I don't quite think of it as spontaniously rewriting every bit of genetic code in the body in a months time. To me it's more like hot-rodding a human body little bits at a time.Terastas wrote:I understand what you're saying, but I find it hard to believe that a 4000+ old genetic code could be altered to that of a werewolf in 28 days tops. I could understand the whole thing about the bactirium aiding in the production of blood cells, but the mind and body would still be unacustomed to it's influences, both the positive and the negative. Resisting the nature of lycanthropy would be difficult, but at the same time far from impossible.
Little by little, with each shift, all new cells would be made with the enhanced code, (building upon the framework that is allready there), so that that for the first few shifts the WereWolves body would still be unaltered cells at the core of their organs and bones, with Werewolf cells grafted onto, and between them. Then, when they revert to human form again, the first cells to be re-absorbed into thier essential chemical components would be the old, less versitle, unaltered human cells.
Because nomal Human biology is less tolerant to activity as intense as shifting, the Shift is most dangerous and painful when the majority of the body is still human. (Potentially fatal durring the first shift). Over time, more and more of the Old Cells (and 4000+ year old code) would be worked out of the body and reabsorbed, leaving behind mostly the the new "High Performance" (...sticking with my HOT-ROD human reference...) flesh, mucle and bone, but still leaving trace fragments of old, unaltered biological tissue somewhere in the body. Like a "Tricked Out" car, there would be lots of New parts slapped on to the outside which can do things the old parts could not, but somewhere deep inside, the Original Frame is still in there. Though the new parts are not part of the original design of the body, they are considered integural Parts of it, and not external factors.
When a Human gets exited, the adrenaline starts pumping and the various muscles and organs in the body automatically react to the presence of the chemical in the body regardless of the concious will of the host. Once the Shifting biology has been fully "intalled" in the Werewolves body, the right combination of released chemicals in the body will set it off automatically, just as flooring the gas pedal in a Hot Rod will automatically kick in the New Turbo System, even though it never used to do that before. One could train themselves to stay calm and not get exited in the wrong way, thus not releasing those chemicals, but I still think that this would be a skill that would be impossible to perfect and occasional "slips" would happen.
Honestly, the only reason I am being so stubborn about making my point is because not only do I not think it would be very logical, but I am simply not fond of the idea of the WereWolves having Too Much controll over their "Gift".
