IC Prospective: Sam Winchester (First year)

[camebackhome]

Character: Sam Winchester
Mun: Amanda can't stop want stop
Plot specific: Nope.

If lycanthropy is a disease, why is there such a stigma against werewolves? I mean, I know they're dangerous during the full moon, but there's the wolfsbane potion, right? It makes them not as feral or something. Not to mention transmission happens under very specific circumstances, and there's no proof if it's hereditary. So why do people act like werewolves are so bad? They're still people, right? They're people more than they're wolves.

It's kind of like how people with leprosy were/are treated. There's ways to treat lycanthropy and to keep it from being quite so easily transmitted, but there's such a stigma against the people who have it.

Are there colonies, too?

Comments

[caresawholeawfullot]

Yeah, but what if the potions don't work or something? I mean, I get that they're people, but I think it's fair for people to be scared.

[camebackhome]

If you take proper precautions you won't ever encounter one, though. I mean, what's the likelihood of your average person meeting a werewolf?

I don't think they're all that scary, though.

[caresawholeawfullot]

Well, if they're just people, wouldn't they just be in normal people places?

[camebackhome]

You wouldn't know they were a werewolf, though. They'd just be a person.

[caresawholeawfullot]

Until the full moon.

[camebackhome]

If you're scared of running into a werewolf, don't go out during a full moon.

There are scarier things then werewolves, though. Werewolves you can fight or hurt.

[caresawholeawfullot]

Yeah, I guess.

Sure, okay, but they just look really scary.

[camebackhome]

There best offense is a good defense.

I guess so. Have you ever seen one in person?

[caresawholeawfullot]

Is that really true, though?

No...

[camebackhome]

Well if you don't put yourself in the situation to get hurt, you won't get hurt.

Exactly my point.

[caresawholeawfullot]

Oh. Yeah. That makes sense. It sounds like a good plan for werewolves, too, but sometimes that kind of thinking makes life boring.

Fair enough.

[camebackhome]

It makes life safe, which a lot of people are concerned about. But I think when it comes to monsters it's the way that people should think. It's better than making a big deal out of something they don't need to encounter...

[caresawholeawfullot]

I'll have to think about it. I'm not sure, it might be fair to make a big deal out of this stuff.

[camebackhome]

Maybe if werewolves were more common, but I don't think there are werewolves at Hogwarts.

[caresawholeawfullot]

Good point.

[camebackhome]

Think about it when you graduate!

What year are you even in?

[givesyouaboner]

I didn't know werewolves were real???

[camebackhome]

Of course they are! There are tons of books about them. They were even mentioned in ones of Dean's text books!

[givesyouaboner]

There are a lot of movies about them, which made me think maybe they're not really legit.
I haven't read a book that addresses their existence yet.

[camebackhome]

It's in one of the upper year textbooks.

But maybe you haven't read anything because everyone hates werewolves.

[givesyouaboner]

Teenage muggle girls don't.

[camebackhome]

Are you talking about that crappy book? That's an inaccurate representation of werewolves. Vampires, too.

[givesyouaboner]

It's inescapable. But of course it's shitty.
I always figured Stoker was more spot on about vampires.

[camebackhome]

It's not hard to be more spot on than a book that insists that vampires are glittery.

[givesyouaboner]

I also doubt vampires would have nice breath, especially considering they're dead.

[camebackhome]

They could use a lot of breath mints to counteract that, though.

[givesyouaboner]

Wouldn't that just be overkill and gross?

[camebackhome]

Now that I think about it, probably.

[sixbuckdropout]

weve talked about this before sammy. theres the possibility of potions not working & then there are instances of ppl still being influenced by the "disease" even when not changed.

once ur one of them u dont stop being one. humanity ends there.

[camebackhome]

I know, I know. But if there's a potion that can help with lycanthropy, couldn't they go the extra mile and try to find a cure? Why hasn't anyone done that?

Also, your writing sucks.

[sixbuckdropout]

bc it cant be cured. its more like aids. anyone who gets infected is p much fucked & theyll end up spreading it

excuse me 4 having more importnt things to learn than handwriting

[camebackhome]

They've made improvements in AIDS research, so that comparison is kind of crap.

