#ulyssesposting

[idiot-party]

Any more info about werewolf hunter guy?

Here is what there is so far:

Ulysses Male 6'2" ft (188 cm) 35 years old

Has hunted game for food, resources, and sport ever since he was old enough to learn how to operate a gun. Straight out of high school he enlisted into the US Army and was in there for over a decade. Planned to keep going until retirement, but then he saw God in a near-death multi-catastrophic experience and decided not to re-enlist when that contract ended.

Despite choosing to not go back into the army, he had a hard time readjusting to normal life. Has taken up slaying werewolves for fun to keep the boredom at bay, and also because he doesn't like that there are people who would willingly reject the blessing of being a human homo sapiens sapiens to be some animal. He doesn't find the werewolf thing scary, but he finds it distasteful.

Although I had drawn him aiming with a scope, now I believe that he prefers not to use one. Scopes can reflect light and give away your position and he'd rather not have that going on.

As someone who was never able to use the internet much, he was pretty lonely as a kid because he didn't have any knowledge of whatever trend or challenge or influencer or product was hot at the hour. Socialized best with weirdly sheltered Christian kids who were more likely than others to be as offline as he is.

Worldposting below the cut (it's all setting information, no character info)

The temporal setting he resides in takes place some decades in the future. Death control technology has not been invented yet, but neofeudal hypercorporations have become sovereign and are able to challenge countries for political power. Everything is at home and online, including your vacations. Country borders are under attack by monied interests and may be changing. Unless you are born with money/born with connections/can make connections, you can't really get anywhere in the economy except lower. A job of McDonald's cashier requires a college degree and college degrees cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But there is a way around this: The M.I.C. has taken advantage of the horrendous economy by promoting military enlistment as a way to build a comfortable life. Get in, complete your contracts, come out with your GI benefits and veterans discounts forever, everyone says "Thank you for your service" to you. Military enlistment skyrockets and eventually becomes a normal step in the life of an American, as normal as going to college.

Gods (including the Christian God) exist and they move in mysterious ways, I don't elaborate too much on them because the more I do the lamer they get. Jesus 2 hasn't happened yet.

Werewolves have existed for many hundreds of years. They weren't generally a big problem until an epidemic broke out in the last couple decades, causing chaos due to a sudden outpour of werewolves eating people, eating livestock, destroying property and infrastructure, shitting everywhere, pissing everywhere, fucking everywhere, etc every full moon and new moon. Lycanthropy was caused by a disease that could be spread not only by being bitten by a werewolf, but also by being bitten by an animal that carries the disease.

At first werewolves in wolf form were just shot and killed to mitigate damages, and this was how they were dealt with for the first years of the epidemic. Seen as a tragedy. For a human to completely lose everything it means to be human every month and then have to live with the carnage once they come back. This was the case until the US military came out with a vaccine and a cure. A miracle. Lycanthropy is then curable and preventable.

However, some people choose not to take the vaccine nor the cure, for whatever reason. Usually the reason is that they like being a werewolf or want to become a werewolf, but sometimes it is because they are anti-vax or something else.

There are no laws whatsoever related to killing werewolves while they are in their wolf form. It is neither legal nor illegal. If someone is killed as a werewolf, the common attitude is "Sad. Should have taken the cure". People at large only care about the death if it's someone famous but they still have the attitude of "What a shame. If they had taken the cure this wouldn't have happened".

To keep the werewolf epidemic contained, the US government sometimes issues a bounty on specific known werewolves, demanding them alive (Legal penalties for killing them, because they wanted them alive, not dead). The most promising tactic of theirs involves microchipping captured werewolves to track their movement and whether they have connections to any other werewolves. Once enough data is collected, werewolf gatherings are raided and everyone is forcibly cured.

If the person they captured was a loner werewolf, they are just captured again and cured when some amount of time has passed and no link to any werewolf society has been established.

There is a different sort of bounty. Private bounties posted either by companies or by people, demanding the killing of a specified werewolf or werewolves.

[jouissanceangel]

“—Sad to lose the old friends, Mrs. Breen’s womaneyes said melancholily” - James Joyce, Ulysses

[dr-brainwash]

hmmm the amount of love ulysses would give to a child of his . i think about this a lot

not just because they’re carrying his history with him, not just because they’re a symbol of what could be a better world, even if those are big things to him. but because, among other things, the world robbed love from him with the legion and the divide, and he wouldn’t let that happen to his own as long as he lived. that sort of home is when symbols come second, the love that creates them comes first . if that makes any sense at all

[dr-brainwash]

good aft’noon, because im on a ulyssesposting roll today i shall share my sparse headcanons for ulysses and the twisted hairs tribe

ulysses says “not my given name. close enough.” about his name. trying desperately not to derail to my he/they ulysses hc, i will point out avellone’s daughters of hecate.

hecate and the non-latinized version of ulysses, odysseus? they’re names past history, into myth. i feel like the twisted hairs commonly held these sort of names because they revered history and the stories history built, names like odysseus, hecate, hades, whateva. i think they had a sort of naming tradition like that. mythical names.

also what if the twisted hairs descended from an HBCU? the hairstyles ulysses mentions, their importance, stuff like dreadlocks and certain braids are made for afro textures. plus ulysses is undoubtedly a soul plagued with a hunger for knowledge: he managed to get control over the nukes and eye-bots, he speaks with such a poetic cadence (in my opinion), he consumes stories from history with such vigor. i’d go as far to call him an academic, and if his very tribe had such scholarly roots, that would be goddamn amazing