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Published: 2014-01-09 02:23:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 558; Favourites: 13; Downloads: 2
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“Contrary to popular belief the only obvious external sign a transformation into the wolf-like creature is about to take place is a sudden increase in quantity and length of the vellus hair (which may be more obvious in the full size image, seen here during its initial flush of growth). It happens approximately 8 hours before the onset of skeletal, muscular and other soft tissue morphing and takes about 15 minutes. There are no other outward signs until the skeletal changes begin, except a subtle and growing ‘fakeness’ in the facial features which is hard to quantify but obvious to many observers. “Computer generated” is a term this researcher has heard. And it seems apt.
The rapid appearance of androgenic hair covering vastly extended parts of the body from the normal human pattern occurs at the tail end of the transformation and signals the morph back into human-like form. This second rapid hair growth spurt takes about 30 minutes and is followed by a similar quiescent period of about 8 hours before the other physiological changes begin. Varying amounts of guard hair, underfur and even vibrissa, (whiskers) also form during this later stage, although the non-human hair rarely exceeds one quarter of the total hair growth during the whole cycle and is frequently patchy in appearance.
The inference is correct; during most of the 'wolf' stage, the creature has a normal human hair pattern except for the excessive but fine silvery vellus coat covering nearly all of the body. At the final stage of the cycle, after the skeletal and muscular re-transformation has occurred, all body hair abruptly drops out leaving the newly reformed “human” totally hairless until new hair can grow back at normal speed. And it’s not just the lack of hair that marks the end of a recent transformation cycle. For as long as 48 hours after the change back the facial features again take on that ‘fake’ quality and frequently produce a feeling of revulsion as if one is not looking at a real human but an approximation attempting to deceive. It is a living representation of the psychological concept known as the Uncanny Valley.
A survivable interval between cycles seems to be no less than 6 weeks. At any rate, there is no record of any creature in the study surviving a second transformation occurring any sooner than this. What is happening in the population at large remains unknown. The interval is frequently much longer with 16 weeks being the average and 1127 days being the longest on record. No pathogen or causative agent has been isolated. How it began is unknown. The transformation trigger is currently unknown. There is no cure. All indications suggest that once a change has occurred it will happen again.
What is happening internally is another issue all together and beyond the scope of this e-com. The skeletal, muscular and soft tissue morphology is only vaguely similar to traditional werewolf lore and for this reason words like ‘werewolf’ are misleading and inaccurate. Although commonly used by the media and the culture at large ever since the syndrome was first described among cats and squirrels in 2068 near the Vista impact site in Hiwassee and the later examples within the debris cone after the station's break up and reentry, these terms do not describe the reality. These are not creatures from fiction come to life. Even ‘wolf’ and ‘human’ are inaccurate terms to describe the two morphologic phases because regardless that these creatures were once human, what they are now and what they are becoming is not. Do not forget this.”
