For a little exposition, Say

[color=DimGray]"peep while taking a moonlit walk in the park is attacked by a massive beast! By sheer luck, they were able to escape the situation alive and even more miraculously with all their limbs. Though during the struggle, along with being covered with survivable but none the less painful claw marks, They were bitten!

[color=DimGray]As things died down and they regain composure, They pulled out their phone, about to call the police or animal control or something; The Moon reflects off their phone giving them a clear view of it. They slowly lose focus on what they were doing and become unusually fixated on the moon; Only being pulled out of the daze once their flesh begins to burn and itch as their body writhes with pain; as if their very anatomy was changing!

[color=DimGray]Dropping their phone in the proses of this spontaneous and unbearable pain, Their home screen flickers on as the device connects with the grassy floor; Revealing that the person had a "Furry Themed Background" to put it lightly.

[color=DimGray]The pain finally fading, The person looks at their hands and forearms. Shocked seeing that they were now completely covered with a jet black mane of fur."

What do you think would happen? (from there?)

Thought this would make for a pretty neat scenario since usually when a peep has this kinda transformation, It's seen as a curse and treated as something they would need to hide. And while that would still need to be a thing in the scenario I'm pitching, Since Furry-Doods have-

"Another View On Things"

When it comes to beast-like peep, How would you think a Furry
would take the news of becoming a real Werewolf?
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Would they abuse the transformation, and turn it into a blessing,
or would it be the classic "I must hide from society and sight!" story?

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Edit/Add-On:

In regards to a huge bit of how this
werewolf-ness in this scenario works is that carries
half the effects of classic transformation.

Were a person still has their mind intact during and after the transformation but, as shown during the exposition that can change and massively too and it all depends on your hunger.

Over time in the lupin state, the person will feel intensely, maddeningly hungry for meat! Now this state can be tamed by keeping a few steaks in the fridge, Able to think as you normally would if you were fully human.

But if no source is nearby the more likely the person will go into a feral state and began to attack and eat the next thing they see that's made of meat! Cat, Dog, Rat Or even another person!

Depends on your werewolf mythology.

One tradition holds that the werewolf loses control of themselves as a result of the transformation, and becomes an extremely violent, rapacious, mindless beast. They commit heinous acts in werewolf form, but perfectly remember their actions after the fact.

That certainly doesn't sound like fun to me. I would probably find myself caught between an active desire to commit suicide and my own instinct for self-preservation. Certainly, I would appreciate that I'd be a danger to society, but isolating oneself from society is a non-trivial proposition. Well, maybe less so today now that more people rent and fewer own property, but shy of trying to become a rock-thumping hermit on a distant mountain, it would still be an unconsciounable choice between who to endanger.

That's hoping, in a twisted way, that I do remember my actions as a werewolf. Under some traditions, the afflicted doesn't recall their actions. I think having to come to the realization that the monster plaguing society is me, through indirect means, would be extraordinarily difficult to cope with. I would probably resist the idea strongly enough that someone would find a silver bullet first.

What sort of werewolf? There were a number of different ones. There's the one that's basically human (or in your case, furry) but occasionally possessed by a wolfish spirit. There's one that's basically a straight transform of the body from one shape to the other, requiring the shapeshifter to learn how to be a wolf. There's the really nasty one that uses a cursed belt, skin, or other garment to transform the body into that of a monster wolf with a really nasty disposition. And there's the traditional cursed werewolf that comes out at the full moon to rip everyone to shreds and is the one vulnerable to inherited silver.

Of course, we should also keep in mind Terry Pratchett's point that, as much as humans hate werewolves, regular wolves hate them just as much.

Notkastar said:
When it comes to beast-like peep, How would you think a Furry
would take the news of becoming a real Werewolf?
╹‿╹)
Would they abuse the transformation, and turn it into a blessing,
or would it be the classic "I must hide from society and sight!" story?

ikdind said:
One tradition holds that the werewolf loses control of themselves as a result of the transformation.

