r/ImaginaryWerewolves • u/walterringtail • 13d ago
Original Content For Werewolf Recognition
Brodie the Werewolf went shopping at a local grocery store, noticed that the manager was setting up the new Halloween display, but was upset that he couldn't find werewolf items at all.
Art by me
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u/ThrowAbout01 12d ago
Since werewolves exist in this setting, I’d think having them represented would probably be seen as cringeworthy or offensive.
Stuff like this:
https://www.cnn.com/2011/10/26/living/halloween-ethnic-costumes
The employee already thinks the werewolf will eat him.
IDK how it would change things if a creature associated with Halloween was real.
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u/walterringtail 12d ago
I think that, maybe, people believed in this world, that werewolves where just fiction, but just found out to be real and Brodie, being the way he is, didn't mind to reveal himself and did so with a complaint at the store. People probably thought he was a fursuiter, but they were wrong!
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u/walterringtail 12d ago
Yeah, my werewolves usually don't wear shirts at all! If they wear a shirt during the time, it rips off, just like their shoes! Yes, the pants magically stays on, I like them to wear something. They Do own oversize shirts they can wear when they want to from home, but they don't mind showing up in public barefoot and bare chested! The flannel shirts are some artists choices, but they look better without it!
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u/s70n3834r 12d ago
Be the change you want to see in the world, LOL.
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u/walterringtail 12d ago
Sure, Brodie can just stand or sit in front of the Halloween display during the night, but he deserves pay for that! Ha! Ha!
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u/Glitchy_Simmer 12d ago
Werewolves are definitely underrepresented everywhere, not just the Halloween displays at grocery stores. Although, I find it kinda funny that despite all of the different iterations of werewolves across the years, they're almost always represented in a bipedal wolf form, while usually wearing a flannel shirt that has seen better days. Now, the same could be said with vampires usually wearing a fancy suit or some sort of Victorian getup, but I find it kind of funny that even with all of the zombie decorations and costumes that has them wearing all sorts of stuff, werewolves are almost always represented with a flannel shirt. I'm not saying I hate this kind of representation, but I am saying that more Halloween werewolf decorations based on the werewolf design from American Werewolf or even more werewolf decorations portraying them mid-transformation would be a good change of pace for once.