NO BACKWARDS KNEES!...Night Rain wrote: ...complete with backwards knees...
This is a common mis-conception. Dog's and wolves do NOT have knees on their hind legs that bend the opposite dirrection from humans.
...yes, I know it may LOOK that way at first glance...but the joint you are confusing as the 'knee' is actually the equivilant of a dog/wolves 'ankle'.
Higher up on the leg, close to the body where sometimes it isn't obvious to see, you will find the canids true 'knee' which bends the same dirrection as ours does.
(Yes...I know I didn't get the square perfectly centered over the "Knee" joint...but you get the general idea...)
Below a wolves ankle, what looks like more "LEG" is actually a long, thin foot (equivilant to the "Arch" of a Human foot") and they walk solely on thier toes...which is called "Digitigrade" (walking on ones 'Digits').
Humans, alternatively, walk with the entire foot down, placing our weight on our heels instead of our toes, which is called "Plantigrade".
...that ends todays lesson...
Indeed...Night Rain wrote:What exactly can humans turn into?In case you didn't know, human's cannot turn into wolves, nor into upright standing wolves. I think anthro's are ok, but they are just not werewolves, IMO.
We are having discussions about "Werewolves" here.
...this defaultly assumes that in the fictional universes in which our characters will live, full body metamorphosis IS possible.
Otherwise, what exactly do you think we have all gathered here to talk about?