Boat Trolls planning thread! (full of spoilers, non-players enter at your own risk)

i like that! let's do that. do you want to start the thread, or shall i, or should we both go to bed?

 

oh man okay also, obviously bel is Mr Research, but considering HOW MUCH BULLSHIT there is about a) wolves, b)werewolves, c)otherkin, d) maggyks, and e) 'alpha males', i think sorting the 'useful' from the 'complete nonsense' is the job of several academic lifetimes, not part of a year.

 

IT IS DONE.

we're going to play fast and loose with Official Wolf Communication Mannerisms because uh frankly i don't know all of it, especially where it's more subtle and complex than dog. considering bel's general issues with reading faces and emotional subtleties, plus how he's a very recent werewolf, he has a good excuse not to know jack shit outside of the most blatant doggish cues. though i'll bet he's at least brought up some charts and pictures and tried to memorize them.

we are not doing psychic wolf packbonded telepathy, because that is stupid and i hate it.

 

i would also humbly request no Alpha/Omega sex dynamics because those are only fun when combined with Different Gender Schema AUs, not Somehow I Missed The Last Sixty Years Of Wolf Studies AUs.

Werewolf fics that trot out every last stupid fucking bit of pop science alpha-male strict-hierarchy sex-and-violence tripe drive me SO NUTS.

 

idk about pheromones but i'm certain a nose like a wolf's would be able to detect hormones. plus sweat, stress, fear, diet, whatever.

also, in case you did not know, dogs can see yellow and blue, so greens come out just fine, while browns would be kind of muted. human nigh tvision is necessarily different, since red is the color we perceive best in low light, while blues and greens crap out early, giving us the stark, silvery look of nature lit by moonlight. plus, yellow is the most 'difficult' color for us to perceive, and we detect it in low lighting mostly by process of elimination, since it's the brightest color.

so frankly i have no idea what wolf nightvision looks like, but probably a lot different from ours!

 

yeah! adorable.

also bel's going to be really disappointed that erskin's Werewolf Lessons start at

1. get food

and end at

2. eat food.

 

also erskin's got that rangey, coyote-ish build and a short summer coat that probably isn't making him look too majestic. definitely not the barrel-necked outline of a winter timberwolf. coupled with tattery ears and a patchy snout he probably pings more as some unfortunate german-shepherd/shiba mix than Regal Lupine Hardass

 

huh, here's a particularly handsome shiba mix.



http://www.shibainuforum.org/forum/discussion/11867/the-dna-results-are-in/p1

anyway, german shepherd/shiba mixes exist, apparently, and look nothing like red wolves. but i sincerely doubt regular people would know this. bel could probably say 'oh he's an austrian grizzard' and a lot of people would be like 'ah, how nice'. because dogs are ridiculous.

 

You know what I bet while bel read Number One as 'creepy cuckolding fetish', he was actually being invited to form a pack with them. the dude just came on strong and graceless (and creepy) to someone who was nowhere near as put-together inside as he looked on the outside. hopefully that dude and his wife get better at propositioning handsome strangers in the future.

i like the idea that werewolves are really rare! it beats the whole 'every city has several big packs' set-up which is also a 'let's write about gang violence... but sexier' kinda thing.