If given the chance, would you become a werewolf? Now, before you rush to the comment section and write “YES!” over and over, there are some terms. You don’t get to choose which type of werewolf you get to be in this game – I do. Bwahaha!
Almost every single day I read comments by readers expressing their desire to be a werewolf and it got me thinking. All of these people wanting to be a werewolf have a particular type of werewolf in mind. They don’t want to be just any breed of werewolf, they want to be the one they have imagined in their heads, their perfect fantasy wolf. That’s just not realistic at all – how many werewolf characters in books and films get to choose the type of werewolf they become? Not many.
So I am going to switch things up today. Instead of you choosing the type of werewolf you want to be, I am going to pick it and it’s up to you to decide whether or not you would willingly allow someone to turn you into such a wolf.
Here is the werewolf…
In human form:
- For the most part you are your average, normal human self.
- The only werewolf traits you have in human form are enhanced senses, such as eyesight, sense of smell, and hearing. That’s it.
- You don’t have control over your transformation. You transform EVERY night, not just nights of the full moon. The moment the sun sets you turn and once the sun rises you return to human form. You have no control of this at all.
In wolf form:
- In werewolf form you lose your humanity. You are no longer your average, normal human self.
- You become a killer. You run on instincts alone and have no human thoughts. You have no morals, no sense of right and wrong. You hunt and you kill everything in your path.
- You aren’t a beautiful, natural-looking wolf. You look like a mutation between human and wolf.
After reading all of that, after reading about the werewolf I have picked, would you willingly become this werewolf? If given the choice, would you become this mindless beast? If your answer is yes, please tell us why you would choose this for yourself.
– Moonlight
About the Author
Moonlight (aka Amanda) loves to write about, read about and learn about everything pertaining to werewolves and other supernatural beasties. She writes for top genre sites like Vampires.com and Werewolves.com. You will most likely find her huddled over a book of folklore with coffee in hand. Touch her coffee and you may lose a limb. You can stalk her via her Twitter.
Yeah, no. For a few reasons. (These guys sounds like the ones from Bad Moon.)
1. Transform every night? No thanks. That would leave you little chance to be active during the day, and dead tired everytime else. And then that could possibly completely exhaust your human form within months, so you may have to live off someone else.
2. Lack of control. This one is obvious. Not being able to control yourself is more than enough reason to not get bitten.
Yes I would like to become a werewolf. I have always wanted to be a killer runnig on nothing but lnstinct, I have friends at school who call me a werewolf, and saying it is just because I have been acting strange lattly like werewolf would act like. I just want to show them what a real werewolf acts like.
I would have to say even then yes. If I knew this is what happened to me every night I would take precautions to live alone so that I did not hurt the ones that I loved. Then maybe be a truly sick person and be around those that I don’t particularly care for, this way I can slaughter them at night ridding the world of them once and for all. lol NAH I could not be that evil, so total seclusion. Though I am of the mindset that I can and will overcome anything that I put my mind to, so I would focus on trying to control myself.
I want to be a werewolf to have a connection with the inner beast inside of myself and the natural world around me. Not just so that I look hot with my shirt off. So, even though the above is not the ideal version I would still jump at the chance.
are you really werewolf? you sound like one. can you tell me how you became one?
Like I said this is already what I am…the 3 days of the full moon only intensifies the wolf instinct. I’ve been a wolf now for 30 years I know how to control certain things, other things I will never be able to control. But it is true that we are real. No I am not crazy, But I have been diagnosed with lycanthropy. I’m not gonna going to eat too much more detail, But he have it.
I don’t think I’d want to be like that. I’d want to at least have some control over my powers. It would be like what happens to Hulk: when I get angry or excited or scared, I become the raging beast. However, my human state of mind would be awake just enough so that I’d at least have some hope of control. Stuff like that.
Plus, I might have some control over my transformations… assuming I could calm myself down before anything bad happened.
Yes. Human me has always been too cautious and considerate and it’s gotten me nowhere. If I’m a mindless beast half the time that kills everything in its path then so be it. Too many people in the world and I’d truly be doing mankind a favor in my beast form.
