wolf psyche and college

[beccaelizabeth]

I am reading Teen Wolf fic and I find it weird how the baseline assumption seems to be
werewolves are highly territorial, except for abiut college students.
After all, kids go away to college all the time, it would be weird!

... except I had to choose one of the local colleges because a stack of reasons, and it seems pretty logical to me that 'would be outside our territory' would be a pretty good reason.

And a degree is a degree? ish?
I mean I hope so, I have a degree via City College, but it is supposed to cover all the same topics.

So it just seems odd to me that the assumption is
everyone can of course go everywhere they like
rather than
well here is a limiting factor, because millenia of wolf wars.

it atrikes me in the same way as Rose getting a trans temporal cell phone
like here is an area where people just don't imagine the possibility of limits any kore.

... but it could just be canon, cause I don't k ow canon.
... but then canon decided the things too. so for why?


It seems to me way more interesting to have people dealing with limits
and if the wolf needs the pack
then that's a good limit to work around.

needing people even when you don't want to need them.



but nope, fragmentation assumed, without werewolf issues.

odd.

Comments

[that_mireille]

I would find it interesting if there were *occasional* exceptions -- like, okay, the occasional kid who really, really wants to study something that isn't available in the pack's territory, or who desperately wants to go to Prestigious University -- that had to be negotiated for.

(For example, I live in a rural enough area that the nearest medical and law schools are ~200 miles away, which might be out of pack territory unless the territories are very large.)

But for it to just be No Big Deal because OF COURSE you go away for college, that just seems ill thought-out.