stories and characters our own ways regardless. This idea is a dynamic concept at the moment ... I have recognized a possible need or use for a new word, but it's not quite clear yet what it should be, or how it should be used. I'm really reluct...

I really like CryptoLycoAnthrope even if it is a bit of a mouthful, it's just fun. Perhaps we could really mash it up and compress it a bit ... maybe Lycryptos, but that's probably terrible and lacks the charm of the long title. UGH ... "Cryp-to-Ly-co-An-thrope" is a stumbling, fumbling w...

Zoanthropes. Isn't that term strongly tied with Warhammer 40k and Tyranids? The only other place I've seen it used is in Bloody Roar, and there it was applied to sentient, responsible were-creatures. Zoo + Anthropos = Animal + Man. I brought it up because it's a viable term, not because it's the vi...

... but as for the term ... does it have to be complex? How about just "Traditional" or "Horror"? We could call them Horror-Wolves if we had to, just to get the point across. " Horror " would sort of pigeonhole the plot of any story they are used in, which is something...

You could've done without calling it the most statistically popular werewolf, Vuldari. What I meant was ... if one was to do a global poll or survey and asked a large number of random people on the street to describe what a "Werewolf" was, most of them would describe what they have seen i...

Sort of like the Captain in Hellsing if you will; one werewolf among a bunch of other assorted freaks with no motivations beyond himself. I have not had the opportunity to follow the "Hellsing" series, (I assume it is a Comic, Manga and/or Anime) so I'm not quite sure what character you a...

A thought crossed my mind a few nights ago that I felt like tossing out to see what people think. As you all know, I am bound and determined to defend the character of the Werewolf as I have come to know it ... Full Moons, Primal Violent Impulses, Forced (painful) transformations, etc. etc. ... Howe...

What's kind of funny is that, though I'm casually working on an epic scaled story on the side that involves both secret organizations and werewolves ... none of those organizations are centered around them, either for or against. In fact ... the biggest, baddest Werewolf in the story is actually a f...

((I didn't vote because I did not feel any of the provided options fit my answer quite right ... plus, I have more than one answer)) If of Magical Origin : The Full Moon is a symbol, and a ceremonial occurrence. It is inherently intertwined within the cycles of the magic that drives the transformati...

I wouldn't say that anyone in particular here is "Stepping on my Toes" ... and Ideas are Great ... I love ideas. I was just pointing out and providing an example of specific ways in which MY ideas and opinions differ from those already shared, using points made in previous posts as Context...

I love variant varieties of shapeshifters (I'm a bit of a Transformation Fanatic, on a Broad scale), but one thing I don't like is when they all get mashed together into one big jumbled mess of mixed ideas, and the original concepts they are based off of all but cease to exist. I like them all ... b...

Let's step back for a moment. The whole center of any Martial Art form is control and balance. Whether it is Okinawan Kara-te or Shao Lin Kung Fu or Krav Maga (Israeli unarmed combat system) the focus is keeping the body in balance and aligned with the force being used against the opponent. Simply ...

Vuldari: I emphasize with you completely. Originally I tried shooting for the 'realistic'-intelligent and misunderstood idea pertaining to werewolves, but I've recently devised my own race (dubbed the "Vikaara") that is centered totally on the idea of blood-thisty and invulnerable man kil...

If one presumes that the contagious part of "Lycanthropy" is contained within a werewolves bloodstream, then I would suspect that ingesting a large quantity of Werewolf blood would be as much, if not more certain to infect oneself with it as being bitten by it. So, I guess the answer would...

Confusing the issue is that "werewolves" in the 1600s WERE shape-changing sorcerers. The creature-feature werewolf came about later. The idea of werewolves being contagious or a different species rather than someone who bargained with the Devil in the woods for a potion or ointment seems ...

"Kung Fu" is specifically the martial arts style used by the monks of the Shao Lyn temple, and popularized by American and Japanese media. If one presumes that the body of a transformed werewolf does not move and bend exactly in the same way as that of a Human, actual "Kung Fu" m...

I do wish that individual users could upload their own icon set outside of the main wolf icons. It gets a little tedious having to go to photobucket and copy the code every time I want to use my smileys. http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y230/hassat/smilies/yawn.gif Something I used to do was, I cre...

I'm going to resist going DEEP into the subject for now ... Just in case you haven't read my introduction post, " VULDARI " is a word I made up which literally is a fusion of "Vulpine" (Fox) and "Dragon". Vul-Dar = Vulpine Dragon. (The "I" at the end was origi...