I must say I'd probably react in a similar way if that was the case.

Though for my answer I thought that you'd still have control of your actions, but be in a different body.

I think the choice of what you'd do would be more down to society's view on werewolves. Not to mention that everybody takes good/bad news differently, it's not like all furries would act the same.

If it's in a real world scenario I'd defiantly go the "avoid every living thing" route. I mean, how would you react if you were walking home one night and a werewolf was walking towards you? I guess it also matters if you could speak, generally werewolves can't, so you couldn't explain that you aren't going to kill someone. Then, if you didn't get shot by the police the first night, there's always the prospect of becoming a science experiment. Though that could be a good thing, as they probably wouldn't treat you like a prisoner, and it could end up with controlled transformation or being turned back..

If it's a more imaginary furry world where people accept werewolves and people get turned into them relatively often, then there wouldn't be much of a threat. So it'd be easier to just go about your werewolf-y day. At worst you could run into the forest, sit around a campfire, and hang out with your other werewolf buddies. And maybe you'd get a free day off work, as I imagine transforming would take a lot out of you.

Clawstripe said:
Of course, we should also keep in mind Terry Pratchett's point that, as much as humans hate werewolves, regular wolves hate them just as much.

I really should read some more of Terry Pratchett's books. I stopped after reading through the Rincewind storyline, and after hearing of Terry's death. I guess part of me doesn't want to finish them, knowing there won't be any more, or that I get sad while reading them as I'm reminded that a great author is no longer with us..

Most furries are weird so it'd probably end horribly. You'd also *have* to keep it secret because not only will people panic at the sight of you but, once the government finds out, you're going to wake up strapped to a metal table with your chest cut open.

Personally, assuming I don't lose control and aren't a hideous monster (Van Helsing is the ideal) I'd move to a small forest town and start a cult.

Pupslut said:
Though for my answer I thought that you'd still have control of your actions, but be in a different body.

I think the choice of what you'd do would be more down to society's view on werewolves. Not to mention that everybody takes good/bad news differently, it's not like all furries would act the same.

This reminds me of the take on werewolves in one episode of Love, Death & Robots, where werewolves are basically like any other human, except supernaturally strong, have supernatural healing, speed, vision, smell, etc. but face strong racial discrimination.

But I personally didn't understand why werewolves, as a race with rather ridiculously Übermensch-level powers, would have chosen to put up with the discrimination and otherwise sought to fit in with plain vanilla punk-humans. I feel like Pratchett reaches a more natural conclusion, that at worst they'd set up feudal lordships, if not capable of organizing into higher-level governmental systems of warrior elites over human slaves or serfs, a la Sparta from Ancient Greece.

I suppose if I were raised human but then later learned that I was such a werewolf, I would probably make token efforts to fit in with my friends and social circles as I already knew how, and decide what to do next if/when those friends learned of my status and changed their behavior. Except that's not really an interesting answer to me, because that's pretty much what I do now as a furry fan.

Wow, Gotten some pretty good replies so far.╹‿╹)~★
Big thanks to all those who have replied!

haven't gotten the chance to check them out until now
since I finally finished the doodle I was working on.

Btw Happy (Almost) Easter Everyone!
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And In regards to a huge bit of how this
werewolf-ness in this scenario works is that carries
half the effects of classic transformation.

Were a person still has their mind intact during and after the transformation but, as shown during the exposition that can change and massively too and it all depends on your hunger.

Over time in the lupin state, the person will feel intensely, maddeningly hungry for meat! Now this state can be tamed by keeping a few steaks in the fridge, Able to think as you normally would if you were fully human.

But if no source is nearby the more likely the person will go into a feral state and began to attack and eat the next thing they see that's made of meat! Cat, Dog, Rat Or even another person!

Sounds like the symptoms of lycanthrophy are pretty trivial to mitigate and treat, then. Not much of curse, to be honest. I could at least see there being some kind of stigma associated with the disorder, but no more so than other treatable mental disorders. Since the craving comes gradually, I expect it would at most be embarrassing to make that first trip to the store, buying a couple of hams or chickens, or something. Hopefully with the presence of mind to use cash, yes?

