-- agh, no, completely true, I keep dating the World Wars from the years the actual rest of the world got into them; I forget how late we condescended to acknowledge that WWI was going on. And that's also a very good point re. biology.
(I'm thinking possibly the actual basic military organizational structure is set up differently, if your military evolved over centuries around the wolfpack as a basic unit. But here again I run into a research wall.)
And just sigh. I've worked out what I think is pretty plausible SOP for wolves going into heat in a military hospital, but on the actual ground there are just way too many contributing factors for me to be entirely comfortable...
... yeah, basically, too much overthink for something that would end up being backstory, but -- these fuckersneed wolves, dammit, and I need to know what the hell they're flashing back to.
(They need wolves as in, their lives might actually be saner with wolves, because I have to believe any sister of Jimmy's would be able to tell him that his mother is funny in the head and also he's being an ass, and if there's cultural space for Jimmy to have a wife and a shieldmate, then just possibly they can actually talk about said wife having a husband and a girlfriend, and Richard would just be so much happier all around, and -- oh, you know, all kinds of things.)
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(I'm thinking possibly the actual basic military organizational structure is set up differently, if your military evolved over centuries around the wolfpack as a basic unit. But here again I run into a research wall.)
And just sigh. I've worked out what I think is pretty plausible SOP for wolves going into heat in a military hospital, but on the actual ground there are just way too many contributing factors for me to be entirely comfortable...
... yeah, basically, too much overthink for something that would end up being backstory, but -- these fuckers need wolves, dammit, and I need to know what the hell they're flashing back to.
(They need wolves as in, their lives might actually be saner with wolves, because I have to believe any sister of Jimmy's would be able to tell him that his mother is funny in the head and also he's being an ass, and if there's cultural space for Jimmy to have a wife and a shieldmate, then just possibly they can actually talk about said wife having a husband and a girlfriend, and Richard would just be so much happier all around, and -- oh, you know, all kinds of things.)