I Am A Real Werewolf
Well, this isn't really a response to anything, more of my thoughts. Feel free to read or ignore. I've been doing this for almost six years. I used to watch movies like Underworld, Dracula, etc. I loved the idea of self-transformation and the idea of trying to turn into something beyond what meets the eye. I was just a kid, 13 or 14. I started watching a show called 'teen wolf' and one day out of curiosity started googling "how to become a werewolf'. I moved from forum to forum, youtube spell, to youtube spell and found nothing that worked so I just started saying I was one. Why not? It's the internet if I want to say I woke up and grew wings one day so be it, someone's bound to believe me. I stopped kidding myself and started searching for real answers as a human. I started moving from forum to forum seeking answers only to realize I joined when the community is dead or shut down by an influx of roleplayers. Roleplayers ruin every werewolf/shapeshifter/supernatural community. After hearing ridiculous claims about people turning into strange beast just by mumbling a few words or how some people were "gods" I stuck to google plus communities. Ones that insta-ban role players. After the community became silent since 90% of people in it were roleplayers or afraid to say anything I got bored and came here. The experience project forum was pretty successful so I wanted to see if maybe this one would continue to gain popularity as most XP project veterans are transferring over.
So after some time, I began doing research trying to figure out where the first stories and myths about shapeshifters came from. I figured since there are so many stories from so many cultures, countries, and continents(Native American Quileute Shifters, South American were-jaguar, African were-cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, and of course the classic werewolf from European mythology). After a while I started thinking about something. Why do I want this so badly? Is it really meant to be? I started to question if I was really meant to be a werewolf or if I was something else. After skimming the webs I found some African fables about nature gods that used to come down and have kids with the villagers. The product of these gods and humans were magicians, shapeshifters, etc. I started thinking about it more and it made sense. Before Christianity was spread to different parts of Africa many of my ancestors practiced different forms of what we would call voodoo, magick, etc. I started reading up on it, and how belief in magick is at an all-time low which is why it isn't as powerful as it once was in the past. IE. Allowing people to physically transform their bodies, whereas now it's more of an indirect thing used for cleansing, healing, etc.
After thinking more about this I kind of had an epiphany. I somehow knew that becoming a werecat/Panthera was what I was meant to do. I had an encounter with one of my spirit animals a few months back. I was in a dream where I kept waking up in my bed. I couldn't move my body this time except for arm and hands. A what I made out to be a Black panther came up to me, and I wasn't scared. It licked my fingers and I tried to pet it and it let me. Then I woke up. I guess the reason I haven't gone anywhere with this or tried to talk to my animal again is that I'm too preoccupied by school and work to do anything. Too many things. Makes me wonder if living a simpler life would have allowed me to already reach this goal and finally be able to call myself a shapeshifter, but for now I am just a human. Ironically I'm only here because there usually isn't a denomination for any other werecreature on here so every shapeshifter just resides on werewolf forums. If you have any questions comment or dm me.
So after some time, I began doing research trying to figure out where the first stories and myths about shapeshifters came from. I figured since there are so many stories from so many cultures, countries, and continents(Native American Quileute Shifters, South American were-jaguar, African were-cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, and of course the classic werewolf from European mythology). After a while I started thinking about something. Why do I want this so badly? Is it really meant to be? I started to question if I was really meant to be a werewolf or if I was something else. After skimming the webs I found some African fables about nature gods that used to come down and have kids with the villagers. The product of these gods and humans were magicians, shapeshifters, etc. I started thinking about it more and it made sense. Before Christianity was spread to different parts of Africa many of my ancestors practiced different forms of what we would call voodoo, magick, etc. I started reading up on it, and how belief in magick is at an all-time low which is why it isn't as powerful as it once was in the past. IE. Allowing people to physically transform their bodies, whereas now it's more of an indirect thing used for cleansing, healing, etc.
After thinking more about this I kind of had an epiphany. I somehow knew that becoming a werecat/Panthera was what I was meant to do. I had an encounter with one of my spirit animals a few months back. I was in a dream where I kept waking up in my bed. I couldn't move my body this time except for arm and hands. A what I made out to be a Black panther came up to me, and I wasn't scared. It licked my fingers and I tried to pet it and it let me. Then I woke up. I guess the reason I haven't gone anywhere with this or tried to talk to my animal again is that I'm too preoccupied by school and work to do anything. Too many things. Makes me wonder if living a simpler life would have allowed me to already reach this goal and finally be able to call myself a shapeshifter, but for now I am just a human. Ironically I'm only here because there usually isn't a denomination for any other werecreature on here so every shapeshifter just resides on werewolf forums. If you have any questions comment or dm me.
22-25, M
