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Lazywolf’s Werewolf Definition Outline: They go to great lengths to avoid being seen and are extremely difficult to detect. From time to time, people come across a werewolf by accident while hiking or lost in the mountains. If you do spot one, especially if it’s in the middle of a shift, chances are you’re about to get bitten, and if you survive the bite, you’ll become a werewolf yourself! They do this to prevent the undesirable outbreak of werewolf sighting rumors and to protect their identity. Otherwise, when someone discovers their secret, it takes a long time to cover up and could compromise the security or even the lives of many werewolves. For the first few days, the newly bitten person is tired, weak, and ravenously hungry, usually feeling a bit sick as the body takes in the change. In due course though, they adjust and begin to learn about their new capabilities, usually mentored and taught by the person who originally bit them. As far as their outward appearance, their eyes have a slightly golden and light-reflective tint to them. They can also make inhuman howls, growls, and whines. If they were overweight prior to the bite, that soon changes due to the amount of calories it takes to shift. Most have toned, and sometimes ripped bodies because the ability of their muscles to increase in size and strength doubles. They also have a certain presence about them, a way of being that is strangely attractive and appealing. This form can leap nearly 50 feet, bench press three times more than they could when in their already enhanced human form, climb trees like a big cat, outrun a horse when sprinting, and is also an incredibly powerful swimmer capable of holding its breath under water for up to ten minutes. Werewolves can survive almost anything and their ability to heal is legendary. Broken bones set within a few hours; deep wounds, including gunshot wounds, close and heal in a day, and even lost limbs can be regenerated with time and multiple shifts. In fact, the only things that can do real damage are flame, severe trauma to the head or spine, or prolonged exposure to silver, their biggest weakness. Injuries caused by silver have a hard time healing and are the most lethal killer, though most silver-caused injuries will heal if dealt with in a skilled and timely manner. They can go for about a week without food or water and are not adversely affected by extreme cold. When they don’t want to be found, they can cause their tracks and scent to fade so as to avoid being followed. The claws make great weapons in a fight and can tear through metal in some cases. If they decide to hunt game in this form it's almost too easy. When confronted with the possibility, some consider themselves fortunate and get bitten on purpose for the amazing potential of personal fulfillment or gain that can come with owning this body. Mating is possible in all forms; werewolves tend to marry with others of their kind and may bite their spouse to pass on and share the ability while at the same time avoiding future problems. They are monogamous and like wolves, marry for life. The gestation period takes 9 months like normal, but it's hard to detect a pregnancy by sight becasue werewolf fetuses form completely at a small size and then grow to full size in the final weeks. When the mother shifts, the fetus shifts as well, and the baby will be born in whatever form the mother is in while giving birth. Young werewolves can shift to protect themselves if they go through a traumatic experience, but otherwise start shifting voluntarily at about age eight. For the most part they live a good 15-20 years longer than humans. When they do eventually die, they always revert back to their human form no matter which form they were in at the time of death. Silver is a major threat, especially in the full werewolf form. Fortunately, they can feel when silver is near which gives them plenty of advance warning. Silver-caused wounds take considerably longer to heal, and if left in contact with it for long periods of time, they can die or suffer irreversible damage. For that reason silver bullets are especially dangerous. Silver directly touching the skin (not fur) causes a painful rash within a few minutes, but generally doesn't do more than that if removed quickly. Some werewolves choose to slowly build up a silver immunity over time, though the process can be difficult and painful. Shifting happens at a fairly even pace, the extremities morphing first. (i.e. hands, feet, tail, ears), and then the torso, muscles, major bones, face, and lastly the eyes change with fur growing at a constant rate during the whole process. The body will make noises as the muscles change in length and stretch, the bones re-arrange themselves, and the organs adjust to the new frame. Even though it looks like the shifter should be in agony as the body re-arranges itself for the next sixty seconds, no pain is felt during the transition. In fact, those that get over the initial shock of seeing someone shift are amazed at the fluid beauty of it all.