I would totily!!!!!!!!!
yes i would. the only thing keeping me going is to turn into the thing i love the most. i need the help.
At the risk of being a hypothetical buzzkill: lolno.
This question would be a lot more interesting if the proposed change only happened on the full moon, or at most the three days around one like in the Buffyverse. The tradeoff between badass supernatural powers while human with occasional torturous, horrifying loss of control as a werewolf is tempting in its doability when it’s just once a month… but every single night? That’s ridiculous – it’s over 30% of your lifespan (or more than half if it’s a dusk-to-dawn thing) and would make it virtually impossible to function as a person in society.
Unless you immediately chartered a jet to the Canadian/Siberian wilderness *and* acquired expert survival skills before sundown, you’d end up either shot to death by police as you changed back or freezing naked in the forest within 48 hours. That’s no way to live, yo.
Yes, I did go overboard with that one and I considered changing it since it is a bit much…but, I kept it and look at how many people are still willing to be that werewolf.
Actually, even if I got to choose what kind of werewolf, I still wouldn’t willing become one.
I find werewolves that retain full humanity to be rather boring; it is these “ferocious” werewolves that intrigue me. Lycanthropy is curse, and, in my opinion, it should treated as a metaphor for the inner nature of the human soul. It is the struggle between the human side and the wolf side that defines a werewolf, and it is because of this struggle that, I believe, we find ourselves drawn to them. In the literary world, when one becomes a werewolf, he changes his physical appearance, which should also reflect a transformation in his personality. He experiences abnormal behavior, which conflicts with (or enhances, for evil characters like Fenrir in Harry Potter) his nature. We sympathize with these protagonists who try to fight off the curse, hoping for a resolution their identity crisis. We feel a renewed sense of enmity when a villain uses the curse for his own means. However, when one turns into a werewolf without this inner change, we, as the audience, are left confused. When this happens, I find myself asking: “Okay… he’s a wolf. So what?”
When we imagine ourselves as werewolves, we project ourselves onto these werewolf protagonists. We take their conflicts, and we try to resolve it in our own way. Some lean towards the human side and others to the wolf side, but we always find ourselves somewhere in the middle. We all find some aspects of the “wolf” desirable, but I’m pretty sure that we all want the freedom to be something else. To be unrestrained by society’s expectations, to be able to act on your gut instinct instead of your conscience–that is what being a werewolf is about. Those of you who say “yes” probably already realized this; those of you who say “no” probably have not.
That being said, I find myself being unwilling to yield my conscience for such freedom, as I learned from a dream I had years ago.
(I’m sure there are more interpretations of werewolves out there, but I think this theme is the most common. It seems to have determined what we decide to be “good” werewolf fiction. Have a differing opinion? Or a different interpretation? I’d like to hear about it =P)
haha! The werewolf was created to represent the teenage boys! personality changes, increased appetite, and hair growing out all over their bodies^^
Like I said this is already what I am…the 3 days of the full moon only intensifies the wolf instinct. I’ve been a wolf now for 30 years I know how to control certain things, other things I will never be able to control. But it is true that we are real. No I am not crazy, But I have been diagnosed with lycanthropy. I’m not gonna going to eat too much more detail, But he have it.
No. Based on this description I would not. One thing I find interesting though is this lingering idea that it is the animal side that makes such a werewolf a fierce mindless killer yet it is people who kill for reasons outside food or defence. People are capable of great things but also such horrendous depravity which simply OS not found in any animal not even wolves. It is part of what makes werewolves interesting to me, the fierce power of an animal controlled by the mind of a person. In this scenario seems to combine the psychological disorder with actual transformation and I am crazy enough thank you :P
Couple of questions:
– As this kind of werewolf, would I have any sort of increased healing or stamina, or a longer/shorter lifespan?
– How strong would I be in werewolf form? Would I easily be able to lock myself so I don’t hurt people?
– Are there any other werewolves, and how would we feel about each other? If my husband was one too would we kill each other or have animal sex all night?
– Would I remember the nights when I was back in human form?
– If the transformation is connected to daylight, couldn’t I just have a bunch of sunlight lamps in my house to prevent transforming?
