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Which would you rather be - Vampire or Warewolf ?

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JAMERON4EVA

Monday, July 20, 2009 7:45 PM

Neither, i'd rather be a, T-REX. It's big, rude, crude, and nearly indestructable, seriously, only three dinosaurs are credited as being bigger.

SERYN

Monday, July 20, 2009 7:52 PM

Yeah, but T-rex's have those daft little arms and a brain even less efficient than your average Big Brother contestants, and they ate carrion. If I was going to be a dinosaur i'd go for a Velocirapter - small, fast and mean.

But i never was a big dino fan, i was always disappointed that Dragons didn't actually exist.

THESOMNAMBULIST

Monday, July 20, 2009 9:45 PM

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I'll agree with you that vampires aren't animals but thats mainly because what they actually are are corpses. bleurgh.

... Are they? Buffy is a necrophiliac!

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I can't recall a werewolf ever having gone to the vets, but i'm pretty sure poopascooping doesn't enter into the picture.

Ummmm. In this day an age!!? If werewolves did exsist one of the many clauses (er-hmm) should you be one or know of one, would be; make sure they don't eat people, that they've had their jabs and that they've been 'fixed' (Ouch!)!!! To add the usual recreational pursuits, such as 'walkies', would be subject to proper hygiene precaution. Should such an act be remise - a heavy fine would be landed by said Werewolf and/or owner. Real pain!

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As for the pack thing, werewolve have lived in every kind of way, solitary, in packs, in networks, communities and not even knowing if they aren't the only ones, its flexible.

Do they do the Times crossword too :) ?

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Were I a werewolf? I'm already a pack animal by nature, so why not - my entire life i've been surrounded by family, friends, multiple pets and random strays, i love the chaos and community so bring on pack life.

Fair 'nuff. To each their own I guess.

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I can't do solitary, just like i couldn't do with out plants, trees, sunlight, noise, bickering, creme brulee, christmasses and a dozen other things which vampires don't seem that into.

Who say's Vamps don't do creme brulee, or blamanche or even custard pies! I bet a vamp loves a good custard pie fight! Who doesn't ?

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Don't get me wrong, i'd love the chance to be all sexy and irrisistable (its only a glamour but then what is a push up bra?) dramatic and svelt. But after a while my own broodines and tortured soul searching for the meaning to an endless existence would just start to get right up my nose, 'd have to stake myself just for being a pretentious git.

Ahh you'r focussing on Angel here.. There are other vampires with a lot more sense of humour and fun. Willow vamp for instance.

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And i'm barely a decent meat eater, i couldn't cope with a blood diet.

Er if you're a werewolf you're hardly eating tofu and quiche y'know.

Also that morning after being a werewolf there's the horrible realisation that you'd probably spent most of the night licking your own nuts! Or worse still sniffing some other werewolfs bum....

Count me out! Count me Dracula..... (sorry couldn't resist)

Anyways it's all good. Wouldn't be any fun if we all wanted to be vamps would it.

BYTEMITE

Monday, July 20, 2009 10:42 PM

I think the ass licking would be worse than any other kind of licking, really. But you know how some dogs wipe by scooting?

I would hope and pray I'd be one of those. Either that, or extra strength industrial toothpaste.

Or I could put on one of those ridiculous neck collars before I went wolfie.

SERYN

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:30 AM

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Buffy is a necrophiliac!

In one sense yes, though on the other hand, i've a vague suspicion that real necrophiliacs wouldn't go anywhere a partner that could still move and talk to them...

At the very base of the legend they are the dead animated. Pretty much only a working vocabulary above zombies. At the other end, it doesn't seem to matter which book you read or film you watch, they have to be dead to be a vamp. I know of versions where they can be born with a vamp 'virus' or whatever, but true, fully powered up vamps are dead dead dead.

Angel too - even if he is all souled up and whatnot, she still did a dead guy.