But if I could preserve my identity for that first night, I would be alarmed if anyone even took notice of the subsequent change in my (human-form) shopping habits.

I'm a fan of monsters and curses being genuinely, absolutely bad things. Bram Stoker bad. Primal forces of evil that deservedly terrify the populace, and demand extraordinary countermeasures, because they threaten entire populaces. Otherwise why use them? Why evoke them only to neuter their threat? Heck, I was disappointed when the "demons" of Netflix's Castlevania turned out to be generic monsters made by pug-humans, because "vampires, even Dracula, can't actually summon forces from hell", or something. (And it's probably needless to say, I took great umbrage at "sparkling in the daylight", from you know what.)

Anyways. I eat a few steaks every now and then. Or since farm-to-table has become a trend, I find a farmer and purchase half a cow every so often. And then life goes on, same as it ever did.

The more I think about it, the less I'm even worried about being discovered. I manage my sick leave and vacation time. I take a greater interest in astronomy, and learn a few more of the brighter stars and constellations and where they sit in the night sky. (Heck, I grew up staring at the Big Dipper/Ursa Major and the North Star, and my primary school taught me enough of the zodiac constellations that I can generally find at least one whenever I try.)

I guess what I really need to buy into this is some source of friction. Is the world itself suddenly terrifying in ways I couldn't have foreseen? Will I come home to find my neighbor waiting for me, staring at me, seeing me for what I am and oh God, this person eats people; I have no idea how I suddenly know this, but I do and this person will absolutely make a meal of me if I give them half the chance? Will my workplace suddenly have an upsetting smell that turns out to be a coworker I once liked, except they're exactly what I am; only they were here first and this is unambiguously their territory and now I'm an intruder who's stinking up their place? Will I be sitting in a park later that day, trying to gather my senses, when I notice someone in a belltower with a rifle and a silver bullet?

ikdind said:
But I personally didn't understand why werewolves, as a race with rather ridiculously Übermensch-level powers, would have chosen to put up with the discrimination and otherwise sought to fit in with plain vanilla punk-humans.

My idea on this is that if werewolves were being discriminated against, then surely if they decided they were sick of the discrimination and tried to do something about it then things would only get worse for them. They're already hated/feared, so any aggression would lead to more fighting, and despite being powerful, I imagine they'd lose due to numbers. Also, I could be wrong, but I imagine the supernatural healing wouldn't help too much against a few bullets to the head, or a grenade.

Having said that, wasn't there a movie with x-men's Wolverine in where he gets shot in the head, lives, but loses his memories? If we made that a bit more realistic then you'd lose a lot more than just memories, like your subconscious knowing how to move your muscles, and depending on how far that effect goes, and how much actually remains or grows back, your brain might not realise it has to tell your heart when to beat. At best, you wouldn't be able to talk, as that's definitely learned, you certainly wouldn't know how to fight.. You'd probably be less than a wild animal.

On balance I think I much prefer the "super-human werewolves can't survive a headshot" approach. Dealing with a fully grown werewolf that has the knowledge of a toddler sounds pretty bad.

Got on a bit of a tangent there, but in short, I think they'd put up with it because it'd make their situation much worse to do anything about it, and if there were fights over it, even if they were super-human, then they'd still lose.

Notkastar said:
Over time in the lupin state, the person will feel intensely, maddeningly hungry for meat! Now this state can be tamed by keeping a few steaks in the fridge, Able to think as you normally would if you were fully human.

ikdind said:
Sounds like the symptoms of lycanthrophy are pretty trivial to mitigate and treat, then.

Maybe tile the floor of one room, buy a ton of meat, then be there when you transform. Considering what seems to make werewolves more feral is their hunger, you can quite quickly sort that out with some planning. Like you said, it'd become more of an inconvenience really.

