Nah, I think the joke's supposed to stand without the explanation. Otherwise it's just ... a non-fact being explained. [ Case laughs though, because u g h Chuck you're a problem. A really awesome problem. ] Kinda kills the joke.
[ He finally puts the pen down because it was that or chew on the cap in some poor attempt to keep himself half-busy. ]
Oh. I guess it just means it wasn't really a traumatic thing that happened to me, to make me become a wolf. You know? Like, I hear about some people who've been bitten, and it's horrible because a lot of the time it's this thing that's been forced upon them. It becomes this PTSD thing. For me and my family, it's just a way of life. Some of my pack, they think of themselves as more wolf than human.
[ Weird. He doesn't think he's ever had this conversation with anyone before. His friends back home don't even know he's a wolf and he wouldn't think to talk about this stuff with his pack.
It's kind of therapeutic speaking aloud about a lot of the stuff he keeps in his private thoughts. This is who he is; this is what he thinks of it. ]
We're supposed to be in better control because it's not something we 'have to live with'; it's just who we are. But it doesn't really change some of the myth stuff. Like, I know some wolves can shift whenever they want but I can't. We're not fans of silver. Hunters are real and there are hunters who do and have killed werewolves. It hurts, like a lot to shift.
Yeah.
[ And then, suddenly, Chuck talks about scratching him behind his ears and he laughs, his face growing pink. ]
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Date: 2017-04-23 11:01 pm (UTC)[ He finally puts the pen down because it was that or chew on the cap in some poor attempt to keep himself half-busy. ]
Oh. I guess it just means it wasn't really a traumatic thing that happened to me, to make me become a wolf. You know? Like, I hear about some people who've been bitten, and it's horrible because a lot of the time it's this thing that's been forced upon them. It becomes this PTSD thing. For me and my family, it's just a way of life. Some of my pack, they think of themselves as more wolf than human.
[ Weird. He doesn't think he's ever had this conversation with anyone before. His friends back home don't even know he's a wolf and he wouldn't think to talk about this stuff with his pack.
It's kind of therapeutic speaking aloud about a lot of the stuff he keeps in his private thoughts. This is who he is; this is what he thinks of it. ]
We're supposed to be in better control because it's not something we 'have to live with'; it's just who we are. But it doesn't really change some of the myth stuff. Like, I know some wolves can shift whenever they want but I can't. We're not fans of silver. Hunters are real and there are hunters who do and have killed werewolves. It hurts, like a lot to shift.
Yeah.
[ And then, suddenly, Chuck talks about scratching him behind his ears and he laughs, his face growing pink. ]
Uh. I don't know, no one's ever done it.