When the transformation to wolf or werewolf form is complete, a sense of euphoria and power is felt as a whole world of highly increased senses, strength, and agility burst into existence. There is no time limit on how long a werewolf can stay in any one form, but over time their energy decreases compelling them to either seek nourishment or shift back to human form to re-gain their strength. They can shift directly to any form, no matter what form they’re currently in. Those with a lot of skill and experience can even shift specific body parts or pause mid-shift if, for example, they want to walk around in human form with a big, furry wolf tail for Halloween or use their claws to slit the plastic on those annoying, hard to open CD cases! Anthromorphising - The application of human characteristics to animals. A. Goldewolfen’s Kierrn: http://goldenwolfen.com/kierrn/index.htm |
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A werewolf is a human that can assume either a wolf or werewolf (a combination of wolf and human) form at will while enjoying greater physical abilities than normal humans ever could. Over the centuries, people such as myself have been fascinated by them and desired to become one, while others have invented stories portraying them as evil, bloodthirsty killers that hide in the forests or among humans to ruthlessly kill those they encounter. They’ve existed to an extent in all major civilizations throughout time and all over the world, their origin shrouded in the mists of legend. 
permanently altering their DNA to allow for at will shape-shifting (or simply “shifting” for short). Shortly after being bitten, the host will enter an almost comatose state for around 12 hours as their genetic code is re-written. If the the host survives the process and the bite is successful, they’ll go through an initial forced shift. This is so the werewolf knows the bite was successful, so the host knows what they've become, and indicates that the body has come full circle and is now capable of form change. They are also healed of most former physical imperfections such as cancer, crooked teeth, baldness, lack of limbs, etc. Having completed its work, the virus then dies and is gradually broken down by the body leaving no traceable evidence in the blood.
For the most part, to the untrained eye it's hard to tell a regular person from a werewolf. They look just like they did before they were bitten except for a few physical modifications borrowed from the wolf form. Everyone is unique and experiences different levels of change and improvement, but anyone that knew them before would have a hard time missing their sudden, seemingly overnight increase in endurance and flexibility, as well an exponential growth in their running, jumping, climbing, and lifting abilities (which is great for things like 
The most graceful and powerful of the three forms, the true werewolf form is built as a perfect blend of human logic and reasoning and the wolf's instincts, power, speed, and endurance, the whole being better than the sum of the two parts could ever be alone. Standing about 1-2 feet taller than they normally would in human form, the werewolf is equally comfortable in the quadruped (4 legged) or bipedel (2 legged) stance, usually choosing the latter on digitigrade (wolf-like) legs with the aid of a tail. All four limbs are rock solid with muscle to quickly move the heavier body and are armed with tough, razor sharp claws. The head, which is heavily influenced by the wolven half of the hybrid, has pointed ears; intelligent, golden eyes; and jaws of steel built to sever limbs that can even produce human words (albeit limitedly), and the whole body is covered in thick, beautiful fur.
Basically a timber wolf on the bigger side. It has all the traits one would normally expect to find in a wolf such as high endurance, superb sense of smell and hearing, ability to hunt, etc. (more info on my 
Werewolves are almost immune to almost any disease specific to all three forms; poisons must be administered in huge doses to have any effect. Like normal humans, werewolves in that form are omnivores, or can eat either plants or meat. As full werewolves, they are also omnivores but lean more towards the meat end of things, and as wolves, they take the carnivore route.
Shape shifting, or just shifting for short, is the action in which a werewolf changes from one of its forms to another. This is done by focusing the mind on the form they want to assume and willing themselves to change. Werewolves are conscious before, during, and after shifting in and out of any form. They can shift whenever they want to, and have total control of if and when they do. Not even the full moon, though it can be felt and has a subtle way of enticing a shift and other wolfish desires like howling, doesn’t actually force a shift.
Obviously, clothing and other items on the werewolf do not shift when they do. Clothes are torn and shredded into ribbons, shoes burst at the seams, and other items break and fall off as the werewolf increases in size. Though it looks pretty cool, shifting like this can get to be pretty expensive when you constantly have to re-stock your wardrobe, and it’s not cool to be find yourself without clothes after you switch back to being human, so they generally strip down before getting furry.
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