Nightlyre's Werecard

From: Nightlyre (nightlyre@davidbowie.com)

Were Name:  Nightlyre
Phenotype:  Mexican wolf (I think)
Shifting Ability:  Mental/Spiritual
Birthdate:  September 4, 1979

Birthplace:  Santa Fe, New Mexico
Home Territory:  Around Phoenix, Arizona
Dream Territory:  A mountainous, North American-type forested area, with
	a healthy population of wolves and other indigenous species (including
	native peoples)

Physical Description, Human:  19, female, 5'11", hazel eyes. My hair is
	brown pretty long, and I usually wear it in a pony tail.  I wear at
	least six rings all the time (all silver, and I finally got a wolf
	ring!), and my wolf necklace and medicine pouch.  I keep a small wolf
	pawprint drawn with pen on one hand, which I'd like to have tattooed
	someday (or perhaps have a wolf print tattooed on my arm, instead).
	Usually, I wear jeans and a wolf t-shirt.
Physical Description, Were:  Adolescent, average-sized female timber
	wolf. My coloring is pretty typical (dark above, light below, with tan
	on my legs), but I'm lighter colored than other wolves I've seen.
Human Career:  Freelance artist.

Hobbies/Interests:  Visual arts(mostly drawing, but I do some painting,
	sculpture, and costuming as well), wolves, werewolves, animals in
	general, 'mythical' animals, reading, writing (poetry, but if I get
	really ambitious, I sometimes attempt a story or a comic script),
	guitar, Disney stuff, meditating, sleeping, etc.
Favorite Movies:  'Ghost', 'Dances With Wolves', 'Braveheart',
	Dragonheart', 'The Dark Crystal', 'Labyrinth', 'The Last Unicorn', most
	Disney animated movies, especially 'Beauty and the Beast', and lots of
	others.
Favorite Literature:  _Congo_ by Michael Crichton (but don't even get me
	started on how much I hated the movie), the 'Hitchhikers' series by
	Douglas Adams, almost anything by Dave Barry, Neil Gaiman, Edgar Alan
	Poe, _Les Miserables_ by Victor Hugo.  I really liked _The Talisman_ by
	Stephen King and Peter Straub, too, but certain parts were very sad.
Favorite Art:  M.C. Escher, and lots of special effects stuff.
Favorite Were-media:  I like a computer game called 'Gabriel Knight: The
	Beast Within', except there's a lot of holes in the plot near the end
	(and the werewolf effects aren't too great). As far as stories go, I
	like to find collections of short stories; that way, at least a couple
	of them might be promising. I liked the movie 'Wolf' (but the actual
	wolf effects were unimpressive), and I liked the effects in 'An American
	Werewolf in London' and 'Bad Moon' (except for the transformation scene
	in the latter).
Favorite Quote:  "There's no one to hear, you might as well scream. They
	never woke up from the American dream." -Melissa Etheridge
Favorite Were Saying/Quote:  "You don't know him like I do. Running
	around on all fours wouldn't be a stretch." -From 'Gabriel Knight: The
	Beast Within'
Favorite Personal Quote:  "We're touching faces in the dark, feelin'
	pretty is so hard." From "Invisible City", by the Wallflowers.  That
	line just touches a lot of chords in me...
Favorite Song/Band(s):  The Wallflowers!  I also got into Metallica a
	lot, and I love Peter Buffett.
Favorite Season:  Spring or Autumn
Favorite Holidays:  HALLOWEEN!!!!!

Preferred Prey:  Roast, on a quesadilla, if I'm lucky!  (If you've read
	my werecard previously, I rather gave up being vegetarian... what canine
	refuses a tasty snack?)
Hunting Tips:  Make use of any advantage that you can, because your prey
	will do the same. You're both running for your own survival.
Preferred Method of Attack:  Keep walking until you scent something,
	keep downwind, stay out of sight as long as you can. If you're stalking
	a herd, go for the panicky, weak, or injured animals; they're easier to
	catch, and ought to be weeded out anyway.
Favorite Non-Were Mythological Beast:  Dragons, definitely. But I like
	most 'mythical' critters.
Feelings Toward Vampires:  To each their own.  They've had some good
	movies made about them!
Feelings Toward Normal Humans:  Humans are capable of extremes of both
	good and bad. Intelligence is, IMHO, their fatal flaw; as soon as they
	decided they were better than nature, the entire species suffered. They
	keep on growing, which crowds out other species. If anything tries to
	prey on them, they destroy it. Maybe if there were some checks on the
	human species, I never would've been born at all. Then again, maybe I
	would've been born a wolf instead, like I feel like I should've been.
	(That's a perk I'd be glad to give up every advantage human society
	offers for, in a heartbeat)

Personal Lycanthropy:

	I've had lots of weird little quirks in my life, and always the
feeling that I wasn't right with people, somehow.  When playing with
friends, I'd always be some kind of animal, and when we went to family
get-togethers, I preferred to hang out with the dogs while everyone else
talked or roughhoused.

	In school, up until high school, I had a hard time relating to other
kids. Near the end of grade school, I got very depressed; I felt like I
didn't belong anywhere, I hated people, I hated myself... so of course
my parents ended up sending me to a psychiatrist, which A. didn't help,
and B. did *wonders* for my already low opinion of the world.

	Afterwards, I decided, basically, that if I was going to make it
through this life without the use of prescriptions, I'd better get a lot
more serious about finding out who I really was inside.  I knew that I
had a lot of habits and tendencies that were more canine than human... I
sometimes growl, whine, and bare my teeth.  There's times when I feel
more comfortable crouched down rather than standing, and I noticed that
I tend to walk toe-heel, one foot in front of the other.  I like to sit
places where I have a good view of things going on around me.  I'm
nervous in new or crowded places, but if there's excitement in the air,
it's easy to feel it.  I could identify with the werewolves of movies
(obviously not the bloodthirsty nature and aversion to silver, but to
the idea of being somewhere in between human and something else), so I
started searching for werewolves on AOL, where I was at the time.  On a
message board there, I was pointed to AHWW.

	I've had some dreams where I was a wolf, and some of them have been
very vivid.  I get worse dreams, too, where I move like a wolf and think
like a wolf, but to everyone else, I'm just a naked human... I guess
that's kind of an anxiety thing, not wanting to be thought of as weird
or crazy.

	A couple of my perspectives have changed since I last revised my
werecard.  I used to wish that I could p-shift, but I don't really think
about it anymore.  I don't dream of waking up to find myself with paws
someday... but I do hope that someday, after I've lived this life, my
spirit will find its way to the womb of a mother wolf.  I don't like
being a human, but there's certain things about it that I can't say I
don't enjoy.

	Well, that's my story... But seeing as, at the moment, I can't make it
to AHWW, I'll have to put the handing out of marshmallows on hiatus...