Dear Self, where do you get these crazy ideas?
So, apparently when I write original fic about an orphan who turns out to be a werewolf who was adopted after crazy bigots killed his "pack" but thought that the children could be "saved", my inspiration stalls out and/or I realize that a)this fic would be similar without the werewolves and b)it wants to have chapters, with an option of c)I have a
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The apocalyptic/dystopic/bad guys are BAD part wasn't so fun, but I liked having a longterm culture of werewolves living in the modern world under cover. We had a group attending a Catholic school at St. Uriel's, and one of my characters, the Latin teacher, had some interesting adventures when she found out one of her fellow faculty members and a few students weren't exactly human.
My other characters were werewolves -- one wolf-born, one a child of two werewolves -- who eventually formed packs and were the "alphas" of their packs. The urban packs tended to come out more like street gangs of thieves, misfits and disreputables, but there was one "tribe" of rather New Age-ish werewolves that tended to form nuclear families and could be very Mom and Pop, picket fence. (My Latin teacher's colleague and next-door neighbor was one of those. As was, it turned out, her upstairs tenant.)
And we were always having to "rescue" werewolf cubs from human families who were treating them as disturbed, drugging them, giving them electroshock or taking them to counsellors and priests because "my kid isn't normal!"
We didn't have too many all-werewolf families though, because by and large the gene tended to skip generations, and also the game designers came up with this goofy angst-producing mechanism whereby two werewolves mating produced sterile offspring, so it was considered taboo like incest... instead, you had to marry humans (who might be "kin," in which case it was essentially a werewolf family because kinfolk were raised with the idea/culture) or have sex with canines (let's not go there).
Your idea of a religious fanatics group killing off a family is NOT one I recall, but would fit right in!
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