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So I will be doing lycanthropy (werewolf) different to our representation in the base series. This is just a post to explain it!

So for me, Pearl’s Lycanthropy is not ‘true’ lycanthropy. Due to her unusual method of contracting it, she got an unusual version of it. She got a mutation. When she drank the werewolf blood she got a passive gene for lycanthropy.

It only became active when in contact with another form of the supernatural — in this case vampires. And still even when wolf, she seems to be somewhat sentient.

However Rosalina, whilst also carrying dormant lycanthropy when getting to Oakhurst, it presents differently. For one, hers activates the second they are all trapped in Oakhurst. It had a flare up as a panic reaction.

Her inner wolf could tell that she was trapped, and didn’t like it, so was trying to escape or something. Pearl’s only flared up in contact with vampirism in some measure.

Rosalina turns into a full wolf every full/blood moon. She is not sentient at all during when she is a wolf. A more stereotypical werewolf experience. And vampires drinking from her have no effect on her lycanthropy. If/when turned shes effectively be a werepire ~ like pearl.

I see it as a pressure that builds throughout the month, and the full moon is when she can’t hold it in anymore.

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