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Ummmm. In this day an age!!? If werewolves did exsist one of the many clauses (er-hmm) should you be one or know of one, would be; make sure they don't eat people, that they've had their jabs and that they've been 'fixed' (Ouch!)!!! To add the usual recreational pursuits, such as 'walkies', would be subject to proper hygiene precaution. Should such an act be remise - a heavy fine would be landed by said Werewolf and/or owner. Real pain!

I have to point out that werewolves are WOLVES and not dogs. Their natural hunting grounds are going to be forests and other out of the way, uninhabited places, or even private land - in the books i talked about before, the pack spent a considerable amount of time and money aquiring vast tracts of NY state pine forest Even in being human the werewolf finds a forest with an abandoned house to change in. Even when away from home they would choose to run in wastelands, wooded areas, abandoned neighbourhoods and other places where sensible humans would venture little. The last place they would ever go would be manicured public parks with wardens and fine systems.

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Do they do the Times crossword too :) ?

I can think of at least one that does, another that paints for a living... another that lectures at a university... ;)

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Who say's Vamps don't do creme brulee, or blamanche or even custard pies! I bet a vamp loves a good custard pie fight! Who doesn't ?

The point would be that I like eating them! Most authors agree that vamps no longer eat food, there are a few exceptions, but on the whole no.
And throwing a creme brulee at someone would be pretty close to heresy! ;)

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Ahh you'r focussing on Angel here.. There are other vampires with a lot more sense of humour and fun. Willow vamp for instance..
fun, if torturing, killing, maiming and generally being really naughty is your idea of fun..
I was actually thinking of Louis du Pont du Lac or whatever his name was, Dracula himself to some extent, half a dozen other vamps that i've read about.. the only one I ever Liked was Lestat - but he was still a troublesome git.

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Er if you're a werewolf you're hardly eating tofu and quiche y'know.
I know - i'd be relying on the hope that while wolf i'd develop more of a liking for it, and have the stomach to deal with it. I can't see me staying human shaped and suddenly loving the runny protein.

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Also that morning after being a werewolf there's the horrible realisation that you'd probably spent most of the night licking your own nuts! Or worse still sniffing some other werewolfs bum....

It could go two ways. A, i'd be wolf formed but retain human conciousness, in which case no butt licking there or b, i'd be fully canine and not give a monkeys. The realisation on return to human form would be something you (might) eventually become accustomed to. Strong toothpaste, yes.

Scent is how canines communicate, hunt, bond and mate, they aren't just smelling the poop.

I'd also like to point out that not 24 hours ago i was watching a show and a vampire pointed out that he quite liked the vein at the top of the inside leg (Tru Blood) which isn't a million miles from the butt and also that a vast number of humans aren't adverse to a little mouth-to-bits contact, again not a million miles away fr

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NCBROWNCOAT

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 1:30 PM

Very interesting thread, especially since I'm in the middle of season 1 of True Blood in DVD and have read all the Twilight books (yes I know, but they were going around work and irresistable).

Being female and middle aged, the vampire seems to be the only choice...but I wouldn't mind remaining human and having an "encounter" with Bill or maybe even Eric?

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JAMERON4EVA

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 6:10 AM

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Yeah, but T-rex's have those daft little arms and a brain even less efficient than your average Big Brother contestants, and they ate carrion. If I was going to be a dinosaur i'd go for a Velocirapter - small, fast and mean.

But i never was a big dino fan, i was always disappointed that Dragons didn't actually exist.

FINE! if i had to be one, i'd be a damn waerwolf, there vicious, furry, and have such sharp teeth.

SERYN

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:29 AM

Oh i'm sorry! You can be a T-rex.

They did have that marvellous ability to walk in really slow motion (Jurrassic Park) and they are scary looking m******ers.

My niece went through a serious Land Before Time phase and the big bads in that are always T-Rex's - floaty light sing song pastel baby dino's and then this red coloured beastie come roaring and slavering through.

(and this post was bought to you by being up way past my bed time.)

