Werecard
Werecards are a short profile questionaire, first used on Alt.Horror.Werewolves as an extended introduction. While it lost favor as an introduction tool over time, the format has extended to other therian communities where they were used for profiles, such as Werelist or kinmunity which used the alternative "kincard". Some therians still make werecards for fun, but they're usually modified from the original!
There's a more extensive list of original werecards on the WEREweb for those interested.
The original Werecard
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Note that when these first got started on the internet online security wasn't treated in the same way it is now, and most people who used usenet were adults.
There's also a few other variations, including one by Ashen 2012.
Human Name:
Were Name:
Phenotype(s):
Shifting Ability: (mental, physical, etc.)
Birthdate:
Birthplace:
Home Territory: (where you live now)
Dream Territory: (where you'd like to live, ideally)
Physical Description, Human:
Physical Description, Were:
Human Career:
Hobbies/Interests:
Favourite Movies:
Favourite Were-movie:
Favourite Literature:
Favourite Were Literature:
Favourite Art:
Favourite Were-art:
Favourite Quote:
Favourite Were Saying/Quote:
Favourite Personal Quote:
Favourite Song/Band(s):
Favourite Were Song/Band(s):
Favourite Season:
Favourite Holidays:
Preferred Prey:
Hunting Tips:
Preferred Method of Attack:
Favourite Non-Were Mythological Beast:
Feelings Toward Vampires:
Feelings Toward Normal Humans:
Personal Lycanthropy / Therianthropy:
(This is probably the most important part of the card. What we're after here is a few paragraphs explaining what your lycanthropy means to you, how it fits into and affects your life, your goals, etc. Tell us about your first transformation/realisation of your were nature. Describe the lycanthropy myth as you see it. And so on...)
Human Name: It's a mystery (unless you know us irl)
Were Name: Anomaly, Anomaly's Monster, Monster Street (or Anomaly Street, debating)
Phenotype(s): Just broadly an animal. It gets complicated if we try to get into collective nonhuman identity, since where there's a couple broad-spanning identiites, there's always some who don't fit it.
Shifting Ability: Most of us experience mental, phantom, sensory, perception, emotional, astral, and/or bilocation, for some members these are near constant. Phantom shifts in particular are generally a positive sign that we're grounded in our body. Bilocation shifts tend to be connected to parallel life or soulbonding experiences and are the closest word we have for that. Mental and emotional shifts we use to mean a state of being more animalistic/nonhuman rather than being connected to switching.
Zodiac: Aries
Home Territory: Where everyone goes to die (Florida)
Physical Description, Human: Decided to omit.
Physical Description, Were: Our daemon, Mebbit, is probably the closest to how we'd collectively represent ourselves, they usually appear monochrome with darker colors currently most commonly as a primate or an animal from where we live. Mebbt represents our collective consciousness/body OS/whatever you want to call it.
Human Career: Web Developer
Hobbies/Interests: Collectively we like video games, art, writing, and generally collecting things like rocks or stuffed animals
Outdoor Interests: Biking, running, exploring, playing, just being outside in general
Religious Views: Generally chaos or neo pagans but there's a lot of different religions in the headspace ranging from more traditional pagans, modern neopagans, source/home world traditions, or some who just do whatever. We also have a fair share of people who either don't care, don't know, or don't practice anything.
(Decided to omit favorite media because it caused an argument :v)
Favourite Season: Spring and fall usually
Favourite Holidays: Yuletide and Halloween
Personal Lycanthropy / Therianthropy: As a whole we just feel animal. Some of us see the human body as the alien itself because of nonhumanity, or others are nonhuman and experience the distinct feeling of this body being a greate ape instead of just human. Our collective identities tend to vary in intensity or specific nature with different fronter .
No one in this system considers themselves fully human, even if we happen to get a fictive human, and there is a wide variety of species in this system. Some are inner world specific species who were born here, others are from other realities and reincarnated into this one for one reason or another, and others came from lives parallel to ours and wandered in. While we have non-organics in our headspace, we still call them animals in the way that people might feel empathy for vehicles or spacecraft.
In addition to that, various parallel lives we've been collectively connected to throughout our lives have been nonhuman. Our sibling is a Mewtwo who has their own identity happenings going on and most of them are in a similar camp with the Pokemon equivilant to therianthropy.
This might be vaguer than would have been accepted back then but that's what happens when you try to come up with what a collective identity for 100+ people who share a body :v individually the answer to this question would be a whole lot more specific.
