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Uula

Inktober #11

A little late night Simon’s zoo doodle that was supposed to be super quick portrait of the troll but somehow spawned couple more characters. Whoops. Also accidentally made that sofa too small.

I realized I haven’t drawn the troll properly before (I’ve been thinking of his name, and I think he might be Sven from now on. I also kind of jokingly thought I’d make his last name be something like “Olafssonsson” just for a joke, but I’m kind of growing attached to it). And then Rivers happened (even when she’s making room for her coworkers, she’s still hogging half the sofa) and then Uula decided to butt in. She does that.

Periods vary from individual to individual depending on what kind of werewolf you are (and also individually for being different people, because periods).

Uula personally gets them only every other month, but they move around slightly. Usually she prefers them to happen while she's more wolf, as the form bleeds less and is just plain easier, but if she's human while they happen, it's just not worth the effort trying to hold up an off-form while also having your periods. Either is bad enough on its own, she doesn't need to combine the discomfort.

(As a comparison, her adopted aunt, who's a turned werewolf, gets her periods every month with almost clockwork regularity with the moon phase, has them always right before full moon and is all fresh and ready to go wolf* when the moon gets full.)

“So, uh, Rivers is being a… Snaker than usual today?”

“Don’t know the details, but she was talking to Venla earlier and said something, and now she’s too embarrassed to have a face with expressions.”

(I did consider Poecilotheria metallica, because, you know, Metallica, but apparently that one is endangered and pretty dang expensive too, so I don’t think Uula would have one. Would have been pretty dang pretty though.)

Most of Uula’s “nuclear family” (a.k.a. what werewolves count as the minimum of a family). Okay, it should also include Uula’s paternal grandparents, but I ran out of space to draw them. They all count as the same household. (Their pack/extended family basically includes the entire town they live in, which is about 60% werewolf. The rest is people who aren’t/choose not to be/can’t become werewolves themselves, but count as family anyway.)

From left to right: Uula’s adoptive twin brother, Uula herself, her younger sister (they have like fifteen years age gap), their dad, their mom and on the far right their kinda-sorta-adoptive-aunt.

Werewolves are highly social, family oriented people, and as a species, they’re kind of a hot mess. Things started out with there being several different sorts of transforming wolf people, with different alternate forms and slightly varying functions, but as people travelled around and globalization became a thing, they ended up mixing up a lot (”You’re a wolf person? I’m a wolf person! We should get together!” 8D), and nowdays it's hard to say where one breed ends and another begins.

Uula and her biological family are born as werewolves and have very wolf-ish alt form. Her brother is also a born werewolf, but his alt form is bipedal and tailless, and their “aunt” is a turned werewolf with more humany shape (she’s equally hairy as the rest of the family, and wouldn’t need to wear clothes in her alt form, but she prefers them for personal reasons).