Workshop: Werewolf pack (family)

1) Were you raised by both of your parents? If yes, who were you closest to and why? How did you interact with each? If no, who raised you and how has this affected who you are today?
Yes and no really. I was raised by my parents for the first part of my life, then raised by the pack. My parents were great and all while I was with them, but who truly raised me was my pack. They opened my eyes and showed me how the world really was, where the strong live and the weak die. My parents had tried to hide all that from me; sheer stupidity in my opinion. What the hell made them think that would benefit me? Did they think it wouldnt affect me when I was out on my own? Well regardless, my pack put things into perspective. They showed me everything I needed to know and have become more like a family to me than those people I left behind.

2) What do your parents do for a living? Do they expect you to follow the same path? Is this what you want to do? What would you rather do? Do they support your choices?
Well the pack pretty much does whatever the hell we want. Mainly we just wander from place to place, occasionally pulling in new members whenever Fenrir feels the urge to bite. Lately, though, Fenrirs been meeting with some guy named Voldewart or something like that and we have been traveling to different places he wants us to go to. I dont know what is going on and it is frustrating as hell! It justI dunno, I just find it odd that Fenrir is following someone elses orders; its really not like him. This wizard must be promising him something really big in return for whatever help we are going to be giving him. As for me following the same path, well I dont really see myself doing anything else except keepin with em. The only thing that might change is my status in the pack. I may be the pup now, but one day I am going to be up there in the rank. Im not going to try to beat Fenrir out of his place or anything, but I bet in a year or two Im going to be his right hand man for sure.

3) Parental support and approval is an important key to self-esteem, or lack thereof. How much support and approval do you receive? It is of a good nature (ie - supporting you to make the right choices even if it's not popular) or of a dodgy nature (ie - encouraging you to do what must be done to keep yourself on top)? How has this affected you?
Uhhwell it is complicated. Nobody in the pack is really quick to compliment each other or anything; it just doesnt work that way. Giving a lot of support in the verbal sense makes ya seem soft and that is really bad in a group where strength determines your place. We do support eachother in other ways though, like with hunting, defense and the like. Fights may break out between us kinda a lot, but were a pack, we arent going to let anything happen to any of us.

4) No matter how wonderful ones parents are, teenagers and parents fight. Even adult children fight with their folks. What sort of things do you and your parents fight about all the time? Do you fight often, or rarely?
Hell yeah we fight. Well what do you expect, we are a peck for Petes sake. The ranks are given to the stronger ones, usually at least, and the way to prove you are strongest is through fighting. As for verbal fighting well again it is complicated. According to everyone else, I say a lot of stupid things, so I tend to get smacked up side the head, a lot, and told to shut up. Not that that makes me stop or anything. What can I say? I like rattling things up, they are all too serious anyway.

5) Grandparents can often be an important factor in a life. Are your grandparents still alive? How much of an influence do they exert on your life? On your parents' life?
NA on this section. There arent grandparents in this pack, just older and younger wolves, all of which pretty much have the same impact on everything. I guess the older ones could be considered grandparentish- well more parentish actually- since they take care of us younger ones.

6) How many siblings do you have? Older? Younger? How do you get along with each? Is there any significant rivalry with any of them? Do your parents favor (or appear to favor) one over the other? How do the dynamics of your siblings affect you?
I guess all my packmates are like my siblings, especially the ones closer to my age. We are together a lot. We explore, wrestle, hunt, you know all that kind of stuff together. At the moment, everyone in the pack is older than me, hence why they call me pup. Most of the time we get along well enough, I mean we arent out to kill each other or anything. We arent telling each other how much we love each other of course, but again, its a pack based on strength; love is somethin ya keep to yourself.