would it be funny if i started talking about the werebuck!au verse i have for arthur ? great because i am .
any kind of shapeshifter can be born to any kind of shapeshifter . while arthur's father was a full-blooded werewolf , and his mother was human , arthur ended up being born a werebuck . since his birth , his father constantly ran with bad bunch of other shifters . you know , the type that commit crimes and other crimes against humanity , etc . when he was little , his father was often gone , and he would stay with his mother , who had to learn how to take care of her small , slightly feral , bitey little child with a very annoying oral fixation on her arms and hair . when she eventually passed away , his father , who had at that point not been very present or responsive in his life , swooped in and filled his mother's good influence with his own unstable teachings about thee place of shifters in the world . these teachings were basically : they are meant to operate outside the realm of human law , and they don't need to heed supernatural law either ; they do what is in their self-interest . so for the first ten years of his life , arthur grew up with a lot of corrupt notions about his place in society , which were not helped by the fact that his father and his accomplices would often make fun of and insult him for only being half-blooded , and for not being a predator-shifter on top of that . his father was eventually caught and hanged when arthur was eleven , after which arthur ran off on his own . he was eventually found in his early teens by dutch and hosea , where he would be educated in reading and writing and society , and they would come to grow and form the gang of outlaw , outcast supernaturals .
being that he's the son of a wolf shifter , he does carry a few genetic similarities to werewolves . namely , he tends to become more lethargic during the day time , and is prone to staying up into the early hours of morning . arthur thinks the moon is very pretty to look at , and sometimes he will sit out and sketch it , but it does nothing for him . he also possesses tapetum lucidum, and has the ability to elongate his teeth ( all , not just canines ) and grow his nails out sharper at will . these particular traits take hours to return to normal , as he is not as easily able to control these traits .
he is considered a half-buck . being only half-blooded , this means that he cannot fully transform into a solid bestial form , the way other shifters can . instead , he can partially take on the characteristics of a buck , such as growing out his antlers or growing out his human nails into claws . he prefers to stay in limbo in terms of his physical form , primarily human with longer and sharper teeth and antlers long enough for him to run through anyone who tries to fight against him . he's also fuzzier than other humans all year round . all of this is because he wants to be : he is entirely capable of returning to something resembling almost fully human , save for his reflective eyes and a small branch of velvety antlers that poke above his hair . because of this , he tends to stay away from people whenever he can . and he always wears his father's hat to hide them .
because he is the enforcer of the gang , arthur is generally inclined to feed in to the common stereotypes that regular people / other supernatural creatures hold . since many people are freaked out by the supernatural , he uses this to his advantage when he is trying to intimidate others who do not often deal with shifters . this includes growing out his antlers to unnatural and scary lengths , velvet included , and showing off his fangs when he is arguing with or threatening someone .
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