1. Slightly increased healing, regular lifespan that may be slightly elongated due to your healing.
2. Slightly increased strength. You can’t lift and throw a car, but you could lift and throw a person.
3. There are others, but you are all very instinctual and territorial. You don’t like others in your area, you see it as a threat. It’s like the vampires in Tanya Huff’s Blood Books, they can’t live amongst others without wanting to attack.
4. Yes, you would remember.
5. No, it’s not a matter of science, it’s a curse. A sunlamp won’t save you. The rules of the curse are you turn at sunset.
i had been studying werewolves since last year and in theyre culture you can say is a culture the most amazing thing of it is that theyre all over the world
Licaon first one -Greece
The Laignach Faeled -Ireland
The Eigi Einhamr-Scandinavia
The Loup-Garou-France
The Bete du Gaveudán-France
The Benadatti-Italy
Gottskalk-Iceland
Peter Stube – Germany
Gilles Garnier-France
etc..
if you read this you must see that most of them are packs i would like to be this beast not only for the amazing strenght that lives in this creature the most important for me is the social part and if someone choose me to be on his werewolf pack i will be disposed to give my life to my pack and my leader.
my werewolf name will be Lucian ,The lycanthrope.
Nope.
Every night is a bit too frequent for blanking out. Tis a bit too much like binge drinking.
…Though if the beast is only vicious towards humans, then I suppose it wouldn’t be too problematic. Live in the deep woods, ward of encroachment.
Absolutely. For me this is not fiction, i know its real and becoming one would be like unleashing the caged beast inside you. I am already a wolf therian. But it takes time and training to shift. But becoming a werewolf would be cool and I disagrre with teh mindles beast part, I think that with some training you could manage to have control and once you have control it for me would be to be free and no worries expet watching out for humans. It would be my liberation.
I would I have been researching werewolfs and magic and I might be able to change me when I am a werewolf to not be so ficious
Yes yes
Yeah, cud I have some preperation time first tho? Like getting a place to change or a huge hunk of meat to drag around while I’m human so when I go wolf I’ll have a scent to follow?
to this specific version of lycanthropy I would say there is one piece missing. If I cannot control myself as a wolf fine, but can the wolf be reasoned with as it were, could the wolf side become familiar with someone enough that they wouldn’t kill them on scent. If that could happen and the two sides didn’t burn my body out than I would say yes.
Not under those terms. And the reason is it eliminates partying at midnight on December 31st. At least the normal way of partying. LOL
Yes I would. Because I would be part of a pack and that would be worth it. I have no family to worry about hurting so I’m ok with it all.
But it is a werewolf
i don’t wantto kill my famly
still after reading that i still would want to be a werewolf i would just lock myself away were no one is able to find me plus the ony thing to do is tame the beast within
yes after reading all hat i still would want to be a werewolf id just have to try to tame the beast within
There’s a dark beast within the heart of man that screams for release. In some of us, that beast screams louder than others. It is violent, uncontrollable, and in constant control of our daily lives. We control this inner beast through various means of controlled release–punching pillows and walls, yelling at loved ones, listening to thrash metal, playing violent video games, watching horror movies, screaming, etc. The more time we devote to activities that our inner beast desires, the less control it has over us outside of those activities.
My inner beast is of the sort that one can never completely control. A werewolf can be chained, isolated, locked away–but not this inner beast. Due to the werewolf being more controllable than my inner beast, I would gladly become a werewolf to rid myself of this scourge.
Its kind of a stalemate between every night and losing control, but I still shoose yes. For one I don`t know waht to do with my life other than write books, but this also bores me as well. I wouldn`t go out of my way to kill evereyone who pisses me off,but if I could get to a secluded location when I transform then that would be good. Besides I still have the human crave to have more than what I already have, being a practical instinctive beast seems to be fun, if I could remeber anything of the night of course.
I pick yes because there’s nothing for me to do with my life. It might give me an excuse to haul up in the mountains.
Well when you become a werewolf it’s not every night but every full moon and you do know what you are doing .You need maybe 1 year to controle yourself when full moon .And i’m YES
I will always choose yes as long as I can still be the massively built creature that kills for fun:)
But hang on, if you chose who will be one how will you like give for exampel me this power, how will you make me a werewolf like you describe it if I am in sweden?
