[Oh yeah there is that detail. Honestly, he definitely can't blame anyone for not concluding the truth on their own; more than anything, it just doesn't tend to occur to him to mention it until it comes up.]
Oh, right - yeah, if I did have any biological children there'd be a pretty high risk of them picking it up. But Chip is adopted, so, no lycanthropy there.
Ha, I'm glad you think so. Honestly, between you and Sylvain, it's kind of odd hearing (or reading) people complimenting my teeth without it being just an incredibly loaded comment.
The cure thing is kind of complicated, honestly; I won't deny that it's a sensitive subject, but I can see why you'd ask. I can't really blame other werewolves who do want it removed from their systems, and a lot about it is pretty unpleasant. Being here and having my symptoms reduced so much has sort of put some things in perspective, actually - I mean, the one weekend where reality got all weird, my symptoms came back, and let me tell you: I did not enjoy having my sense of hearing back in full. Turns out everything is incredibly loud, all the time, and I'd just gotten used to it over the last 32 years. And that's without even going into full moons. But, on the other hand: Even if I don't enjoy stuff like my hearing being stronger than the average person's, having all that just be gone is VERY strange. It's been a part of my entire life, you know? This place has sort of blocked off a piece of myself, and even if it's one that's caused me a lot of problems, I can still tell it's missing.
And to be clear, from a practical standpoint, there are upsides too; we're usually stronger than the average human, so some werewolves can use that and their stronger senses for work, depending on their jobs. Like, my cousin has lycanthropy too and she's a bouncer, so it's really useful for her to be able to just kind of pick up a guy twice her weight if she has to. Personally, the most use I get out of that is usually moving boxes around.
That said, I absolutely think that finding ways to reduce the severity of the symptoms or weaken the curse on an individual basis should be something to aim for; after all, monthly transformations and the like can be outright dangerous for some, and they deserve to have the medical support to counter that.
However, for one thing, I have no doubt that the second a cure was made available, every werewolf on the planet would suddenly be under immense pressure to take it, regardless of their individual circumstances - because, for another, no, I don't trust most of the people invested in curing lycanthropy as far as THEY could throw ME. It's been made clear time and time again that for every hundred people making noise about "saving" us from this curse, ninety just don't want us to exist but think this is the respectable way to go about erasing us. Most of these same people suddenly can't comprehend shit if we try to talk to them about establishing symptom-based support for those who need it, about ensuring we have housing that will keep us safe on full moons, because they don't WANT us to be comfortable as we are, they want us scared and desperate so that we'll put up with whatever they do to us in the name of "helping" us.
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Date: 2021-01-02 08:57 am (UTC)Oh, right - yeah, if I did have any biological children there'd be a pretty high risk of them picking it up. But Chip is adopted, so, no lycanthropy there.
Ha, I'm glad you think so. Honestly, between you and Sylvain, it's kind of odd hearing (or reading) people complimenting my teeth without it being just an incredibly loaded comment.
The cure thing is kind of complicated, honestly; I won't deny that it's a sensitive subject, but I can see why you'd ask. I can't really blame other werewolves who do want it removed from their systems, and a lot about it is pretty unpleasant. Being here and having my symptoms reduced so much has sort of put some things in perspective, actually - I mean, the one weekend where reality got all weird, my symptoms came back, and let me tell you: I did not enjoy having my sense of hearing back in full. Turns out everything is incredibly loud, all the time, and I'd just gotten used to it over the last 32 years. And that's without even going into full moons. But, on the other hand: Even if I don't enjoy stuff like my hearing being stronger than the average person's, having all that just be gone is VERY strange. It's been a part of my entire life, you know? This place has sort of blocked off a piece of myself, and even if it's one that's caused me a lot of problems, I can still tell it's missing.
And to be clear, from a practical standpoint, there are upsides too; we're usually stronger than the average human, so some werewolves can use that and their stronger senses for work, depending on their jobs. Like, my cousin has lycanthropy too and she's a bouncer, so it's really useful for her to be able to just kind of pick up a guy twice her weight if she has to. Personally, the most use I get out of that is usually moving boxes around.
That said, I absolutely think that finding ways to reduce the severity of the symptoms or weaken the curse on an individual basis should be something to aim for; after all, monthly transformations and the like can be outright dangerous for some, and they deserve to have the medical support to counter that.
However, for one thing, I have no doubt that the second a cure was made available, every werewolf on the planet would suddenly be under immense pressure to take it, regardless of their individual circumstances - because, for another, no, I don't trust most of the people invested in curing lycanthropy as far as THEY could throw ME. It's been made clear time and time again that for every hundred people making noise about "saving" us from this curse, ninety just don't want us to exist but think this is the respectable way to go about erasing us. Most of these same people suddenly can't comprehend shit if we try to talk to them about establishing symptom-based support for those who need it, about ensuring we have housing that will keep us safe on full moons, because they don't WANT us to be comfortable as we are, they want us scared and desperate so that we'll put up with whatever they do to us in the name of "helping" us.