Tag: Lyca

bettsplendens:

Packs of Lyca can sometimes be seen appearing to pray to/howl at the moon.

In reality, they’re yelling at the moon, telling it to not fuck up whatever they’re about to do. It’s more superstition than actual belief in any sort of moon deity. 

This is a species whose creation mythology amounts to “the moon is a jackass who threw our ancestor at the ground, causing us to grow from the resulting shards, and then cursed us”, so it’s not really any wonder. 

They don’t really do religion, not as a species. Individual groups have individual superstitions, but their planet has some very strange things that could be considered actual minor gods, and those are normal. They’re too practical, too rooted in doing things for themselves, to get too far into religion and worship. 

Packs of Lyca can sometimes be seen appearing to pray to/howl at the moon.

In reality, they’re yelling at the moon, telling it to not fuck up whatever they’re about to do. It’s more superstition than actual belief in any sort of moon deity. 

Alzu the thirstwolf is a Lyca, a species of humanoid canids. They have interesting laws, mostly to deal with the fact that once a month they all turn into giant, ravenously hungry nightmare wolves. 

One of their laws, and unrelated to that, is this; if you’re having sex with someone and they’re just really, really terrible at it, you are legally allowed to bite them (non-lethally) until they get the hint and leave. 

This is because the males have lube glands on their equipment which are quick to respond to arousal, where the females’ physical responses tend to be slower. The males developed lube glands in the first place because female proto-Lyca, unusually for non-sapient species, didn’t put up with an uncomfortable mating. That tendency to bite an inconsiderate male never really died out. It’s generally agreed to be very rude and worthy of biting to pay no attention to a partner’s discomfort. 

(now, if you ask them within the boundaries of their mythology why the lube glands exist, they’ll jokingly tell you that it’s because the sky-wolf who spawned them all was very much a top and, like most of them, had no desire to be confined to partners with a certain set of equipment.)