werebeasts

[ex_pippin880]

Werewolves and other werebeasts and transforming animals and humans -- what are your thoughts? Where does your suspension of disbelief start wavering? Do you prefer magical or genetic transformations?

Does a large mass difference bother you? Do you stay awake at night wondering how a woman with a menstrual cycle could safely and regularly become an animal with an oestrus cycle? Do placental mammals turning into birds or marsupials make you go "err" at the story? Do you get annoyed when the animal forms have human intelligence/morals, or even abilities like telepathy?

...Is this something you've never thought about because you're not weird like me?

What are your favourite stories with werebeasts?

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[nightmareink]

At least in the Animorph books (I read them as a kid), clothing doesn't morph with them (unless it's like skin tight, but I think that's just the author's way of going "I don't want my characters to be naked upon turning back to human") and they had to deal with the being naked upon turning back problem.

...I never did finish reading those books.