Werecat Story Idea

[Alan Wake]

There actualy was a story about people who transform into tigers or some other type of a big cat. "Cat People" I think the title was. There was a remake out in the 80s that was based on earlier flick. It was a pretty good story, but you don't hear too much about it now a days.

Mike

Oh, that old RKO movie?

[Pumpkin_Man]

I don't remember what label it was under. Like I said, I only actualy saw the 1980s remake, and I liked it, though it was not my all time favorite. It was a good story and had a few scary moments. And it is definately a story about "wear cats."

Mike

[Alan Wake]

I don't remember what label it was under. Like I said, I only actualy saw the 1980s remake, and I liked it, though it was not my all time favorite. It was a good story and had a few scary moments. And it is definately a story about "wear cats."

Mike

Well, the original didn't actually have Cat People in it. It was just a clever way to mess with the audience. For example, there would be a woman walking down a street and shadows from the trees made it look like shadows from a "cat person". Then a bus would come hurtling from the right side of the screen to give a jump scare to the audience. Not to mention the sound of the bus' brakes sounded like a cat's hiss.

Quite a cleverly made movie.

[DemonSlayerMau]

Purrrrrsonally I think I'd rather see cat people in it.
Now, the Sleepwalkers had cat people in it...and they were sort of vampiric...but they would drain one's life essense rather than blood. But, the cats and the Sleepwalkers were enemies. Cats could kill the Sleepwalkers, and see through their illusion tricks. I didn't really like the movie too well, and I found myself rooting for the cats.
The werecats in my stories don't need to drain energy from a living being however.
Here’s some info on the werecats:
The first werecats originated in Bubastis, Egypt in the cult of Bastet. These special warriors were Bastet’s most loyal followers, thus given the gift of the cat spirit. During the day, the sunlight strengthens them for the fierce some battles they will endure at night. At night their eyes shine with the brightness of the sun.
Werecats were once feared by werewolves who maintained jealousy toward the feline shapeshifters, and were a hindrance to vampire kind as the werecats prevented them from preying on human blood. Although werewolves and vampires hated each other, their hatred for the werecats was far stronger. So the werewolves and vampires forged an alliance, and created a deadly monster, part werewolf and part vampire (I’m not talking about Underworld here…let me explain). These hybrids, werepires or whatever you want to call them, were twice cursed. Although werewolves and vampires still maintain at least a shred of humanity, the hybrids do not. Hybrids are like tanks, they’re difficult to take down and they have neither weakness to silver nor sunlight. The werecats didn’t stand a chance. The werecats were then sent into hiding, they were scattered and their numbers dwindled. And, as Nos said, they weren’t very appreciated…because of the paranoia that we human beings have and the association with cats and witchcraft…and being similar to werewolves in that the werecats take on an anthromorphic animal/human form….they didn’t trust the werecats and believed they were from the devil. Some werecats would fall prey to human beings who mistook them for being evil like the vampires and werewolves! The very people they were trying to protect! There is a similarity here…people killed cats believing they were the cause of diseases…in reality cats killed disease carrying rodents who also ate our crops spreading things like the black plague. Yep, we human beings sure are shmart. Haha.
Satisfied that the werecats were defeated, the vampires and the werewolves ended their alliance and simply agreed to stay out of each other’s way. I don’t know what happened to the hybrids, perhaps they were locked up in the dungians because they were difficult to control.
But the werecats were not dead. It is interesting to note that werecat folklore is more common in Asiatic, African, and South American folklore. I plan to introduce more werecats in the sequal, so perhaps if we take the folklore into account, the werecats may have settled into Asia, Africa and South America, with only a handful that remained in North America and Europe.
In fact, I was thinking of making this into a trilogy, beginning with “The Last Werecat.” I’m still debating on titles for the next two stories…but in the second story Kevin Slash will find out that there are other werecats out there, while Ashura always thought she was the last.
“Werecats: A new Dawn” “Werecats: A rebirth” “Werecats: Reborn” “Return of the werecats” “Rise of the werecats” And “Werecats rise again” Are some ideas for titles for the sequal. It doesn’t even need to have Werecat in the name. Perhaps “The Children of Bast” could be a suitable title. I’m still deciding, I may not even use any of these ideas.
(If people don’t like the hybrid idea or think it’s too cliché, I could always change it. Vampires and Werewolves would make a powerful team in and of themselves)

[Pumpkin_Man]

It sounds like an interesting concept for a story.

Incidently, in the versionof "Cat People" I saw, they morphed into tigers or leapards or some big breed of cat and tore their victims limb from lime much the way a wearwolf does. These were not nice little "kitty cats." These were people who turned into monsters, only those monsters were roaring big cats with claws like knives.

Mike

[DemonSlayerMau]

I think I'd like a movie like that. I do like werewolves and being a cat person I would definately enjoy a movie about people who turned into flesh eating werecats.
As for my story, I wanted to portray the werecats differently and to distinguish them from Werewolves.
I will point out something though, not all the werewolves and vampires are or were necessarily wicked either. While I havn't quite figured out all the storyline for the antagonists...I do have a bit of info for my werewolves and a possible origin...

