Thread: Moonchild (Ninja and Amy)

Rafe gave a hard laugh at her next barrage of questions and comments. No, I can assure you, vampires don't sparkle unless they choose to. The image of the romantic vampire is quite a misconception. More often than not, vampires are just like you or me. Well...not us, per se, but they are just people thrown into a larger world and most are just trying to get by. The older ones are quite potent physically and politically, and they play a large political game called the Jihad, using younger vampires as pawns in a grand game of politics. But most vampires are just trying to make it through another night. Some things are true, sunlight will kill them, as will beheading, they can be killed with mortal weapons, but it takes a lot, shotguns are especially effective, but they shrug off most bullets. And they do feed on blood for their sustenance and to fuel their powers. But like us, vampires are different. There are different bloodlines that give different powers. Some are ugly as shit and keep to the shadows, using invisibility, some are beautiful and weave a supernatural charm, and others still are brutes and have great strength, and yet others have mental powers. Vee is...well, you'll meet her. She's nice enough and like I said, if something happens to me, you can turn to her, she'll keep you safe. Speaking of weaknesses, you have one. Silver. That part isn't a lie, at least not for werewolves it isn't. I don't care about silver, and you can hold and touch the stuff just fine, but wounds caused by silver will hurt you badly, it'll burn and it'll take much longer to head than a normal wound for a normal human. Like a burn. You will recover eventually, and normal wounds you can heal up pretty quickly. It really takes a lot to actually kill a lycanthrope, I've seen some get hit by full semi trucks and get back up and fight. You're keen on the observation about wolves and bears. Wolves are pack animals, and they have a tight-knit community and a history that goes back to before the recorded history of humans. They have their own take on how the world was formed, who their gods are, and what they're supposed to do. Bears are loners because we can be. Nothing starts a fight with a bear in it's natural environment and a bear can walk around with only other bears to really worry about. A bear has the strength to knock down a small tree to get what it wants. I'm not saying I'm better or worse than werewolves, it's just a matter of using what you've got. A bear can walk right into an ambush with both eyes open and get out with strength and will alone. A wolf will never walk into an ambush, not on it's worse day. Werewolves are cunning, fast, and have the strength of a pack...well most do. Werebears are strong beyond what you know strength is, and that's why we rarely clash. A pack of werewolves will most certainly do in a werebear, but a werebear is certainly going to kill a good number of them, if not most. A pack can't handle that kind of loss and maintain it's territory. Then Rafe leaned forward with a serious look on his face, looking her dead in the eyes. You listen to this next part, it's important. I've got enemies, don't get me wrong, but they know me and they respect me for what I can do. I'm not a cub, and I'm not stupid, and I've got the blood on me to prove it. No one knows you. No one will care about you. Just because you're a werewolf doesn't make you a friend to other werewolves. Strength and will are what matter to them. Older, stronger packs aren't going to want to waste their time training a new kid that hasn't proven anything, unless they need new blood to keep them strong. A pack that's hurt or small might be willing to take you on, but you will get pushed around and you're going to have to push back to prove your worth, but not so much that people start to hate you. Like humans, just because werewolves are the same race doesn't mean they like each other, even though they have more reason to band together than to split up and fight one another. You've got other enemies you don't know about either...Spirits, Idigam, some vampires don't like lycanthropes, but right now you're most vulnerable to the Pure. The Pure are werewolves motivated by an ideology of hate and selfishness. Different ones have different motives, some see themselves as the ultimate predators, even over humans, some have religious differences, but the Pure are either going to try to recruit you or waste you. If you see another werewolf, you'll know them, you'll smell them, and you smell aggression, hard aggression for no reason...you get ready to run or fight for your life.