Current mood:	contemplative
Entry tags:	werewolves

Werewolves . . . overanalyzed!
I was playing Neverwinter Nights last night, a game I've had lying around forever and only just installed. Games last me a LONG time because I play them obsessively for a while, then forget they exist, then have to restart the game because I don't remember what I did up to that point. Heck, I still need to finish Daggerfall.

Anyway, one of the quests involves hunting down these recently infected werewolves and giving them a magical necklace that turns them back to normal, but of course you have to beat them half to death before they'll accept it because they're crazy, aggressive weeeerewolves! Awoooo! I also had to hack through a lot of normal wolves and dire wolves to get to them.

But does that really make sense? Normal wolves don't run up to gnaw on people, they're scared of them. In D&D world, wouldn't wolves be even MORE scared of humans? Instead of "Holy shit, those two-legs can hurt me from afar with their bang-stick" it would be "Holy shit, those two-legs can hurt me from afar with a barrage of fireballs." They should be running away gibbering, not rushing up to attack.

Okay, I'm straying from my original point, which is that werewolves don't act like wolves at all, so where does the wolf part come in, aside from appearance? An aggressive were-animal should be something like a were-polar-bear or a were-grizzly.

How about a werewolf that acts like a wolf? He'd have crippling social anxiety around everyone except his closest friends and relatives (his pack) because ZOMG HUMANS ARE SCARY! Maybe at night he'd run outside and kick the neighbors' garden gnomes over to express his hostility. His friends would get exasperated as he kept peeing on their furniture to mark his territory. And, to his embarrassment, he'd have erectile dysfunction EXCEPT when his girlfriend was ovulating.