i wish i could recreate vampire james and werewolf kendall in ts4 so i can make them kiss but VAMPIRE AND WEREWOLF SIMS ARE PROGRAMMED TO HATE EACH OTHER'S FUCKING GUTS UGH
Modern media has blurred the lines between werewolfism and lycanthropy. Their traits and abilities are used more interchangeably now, thus making them less distinguishable. This phenomenon has led me to ask: Is Kendall Knight a werewolf or a lycanthrope? Let's start by defining both terms!
werewolf (n.)
wair-woolf
(in fiction) a person who changes for periods of time into a wolf, typically when there is a full moon.
lycanthrope (n.)
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(in mythology) a person affected with lycanthropy.
a werewolf or alien spirit in the physical form of a bloodthirsty wolf.
Do these definitions seem indistinguishable? Unfortunately so. Though, many tend to forget that the one stark contrast between both beasts are myth and fiction. I believe werewolves and lycanthropes (lycans for short) are more different than some may understand. Werewolves and lycans do not all possess the same physical traits or supernatural abilities. Let's dissect their characteristics and powers to distinguish them from one another.
Physical Traits
There are three physical forms both werewolves and lycans alike inhabit—human form, wolf form, and hybrid form. The human form, similar among both species, is how these creatures normally appear seeing as most werewolves and lycans are turned rather than born. They look just as any other human would. The wolf form, also similar among both species, is their body taking the shape of the average wolf. They're quadrupedal and lose the ability to speak. Their hybrid forms are what set the two apart. Hybrid forms are an anthropomorphic state of wolves. Their skin is covered in nearly impenetrable fur, their ears elongate, and they grow a tail, fangs, and claws while keeping their opposable appendages. Depending on the creature and given folklore, they may also grow a muzzle and have the choice of standing on their hind legs or running on all fours. However, lycan hybrid forms tend to be stronger and more muscular. Additionally, lycan hybrid forms aren't weak to silver as opposed to werewolves.
Supernatural Abilities
The most common and noteworthy ability of werewolves and lycans is their ability to transform. A werewolf's transformation is mostly dependent on the full moon. Whether or not they transform as they please, all werewolves still transform under a full moon and are unable to revert to their human forms until sunrise. Additionally, werewolves benefit from heightened senses such as super-strength, super-speed, stronger smell, heightened hearing, immense agility, etc. typically in their wolf and/or hybrid forms. Werewolves also have longer lifespans but are not immortal. They'd likely live only a few hundred years. Finally, when fully transformed, werewolves become feral. They are overcome with animalistic rage and bloodthirst. They do not recall the events of their transformation and have little to no control over what they do, almost as if they're being possessed, and their true selves lie dormant. Their bite can infect others, thus turning them. However, it is unclear whether their bite results in an infection or a curse.
Lycans can transform at will. Their transformations do not rely on the moon cycle or any other uncontrollable circumstances. Not only do they have full control of their transformations, but they additionally have full control over their actions when having transformed. They are stronger, more coherent, more intelligent, and more invulnerable. Their wounds heal quicker than those of werewolves due to regeneration, and their abilities are less bestial despite their appearances being more beastly in comparison. Lycans benefit from their supernatural abilities regardless of what form they take, but the strength of each ability is dependent on their current form. Some are stronger, and some are weaker. Although lycans aren't weak to silver, in very rare cases, they are known to be resistant to magic. As such, lycans cannot curse or infect anyone. They are created through means of magic rituals. Additionally, lycans' lifespans are similar to those of werewolves.
Weaknesses
Silver is the most common werewolf weakness. A silver bullet can pierce their invulnerable fur and negate their regeneration if shot through a werewolf's head or chest. Another common werewolf weakness is Wolfsbane. It is used to repel and, in some cases, cure werewolves. However, both weaknesses can vary depending on the context of their stories. A weakness that doesn't typically change depending on context is their lack of self-control. It doesn't harm or kill werewolves necessarily, but their berserk, monstrous behavior is a weakness nonetheless.
Lycans' weaknesses are similar to those of werewolves apart from silver. Their bodies will regenerate despite coming in contact with it. But lycans are vulnerable to holy symbols. Due to their connection to witchcraft and otherworldly magic, they fall victim to items like crosses, holy water, rosaries, etc.
