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

hmmmbfgh i think erskin would be difficult and fussy about going bipedal, and only do so under direct coercion of 'ok no hamburgers for you then'. so maybe we can do that? i want erskin to go be human too but i don't think he wants to, so.

 

werewolf erskin's human bits probably still look a little uncanny? maybe a little too wired and sharp. aside from that: medium-smallish young adult, heavily tanned, pretty Mediterranean looking, fit in a really lean way.

enough scars around the mouth, cheeks, ears, and arms to look like he got in a bad car crash, or some kind of industrial accident. probably his coloration doesn't help, either, they'd be pale against his tan, and also, in america, you just don't see people wandering around looking like they lost thirty knife fights in a row, though bel would be a lot more used to seeing damaged people due to military service and a stint at the hospital.

also I think he's missing a pinkie finger on one hand right down to the last knuckle, and the pinkie and little finger on the other are badly crooked and stiff.

 

Let's say hollywood scruffy? Bristly stubble, wild, wavy hair, but not hippy or even hipsterish.

 

Right, also, still got that what-ho BBC accent. Maybe he was born werewolf from his mom's side, has happy memories of a pack dashing about on his dad's estate, but somewhere around 11-13 werewolf hunters got them and the lands were reposessed by the nonwolfy english side of the asperas (possibly they called in the hit! Who knows!)

Anyway erskin booked it after that, since the alternative was (dying at) boarding school.

 

DRAMA.

Alternately his whole family pack's still doing great on his dad's estate, and he's just gone off to see the world!

 

Probably the estate manager.

 

I think erskin's referring to how human status bullshit and propensity for violent conflict can combine badly with a wolfish joy in killing prey and turn out really, really fucked up man-hunter werewolves. Id imagine his family drilled stern rules into him from the start, hence his abhorrence for sport hunting.

 

would bel take it badly? has he been sport hunting with his dad? i think hearing 'don't murder innocent animals for fun, you bloody sicko' is not something that would be fun to hear from.... a wolf.

 

i think it's not so much that erskin's got a bleeding heart for every fluffy bunny out there, he just considers 'seeing living animals as toys' to be the start of the end for a werewolf. like it's one thing for a wolf not to care about that kind of thing. and it's a pretty serious problem that so many humans don't care about that kind of thing. but when werewolves think like that, too, it's the start of the descent into being the kind of monsters that sets them against everyone and everyone against them. what if the werewolf that took a stab at bel just saw the millitary bearing and deadly confidence and jumped to the wrong conclusion? i'd imagine a certain number of werewolves try to weed out the psychos and sadists and serial killers from their ranks.

erskin might have the particularly strident, wide-eyed conviction of a fundie homeschool kid. but hey, he's a born-werewolf, they probably come off as weird-ass hippies to a lot of turned-werewolves, while a lot of turned-werewolves come off as impatient, cruel, and self-centered to born-werewolves.

BTW CHECK ME OUT DOING ALL THIS WORLDBUILDING, IT'S A DISEASE, SAVE YOURSELF

 

that kind of psycho probably wouldn't have sat in a park eating a sandwich the way bel was sitting in the park! yknow, like, trying to enjoy it, maybe a little twitchy from his recent military background, not superiorly viewing all the kids and joggers as potential chew-toys. probably smiling at people playing with each other and with dogs in an 'aww how nice' way?

i would imagine that psycho werewolves sit in parks like creepy douchebags, and think the wide and weirded-out berth the humans give them is the mindless fear of sheep towards wolves.