State of the things
It has been one hell of a week, my lovelies. In some kind of effort to put way more hands-on work into character research than any author ever should, I somehow managed to scratch the hell out of my cornea last week while taking out my contacts, and couldn't look at a computer screen for more than a couple of minutes for three days. I don't even
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Homosexuality is definitely considered sort of a 'werewolf thing' in this society, in a, "obviously all werewolves are totally sexually depraved, so of course they'd practice homosexuality too," sort of way. This is one of those times where intersectionality can sort of work in your favor; a non-werewolf who was gay would definitely face serious prejudice and judgment from the neighbors (it's a primarily Protestant society, see chapter 3 re: Carole's bible), but a werewolf who was gay wouldn't get very much blinked at. The homophobia sort of gets subsumed under general lycanthrophobia, for normal humans, and other werewolves, by and large, simply don't care as much. Though that can vary a lot depending on how much time they've spent with other humans--werewolf society is more than a little fractured and piecemeal at this point.
Colors, which I need to be more explicit about: Fur color tends to match hair color, within a few shades, though you may be a little bit darker or lighter or grayer or brindled, one way or the other. Eye color actually works the other way: wolves, irl, have pale brown/yellow eyes, and so do the werewolves, even in human form. It's the only outward marker of a werewolf in human form, but it's more or less unmistakable if you know what to look for. So yes, even Kurt's lovely blue eyes are pale yellow here.
(Incidentally, like many human babies, wolves are born with blue eyes that don't change to their darker color until several weeks later. So human parents with werewolf babies never find out until the first full moon. It's not a good time for anybody involved.)
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