Which One Is Kendall?
Though Big Time Rush portrays Kendall as a werewolf in Big Time Halloween, I feel his monster identity goes deeper than that. He embodies traits of both werewolves and lycans. His transformation is dependent on the moon cycle, but his hybrid form build is rather muscular. Kendall embodies dog-like behaviors but has control over his actions and speech other than howling, growling, and other behaviors humans wouldn't exhibit. It is unclear what his weaknesses are since he was never attacked in this episode nor did he ever take a wolf form. Kendall embodies only two forms—human and hybrid. I am aware some behaviors and characteristics were either exaggerated or ignored because Big Time Rush is a children's show thus childlike humor is a huge priority that misconstrues a lot of information for the sake of its target audience. I theorize his monster identity is dependent on his family. If his father was turned into a werewolf, I could believe Kendall was born a werewolf. If not, I am to believe Jennifer used her magic to turn Kendall into a lycan. I am unsure what species Kendall truly is, but I can always keep theorizing. There is still a lot of information Big Time Rush has left out. Which do you think Kendall is and why? I'd love to hear your thoughts. Thank you for listening to my very random and overly analytical spiel. Happy spooky season, chat!
Pairing(s): Vampire James x Werewolf Kendall, Vampire James x Buffy the Vampire Slayer (sorta)
Characters: (Vampire) James Diamond, (Werewolf) Kendall Knight, (Zombie) Logan Hortense Mitchell, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Content Warnings: Fluff, BL, SFW, Mild Depictions of Violence
Word Count: 2,127
**In my headcanon, Werewolf Kendall looks like an actual werewolf. Not the matted hairball with fangs kind of look inspired by The Wolf Man (c. 1941). I mean the anthropomorphic wolf kind of werewolf with the ears, tail, maw—everything!
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James sprinted through hallways and hurdled over bystanders, his cape fluttering behind him and giving away his presence. The young vampire huffed with each frantic step as he ran for his life. "James!" A familiarly belligerent voice roared from the distance. James shrieked in response and glued his back to the wall once he turned around the corner.
The labyrinth of the Palm Woods' hallways played tricks on James' psyche, fooling him into perceiving his surroundings as far narrower and lengthy than they appeared. His chest rose and fell as he panted away the remnants of fear that kept him stationary. The door to apartment 2J was just out of arm's reach. Its signage of identification crested upon the white maple wood beckoned the trembling vampire with the promise of safety and security.
Just as James took his first step away from the wall, the weight of his assailant's footstep caught him by the end of his cape and caused him to stumble backward. His body hit the floor with a clamorous thud. The poor vampire groaned and writhed in pain as he desperately kneaded the aching pain out of his head. His eyes fluttered open only for him to be greeted by the harrowing sight of Buffy kneeling against his cape and towering over him with a wooden stake firmly in her grasp.
"Buffy, hey!" James swallowed thickly. "Long time no see!"
"For your sake, it should've stayed that way," Buffy grumbled as she tightened her grip.
"Hey, you're the one chasing after me!" James retorted with a sharp tongue. "If I didn't know any better, I'd think you were obsessed with me."
Buffy narrowed her eyes to slits and struck the floor right beside James' head in a flash. She broke through the floorboard with her stake, creating a snapping crash that pierced the vampire's ears. James yelped in response to Buffy's preliminary attack, letting his body tighten and tense like a shriveled raisin. "How's that for obsessed?" she teased, a mocking grin stretching across her face.
"Man, do I stand corrected! Speaking of standing..." James nervously chuckled as he fiddled with the clasp of his cape and removed it from his neck, thus freeing himself and rising to his feet. "See ya!" he squeaked as he scurried toward the door of apartment 2J and slammed it shut once he was safely inside. James sighed a breath of relief, letting his body sink and diffuse.
"Jeez, what have you been up to?" Kendall inquired from the living room floor as he scratched the back of his head with his hind leg.
"Oh, just running for my life is all. Nothing too crazy!" James remarked sarcastically.
The plunge of Buffy's wooden stake through the door caught both boys by surprise and caused them to snap their heads in her direction. James cowered in fear, and Kendall stood on all fours as his ear twitched in anticipation of Buffy's presence.