Your spelling and grammar is crap too.

[sixbuckdropout]

flash back like 20 yrs and it wasnt. thats p much where they are now with lynthorpy but no one wants to help monsters.

shut up sammy.

[camebackhome]

If there was a cure there wouldn't monsters. Don't they want that, at least?

Well it's true.

[sixbuckdropout]

i guess ppl want it but who really wants to take that chance? what if it dont work?

deal with it.

[camebackhome]

Then they alter the potion until they get it right? I'm sure there's plenty of werewolves who want to be cured.

I don't want to.

[accioleggings]

THAT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION.

WHILE IT'S TRUE THERE IS A WOLFSBANE POTION TO PREVENT PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM LYCANTHROPY FROM GIVING IN TO THE WOLF'S MINDSET WHILE TRANSFORMED IT'S STILL A VERY NEW CREATION COMPARED TO OTHER MAGICAL TREATMENTS AS WELL AS BEING VERY DIFFICULT TO MAKE. THAT COMBINED WITH CENTURIES-LONG PREJUDICES AGAINST MAGICAL BEINGS WHO AREN'T COMPLETELY HUMAN MAKE PROGRESS INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT.

[camebackhome]

Wouldn't that prejudice just make people more eager to get an actual cure? Because if they cure it, there won't be anyone to be prejudiced to.

[taleweaving]

An excellent question. I suppose, much like the muggle stigma against leprosy, or in a more recent HIV's, a similarly transferred disease the fear is there 8ecause people don't understand it. They have firm ideas on how it's spread and what the results are and they refuse to look past those to see the people afflicted with them. Even when treatments 8ecome availa8le there is still the idea that these people are some how wrong, cursed, or just dirty, and so people shun them and education never occurs. And I suppose cases of new8orns not understanding their condition, or sometimes not even knowing what it is they are afflicted with and lashing out with it as there is no one there to help them hasn't helped. Then again the wizarding world is filled with age old prejudices, especially against those who aren't simply wizards and witches, though hopefully with He Who Should Not 8e Named's defeat these ideas will 8egin to die out as they are due to.

8ut frankly, a werewolf or a vampire who is aware of their condition and takes measures to treat it is no more harmful than the average human, 8e they muggle or wizard. I'd 8e more concerned a8out dark arts practitioner .

...Am I correct in that you are a Winchester?

[camebackhome]

But why haven't muggleborn witches or wizards try to help? They weren't raised with the pureblood prejudices for werewolves, or vampires, or anything, so why aren't they more compassionate and helpful?

Same here. Isn't someone with malicious intent more worrisome than someone who can't help it?

Yeah. I'm Sam. Do you know Dean?

[taleweaving]

I suppose the time that they spend around pure8loods encourages the prejudices to grow in muggle8orns. From what I recall, muggle entertainment doesn't often have the 8est view on people with those diseases, yes?

Exactly! It's nice to see that someone understands that. They have a disease, yes, 8ut they still have their control and moral code.

We... met. Having a discussion on this very topic. Your 8rother doesn't have the same views as you do, unfortunately.

[marshall_lee]

I agree with you completely. I mean, a lot of people will argue that once they're turned, a werewolf or a vampire are no longer human. I think that's bullshit. If they take the steps to try and maintain a normal life and don't want to hurt people that makes them just as human as anyone else.
It's all about the choices you make.

[camebackhome]

I don't see why it's so hard for people to understand. There's not this much hatred for any other species, so why do vampires or werewolves get all this stigma?

Besides, how many people actually meet vampires or werewolves and knows they are?

[marshall_lee]

Because people believe in the hype and don't bother to get to know them. Or they read books about weres and vamps that are written by wizards who don't understand either.

Not many I'm sure. [And as he writes this Marshall is surely shaking with laughter.]

[drivensnow]

Anyone who needs a potion to keep themselves under control are certainly not just people. And considering the fact potions can and sometimes do fail without the proper skill, that makes them even more of a problem. People have the right to be afraid and should indeed be afraid. Werewolves and Vampires are dangerous creatures and shouldn't be allowed within normal society.

[camebackhome]

Have you ever met a vampire or werewolf, sir?

[pc_cooper]

We have werewolves at Hogwarts?