Mutant Werewolves?

[Happygun]

[K-MacK]

[Happygun]

[Timberwolfer]

[K-MacK]

Note here: Kris said that the average birthrate is 1.6 Werewolves per mated pair.
The Genericville Pack hasn't "made" a "thrall" in decades; the last one was apparently a "Section 8 thrall": both thrall and maker were "put down with great prejudice".
The Genericville Pack is a "Werewolf cultural backwater".

For all we know, there could be progressive packs that are running thralls like an assembly line*; or using natural fertility enhancers to bring the birth rate up to three or more per pairing.
This-right here- is the Genericville pack. That's what we know.

*Essentially as some wanky religious sect that has a really rather interesting "Final Level of Awakening" ritual...and very devoted members, afterwards, after a "year of meditation and bodily purification". They recruit by advertising in Supermarket Tabloids.
(This is a joke, of course.) There is a possibility that some Werewolves have names other than the ones they were born with; that person died of inoperable cancer or something like it.

[bar1scorpio]

But thrall-by-adoption is also viable...

Imagine a foster care home that selectively brings in newborns or toddlers, when they really can't get that far out of hand. Yeah, yeah, biting, clawing. We really haven't explored what effect a werewolf suckling a human child would have.

[llearch]

http://www.peteristhewolf.com/adult/013.html

Panel 3.

"Any contact by mucous membranes. A bite, breastfeeding, and sex." (paraphrased)

ie, a werewolf breastfeeding a non-lycanthrope child causes that child to become a lycanthrope.

Nuff said.

(although one wonders just how recently they checked that, since wet nurses haven't been in vogue for some time)

... and then there's the converse, which suggests that a werewolf child suckling on a non-lycanthrope wet nurse would turn her. -That- could be interesting...

[bar1scorpio]

Well, theoretically, that flow is one way-

And I guess, drinking the blood/eating the flesh of a werewolf would work, too. But of all those possibilities listed, that's the least likely.

[llearch]

Theoretically, the flow in sex is one-way, too.

Mucous membrane contact. Doesn't require anything more. After all, the baby is going to slobber all over the nipple, isn't it?

Maybe not much, but... how much do you really need?


As for the eating/drinking one... well, there are some strange folks out there, so one would expect that there be some strange werewolves, as well. Still... as you say, extremely unlikely. If nothing else, the utter insanity of creating a thrall that way - and the likelyhood of the thrall getting out of control, and thereby inducing a "section 8", would be fairly high. Strange as it may seem, teenagers are more likely to deal with the strangeness of the change easier than a full adult - in my opinion, anyway. They're going through a whole lot of changes anyway, so a few more, whilst giving them some more issues to deal with, isn't likely to totally upset their world-view - y'know, more than it does already. Adults tend to have figured the world out already, rightly or wrongly, and have settled their mind on what goes where. Changing that later is much harder than at teenager level, when they're going through the changes of life, shifting out of their parent's house, moving out to college, becoming self-sufficient, and then all the physical changes of becoming physically mature...

*cough* Sorry. I -do- rabbit on a bit, don't I? ;-]

[Kris@WLP]

On the other hand, as Sarah is finding out, the teenage years are the most hormonal and emotional years of a person's whole lifetime...

... which makes control issues all the harder to sort out.

[llearch]

Hey! Keep the logicalness and sense out of it! We're having a discussion! ;-]


*cough* Erm, yeah. Granted, the hormones play hell with the control, but the mental changes required for adjusting to the change would be, IMO, easier. As a whole, it's a bit of a wash, I think. Either way would suck...

[Happygun]

[kitwulfen]

[Happygun]

If you had actually read the Zombie Survival Guide you would have known zombies do not specifically target your brain; they eat any meat they can get their hands, preferring human flesh over all others. Furthermore, since their digestive system no longer functions they do not so much eat flesh as much as they stuff themselves until their stomach bursts.

[kitwulfen]

[K-MacK]

[EricDrake]

a Blood Donationing Werewolf would certainly be most packs worst enemy considering how quickly there were-wolf population would bloom.
As for mutations, it would depend on the genetics involved wouldn't it? Much like Kris said with humans. Regeneration certainly gets in the way of the more superficial problems fixed through surgery. I'd be far more scared of a child with psychological limitations that are not normally precieved.

[llearch]

Donating blood?

*wince* I can see that getting out of hand -real- fast.

On the other hand - that's provided it doesn't trigger any of the checks they do on it, nowadays...

[Happygun]

[Kris@WLP]

[EricDrake]

[Happygun]

[Nanaki001]

[K-MacK]

[llearch]