As another tangent, it kinda reminds me of vampires in the Elder Scrolls games, the longer you go without food the more feral you are. I guess a lot of mythological/horror style creatures work the same. Further tangent, I ended up modding skyrim to make vampires more powerful after feeding, as surely a full vampire would be worse to deal with than a weaker, feral one? Plus it means you need to feed to keep your powers, instead of starving yourself.

ikdind said:
The more I think about it, the less I'm even worried about being discovered. I manage my sick leave and vacation time. I take a greater interest in astronomy, and learn a few more of the brighter stars and constellations and where they sit in the night sky.

Well you'd need at least 24 days off, which wouldn't leave much time for actual time off. If you were ok telling everyone then work would probably be ok with it. If not then it'd be much harder to hide, I'm sure on the calendar that one day off every two weeks would look a bit odd. How would you play it? Saying you were a part of a cult of moon worshippers?

ikdind said:
I guess what I really need to buy into this is some source of friction.
[..]
Will I be sitting in a park later that day, trying to gather my senses, when I notice someone in a belltower with a rifle and a silver bullet?

Maybe not in the UK, but possibly America, where people have the right to carry a gun, it'd be a bit more scary. Obviously it's only meant for self defense, but then I'm sure if you're walking along and a werewolf walks out, that'd count. And despite being tougher, I imagine normal bullets would work just as well, and if not, then when you transform back you'd still have the bullets inside you.

So that'd make the world a bit scarier, if anyone saw you they'd panic and shoot you. So, at least in werewolf form, you'd want to avoid being seen.

To be honest Doods
I wasn't really going for the full-on struggles of being a feral beast when it came to this thread since the conclusion would be straight forward. It would play out like a monster movie and being a furry in that case would mean much since your lifestyle would pretty much default to the same if you weren't with the furry-doods. Ya know? ╹‿╹)

Rather I thought making the Werewolf curse more casual would open the door to a lot more exploration into the "Fun" parts of such a story.
^{(The limitation was there mostly to give a reason to how he was bitten/turn in the first place.)}

As a sort of "Monkey's Paw" scenario where a person who THINKS they want to be a real-life furry is given the chance to actually become one. How would he abuse that power, What would happen another 'Not so stable' furry found out?

Quick Idea:

What if he willingly revealed these powers to his friends and caused one of them to snap mentally, wanting to be with them at all cost BECAUSE he's a werewolf and the living version a fantasy? He could end up getting kidnapped! Little does the kidnapper know of the conditions of those powers; Trapped without any source of meat could lead to the person finally losing control after having it under control for so long.[/b]

BOOM!

Insta-Drama, ripe for the picking! ◠‿◠)

And I feel like that's only the tip of the tower when it comes to "casual horror" and neat stories to come from such a 'Curse'. ╹‿╹)~★

Pupslut said:
My idea on this is that if werewolves were being discriminated against, then surely if they decided they were sick of the discrimination and tried to do something about it then things would only get worse for them. They're already hated/feared, so any aggression would lead to more fighting, and despite being powerful, I imagine they'd lose due to numbers. Also, I could be wrong, but I imagine the supernatural healing wouldn't help too much against a few bullets to the head, or a grenade.

The probable outcome would hinge on the level of technology at the time of their attempted takeover, weighed against their numbers. Modern society? Certainly more difficult, and there may be problems with "patriot" werewolves who believe in their human-based governments, regardless of discrimination issues, or out of some belief that it was their proper place. See also: Love Death and Robots' interesting take on modern werewolves, actually incorporated in the U.S. military and employed as lead scouts for patrols.

But in earlier eras, where there were fewer humans and a lower overall tech level, the supernatural advantages make a coup far more likely to succeed, given that werewolves' supernatural healing makes them extraordinarily difficult to kill without proper advance preparation.

But suppose werewolves had their shot, took it, and failed. In retaliation, they're hunted nearly to extinction, and are driven underground. It still seems plausible that at least some would simply act with greater subtlety, forming cults and secret societies around themselves, that could potentially infiltrate human government and still control it, even if the werewolves evaluated themselves to be too few in number for a direct confrontation.

