The Human Within--addendum
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 12:22 pm
Addendum, on the puppy issue:
Wolves turned human generally follow wolf biology rules, whereas humans turned wolves seem to be more flexible overall--mainly because most stories today tend to favor humans turned wolf.
Rules regarding species apply to naturally occurring species. In my own storyline, werewolves are an artificial creation--an alien civilization creates them in an effort to figure out metaphysics. As such, reproducing a species is an afterthought, but my werewolves do follow the contageous virus idea, so it is reproducable by subsidizing off Homo sapiens. (In my storyline, some time around 2013, on short notice, a consortium of biologists are gathered together and unanimously agree that humans infected with lycanthropy are still members of the human species rather than a new one. Beings created from scratch using the same genetic framework also count as humans with contageous genetic modifications. This has important ramifications on the grounds of basic civil rights, since humans around that time still seperate themselves from other species in terms of rights concepts.)
Wolves turned human generally follow wolf biology rules, whereas humans turned wolves seem to be more flexible overall--mainly because most stories today tend to favor humans turned wolf.
Rules regarding species apply to naturally occurring species. In my own storyline, werewolves are an artificial creation--an alien civilization creates them in an effort to figure out metaphysics. As such, reproducing a species is an afterthought, but my werewolves do follow the contageous virus idea, so it is reproducable by subsidizing off Homo sapiens. (In my storyline, some time around 2013, on short notice, a consortium of biologists are gathered together and unanimously agree that humans infected with lycanthropy are still members of the human species rather than a new one. Beings created from scratch using the same genetic framework also count as humans with contageous genetic modifications. This has important ramifications on the grounds of basic civil rights, since humans around that time still seperate themselves from other species in terms of rights concepts.)
