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Cassidy

First, I GOTTA shout out my werewolf mutual @lightthemaskedone! She has a lot of werewolf aus with great art and writing, including a really well done werewolf cass au! love her stuff ^_^

In terms of my own take on werewolf cass though, I don't think she has much of a problem with it!

She was attacked either by some rando or, perhaps, one of her own teammates when she was with her esports team. Either way, that was a motivating factor in her switching to primarily streaming as a career.

Despite it being a pretty recent change, she's settled well into being a werewolf. She lives near a large forest that's mostly untouched so she can run around there every full moon, and her transformations are smooth and unobtrusive. Her wolf form is the most aggressive and territorial of these aus, but she has a pretty much airtight plan for isolating herself every month so no one runs into her.

It gets rough when in the killing game, though.

For all of these aus, I imagine that Tozu intentionally gives them carpeted floors and things that are easy to tear up in their rooms, as well as always keeping the nighttime sky in the courtyard a full moon so that there's uncertainty as to when they're going to transform. Thus, it's a total guessing game for when they're gonna have to figure out when to find a place to board up.

Cassidy, of course, is scouting something out immediately. Her first transformation occurs the night before the gaming tournament though, so any plans she has immediately run into a problem when she decides to lock herself up in the basement and finds Eva there.

Imagine? Imagine. Eva is setting up the trap and is busy wrapping up the battery and then the door slams open. And she turns around to see Cassidy with a wild look in her eyes and way too sharp teeth. Neither of them know what is going on anymore. Could be peak.

However, writing out everything that could be going on there is beyond the scope of this post. After a lot of panicking, some screaming, and the class getting involved, Cassidy gets locked in the generator room and the door is blocked.

Tozu surveys the situation, and does clarify that Cassidy is indeed a werewolf, but any further explanations are left up to when she turns back in the morning.

And you KNOW she's immediately downplaying it. To paraphrase a bit; "Guysss don't even worry about it! Yeah I'm a werewolf but honestly, Eva just kinda caught me by surprise? I totally had it handled. Besides, we're getting out before the next full moon anyway, so no more thinking about it!"

You can imagine everyone's reactions to that. Her treatment by the group as a whole becomes rocky as the thought of the violent, feral wolf scratching and howling at the door all night at every little sound cements itself into their memory. Welcome to the outgroup, girl.

Ingrid

Much to think about here. With her, lycanthropy is pretty damn tough to deal with.

Doesn't always have to be the most difficult scenario, though. Ingrid and her siblings were born werewolves, though their parents were turned so it's still kind of a new situation. As you can imagine, Ingrid has her hands full acting the parent here.

People who are born as werewolves have greater control over themselves when they change, and can choose to change outside of being forced by the full moon. Still doesn't make things easy, but Ingrid has been living with this curse her entire life and is… handling it.

Willfully transforms much less often than her siblings though; she finds it inconvenient and tough to work around, and a sense of responsibility leads her to struggle to find the time for it. Transforming frequently for a born lycanthropy is important to making sure they don't go crazy from the stress it builds up when they don't spare time for hunting and doing wolf stuff.

It could be way worse when she enters the killing game, all things considered. She's one of the few that's better off here, but there's still the issue of having absolutely no safe place to transform.

Her lycanthropy being revealed would be in a situation where she's pushed to protect someone. She actually gets through the full moon just fine by resisting transforming, but in a stressful situation, instincts are going to take priority.

Toshiko knows prior to everyone else finding out; Ingrid explained it to her when they became roommates. Everyone else finds out when there's a giant wolf-thing with a cut on its arm holding Toshiko and refusing to let go.

I have ideas for what happened but won't get into it in this post. Safe to say though she is meeting a greater mix of reactions, but there's still a good deal of trust for her considering the introduction of her curse was her immediately trying to help.

Toshiko

😧 IT'S DIRE

Cute little werewolf at least. Her parents have been taking care of her since she was attacked pretty young; her mouth got scarred in the attack, which is why she hides it with her fans.

Lycanthropy is also part of why she goes so hard on her elegant persona. Lycanthropes are inherently seen as animalistic monsters in popular media already, so she is trying so hard to make up for what she is by completely opposing that perception.

