im so tired of vampires being the sophisticated, cultured creatures compared to, often blood thirsty and savage, lycanthropes. you know what i want? i want a story where lycanthropes are the mannered ones- centuries of well breeding, manners, and civility- and the vampires are the crackheads who smoke pot and drink blood slushees.
lycanthrope houses from across the globe and all manner of creatures; wolves, bears, buffalo, lions, reindeer, tigers, etc. sometimes! sometimes to combine two different houses, lycans marry each other and then produce offspring that carry different traits from each parental line- i.e., a wolf with antlers, a lion with stripes, a buffalo with claws and fangs, etc. (in my head, all this is fantastical and magic, so genetics don’t interfere with certain things). pure lycans (because sometimes a lycan will marry a human and produce offspring) are highly sought after for high skilled job positions; politicians, medical experts, investigative services, etc. because they have quickly-processing brains, sharp senses, and near perfect memory.
vampires, when compared, are the ones eating weird, and often dangerous, combinations of food and the party animals usually found with no shirt or shoes after a long night out.
just... give me cool and collected- but still fierce- lycans and high as fuck, weird vampires