Questions

[Killian]

Yes, I named this 'Questions'.

Anyway, believe it or not, I have a few questions about a story my friend and I are working on. It has werewolves, yes, but no vampires... Just read and you'll see. Remember though, these are just notes, nothing too concrete.

Putting spoiler on just in case. A werewolf changes fully into a wolf but in a grueling process. Muscles spasm and crawl, hair seems to curl out from under the skin, both itching and burning and tearing, eyes roll back into the head, mouth twists and contorts in a painful and slow way, the growing fangs stretches the gums, and senses are over-whelming and take a while to adjust to. Moonlight soothes and helps control the transformation, so the less moonlight the more painful the transformation and the harder it is to control it. (They enjoy transforming on the full moon and are more active then because they recover much faster.)

Werecreatures happen when a shapeshifter and a human have a child. It’s unnatural, painful, and instincts take over. Both the magical and animalistic blood of the shapeshifter and the dominating blood of the human are constantly in battle so werecreatures are quite normally in a lot of pain; cramping, burning, itching, tachypnea, and popping bones are quite common. Rashes, swelling, rippling flesh, hypersensitive senses, stronger instinctive urges, dilating pupils or shrinking pupils (sometimes narrowing pupils), and fast growing hair are effects though they’re less common.

Transformations differ but are all extremely painful. Now think of a werehawk… Wings bursting and ripping from your back and stretching your muscles and skin and feathers tearing their way out. Doesn't sound very fun, does it? (And yes, I realize painful transformations are cliche but if a body was being morphed into something else, something completely different and the blood inside the creature was always in a constant battle... Then yeah, it would hurt.)

Silver killing werewolves is a myth. Their skin is thicker than humans, but they’re neither immortal nor indestructible.

A human cannot be changed into any supernatural creature without the more powerful creatures interfering. No bite or spell or blood can morph a human and, actually, may even cause lethal reactions. Blood especially can destroy a human internally, most can’t take the different blood and it will either destroy the human’s blood or the human will get a fever and burn themselves out.

Vampires don’t exist; nothing comes back from the dead or is undead. Nothing. So no necromancers or ghosts, and definitely no zombies. The dead stay dead and cannot come back; and even if they could, they would be reborn as a baby without their powers or memories or even looks, just the same soul.

Elves, faeries, mermaids, and dragons are the higher creatures and are neutral. All like to be amused in their own ways and none can lie, pretty much their ways are based on the fair folk in Irish legend. Dragons are the noblest, elves are the most detached, faeries are the cruelest, and mermaids are the most playful. Of course, there are exceptions and rules, but still, none of this is for sure. Does it work? Are these all pretty good ideas?

[Iridescence]

Um, I think you've posted this in the wrong place, dear. It seems to me you are asking for a critique of these notes, no? This would go in the Writing Forum, either under Short Stories or Novels, depending on how long the story is. But, of course, I could be wrong. :) The ideas are alright--it depends on how you weave them into the story, really. Though the last one seems cliche. I like the idea of using moonlight to soothe a transformation, I don't think I've heard that one before.

[Killian]

Um, I think you've posted this in the wrong place, dear. It seems to me you are asking for a critique of these notes, no? This would go in the Writing Forum, either under Short Stories or Novels, depending on how long the story is. But, of course, I could be wrong. :) The ideas are alright--it depends on how you weave them into the story, really. Though the last one seems cliche. I like the idea of using moonlight to soothe a transformation, I don't think I've heard that one before.

The last isn't original at all. It's mostly based on the fair folk in Irish folklore and other myths.

Thanks! I had a one second party when I came up with the moonlight thing. The other idea was that the more moonlight there was the more it messed with their mind and all the full moon they lost themselves to their more savage instincts (and couldn't remember it later) but that was unoriginal.

Can you post questions and ideas on the Writing Forum? I always thought it was just for actual stories.

[Bowie20049]

Personally, it's alright until you mentioned the mermaids, dragons, and faeries. I think you should focus on werewolves and just werewolves.

[Killian]

Personally, it's alright until you mentioned the mermaids, dragons, and faeries. I think you should focus on werewolves and just werewolves.

The story isn't really about werewolves and, so far,we've only planned one main character as a werewolf and he dies. And he was turned into a werewolf, slightly on accident, slightly not, because of another main character and she wanted it to be painful for him. What's so horrible is that she only wanted that because he liked her and wouldn't leave her alone. It wasn't even in a stalkerish way, he was just persistent.

And yeah, I wasn't too sure with the mermaids or dragons but the elves and faeries I wanted in there. A faery is what sets the plot in motion when she decides to play with lives of the main character by making their writing reality... With the over-used 'be careful what you wish for' consequences. It might've worked for the nicer writer, but the other one was obsessed with tragedy and, because the story she was writing was supposed to be an alternative version of herself, her friend and their whole world got sucked into it.

There are other made up creatures as well and I'm thinking about posting them, one I'm using in another story and a few made randomly.

[Bowie20049]

Great, now we know what happens...

[Killian]

Great, now we know what happens...

Sorry. I don't think we're going to post it here and it was something we had decided before we even knew his name, so I didn't really think about how much it spoiled the story.