Glasses

This is the place for discussion and voting on various aspects of werewolf life, social ideas, physical appearance, etc. Also a place to vote on how a werewolf should look.
Post Reply
User avatar
Night_Hunter
Legendary
Legendary
Posts: 72
Joined: Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:51 pm
Custom Title: My cross to bare
Contact:

Glasses

Post by Night_Hunter »

A human who wears glasses (not sun glasses) would not need them as a werewolf right?
OH FOR GOD'S SAKE YOU HAVE RABIES TOO ?!!?

Read my stuff at:
http://nightfiction.blogspot.com/
User avatar
RedEye
Moderator
Moderator
Posts: 3400
Joined: Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:45 pm
Custom Title: Master of Meh
Gender: Male
Mood: Meh...
Location: Somewhere between here and Wolf Bend, Montana.

Post by RedEye »

Maybe yes, maybe no. It usually depends on how well the Shift fixes things, like little disabilities and such.
Since Wolves use a suite of senses where we use only sight, your vision might not improve, but the increase in scent and hearing might make up for it.

If the Werewolf-as-Smoothskin has a little farsightedness problem, then the Wulf would probably be allright...after all, when is the last time you saw a Werewolf reading the paper?
Nearsightedness might be offset to a degree by enhanced senses, but if the Smooth has 20/150 vision, the Wulf will be nearsighted, too.

Unless the writer fixes the problem, or unless the Smooth has Lasik or something like it, the Werewolf won't have that much better vision.
RedEye: The Wulf and writer who might really be a Kitsune...
User avatar
Berserker
Legendary
Legendary
Posts: 1075
Joined: Sat Jan 05, 2008 2:11 pm
Gender: Male
Location: GA

Post by Berserker »

I'd imagine a werewolf's eyesight is "fixed." They are the ultimate hunters after all.
Image
Set
Legendary
Legendary
Posts: 3236
Joined: Sun Dec 19, 2004 5:34 pm
Custom Title: Devil in disguise
Gender: Male

Post by Set »

If you're going by the human + normal wolf model, then a new werewolf's vision is actually likely to get worse. At the very least I'd expect some loss of color perception.

If you're going by MAGIC!!! then...anything goes, really.
User avatar
Midnight
Legendary
Legendary
Posts: 1154
Joined: Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:05 am

Re: Glasses

Post by Midnight »

Night_Hunter wrote:A human who wears glasses (not sun glasses) would not need them as a werewolf right?
It would fairly much be a moot point... even if they did need glasses, there'd be nowhere to hang them off... ears would be in the wrong place.
User avatar
Night_Hunter
Legendary
Legendary
Posts: 72
Joined: Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:51 pm
Custom Title: My cross to bare
Contact:

Post by Night_Hunter »

contacts
OH FOR GOD'S SAKE YOU HAVE RABIES TOO ?!!?

Read my stuff at:
http://nightfiction.blogspot.com/
User avatar
Celestialwolf
Legendary
Legendary
Posts: 369
Joined: Fri Jul 29, 2005 5:41 am
Custom Title: Werewolf at Heart
Gender: Male
Additional Details: Used to be Lazywolf

Post by Celestialwolf »

To me, the human and wolf eyesight abilities would combine to create something better than the two alone could ever be. Also, if their vision had issues before becoming a werewolf, those would be fixed.
Founder, Werewolves At Heart group.
--
My DeviantArt profile and Character Sheet
User avatar
Terastas
Legendary
Legendary
Posts: 5193
Joined: Thu Nov 25, 2004 4:03 pm
Custom Title: Spare Pelican
Gender: Male
Location: Las Vegas
Contact:

Post by Terastas »

User avatar
RedEye
Moderator
Moderator
Posts: 3400
Joined: Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:45 pm
Custom Title: Master of Meh
Gender: Male
Mood: Meh...
Location: Somewhere between here and Wolf Bend, Montana.

Post by RedEye »

Okeez: You got the BITE and now you're all Fuzzy and Toothy. You're also nearsighted: your paw looks like a gray dandelion head (fuzzy). The fireplug is findable only by smell. Your Werewolf girlfriend actually looks cute!

Once you're back to Smoothville, how long would it take you to get a Lasik vision correction...even if you had to pawn your stuffed bear and all your pretty shinies?

Right...I thought so. What the Wulf doesn't cure, modern science can! :lol:
RedEye: The Wulf and writer who might really be a Kitsune...
User avatar
Scott Gardener
Legendary
Legendary
Posts: 4731
Joined: Wed Dec 15, 2004 11:36 pm
Gender: Male
Mood: Excited
Location: Rockwall, Texas (and beyond infinity)
Contact:

Post by Scott Gardener »

Wolves are nearsighted. If anything, being a werewolf might worsen your vision. Glasses and imperfect vision is very common in the real world, but movie characters almost universally have perfect vision, except for nerds, Harry Potter, and computer techies, as an archetypcal stigmata. Hollywood writers will use any excuse to get rid of glasses when they aren't actively dodging the subject.

On a related note, I bet contact lenses would get pretty uncomfortable after a night of running around the woods with bigger corneas.
Taking a Gestalt approach, since it's the "in" thing...
User avatar
punxnotdead
Legendary
Legendary
Posts: 364
Joined: Mon Aug 20, 2007 8:04 pm
Location: Canada

Post by punxnotdead »

I would think the eye sight would remain relatively unchanged. Though, I would think that a werewolf would have night vision, but be able to see as lucidly as a human.
Image
Smallville fan!
Post Reply