We still need Carmilla's snobby dad to see the light... wait, maybe that's a bad metaphor for vampires.
Maybe if Wendy saves Carmilla from a bunch of bullies...
Oh dear, the whole story just wrote itself in my head. A gang of human kids (anti-monster bigots) start bullying Carmilla - at midday, when she's least able to defend herself - and one of them goes too far and pulls out a stake. Wendy, witnessing this, has her first Change from sheer outrage, and drives them away, fangs flashing. (Maybe have it established that the full moon is the previous or following night.)
Carmilla calms Wendy down and reassures her that it's okay to be a werewolf, the bullies get suspended (or even arrested - bonus points if it's the centaur policewoman taking them away), and Carmilla's dad is forced to acknowledge that maybe some werewolves have good kids too.
okey, i understand that the mother doesnt want to break wendy heart because she think that the her mother in the werewolf is a friend, but what is going to happend once wendy grow up? at the end she will transform sooner or later, and the sock of not knowing why she is a werewolf if she think that both of her parents are humans, is going to terrible, maybe she will think that she is adopted, or that she is a freak, or that she was bitted and cant remember it, at the end she could have an emotional breakdown, i just hope that she will find the true in a near future
okey, i understand that the mother doesnt want to break wendy heart because she think that the her mother in the werewolf is a friend, but what is going to happend once wendy grow up? at the end she will transform sooner or later, and the sock of not knowing why she is a werewolf if she think that both of her parents are humans, is going to terrible, maybe she will think that she is adopted, or that she is a freak, or that she was bitted and cant remember it, at the end she could have an emotional breakdown, i just hope that she will find the true in a near future
Her mother is banking on Wendy not inheriting the werewolf 'disease'. Which apparently seems to be a hit or miss affair, like some real-life (viral) diseases.
Like, say, HIV— waitaminute, is this supposed to be an allegory for something?
Her mother is banking on Wendy not inheriting the werewolf 'disease'. Which apparently seems to be a hit or miss affair, like some real-life (viral) diseases.
yeah but still, in one moment wendy will learn the true, now she is a kid, but once she grow up she will not be so easily tricked, and is true that the mother didnt planed all this and that all started because of an accident, but even with she must tell wendy about her true nature, also, the father of carmilla told to her that she smelled like dog, and that it was because she played with wendy, wich means that wendy is a werewolf but she must hit puberty to become one.
yeah but still, in one moment wendy will learn the true, now she is a kid, but once she grow up she will not be so easily tricked, and is true that the mother didnt planed all this and that all started because of an accident, but even with she must tell wendy about her true nature,
*Points to hordes of real-life parents who go to extreme lengths to hide a child's disability and/or disease from said child*
Societal pressure has a big effect. So, the parent is pressured not to reveal the condition because of fears that she might be deemed a failure of a parent (South Korea is particularly bad about this). If the disorder is inherited (or even if it's not, since the public subscribe to all sorts of batshit theories especially in the age of social media), there's also an additional fear of being perceived as having the same disorder as the child (or the parent's condition revealed, if he's already diagnosed).
Less 'selfishly', you also have fears of your child being shunned or made fun of by her peers if her condition is revealed (just take a look at all the autism jokes now, it's like the new "in-thing" to pick on now). Getting 'othered' or bullied at a young age has a crippling effect on the ego (just take a look at all the children and teenage suicides and note the most common cause). Kids have loose lips, so hiding the information from the child makes it less likely to get out.
So, yeah, as a parent you just share it with caretakers (e.g. teachers and doctors), close relatives and friends (and maybe parents of the kids' friends). Ideally, you have to gradually reveal it to the kid as he grows older, but some people just keep kicking the can down the road even after their child becomes an adult, to everyone's detriment.
If the condition is 'fixable' (or more precise, "camouflageable") somehow, like 'lighter' autism (a misnomer), or some forms of vision impairment (that isn't outright blindness), there's even more incentive for the parent to hide it from the child, hoping (against hope) that the child would 'grow out of it' or 'be cured'.
(Air-quotes around all the above should be enough to tell you what I really feel about the matter.)
Of course, in this fantasy world, lycanthropy has more overt effects and is a potential active danger to others (since it's communicable), so it would be irresponsible to not let the child know past a certain point. But it isn't 100% certain that the daughter has lycanthropy anyway (and I assume there's no way to find out for sure until she's developed it or grew past a certain age, otherwise they can just run tests), so there's no need to tell her when she's this young (since she's otherwise a perfectly normal child and doesn't need special accommodations). All the responsible parent has to do (on top of normal parenting duties) is to make sure the child's caretakers stay informed, and to be extra vigilant around the full moon (or any other opportunities for transformation) to make sure she doesn't accidentally bite someone else (or have her condition exposed to the all her friends).
Less immersion-breaking than the vampire kid who nearly just assaulted a classmate with deliberate intent to infect her with a 'disease', really.
(I assume the vampires have a lot of political sway and are able to wave off any potential regulations that limit them, because, really, they are a potential walkingflying epidemic. Being rich and blue-blooded goes a long way.)
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also, the father of carmilla told to her that she smelled like dog, and that it was because she played with wendy, wich means that wendy is a werewolf but she must hit puberty to become one.
Let's see, it could be her mother's smell rubbing off her (personally I can smell 'cat' on some cat owners sometimes, and I don't have super-smell). Or maybe having the 'genes' (assuming its a retrovirus of some sort) in a person can cause the smell, even though she doesn't necessarily has active lycanthropy (and is not infectious). Vamp-Daddy doesn't know for sure anyway, otherwise there's no point buying that werewolf detector. Also note his specific language in post #3440074 — he said "werewolf's child" and not "werewolf child/kid", indicating he's not 100% sure himself.
As Han's friend and one of his editors (usually the Modern Mogal stuff that is only available on print/gumroad or the pony fanbooks) -- I can tell you that Wendy's story is still up in the air, but that Han wants to develop her further.
Also, as others have said, previous strips have made it ambiguous if Wendy even has the lycanthropy virus.
I guess there's no harm in posting the commentary page that's in the back of the Jennifer doujinshi which explains a bit of what we might see in the future in regards to Wendy
Less 'selfishly', you also have fears of your child being shunned or made fun of by her peers if her condition is revealed (just take a look at all the autism jokes now, it's like the new "in-thing" to pick on now). Getting 'othered' or bullied at a young age has a crippling effect on the ego (just take a look at all the children and teenage suicides and note the most common cause). Kids have loose lips, so hiding the information from the child makes it less likely to get out.
^ This, just... This.
I spent my entire school life being picked on (that's "Bullied" to you all), 12 years, for those of you not from the UK and the way our Compulsory Education works, because I was "Different", and no-one knew why, they just seemed to pick up on it. It wasn't until the Summer before my final year of school, that I even found out I was Autistic.
Most of my peers managed to grow up and realise they were being quite shite towards me and other people, but some didn't. All I can say really, is that despite media depicting like 99% of children as little Angels, kids can be SO CRUEL at times, more vicious than adults, even.