*sigh*

[deannawol]

Ever get those blasts of ideas that just beg to be written and are so deadly wrong!

Why on Earth would I want to write the story of a werewolf who is inadvertently brought over by a vampire?!

Hell is that even possible? Answers on a postcard please (or in comments)!

Comments

[slytherinblack.livejournal.com]

Considering you're dealing with fiction I don't see why it's not possible. I think if I was doing it I'd have it make a slightly new kind of being, though, not just like...a vampiric werewolf. If only because it might be easier to make up your own rules than have it conform to both vampiric and werewolf mythos.

[deannawol.livejournal.com]

Plus I guess it depends which basic mythos' you take at the start, are you looking at the involuntary monthly change or the voluntary change not dependant on external conditions and is the effect carried over when turned into a vampire or is it morphed into something slightly different...?

But yeah, I don't think I've ever come across a scenario in fiction or gaming where a werewolf has been brought over so a fresh start might be the answer... Providing I ever write it of course!

[slytherinblack.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of a werewolf myth where it's a voluntary change. I've heard similar things like skinwalkers, and I have a character who's a voluntary shapeshifter and people keep jokingly calling him a werewolf even though he's not. So uh...enlighten me?

[deannawol.livejournal.com]

It's one of the new fiction precidents, see Laurell K Hamilton, Kelley Armstrong, Sherrilyn Kenyon, and other contemporary fantasy authors for examples.

It's also one of the features of Werewolf by White Wolf, the gaming system.

I think it was basically the concept of changing once a month was very limiting and so they amended the old legends to say things like the stronger the character/the older the wolf the more they can control their change or flat out control of the change.

It's become a lot more of a plot device now.

[slytherinblack.livejournal.com]

Huh. I think that the "limiting" factor is one of the fun things about werewolves. [wanders around grumbling about Mary Sues]
I mean... sounds like fun.

[deannawol.livejournal.com]

*grin* I do like the idea of a man 27 nights of the month and a wolf one night and then dealing with the inhumanity of that one night the rest of the time. But I'm generally rather easy going when it comes to what I read.

[brilyn.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Underworld? I quite enjoyed it, and it (somewhat) deals with the crossover of the two.