Pupslut said:
As another tangent, it kinda reminds me of vampires in the Elder Scrolls games, the longer you go without food the more feral you are. I guess a lot of mythological/horror style creatures work the same.

Well, that's another mythology, and especially recently there are many such mythologies to choose from. Maybe I could've have been more direct about this point, but the extent to which being a werewolf is good or bad has everything to do with the rules around it that make it good or bad. As a purely physical transformation, it's simply different. And especially today, with groups clamoring for the public equalization of so many different, previously ostracized minorities, it seems like being a rational, civilized werewolf would have very little impact on one's life.

...again, unless there's other elements of the fiction that make life harder, or that make lycanthropy more of a bona fide curse.

Werewolves in Elder Scrolls fiction seem to have a random chance of being mindless, bloodthirsty beasts, but are not so powerful or numerous that regular humans can't overpower them. Hence why the public at large is afraid of them in ES lore (because some are truly mindless beasts that must be destroyed for the good of society), and why they form secret societies instead (because the civilized, rational ones wouldn't be able to overpower the authorities). And those secret societies treat the feral werewolves as a threat just as much as the regular humans do.

Pupslut said:
Well you'd need at least 24 days off, which wouldn't leave much time for actual time off.

Woah woah woah, full moons are every 4 weeks, not every 2. So that's 12-13 days off, which is quite reasonable even by U.S. employment standards, not including fortuitously timed national holidays, and roughly 2 of every 7 full moons falling on a weekend, all of which can be predicted years in advance, because the curse literally works like clockwork. Add in the occasional "blue flu" (or, I guess in this case, "black plague"?) and it seems quite reasonable to arrange the time off to accommodate the curse.

But granted, if you had to deal with the condition every 2 weeks, say on both full moons and new moons (for whatever reason), it would have a decidedly greater impact on one's life. But then we come to the trappings of modern society, though, where I would imagine a condition that inconvenient probably has some support groups on the internet, if not full classification as a legal disability. I'm generally thinking about classical European mythology werewolves, but transporting that concept forward into the modern world simply brings a lot of complexity that needs to be addressed.

Pupslut said:
If you were ok telling everyone then work would probably be ok with it. If not then it'd be much harder to hide, I'm sure on the calendar that one day off every two weeks would look a bit odd. How would you play it? Saying you were a part of a cult of moon worshippers?

ikdind said:
Will I be sitting in a park later that day, trying to gather my senses, when I notice someone in a belltower with a rifle and a silver bullet?

Maybe not in the UK, but possibly America, where people have the right to carry a gun, it'd be a bit more scary. Obviously it's only meant for self defense, but then I'm sure if you're walking along and a werewolf walks out, that'd count. And despite being tougher, I imagine normal bullets would work just as well, and if not, then when you transform back you'd still have the bullets inside you.

So that'd make the world a bit scarier, if anyone saw you they'd panic and shoot you. So, at least in werewolf form, you'd want to avoid being seen.

Well, again, that's all been left unspecified so far. My thinking with the belltower and a rifleman might be a shadow organization of werewolf hunters, possibly with ties to the Church, since hunters of the supernatural have traditionally had some sort of ties or blessings from the Church. That could exist anywhere, though I suppose in the far-east where firearm ownership has been much more tightly restricted throughout history, the hunters would probably rely on silvered blades, instead, and/or have their secret hunter societies tied to local temples or priestly orders. ...this is actually something touched on by another episode of Love, Death and Robots.

Sidenote: I greatly enjoyed Love, Death and Robots. Though it did have a fair bit too much sex-violence in its themes for my tastes.

