So, I've come up with a couple of new story ideas. One I'm really excited about.
A senile werewolf.
I just have to put together the rules for my little werewolf world.
First, how to you become a werewolf?
The classic path to wolf-hood is being bitten by a werewolf, but I need to decide if you have to be in actual werewolf form or not.
I'm leaning towards yes. Otherwise it would be too easily spread.
But can werewolves have little baby werewolves? Could it be hereditary? Would a lady werewolf have a litter? Or just one baby?
I'm leaning toward yes, and litters. All the ladies in the pack have to fake pregnancies and then the Alpha Female farms out some of her babies. Popping out five or six babies at a time would be kind of suspicious after a while.
Packs would be mostly family groups, with a sprinkling of freshly turned werewolves and hereditary wolves that moved to town & joined up. Some werewolves would prefer to go the old reliable lone-wolf route.
Hereditary werewolves don't turn until they hit puberty. I don't know if they all turn or if a percentage stay regular. I don't know if they can stop themselves from turning during the full moon, but once they mature they can turn into werewolf form at will. Newly turned werewolves have harder times controlling their wolf form, especially at first, and can't usually change except during the full moon, when they're pretty much forced to change no matter what.
Werewolves are most dangerous right after they're turned, or if they're hereditary when they're going through puberty.
Or when they're old & senile, but nobody thinks of Granny when people start dropping dead.
Which is what's going to happen in my story. At first the pack thinks it's a new pack member from out-of-state, then they think maybe it's one of the pack teenagers, then they think maybe there's a lone wolf hiding out nearby. Or maybe even another pack moving in on their territory.
I think the story is going to focus on a werewolf family that runs a bowling alley. They're not the pack leaders, just regular, everyday werewolves. They've got 3 or 4 kids, a couple that are teenagers, plus now they're taking care of some granny or grandpa werewolf.
When everybody thinks the rogue werewolf is one of the pack teenagers the mother admits drugging her son to prevent him from turning. Male werewolves have a tendency to be assertive & territorial, so teenage male werewolves are extra unpredictable. Her father died in a territory dispute when she was young, then her brother died the same way. She would rather her son never turn than take the chance he would end up trying to fight to lead the pack, which pisses off both her son and her husband.
Then her daughter gets pissed off because everybody's paying so much attention to her brother & nobody even notices she's starting to change. She could be the killer but nobody believes her.
When Granny hears her whining about her poor sad, overlooked werewolf existence she realizes everybody overlooks the older pack members, too. When you're old & senile it's hard to control your wolf-form, sort of like when you're young & full of hormones.
In the end, the son is off the drugs & starting to change, while Granny is drugged up & unable to change.
And they all lived happily ever after.
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