"James!" The vampire slayer cried as she kicked the door down and crossed the threshold into his home.
"Gyahh!" James shrieked as his fear kept him frozen in place.
Kendall's fur stood on end as a vigilant growl rippled past his lips. His maw created a downward curve in which his fangs bore out and glistened at their sharp edges. Buffy quirked a brow, mildly surprised by James' newfound line of defense but no less determined. She wielded the additional wooden stake from its leather sheath and widened her stance as she faced the defensive werewolf.
"Pathetic," Buffy uttered lowly. "Couldn't face me on your own anymore, so you needed your little mutt to come to the rescue?"
"Okay, rude," Kendall scoffed.
"Sorry."
"And for your information, I am not James' mutt. I'm his friend," Kendall explained.
"Mutt or not, you're not getting in my way," Buffy snapped.
"Oh, we'll see about that."
Buffy beckoned Kendall to step forward if he dared with the gesture of her hand. He snarled and lunged at her without a second to waste. The wolf boy bore his fangs in an attempt to subdue his opponent with a hazardous bite, but his maw was met with the block of Buffy's stake. She held him back by pushing the stake against Kendall's teeth, but there wasn't much force to give with only one hand.
Kendall snatched the stake out of Buffy's grasp, rattling it with a fervent shake as if it were a chew toy until he bit down hard enough to snap it in half. He sat before the vampire slayer, patiently awaiting her next move after realizing how much fun it was to have her weapon in his possession. Bewildered by Kendall's sudden drop in aggression, Buffy studied him with a puzzled look. She glanced down at her remaining stake and back at him. His round, wide puppy-dog eyes followed the stake as she slowly and painstakingly waved it around to steal his focus.
Buffy chuckled with amusement, waving her stake from side to side and in circles. Kendall's happily wagging tail swatted the air with an audible woosh. "This is actually kinda cute," Buffy grinned as she tossed her stake to the other side of the room for Kendall to fetch. He quickly scampered in its direction, his claws scraping against the hardwood floor as he scooped it up in his mouth.
After successfully retrieving Buffy's weapon, he returned to her and lowered it to the floor. However, she was hesitant to reclaim it, as Kendall's drool was dampening the wood. "Eugh... that's a little less cute," she remarked.
"Kendall!" James barked out of frustration, urging his protector to focus on the task at hand.
"Right, sorry!" Kendall squeaked apologetically, swiping the stake back from the floor and tossing it over to James to catch.
"Haha, yes!" The vampire cried triumphantly with the stake in his hand, mere moments before his face drooped with disgust. "Oh... nasty." James carelessly tossed the weapon out the window and draped his hand against his shirt to wipe away the excess drool.
"Hey!" Logan squawked out of annoyance, his severed arm pinned to the ground by James' projectile.
James snapped his head in Logan's direction and grimaced remorsefully at his zombie buddy's subdued appendage. "Sorry!" he cried apologetically through the window.
Kendall and Buffy stared awkwardly at James without the slightest idea of what to do next. Awkward silence held the room in a chokehold and swallowed each individual voice whole. The sounds of a ticking clock, the clearing of one's throat, and the occasional bated breath were all that was audible in that brief moment.
"So... what now?" Kendall uttered.
"Get her!" James snapped as he pointed a stern finger at Buffy.
As instructed, Kendall zeroed in on the vampire slayer. He narrowed his wolfish eyes as they gleamed dimly in the cascading glow of moonlight, and pounced on her with a hellish roar. Buffy's back hit the floor with a heavy blow, and she was caged in by Kendall's bestial hands digging into the floorboards by his claws.
She'd sooner break through the floor to evade Kendall's clutches if there was any space left to run. Buffy held her breath and grimaced as she averted her gaze from the wolf boy above her baring his teeth. She clenched her fists until her knuckles whitened with distress.
A string of saliva trickled down Kendall's maw from his lower fangs and petrified the vampire slayer with disgust. She wriggled and writhed to no avail until the thought of Kendall's doggish saliva getting anywhere near her broke her composure.
"Okay, alright, you win!" Buffy cried defeatedly. "Just get him off me before he drools on me!"
