Passion

I love this quote by Joss Whedon about PASSION:


“Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.” (Joss Whedon)

Non-lycanthrope Shapeshifters: love-life

Don't get me wrong, I love werewolves. They're some of my favourite shapeshifters. Lots of possibilites, and as we all know, probably the most well known and popular shapeshifters in today's pop culture.

That being said, these days I've been very interested in non-lycanthrope shapeshifters. Specifically, how could they be adapted to a romance novel?

I'm not just talking about humans who shift into other animal forms. There's a plethoria of shapeshifters in mythology that have a lot of potential. Even if you think about the love stories we know, some contain shapeshifters that we don't necessarily classify as shapshifters. I'm thinking about Beauty and the Beast, namely the Beast.


A shapeshifter who I could speculate (in fiction, that is) has an active lovelife is Proteus, ancient Greek sea-god and son of Poseidon. In his seal form, he had a harem of female seals. Now, if all of those ladies were shapeshifters, too... well, Proteus could be a very tired man.