About Remus' "Furry Little Problem"
May. 16th, 2012 03:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
for_his_friendsRemus Lupin goes from being a (not as) mild-mannered (as he appears) Hogwarts student to a full-fledged monster once a month. There are two things you need to know about that.
1. He's affected by the phase of the moon at home, not the phase of the moon at the end of the universe. If the moon is full at Milliways, but waning at Hogwarts, Remus is still human and Remus, even if he's in the bar. It's very unlikely Remus will ever be in bar as a wolf but if by some chance he is, it'll be made really, really, spectacularly clear in the EP.
2. When he's not in wolf-form, a werewolf from this world is described as "sane and normal." When he's in the bar, therefore, Remus will "scan" as a baseline human wizard type. There's not going to be anything about him that reads as "werewolf," physically, metaphysically, etc. His "furry little problem" is, for Remus at seventeen, something he works very hard at keeping secret and private, and I want him to have the option of choosing to tell people or not tell people as relationships and situations change and develop over time.
All of that having been said, if you think there's a reason your pup would know Remus is a werewolf, please get in touch and run it by me before having your character act on that knowledge.
Feel free to send a PM or leave a comment here, and I'll be back to you as soon as possible.
Thanks!
1. He's affected by the phase of the moon at home, not the phase of the moon at the end of the universe. If the moon is full at Milliways, but waning at Hogwarts, Remus is still human and Remus, even if he's in the bar. It's very unlikely Remus will ever be in bar as a wolf but if by some chance he is, it'll be made really, really, spectacularly clear in the EP.
2. When he's not in wolf-form, a werewolf from this world is described as "sane and normal." When he's in the bar, therefore, Remus will "scan" as a baseline human wizard type. There's not going to be anything about him that reads as "werewolf," physically, metaphysically, etc. His "furry little problem" is, for Remus at seventeen, something he works very hard at keeping secret and private, and I want him to have the option of choosing to tell people or not tell people as relationships and situations change and develop over time.
All of that having been said, if you think there's a reason your pup would know Remus is a werewolf, please get in touch and run it by me before having your character act on that knowledge.
Feel free to send a PM or leave a comment here, and I'll be back to you as soon as possible.
Thanks!