A smug grin proudly graced James' lips. The odds were finally in his favor despite it not necessarily being out of his volition. Still, the shift in their power dynamic was oddly refreshing.
"Leave now, and you can get outta here drool-free." James bargained.
"Yes, fine, okay! Just please get him off!" Buffy replied hurriedly.
"You got it," James grinned as he outstretched a firm hand to command his protector. "Kendall, heel!"
With the upward perk of his ears and tail, Kendall crawled off Buffy and scuttled to James' side, where he sat quietly. Buffy rose to her feet like a space shuttle rising to the sky and shuddered from the sheer repulsion of her prior circumstances. Her skin crawled in doing so, and her face contorted with sharp edges and asymmetrical lines.
"This isn't over," Buffy grumbled as she stomped over the severed door and stormed out of the apartment.
Kendall and James shared a kindred sigh of relief, allowing themselves to diffuse any bodily tension accumulated from the rush of Buffy's attempted assassination. As James turned his head to face his baby-doll-eyed protector, he held his breath at the sight of Kendall's wolfish gaze softening at him. A faint glimmer of the moon twinkled in his pools of emerald green.
"I didn't know you had that in you," James uttered as he outstretched his hand, hesitant in his decision to pet Kendall's head. His fingers grazed Kendall's fur, paving the way for his palm to rest between the ears. The vampire's hand swiveled slowly atop Kendall's head with meticulous strokes.
Kendall joyously wagged his tail and wore a toothy grin that eased James into the sensation of petting him. "Aww, good boy," James cooed as he knelt before the wolf boy, allowing his fingertips to trail across the terrain of fur until he reached behind the left ear and scratched accordingly. Ensnared in a particularly blissful trance, Kendall thumped his foot against the hardwood floor and doubled the speed at which his tail wagged. He gazed at James throughhalf-lidded eyes until they slowly fluttered shut so that he may fully relish in his touch.
"Wow, you really like this. Don't you?" James grinned with a warm chuckle. "Wait a minute..."
James' grin widened as he realized how effectively Kendall could defend him and follow commands. Inspiration struck in the corners of his devilish mind, and suddenly, having a drooling, aggressive canine companion seemed like a great idea.
"Say, Kendall," James began as he withdrew his hand from Kendall's head. "How would you feel about staying by my side today?"
Kendall leaned forward to savor every last second of contact before the feeling of the vampire's touch evaded him. He snapped his eyes open in a daze, not completely registering James' words until after he'd spoken them.
"Huh? What...?" Kendall murmured halfheartedly. "What do you mean?"
"Well, I need protection. You can provide protection. Buffy will surely be back, and I won't be able to avoid her forever, so that's where I need your help!" The vampire implored. "I can't keep looking over my shoulder and running for my life everywhere I go. I've got places to be, things to do, girls to talk to—this is no way for a gorgeous young vampire to live!"
"So you want me to be your guard dog?"
"No, you've got it all wrong. You're only protecting me from the teeny, tiny, ever-so-small threat to my life and safety. But you coincidentally just happen to be a canine predator."
"Okay, so a guard dog?"
"No, you're still not getting it. Think of it this way," James explained alternatively. "This is an exchange of goods and services. We are exchanging things that the other person is in dire need of. You're providing me with the service of protecting me from certain death."
"And what do I get in exchange?" Kendall inquired skeptically.
"You're in need of a good, right? So why don't I exchange your service for this good?" James offered as he returned his hand to its rightful throne behind Kendall's ear where he scratched until he watched Kendall's face droop like syrup spilling from the bottle. The wolf boy hummed contentedly, becoming putty in James' cold, undead hand. He melted like butter from the return of this pleasant sensation and nearly drooled from the fuzzy tingle fluttering in his chest.
"And if you're really good, I may even throw in a belly rub," James bargained as he trailed his hand down the side of Kendall's maw and cupped where his chin became his muzzle. "How does that sound?"
"Mhmmm..." Kendall muttered in a daze.
"That's my good boy."
Kendall clung to the remnants of his trance before it slipped through his fingers like sand. In snapping back to reality, he fully registered the words James used to lull him into disorientation. The wolf boy shook his head and narrowed his eyes at the vampire kneeling before him with an entirely new understanding of what he agreed to.
