Just like vampires and garlic, werewolves are repulsed by wolfsbane. But it's more than that. According to myth, vampires just don't like to get close to garlic, but wolfsbane can actually kill weres. Wolfsbane is poisonous to anyone really, but a werewolf can die by simply smelling it. In some modern literature, though, werewolves try to consume the plant to cure themselves of the lycanthropy disease. But I don't see, exactly, how that would work if it's supposed to kill them. In The Mortal Instruments, Ryan Jordan keeps wolfsbane of his apartment fire escape. Cassandra Clare never really makes an explanation on this (except that it helps Jace identify him as a werewolf), but it's probably so he can make himself immune to it, so he can't be killed by it.
9. About What They Eat.
Once a human is Turned into a werewolf, they take on the eating habits of an ordinary every day wolf. I mean, not like to the point where they're hunting smaller animals or anything, but when they order their steak rare, you'd better bring it back practically mooing. Werewolves can, of course, continue eating like a regular human (unlike vampires who have to train themselves to eat again), it gives them more of a sense of normalcy. But they have to eat MORE. Because now they're feeding that animal hunger. Have you ever seen 17 Again with Zac Efron? You know that part after he first wakes up a teenager and he's piling all of this food to make the world's most disgusting sandwich? Okay, imagine that, but even more disgusting.
8. About How They Live.
It's easier for a werewolf to lead a normal life than it is for a vampire. In The Mortal Instruments almost all of the werewolves (except for the really wild ones) hold actual day jobs. Remus Lupin is a high school teacher (granted it IS a magical high school, but nobody discovers his secret until the Shrieking Shack). And several of the werewolves in Vampire Diaries double as college students. However, in City of Lost Souls, Jordan explains that most werewolves feel the need to leave home after their Turned so they don't hurt their loved ones (like he did) when they're experiencing their first Change. He described the feeling of being on the run for the first couple of years. And somewhere in the same series (City of Glass, maybe?) Luke Garroway explained that he had to pretend he'd killed himself to keep Valentine Morgenstern from killing him. But that has nothing to do with the actual process of Turning into a werewolf.
7. About Wolf Packs.
Wolves are pack animals, so it would make sense that werewolves are too. The Mortal Instruments series goes pretty in depth in explaining that. Once you're Turned into a werewolf, you have to join a pack. If you don't, you're considered wild. Or you can join the Praetor Lupus. The Praetor is a group of werewolves who work to keep the downworlder law in order. In the Shadowhunter world, all downworlders are pack creatures (yes, that includes vampires, weird as it is), and it's the Praetor's job to place pack less creatures into a pack. That's why Jordan sticks so close to Simon. It was his job to get the Daylighter into the New York vampire clan. But he ended up just sticking around with the Nephilim instead.
Also. Each pack has to have a leader. And in the werewolf packs you have to challenge the current leader to a battle and then kill him/her to become the new one.
6. About What They Look Like.
Now this isn't something that can be answered straight up. In every werewolf story I've watched or read, the werewolf looks different. Sometimes they look like an even more vicious version of a wolf. Sometimes they look like a half-wolf/half-human creature. And sometimes they're described in such a way that I can't even imagine them. But if you see a Changed werewolf, you're obviously going to know it's a werewolf. It's the signs when they're not Changed that you need to know to look out for. But it's more a way they act then a way they look (though some werewolves have silver streaks or sideburns to their hair, like Mr. Fantastic). But they just ACT more animalistic. More vicious and ready to fight. They have more of a growling gruffness to their voice. And they tend to have really big teeth.
5. About Their Blood.
So, you don't just get bitten by a cat and then turn into a cat, right? But think about it this way, if you get bitten by a poisonous spider then you'll die (or get turned into Spider-man). So how is that? Something in saliva of the poisonous spider is changing your blood and attacking it. And if you think about it, the same thing happens when you get bitten by a werewolf (minus the whole dying thing). You can't just get bitten and be something new entirely. You have to be changed, or your blood does, rather. There's something in werewolf blood that makes them, well, werewolves. And that is, believe it or not, demon blood. Yup, werewolves are part demon. Lycanthrope is a disease that comes from demons. But that doesn't necessarily make them bad; there are some good werewolves. Just like there are good warlocks. All you have to do is make sure the demon part of you overrides the human part. After all, they're not undead.
4. About How They Love.
Wolves are a possessive animal, right? No, really, I'm asking because I'm not 100% sure about this nugget of knowledge. But it feels right to me. Because what really feels right to me is that werewolves are a possessive creature. Vampires feel possession because they can't feel love (no soul, remember), however werewolves CAN feel love, but they still have a possessive kind of love. Touch their mate, and they'll rip your throat out, right? I sure wouldn't want to get anywhere near the mate of a werewolf. And in Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place, Mason Grayback explained that werewolves are also loyal lovers and may feel something for someone they met three hundred years back (although I don't think werewolves are supposed to be immortal, silly Disney).
3. About Killing Them.
From my knowledge of paranormal stories, werewolves seem to be easier to kill than vampires. Like iron is to a vampire, silver is a werewolves main weakness (which makes me wonder why Wolverine's claws were injected with silver. Maybe to make him immune to it?). If you attack a werewolf with a non-fatal blow of silver, it takes them much longer to heal. And if there is silver actually in the wound, they can't heal at all. You can slowly kill a were this way. Or you can do it quickly with a single shot to the head or heart by a silver bullet. Werewolves can have their heads chopped off, die by fire or poison, or just plain old die of natural causes. You can kill werewolves other ways too, you can bleed them out for instance, but I don't know them all.
2. About Changing.
So the stereotype is that a werewolf only Changes when the moon is full, right? And some things do follow this stereotype; ie. Harry Potter and Vampire Diaries (to a point) But other things state that only the FIRST Changing has to be during a full moon. In Wizards of Waverly Place, the werewolves change every night, and the pure breds (those who are werewolves because both of their parents are) can stop the Change halfway if they want to. They can also Change whenever they want (which the call Wolfing Up) or when they're angry. After the first time, werewolves in TMI can Change whenever they want, and it hurts less with each time. They tend to Change to battle. In the Vampire Diary novel I just finished yesterday, Bonnie McChallough dates an Old werewolf. The Old Ones are the originals, but with weres it passes down through generations, so if an Old One has a kid, then that kid is Old as well. Old Ones are weres from birth, and can Change whenever they want. They also can stop a Change at the full moon, but it's extremely painful.
1. About Turning.
Surprisingly, there are actually several ways to Turn a werewolf. Being bitten is the most common way. But you can also be born into it. That's a little complicated in the Vampire Diaries series, though (other than with the Old Ones, of course). Your family can be cursed with Lycanthrope for eternity, passing the gene on through generations. But even if you have the gene, you have to go through a special ritual that involves spilling the blood of the innocent to completely Turn. Another way to Turn in Vampire Diaries is to get impregnated by a werewolf (your young will also be werewolves). The final way to become a were is to be born of one.
A Bonus Thing You Need To Know About Werewolves: Turning Them BACK.
Guess what! Werewolves can be changed back to humans completely. Or at least in Vampire Diaries they can. All you have to do is cut off one of its four paws. I do not, however know, if they get their hand or foot back when they're human again. The vampires never went through with it.
• The Mortal Instruments, Cassandra Clare
• 17 Again starring Zac
• Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling
• Vampire Diaries, L.J. Smith
• Spiderman, Stan Lee
• Disney Channel's Wizards of Waverly Place
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