Ingrid is definitely the first to find out when they room together. Toshiko is nervous about anyone finding out, but it's impossible to hide her mouth when they're rooming together. Takes some coaxing to get the truth from her, though Ingrid promises to help her as best she can.

Now the drama of this. Woulddddd be funny if Toshiko infected someone when she transforms! Ingrid is easily the most tragic option here but anyone works. Equal devestation in the idea that she's put so much work into projecting this elegant ideal of herself and it all breaks down almost instantly.

She's given the most leeway since she's still just a teen, but that becomes the main problem for Toshiko. She gets treated even more like a kid. Forced to be constantly looked after and given no independence, her words holding basically no weight as decisions are made for her.

It's all "in her best interest," but she's given no chance to even take responsibility for the fact that she harmed someone. Once again, the adults around Toshiko see her as a delicate object to be taken care of rather than a person.

Desmond

Not all that bad; miserable and painful situation, sure, but he's coping. Kind of.

He no longer goes out on runs at night, except on full moons. Lycanthropy isn't getting in the way of his career though, and his family tried their best in supporting him, though it didn't mean much.

Being a werewolf has just cranked up his need to burn energy in a place with plenty of space to a greater degree. He is so, so done for when the group is captured and placed in EGA. That courtyard is nowhere near enough for what he needs.

It makes him snappier with people as a result, though he puts in a lot of effort to mask how poorly he's doing.

Actually transforms before the full moon because of this situation. Of course, since all he's focused on in wolf form is running and hunting, it's not a good look when he pounces on the first person he sees in the middle of the night.

He's very socialized though; he doesn't see anyone as threats or prey, so he's mostly just running around in the building/courtyard without much mind for the people around him. If there's an issue with people panicking around him or getting into a position where he could accidentally scratch or bite them, he's very careful about how much force he exerts and knows to avoid that at all costs.

Some people *cough coughWolfgangcough* are definitely attempting to do something about it in the morning, and grill Desmond about what he's done in the past. Thankfully, there's not enough fear of a werewolf in their midst for any of Wolfgang's ideas to immobilize Desmond with chains or barricade his room at night to go through, but there's some trepidation around him.

Desmond is deeply frustrated by this development, though a few people still vouch for him, particularly Eloise and Damon.

Ulysses

Oh he is STRUGGLING with it. He's actually getting almost no benefits from being a werewolf.

Got bit by some rando, I think. His parents can't help him very much bcs they already weren't diligent about medicating him and are stated to seem to want to just forget about his medical problems, which would apply even more to his lycanthropy. His mentor takes care of him before, during, and after his transformations as a result.

His transformations are very rough and erratic. The full moon is supposed to call to werewolves but his lycanthropy will flare up at random some nights, so there can be times where he's spending a few hours or even whole days as a wolf.

Since it's so taxing on him, he's generally closer to the build of a normal, large wolf. Thin fur and smaller than the average werewolf, and rarely rises from all fours.

Whether he's weak or healthy though, Ulysses is a very chill werewolf. Not territorial, maybe a little cranky and snappy when someone touches him, but that's it. Clumsy with hunting and can't track anything, so if he does transform he immediately seeks out somewhere isolated and safe.

In the killing game, Wenona definitely finds out first, as he tries to head out of their dorm in the middle of the night when he realizes he's going through a transformation. Helps him out the first night, and makes sure to keep tabs on him and his health in the days following. Thankfully his first transformation during the game happens when he becomes her roommate, but definitely not the last…

Sooo cagey about it, though. He's well aware of how vulnerable the curse makes him in this situation, so I doubt he would allow anyone else to know unless it's out of his control. Most likely people to randomly find out are Wolfgang, Jean, and Diana, I think. Wolfgang is keeping tabs on people and would thus be on high alert for anything off, Jean seems to be up frequently at odd hours of the night, and Diana is generally just worried about people. Also on high alert but in a less forceful way.

Whenever everyone finds out, they're pretty cautious around him. Even if it's clear he can't do much, there's still a lasting threat he poses. There's definitely demand for him to always have someone watching him, just in case he transforms. It's just more stress on the pile though, so Ulysses is more often upset with having to constantly be around people that view him as a nuisance again.