*pokes at Killer & Glen* >___>

[askerian]

oh man, so much worldbuilding little details for a world that has had warriors and wolf-bonds since before JC.

Would the Preventers have separate rooms for on-base lodgings or a single dormitory, since wolf packs would bond better if they're allowed to all sleep in a pile? Would that cause too many squabbles for the best position? Would they not care so much about the pack as a whole being linked extra-closely since they're almost never going to all work on the same single mission anyway but be broken up into smaller teams or even simple two-humans partnerships where one of the guys might not even have a wolf, and so training together and being around each other during a work day should be sufficient to create a pack identity? gnahh. Can't reason it out.

I have other issues but they're spoilerific as heck. Hrrrn.

Comments

[tanukyle.livejournal.com]

You could have a dormitory with seperate bunk areas if anybody felt the need to use them? Like, instead of seperate doors off a corridor, a central round room with very small sleeping areas attached?

[askerian]

Oh huh, that's not a bad idea. Will poke it a little more to see how well it holds up, but it's a pretty good compromise. Thanks!

[tanukyle.livejournal.com]

I've seen it used in space ficlets with similair circumstances and it worked really well, so. xD

[kinsugi.livejournal.com]

I rly like tankukyle's solution! Wolfpiles -> warm fuzzies... (sorry, been out of touch for way too long... so much yummy reading to catch up on!)

[joisbishmyoga.livejournal.com]

Maybe a series of interconnected rooms plus smaller "transition in" cabin-apartments for new recruits and base transfers.

[askerian]

HMMMMMMMM that might also work, depending, but as for cabins I think it's all in the same building. they're in the middle of a city so they can't spread out too much. separate rooms maybe...

[lordryous.livejournal.com]

I think, There would likely be one large bunk, int he tradition barracks with humans on beds and extra space for wolves. that way sleeping in the same room could provide a setting for pack dynamics during personal time.

I think Une might try to put non-bondwolf personel together and bond-wolf personel together, cause chances are, there arent that many bond-wolf personel to begin with

[prowlingthunder.livejournal.com]

If there aren't very many wolf-bonded personel in the first place, it wouldn't really make sense to seperate them from non-bonded personel; it would be better to mix them and save on space. Mixing them would promote bonded/nonbonded cooperation and facilitate understanding between the two sides.

[uneko.livejournal.com]

well, here's another aspect of things. I'm not familiar with the setting or the story being written here.. but... how is the bond regarded? Is it something special? a gift? is it something that 'just kinda happens'? is EVERYONE bonded?

I read a series of books where people bonded with cat-like things and they were regarded as better then everyone else because their cat had chosen them and Bonded with them, which has since forever changed their destiny, And all bonded pairs now travel the land as Truth finders because their cats are telepathic. To be a Seeker is to be afforded a great honor, and all will respect you and treat you with due respect. (series: Ghatti's tale by Gayle Greeno -- not actually a spectacular series of books, but read it during my formulative years so..)

I read another series where those bonded with wolves were given an air close to a diplomat or something. Expected to be left alone and unharassed mostly.. The main character was a healer.. her bond gave her the ability to help with healing 'magically'... and thus was afforded a LOT of respect for it.

That said, I'm looking at TV tropes and also finding another series where anyone who bonded with an animal was frowned andl ooked down on, and they tended to cluster in their own communities.. this OTHEr book has bonding as a pretty common thing. Pern had the dragonriders as the nobles of society, effectively...

How the world would treat them dependson how they look at them. Would they try to make them as comfortable as possible because they've historically been seen as a 'elite' group? or are they the means to some end? are they grunt forces, indentured slaves, or elite agents? etc