Notkastar said:
What if he willingly revealed these powers to his friends and caused one of them to snap mentally, wanting to be with them at all cost BECAUSE he's a werewolf and the living version a fantasy? He could end up getting kidnapped! Little does the kidnapper know of the conditions of those powers; Trapped without any source of meat could lead to the person finally losing control after having it under control for so long.[/b]

Well, now we're in rom-com territory? Maybe? I won't lie, I still kinda want to take it into more of a SAW-like direction. After the psychotic lover had chained the werewolf to a bed and forced themselves upon the werewolf on several occasions, the werewolf has gone sufficiently feral that they chew off their hands and ankles, followed shortly by the neck of the poor fool who captured them.

If society is lucky, the werewolf's hunger is sated by a single human body that night, that of the psychotic lover, and the werewolf wakes up mostly healed the next morning in a strange house halfways painted over in human blood, with perhaps some remaining vestiges of their abductor's gore left sitting somewhere, slowly attracting insects.

...and now we're talking my language, an interesting conundrum for the werewolf. For starters, do they call the authorities?

On the one hand, surely there's ample evidence showing how they'd been abducted and were completely powerless to control their condition. It would be like denying a dangerous psychotic their drugs, surely the werewolf cannot be held responsible for their actions.

On the other hand, the evidence of their carnage is literally painted on the walls. The police would surely start by placing the werewolf under arrest, lock them in jail, and -- if they were supremely fortunate -- take them to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation. Attempting to flee the scene would be quite understandable. Except, how long have they been missing, again? Their sudden reappearance, coinciding with the death of their captor, would be far too strong of a coincidence for the police to not put two-and-two together. That, and there is almost certainly an abundance of DNA evidence tying them to the scene. This would be a very short manhunt.

Either way, it's likely the life of the werewolf has been utterly shattered. Their employer likely fired them, they're likely facing court proceedings of some sort, and likely also have substantial medical and other emergency and legal bills they're going to be stuck with as part of the aftermath. And everyone will know they went on a murderous rampage.

:3

ikdind said:
Woah woah woah, full moons are every 4 weeks, not every 2. So that's 12-13 days off, which is quite reasonable even by U.S. employment standards, not including fortuitously timed national holidays, and roughly 2 of every 7 full moons falling on a weekend, all of which can be predicted years in advance, because the curse literally works like clockwork. Add in the occasional "blue flu" (or, I guess in this case, "black plague"?) and it seems quite reasonable to arrange the time off to accommodate the curse.

Gah! I was looking for the next half-moon recently, and got confused. With you talking about astronomy earlier, half-moons are pretty good as you can see the craters/mountains easier along the light/shadow line.

But yeah, it would be a lot easier to hide it than I first thought.

ikdind said:
[..] if not full classification as a legal disability.

"My disability is that I will rip you to shreds and eat you if you're near me on a full moon"

I couldn't help but chuckle a bit at that thought. Though if werewolves were accepted as being real and were just part of society, then you wouldn't really have to hide it. That and I'm not sure it'd really count as a disability, once a month needing to be locked in a room with a ton of meat. I think the biggest burden would be on the people who, if it was a thing, decided to help werewolves, providing them with a space to go so they knew they wouldn't hurt anyone. I feel that'd be the worst part, for the version of werewolves that aren't themselves, "what am I going to do?", "who am I going to hurt?" and "am I going to kill anyone?"

One thing that would be scary is that you could use it as a terror weapon. Isolate the bacteria/virus that causes lycanthropy and spread it to random people without them knowing. As, of course, the first night they transform they could be around friends and family, unaware of what's about to happen.

Then there'd also be people who hate society, or are lacking empathy, that purposefully go to a large area of people to transform.

Given that I've just thought of that, in a modern setting, would people still tolerate werewolves, if they transformed into something more feral and best-like?

Notkastar said:
To be honest Doods
I wasn't really going for the full-on struggles of being a feral beast when it came to this thread since the conclusion would be straight forward.

Ah, sorry. It's just where my mind first went with it.

Notkastar said:
As a sort of "Monkey's Paw" scenario where a person who THINKS they want to be a real-life furry is given the chance to actually become one. How would he abuse that power, What would happen another 'Not so stable' furry found out?