The first werewolf was a wicked man and a bit of a womanizer. He hunted as a profession, and mercellessly slaughtered animals. He was selfish, evil, cunning...
But one night, he decided to slaughter an entire pack of wolves. He wouldn't just kill animals for food and for the fur skins to clothe himself...he would torture them.
As he was killing the wolves one by one...the leader of the pack approached him. Seeing the wickedness in the man's heart...the wolf decided to teach the man a lesson. The man killed this wolf....but the spirit of the wolf cursed him to become a man beast each night beneath the full moon. He would now have to feed upon the flesh of man to live. And if he didn't kill a man, his bite would transform them into a beast like himself.
Werewolves have more of a pack mentality. The alpha wolf, regardless of gender, has the power to control the other werewolves. If another werewolf rises up and kills the alpha wolf, the werewolf can either become human again, or take over the pack.
All the pack leaders have to answer to the elder werewolves.
The very first werewolf is now dead, but werewolves still live with his curse.
Older, more experianced werewolves have gained the ability to change into wolf form at will.
One can be cured of being a werewolf by ingesting wolfsbane and rubbing it on their wounds...but it only works if they do so before their first transformation...otherwise it's too late.
Werewolves can intermate and produce offspring, or transform someone into a werewolf by biting them.
I havn't come up with a name for the first werewolf yet...but he did have many human descendents as well because well...like I mentioned...he was a womanizer...this will become a key part of the plot.

I forgot to mention that werecats can change humans into werecats. Kevin becomes one towards the end of the first story. Werecats can also have werecat children.
However, changing a human into a werecat is very different from the change one undergoes to become a werewolf or a vampire. Remember, werecats aren't cursed.
Humans have to be worthy of the change. Becoming a werecat means recieving the spirit of the cat, the gift of Bastet.

[Pumpkin_Man]

The Universal Monster Classic "The Wolf Man" portrays a very decent, nice guy who was bitten by a wearwolf while protecting the women he was accompanying to the Gypsie fortune tellers, and became a wearwolf. "......he who it bitten by a wearwolf and lives, becomes a wearwolf himself......" And through out the entire movie, you heard the following poem recited by several people:

"Though a man is good and kind
and says his prayers at night,
He can become a wearwolf when
the Wolf Bane blooms and the moon
is full and bright."

Then the tv series "Dark Shadows" had both a vampire (Barnabas Collins) who was a victim of a witches curse, and a wearwolf "CHristopher Jennings" who was a victim of a Gypsie curse that was handed down through the imfamous Quenten Collins. So you are quite correct. It is possible for wearwolvs and vampires to be portrayed as "good guys," and very often they are. And of course, for a very short run (unfortunately) there was a tv series about a 700 year old vampire who saw the "error of his ways" and became a cop. "Forever Knight" was the title. You may even remember it. It was no "Dark Shadows," but it was an interesting story.

Mike

[Alan Wake]

That's a cool premise, Mau. I'm looking forward to seeing more.

[DemonSlayerMau]

I've written some more of the story, but I may wait until I get more written since it's mostly just dialouge between Kevin and Ashura, and not much action going on.
I'm tempted to post it, but it's not much more. Maybe I'll wait until I start getting to the exciting parts to post more.
I want to remind you that vampires may not show up in the first story, but they'll be seen in the second story of my little series. I've come up with a brief origin for my vampires...which may tie into the reason Bastet created the werecat warriors to protect human beings.
They will be mentioned of course, but most vampires lurk in the cities. Werewolves prefer the woods where their cultish packs are located.

I'm not sure if I'll go with this vampire origin or not. But the idea was that vampires also originated in Egypt. In egyptian mythology there's an evil entity that takes the form of a snake called "Apep." When man was created by the gods, Apep was jealous. Apep doesn't have the power to create life like the gods do, and Apep is like the egyptian equivalent of Satan. So Apep took the children of men, and corrupted them with his bite, making them lust for blood, giving them the power of darkness. Egyptian mythology claims that Apep had demons that followed him, but most egyptians didn't worship him. If there was an Apep cult, there wouldn't be any remnent left of it.
Those that Apep twisted and corrupted became the first vampires, and since Apep is the enemy of the sun God, Apep's twisted creation would not be able to live in the sunlight.
Vampires however, were really powerful. They would believe they were superior to the original creation.
It would seem that the gods would need to provide a special breed of warrior to protect their original creation. Bastet, as the guardian of the sun God Ra, took it upon herself to give her most loyal followers the gift of the cat spirit.
Since cats were said to protect the egyptians from snakes, so also would werecats protect people from the children of Apep.
I may change or alter the story later on. One version of the story I may also work with is a man who was angry at the gods for some reason, and chose to follow Apep in his sinister destruction.
But it was Apep's bite, the bite of a snake, not a bat, that created the first vampires.
And they aren't undead, they are just corrupted.