I don't understand how LKH can claim on one hand that her therianthrope groups are completly like their real lide counterparts, and then have leopards living in giant groups.
I'm tossing around ideas for an urban fantasy where wereleopards exist but are rare. Not because the disease is harder to catch than other strains, but because the instincts are so hard to deal with. Leopards are solitary, and humans are social creatures, and the two conflicting sets of instincts are almost impossible to reconcile. Wereleopards can't hold down office jobs, or any kind of job that requires them to be around people, so most work from home if they possibly can. Most struggle with romantic relationships, because the wereleopard side does not like having a permanent partner. There are therapists who deal specifically with wereleopards, and suport groups which primarily operate online. Businesses trying to cash in offer weekend retreats in the wilderness. Most business fire people wereleopards, after a couple of very well-publicised cases where one shifted and massacred everyone in the building. It's becoming common practice after a business won a court case where they claimed it was for the safety of their other employees.
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Date: 2015-05-28 08:31 pm (UTC)I'm tossing around ideas for an urban fantasy where wereleopards exist but are rare. Not because the disease is harder to catch than other strains, but because the instincts are so hard to deal with. Leopards are solitary, and humans are social creatures, and the two conflicting sets of instincts are almost impossible to reconcile. Wereleopards can't hold down office jobs, or any kind of job that requires them to be around people, so most work from home if they possibly can. Most struggle with romantic relationships, because the wereleopard side does not like having a permanent partner. There are therapists who deal specifically with wereleopards, and suport groups which primarily operate online. Businesses trying to cash in offer weekend retreats in the wilderness. Most business fire people wereleopards, after a couple of very well-publicised cases where one shifted and massacred everyone in the building. It's becoming common practice after a business won a court case where they claimed it was for the safety of their other employees.
But that isn't as interesting as rape and murder.