Huh, really? Just goes to show what a great family you two are, then, that I couldn't even tell. And I'm a pretty observant guy.
But yeah, no ulterior motives here. It just looks kind of cool - something that's unique about you, you know?
I've heard those weird weekends are when people get their forms and powers from home back, if they lost any on coming here. I've also heard they're a semi-regular occurrence, so maybe it's a good thing you're sharing this werewolf news with people now. It might be relevant in the future - or at least people noticing it might be unavoidable. So better for you to explain it by choice when you've got the chance than having it forced out of you because one of the weird weekends happened unexpectedly.
But yeah, I think I understand what you mean. Even if something's not ideal, when it's affected you as a person and your entire life so deeply, it's weird to think about just excising it. And even if you got rid of it, it's not like the effects it's had on you living with it for so long would go away, either. And if not all of it's bad...then I can get why managing the bad symptoms without necessarily wanting to get rid of the curse wholesale would make a lot more sense.
But yeah - even knowing nothing about your world, I could guess people like that existed. I hadn't even considered the pressure on werewolves to cure themselves whether they want to or not if a cure got made, though. It just goes to show, an outsider's perspective on something like this is always going to miss vital details unless someone who's lived it fills them in.
Then again, I've also found that even an insider's perspective can be lacking, if they don't look around enough. If you don't talk to people who've lived the same things you have, but in a totally different way, you can be blind to things right under your nose. You sound like you know a lot about this, though, and that you're considering a lot more points of view than just your own. That's pretty admirable, you know.
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Date: 2021-01-02 11:35 am (UTC)But yeah, no ulterior motives here. It just looks kind of cool - something that's unique about you, you know?
I've heard those weird weekends are when people get their forms and powers from home back, if they lost any on coming here. I've also heard they're a semi-regular occurrence, so maybe it's a good thing you're sharing this werewolf news with people now. It might be relevant in the future - or at least people noticing it might be unavoidable. So better for you to explain it by choice when you've got the chance than having it forced out of you because one of the weird weekends happened unexpectedly.
But yeah, I think I understand what you mean. Even if something's not ideal, when it's affected you as a person and your entire life so deeply, it's weird to think about just excising it. And even if you got rid of it, it's not like the effects it's had on you living with it for so long would go away, either. And if not all of it's bad...then I can get why managing the bad symptoms without necessarily wanting to get rid of the curse wholesale would make a lot more sense.
But yeah - even knowing nothing about your world, I could guess people like that existed. I hadn't even considered the pressure on werewolves to cure themselves whether they want to or not if a cure got made, though. It just goes to show, an outsider's perspective on something like this is always going to miss vital details unless someone who's lived it fills them in.
Then again, I've also found that even an insider's perspective can be lacking, if they don't look around enough. If you don't talk to people who've lived the same things you have, but in a totally different way, you can be blind to things right under your nose. You sound like you know a lot about this, though, and that you're considering a lot more points of view than just your own. That's pretty admirable, you know.