I guess I wasn't too concerned about how SPN saw werewolves. Most of the novels I've been reading lately have werewolves and the general consensus is that the infected person shifts completely to wolf (or whatever other were-creature they may be). There is some disagreement over the issue of mass, whether the wolf is the same mass as the human or different but that is about it. I've also always had the impression that a werewolf looked just like a wolf. I was going with what I felt to be the more correct, a full assumption of the wolfly form.
As to a cure, I don't see why not. It is generally accepted that there is no cure for vampirism but I've read a series of books where there was and it seemed to work out. I did some quick research on wolfsbane and found that it was used to prevent werewolves from entering farmsteads etc and I thought I saw something where it was used to prevent people from being infected or given to those who were infected. Folk-lore also has werewolves suffering an aversion to silver, to the point that only silver can truely kill them. I've combined a few of those things together in a way that made sense to me.
That is the joy of this genre, alternative possibilities. Let me know if it works in the end.
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Date: 17 Oct 2009 07:32 (UTC)I guess I wasn't too concerned about how SPN saw werewolves. Most of the novels I've been reading lately have werewolves and the general consensus is that the infected person shifts completely to wolf (or whatever other were-creature they may be). There is some disagreement over the issue of mass, whether the wolf is the same mass as the human or different but that is about it. I've also always had the impression that a werewolf looked just like a wolf. I was going with what I felt to be the more correct, a full assumption of the wolfly form.
As to a cure, I don't see why not. It is generally accepted that there is no cure for vampirism but I've read a series of books where there was and it seemed to work out. I did some quick research on wolfsbane and found that it was used to prevent werewolves from entering farmsteads etc and I thought I saw something where it was used to prevent people from being infected or given to those who were infected. Folk-lore also has werewolves suffering an aversion to silver, to the point that only silver can truely kill them. I've combined a few of those things together in a way that made sense to me.
That is the joy of this genre, alternative possibilities. Let me know if it works in the end.
Cheers! :)