to: everyone

[wolfssegen]

[Posted on July 8, nighttime.]

Just a thought, considering our recent guests - what's your opinion on vampires and werewolves? Do you have them where you come from or are they just in stories? Monsters? Misunderstood? Just another type of creature?

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[godshattering]

Can't help but agree with you there.

[ It might come across flippant, but he does mean it - that rumors shouldn't be believed and all should be able to co-exist no matter their backgrounds is a firm belief of Claude's, so it's nice to hear it echoed from someone else. ]

And saying that's horrible to hear happens to anyone - disappearing, brainwashing, anything cruel - doesn't even begin to cover it. Anything like that should be stopped.

Are the disappearances something common where you're from, then? Or are supernaturals themselves common there compared to everywhere else?

[wolfssegen]

Usually I just approach it by asking whether they're hurting anyone. If not, then why should anyone care what they do on their own time? Then again, I'm also the forgiving sort.

[It's nice to hear someone agreeing with him for Chester too. It's a long-held tradition in his pack that anyone who approaches them needing help, they take them in, unless there's a very good reason.]

If I could work out a way to do it, I would, but the forces doing the kidnapping and brainwashing are a lot bigger than I am. And I'd say they're not uncommon, but not exactly common either. Most supernaturals where I'm from do a pretty good job of keeping their secrets.

[Better than Chester does, that's for sure. Then again, he's always had considerable werewolf pride.]

[godshattering]

That seems fair enough to me, honestly. The tricky part to that usually comes in when everyone can't agree on defining harmless, I've found. Assumptions can factor in a lot then.

Are the forces doing it just people who have organized, or are they some branch of authority where you live? Where I'm from I could see it being part of the main church here since once upon a time they tended to enforce... well, everything. Not that I agreed with that then or now.

[ Don't think he didn't notice 'bigger than me' in there: that seems to reveal more than Claude had thought at first glance the more he dwells on it. ]

I can definitely understand why they'd want to keep it a secret if that's what they're up against, either way.

[wolfssegen]

Guess you've got a point there. But I figure some people just existing isn't hurting anyone, but taking away rights or driving people into hiding is doing harm.

Mostly just people who've organized. There's some church organizations for sure, especially out to get the witches and the supernaturals you'd think of as monsters. Mainly it's the Wraith, who formed up specifically to hunt supernaturals. Far as the government is concerned, supernaturals still have the same rights as any human, but in practice the cops and such aren't so great at actually defending and protecting supernaturals, unless they're supernatural themselves.

Yeah. Seems the wisest course of action. It's what I'd do.