The idea of scent names comes from the book and it's really neat, huh. Coming up with names for people is SO FUN. ... though in the books they lived in forests and stuff and the wolves had names like "moss on a sunny rock" or "crisp and clean ice-melt stream from the mountains". Now it's more often stuff like "car exhaust at rush hour." XD
It's one person one wolf, but they don't recognize each other immediately upon meeting. In the books ideally you'd have a bunch of kids taking care of the cubs and being around and helping the mom, and little by little the cubs would start liking someone better than the rest. And when a human dies his wolf often chooses someone else again after a little while, and vice versa. They don't die if the bond is broken, though they might possibly become suicidal or the like, it probably depends on personality.
Glenfiddich does indeed have a deep chest on account of being a healthy, well-trained, bred-for-strength wolf, but a lot of that is merely fur. I used to have a Tervueren Belgian Shepherd and he was fluff-hairy in that way, but when you flattened his fur it was like, wow, you could almost go hand-deep in there before touching flesh. He comes from a long line of carefully bred animals so his fur and other characteristics aren't very close to wild-type wolves anymore.
Traditionally bondwolves are presented to people in the military, law enforcement or rescue, though in the end since the wolf chooses their partner it happens that if they're exposed to other people they might choose someone who's not. It's pretty unusual though.
They match by compatibility of personality, and they vary a lot in those just like humans, but they're still pack-minded predators and usually look for a match in that, so it's very rare that an antisocial or passive/fearful person would get to bond. (Mary partly bonded with Heero because there was no one else and they were both extremely lonely, though Heero wasn't acknowledging it.)
In the end having a bondwolf depends not on training or anything like that, but on whether you were around a bitch and her litter at the time the cubs were starting to look for a human partner. It doesn't reflect on how competent the human is, only on whether they were offered the chance to try and whether there was a compatible cub at the time.
Wufei acquiring Glenfiddich was an accident insofar as Wufei was absolutely not looking to bond, but when Treize died he ejected Glen's lifeboat capsule first and Wufei couldn't take letting him die in space and went to get him, and then they were kind of mourning Treize together and bam. I have a feeling Treize planned it that way, though. >___> Wufei is frustrated at him about it but in a way that knows full well it's useless to be frustrated at Treize for being Treize.
Nah, it's Killer who's all "what's the point" about mouth-noises, Glen is better about verbal stuff. Note, most wolves can't follow a full conversation if they're not mind-linked to someone and even then they interpret it in really non-human ways, so "better" doesnt mean he's fluent, but for a wolf he has a big vocabulary of words he understands.
And of course they spar. XD Not any fun otherwise.
(I'll probably write a Wufei sidefic at some point, because I love their story too, but this one is mostly about Duo and Killer so there isn't as much space for them.)
You are single-handedly dragging me back into the Gundam Wing fandom. >| BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA win. >:D
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The idea of scent names comes from the book and it's really neat, huh. Coming up with names for people is SO FUN. ... though in the books they lived in forests and stuff and the wolves had names like "moss on a sunny rock" or "crisp and clean ice-melt stream from the mountains". Now it's more often stuff like "car exhaust at rush hour." XD
It's one person one wolf, but they don't recognize each other immediately upon meeting. In the books ideally you'd have a bunch of kids taking care of the cubs and being around and helping the mom, and little by little the cubs would start liking someone better than the rest. And when a human dies his wolf often chooses someone else again after a little while, and vice versa. They don't die if the bond is broken, though they might possibly become suicidal or the like, it probably depends on personality.
Glenfiddich does indeed have a deep chest on account of being a healthy, well-trained, bred-for-strength wolf, but a lot of that is merely fur. I used to have a Tervueren Belgian Shepherd and he was fluff-hairy in that way, but when you flattened his fur it was like, wow, you could almost go hand-deep in there before touching flesh. He comes from a long line of carefully bred animals so his fur and other characteristics aren't very close to wild-type wolves anymore.
Traditionally bondwolves are presented to people in the military, law enforcement or rescue, though in the end since the wolf chooses their partner it happens that if they're exposed to other people they might choose someone who's not. It's pretty unusual though.
They match by compatibility of personality, and they vary a lot in those just like humans, but they're still pack-minded predators and usually look for a match in that, so it's very rare that an antisocial or passive/fearful person would get to bond. (Mary partly bonded with Heero because there was no one else and they were both extremely lonely, though Heero wasn't acknowledging it.)
In the end having a bondwolf depends not on training or anything like that, but on whether you were around a bitch and her litter at the time the cubs were starting to look for a human partner. It doesn't reflect on how competent the human is, only on whether they were offered the chance to try and whether there was a compatible cub at the time.
Wufei acquiring Glenfiddich was an accident insofar as Wufei was absolutely not looking to bond, but when Treize died he ejected Glen's lifeboat capsule first and Wufei couldn't take letting him die in space and went to get him, and then they were kind of mourning Treize together and bam. I have a feeling Treize planned it that way, though. >___> Wufei is frustrated at him about it but in a way that knows full well it's useless to be frustrated at Treize for being Treize.
Nah, it's Killer who's all "what's the point" about mouth-noises, Glen is better about verbal stuff. Note, most wolves can't follow a full conversation if they're not mind-linked to someone and even then they interpret it in really non-human ways, so "better" doesnt mean he's fluent, but for a wolf he has a big vocabulary of words he understands.
And of course they spar. XD Not any fun otherwise.
(I'll probably write a Wufei sidefic at some point, because I love their story too, but this one is mostly about Duo and Killer so there isn't as much space for them.)
You are single-handedly dragging me back into the Gundam Wing fandom. >|
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA win. >:D