I'm not sure there's many ways to abuse it, other than make more furry wolves.

For your quick idea I thought, "who in their right mind would kidnap an f-ing werewolf of all things.." Though I suppose, like you said, they wouldn't be in their right mind.

I think, as a story, it'd start off consensual, having a bit of fun with the new wolf body with said friend, the friend slowly getting more obsessed till they tried some bondage and wouldn't let them go, maybe for filthy furry reasons, or maybe more of an obsessive wanting to protect them, thinking if someone else knows then they'll kidnap and experiment on the weerewolf. But then, as time goes on, they feed the human side of them but forgets to feed the wolf version, having them get more feral with each transformation until eventually ikdind's scenario plays out.

Quick Edit:
Accidentally put one of my quote boxes as being from Ikdind, when it was from Notkastar.

ikdind said:
Well, now we're in rom-com territory? Maybe? I won't lie, I still kinda want to take it into more of a SAW-like direction. After the psychotic lover had chained the werewolf to a bed and forced themselves upon the werewolf on several occasions, the werewolf has gone sufficiently feral that they chew off their hands and ankles, followed shortly by the neck of the poor fool who captured them.

If society is lucky, the werewolf's hunger is sated by a single human body that night, that of the psychotic lover, and the werewolf wakes up mostly healed the next morning in a strange house halfways painted over in human blood, with perhaps some remaining vestiges of their abductor's gore left sitting somewhere, slowly attracting insects.

...and now we're talking my language, an interesting conundrum for the werewolf. For starters, do they call the authorities?

On the one hand, surely there's ample evidence showing how they'd been abducted and were completely powerless to control their condition. It would be like denying a dangerous psychotic their drugs, surely the werewolf cannot be held responsible for their actions.

On the other hand, the evidence of their carnage is literally painted on the walls. The police would surely start by placing the werewolf under arrest, lock them in jail, and -- if they were supremely fortunate -- take them to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation. Attempting to flee the scene would be quite understandable. Except, how long have they been missing, again? Their sudden reappearance, coinciding with the death of their captor, would be far too strong of a coincidence for the police to not put two-and-two together. That, and there is almost certainly an abundance of DNA evidence tying them to the scene. This would be a very short manhunt.

Either way, it's likely the life of the werewolf has been utterly shattered. Their employer likely fired them, they're likely facing court proceedings of some sort, and likely also have substantial medical and other emergency and legal bills they're going to be stuck with as part of the aftermath. And everyone will know they went on a murderous rampage.

:3

And not just that~

Optimistic Drama:

If they get back onto their feet they could find them selfs craving Human flesh. Even though at the time they were acting in pure blood lust, Doing what needed to be done to satisfy the gnawing hunger. Thinking back on that fateful moment of sheer savagery could make their mouth water. Realizing by either an effect of the curse or an extremely morbid pallet, nothing could compare to the flesh of his fellow man. Satisfying him so fully that nothing of any level or way can compare.

Yes...He had to have more...

(Honestly, I see that scenario turning more SAW-ish, Dood ◠‿╹)~★

It may even go in THIS direction!

Isn't that so cool to think about, Horror, action, and life mixing into
one as the world has to change as the werewolves make them self known
in society and society having to adapt on a dime to account for it!
A thrilling world where your friend next door could be a werewolf!

Or Possibly showing someone of such natural nature, fall into hell
(In a way of saying) and smiling the whole way down!~★
(If you don't think so that's cool and your view to totally valid ╹‿╹)

Pessimistic Ending:[/b]He would end up losing the home he once lived in, Possibly ending up on the street or park and without the ability to buy such sheer loads of meat to keep the feral impulses at bay, His town will begin to change...[/b]At first, people will start to notice they haven't seen many squirrels around lately. Next Local stray and even household dogs and cats would go missing until~ [/b]finally, there will be a news story about someone being attacked by a massive beast in the night and~[/b]How, somehow, They made it out..."Alive."(The cycle continues, the monkey's paw finds a new victim!)