Werechinchillas would be fun, werepangolins, werebudgies, werejereboas....
Having a Hyena boss hermaphrodite who presented as male was a total cop-out - a way to avoid a strong FEMALE character to deflect attention from Anita. I swear, if her ego gets any larger, it will develop its own gravity well and invert the galaxy!
Leopards are solitary, like tigers, so the pard should have all gone their seperate ways when Gabriel died.
Everything you all have said upthread is so very much on target. The rigid group structures, the way so much goes against nature and instinct - her weres are just humans with a furry little problem, and woobies only Anita's cootch can fix.
I have a half written fic where Jean Claud is meeting a group of unknown shifters who want a vampire to create a Triumverate with, and they find that Asher is a good match. Anita goes ballistic, as her opposite number is a female Shaman and fully trained Medicine Woman, partnered to the Alpha shifter, and can whoop her angsty ass with one hand tied behind her back.
I have her dissing the Doom Crotch about her lack of basic magical, vampiric and were knowledge, about her ethics of "raping for the greater good", her refusal to face, mend and/or dismantle her own fucked triumverate, her refusal to deal with the Ardeur and blood magic issue etc etc.
The more I plotted it out, the more I realized just how much I loathed Anita and her menz, her behaviour, her missing morals and ethics. As a practicing Celtic Shaman myself, LKH's blithering incompetence and ignorance as the creator of this drivel made my head hurt.
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Date: 2010-08-03 12:32 am (UTC)Having a Hyena boss hermaphrodite who presented as male was a total cop-out - a way to avoid a strong FEMALE character to deflect attention from Anita. I swear, if her ego gets any larger, it will develop its own gravity well and invert the galaxy!
Leopards are solitary, like tigers, so the pard should have all gone their seperate ways when Gabriel died.
Everything you all have said upthread is so very much on target. The rigid group structures, the way so much goes against nature and instinct - her weres are just humans with a furry little problem, and woobies only Anita's cootch can fix.
I have a half written fic where Jean Claud is meeting a group of unknown shifters who want a vampire to create a Triumverate with, and they find that Asher is a good match. Anita goes ballistic, as her opposite number is a female Shaman and fully trained Medicine Woman, partnered to the Alpha shifter, and can whoop her angsty ass with one hand tied behind her back.
I have her dissing the Doom Crotch about her lack of basic magical, vampiric and were knowledge, about her ethics of "raping for the greater good", her refusal to face, mend and/or dismantle her own fucked triumverate, her refusal to deal with the Ardeur and blood magic issue etc etc.
The more I plotted it out, the more I realized just how much I loathed Anita and her menz, her behaviour, her missing morals and ethics. As a practicing Celtic Shaman myself, LKH's blithering incompetence and ignorance as the creator of this drivel made my head hurt.