THESOMNAMBULIST

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:17 PM

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At the very base of the legend they are the dead animated. Pretty much only a working vocabulary above zombies. At the other end, it doesn't seem to matter which book you read or film you watch, they have to be dead to be a vamp. I know of versions where they can be born with a vamp 'virus' or whatever, but true, fully powered up vamps are dead dead dead.

What abouy BLADE? How's he figure in all this mythos?

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I have to point out that werewolves are WOLVES and not dogs.

I was just going with the funny....

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The point would be that I like eating them! Most authors agree that vamps no longer eat food, there are a few exceptions, but on the whole no.
And throwing a creme brulee at someone would be pretty close to heresy! ;)

Ah yes but you do have to take into account that 'instincts' take over and things like Creme Brulee, well you just grow out of it, (in vamp form of course) and it no longer is an issue.

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fun, if torturing, killing, maiming and generally being really naughty is your idea of fun..

..and being a werewolf would involve no killing or maiming or - ok maybe not being naughty... But y'know close enough

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I know - i'd be relying on the hope that while wolf i'd develop more of a liking for it, and have the stomach to deal with it. I can't see me staying human shaped and suddenly loving the runny protein.

What for quiche? As a wolf?! You're kidding right? If you start watering down the essence of being a wolf, what exactly is it that you're drawn to in chosing to be a werewolf?

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It could go two ways. A, i'd be wolf formed but retain human conciousness, in which case no butt licking there or b, i'd be fully canine and not give a monkeys. The realisation on return to human form would be something you (might) eventually become accustomed to. Strong toothpaste, yes.

Well in terms of A, again you're moving yourself away from the 'animal' aspect to your curse - if you see it that way, which it doesn't sound like you do, so I'd have to say it sounds like yes, B. In which case Strong toothpaste it is :D Still if you are ready to accept your lot then you'd maybe not worry about that side of things after a while, which is fair enough. It's all just instinct so go with it I guess.

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Scent is how canines communicate, hunt, bond and mate, they aren't just smelling the poop.

Yes, but we've all seen those wildlife documentaries on the TV. When wolves meet, if they don't fight they sniff butt first!...And how about that whole Alpha male type thing within the wolf world. Would it come through amoungst other werewolves in society? Could you be at a dinner party with fellow werewolfers and suddenly the evening turns nasty on account of two males going for one female as the salmon mouse is passed around. Dinner would be a bust! Shocking disaster! Take more than after eight mints to smoothe that one out!

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I'd also like to point out that not 24 hours ago i was watching a show and a vampire pointed out that he quite liked the vein at the top of the inside leg (Tru Blood) which isn't a million miles from the butt

No it aint that's true - but it's far enough away, thank you very much!

Someone might know of it's name but that vein is often tapped into when people need to have their hearts looked at. I had a friend who had a medical camera put right into that vein as it goes all the way up to the heart. *shudders*

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and also that a vast number of humans aren't adverse to a little mouth-to-bits contact, again not a million miles away from the parts in question.

Well humans eh? I guess the leap to wolf isn't so great after all. A little lax on personal grooming and I dare say a lot of folk are almost there...

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no it wouldn't be at all fun if everyone were the same! In fact it would be miserable and a wee bit booring. And theres nothing to say the two couldn't happily co-exist. Infact I think there are several versions where the vamps had t

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BYTEMITE

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:50 PM

Unless I'm mistaken, Blade is a dhampir, a half human, half vampire born from a human female. Not a vampire.

And actually, in a wolf pack, there generally aren't fights over mates. Using the alpha male/female in that sense is a mistake. Generally, ONLY the alphas mate. Sometimes the alpha male mates with betas, and if the pack can handle the increased population, sometimes betas mate. But generally, because overpopulation will kill a wolf pack, the alpha wolves do NOT allow other wolves to mate. A bit of teeth snapping, tail between the legs, maybe even a submissive roll onto the back, and it's a done issue.

Hierarchy would be worked out at the very beginning of the dinner party, and would likely not be transgressed.

I'd be a lone wolf anyway, so I'm not too concerned.