Yes. Anything supernatural is more fascinating than normal boring stuff, and becoming a part of supernatural ‘community’ in any form,I believe, is a great honor. Personally I would choose a werewolf as I always ‘adored’ them in some way and I still do. Maybe because people used to make fun of me for many reasons and becoming such a strong and feared creature would make up for this in some way.
I KNOW RIGHT!!! I always have wanted to be something more, but 2 everyone else its an obsession with werewolves. Whats wrong with wanting something extrodinary?
When I fall asleep I have very little control over what I do, I’m a heavy sleeper. How would turning into a werewolf make any difference? I’m sure there would be a degree of remorse finding out about people I have killed, but I would have had no control over what and who the beast killed. I would take as many precautions as I could, but there is no guarantee once I loose consciousness. I have family out in Alaska, lot’s of game, and open space, I would most likely take that road. A happy werewolf, with lot’s of clean air, water, and meat.
Yes I would
thats some inspiration there and yes even after that reading that i still want to become a werewolf
Wake up. Drag your self to work. Work all day, never moving up. Go home. Sleep.
VS
Wake up. Find clothes. Look for any corpse. Clean up evidence. Stay in cave alone, in peace. Blue moon rises, feel your whole body change. Become unstoppable force. Wake up etc.
Being a beast is better than just plain old normal life. Ever hear the song Pain by 3 days grace? “I’d rather feel pain then nothing at all”
I would choose the human form, because I would like to keep my humanity.
i sure do wanna become werewolf….. not because i want to be something extraordinary… but because i never really felt comfortable with what i am….a wolf is the closest thing that i can b comfortable to..
Given the choice – I wouldn’t like to be turned.
If turned against my will I’d go somwhere to keep as far away from other humans/werewolves as possible.
Wow, you guys have given lots of amazing answers :) I love reading all of them.
i would love to be a werewolf i would only kill bad ppl
i dont care who i kill i wnt to feel ythe best within and become one with the wolf.
Given a choice, yes, I would. Since I don’t have anything better to do but work all night and sleep most of the day, why in the hell not? Besides, It would give me a perfect excuse to move out in a secluded area ( like in the woods ) to live in. Only as a precaution not to harm anyone. It will be a very hard life to live, but an interesting life.
I would still want to be one. It seems interesting.
Hi I would if wernt already one lol sure id b fine but not mindless intelegence unleashed in the form to do what I please kill hunt what have u but at the end of the night I crash and burn out like a candle in the wind
No way. Not under those conditions.
For one, that would leave someone unable to work from constant shifting, soreness, and feelings of exhaustion. You may have to sleep during the day to recover if your wolf form keeps on all night. Given this, you’d have to live off someone else, or off the land. Unless you go with work-your-own-hours jobs.
Since you’re constantly at risk of harming something in the wolf form as well, this can also get you killed if someone is armed and shoots you.
Definetly not something I would accept.
of course the werewolf is my favourite creature at any conditions my anser will always be YES !!
I would love I become a werewolf. The only done side is the transforming every night. But, I would still want to be that werewolf.
I choose yes because even if you lose your human self you are still a werewolf. And in A lot of stories about werewolves the werewolf always seems to gain control of himself and can run free without killing, you never said anything about not gaining control. So I say yes.
why do my comments on werewolves.com keep disapering. moonlight please tel me what im doing woring in your next comment. i go by guner99
Because I delete them for breaking the rules https://www.werewolves.com/i%E2%80%99m-cracking-down-on-you-naughty-wolves/
You are not a werewolf and I don’t like liars.
The mutated human wolf hydrid form sounds appetizing but the rest of it? I dont know, will I be easily killed even in wolf form? Will I be immortal?
i would do anything to be a werewolf, even if i loose my humanity everynight. i think it would be worth it and i would praise the lord to become a werewolf
Absolute sheer power and being able to be free and kill anything with no remorse
yes i would like to be that kind werewolf
Yes I would love to transform I to one even though I can’t control it
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