It makes sense that wolves and rats are communal, but why does *everyone* have to be?
Wouldn't it be cooler to have social variety and allow for lone shifter cats and even some rogue vampires that choose to not live in a Kiss. What about lone wolves? Swans should have been in pairs for life, not one king to however many thousand swanmanes.
I don't know, it just feels very forced to me. For one thing not all humans live in groups. And those that do choose to live in groups don't always have a clear leader with structured hierarchy. What's wrong with an egalitarian society? People have already brought up that matriarchal groups are missing. But many people and animals are very happily solitary and single.
Certainly all animals do not live in groups. So why when we hybridize humans and animals do all of a sudden we have to live in groups? Not even pairs but large, organized groups with a clear leader and many followers. Just weird to me.
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Date: 2010-08-02 09:40 pm (UTC)It makes sense that wolves and rats are communal, but why does *everyone* have to be?
Wouldn't it be cooler to have social variety and allow for lone shifter cats and even some rogue vampires that choose to not live in a Kiss. What about lone wolves? Swans should have been in pairs for life, not one king to however many thousand swanmanes.
I don't know, it just feels very forced to me. For one thing not all humans live in groups. And those that do choose to live in groups don't always have a clear leader with structured hierarchy. What's wrong with an egalitarian society? People have already brought up that matriarchal groups are missing. But many people and animals are very happily solitary and single.
Certainly all animals do not live in groups. So why when we hybridize humans and animals do all of a sudden we have to live in groups? Not even pairs but large, organized groups with a clear leader and many followers. Just weird to me.