Tropical trouble 3

strixvanallen on Feb. 3, 2017

First and foremost: “I'm not a dog, no” is a legitimate line of a legitimate lyrics that actually exists in Brazil. The guy who sings it looks like it: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nWCP14hkI8k/maxresdefault.jpg And he does sing the line in broken English in the middle of a song in Portuguese.

Brazilian culture note 2: yes, people from Rio apparently can organize a barbecue party in a couple of hours. Barbecue parties are a staple of Brazilian culture, if only because they are easy to organize: you only need a house with a grill (and, hopefully, a pool), a guy (and it's always a guy) that wants to be grilling meat for hours and someone to cook rice, farofa (flour and meat) and that horrendous mix of vinegar, paprika and onions. Then, you invite loads of people and ask everyone to bring their beer and blast annoying music as loud as you can.

There! Barbecue party!

In another note, if you ever bothered to read the description of the Full Moon Club's character chart, you would know already that Lauro is a werewolf. Brazilian werewolves change at the night of unlucky days (such as Friday and the whole month of August, considered the Mad Dog Month), and they are generally harmless. I mean, yes, there are legends of werewolves hurting or killing people, but most legends boil down to ‘look, that weird guy in the village becomes a wolf, sometimes, and go around doing weird dog stuff’. And I do mean weird dog stuff. There is a folk tale of Brazilian werewolves rolling in used diapers (like dogs, those unsanitary beasts). I love how weird Brazilian folklore can get.

In B&V-verse, I go even further, making them being able to change to their wolf form at will (unless it's an unlucky day, then they get stuck as a wolf from dusk until dawn) and letting them keep control of most of his actions (sometimes the dog urges just get too overwhelming). Lauro is using the white board to write his retort because wolf muzzles can't produce human speech, which is one of the drawbacks of being a Brazilian werewolf.