After the sixtieth time, growing a nice rack really loses its novelty. He's just glad he can sell them for a tidy profit after his cervine time is up, if he doesn't get hit by a car first.
Heh, there's a fun thing to think about: what parts of a were-creatures body would be shed, and what parts would be absorbed, during a transformation? I've also entertained the idea of using a were-creature's shed parts as a catalyst to transform others: for example, grinding the shed antlers into powder and mixing them into a drink.
Oh, and sadly, just about anything can feel "old" after a while. If you ask me, I think its sort of a flaw of the human psyche, never staying permenantly happy with what you have, no matter how beneficial it might be... though some would consider it a blessing: since humans get bored with old things, they are constantly innovating and remaking things, being an active agent of, well, of change.;)
The psychological/biological principle is called, simply enough, accommodation. Stimuli lose their effectiveness overtime, like getting used to spicy food. It's also why things get boring - the novelty dies, so the stimulation wears off, and ceases to entertain.
I would hope that shedding one's humanity would free one from this, but you just can't always have everything.
Accommodation is sometimes credited with humanity's restlessness and constant quest for novelty. We're one of the few animals that will actually relocate even when there's no shortage of food/water/shelter. After all, why ford a river when there's plenty of fruit on this side? It's thought to have driven human exploration and their spread across the world. Finding the same species natively on every continent is a very rare thing indeed. We take for granted that there are humans everywhere, but imagine being a sailor during the Age of Exploration and coming ashore on the New World, only to find that there are already people there. It's weird, right? These were completely new places, thought to be unseen by human eyes, and there were already people living there millions of years ago.
So tl;dr, accommodation is not necessarily a bad thing.
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SeaCigar
Heh, there's a fun thing to think about: what parts of a were-creatures body would be shed, and what parts would be absorbed, during a transformation? I've also entertained the idea of using a were-creature's shed parts as a catalyst to transform others: for example, grinding the shed antlers into powder and mixing them into a drink.
Oh, and sadly, just about anything can feel "old" after a while. If you ask me, I think its sort of a flaw of the human psyche, never staying permenantly happy with what you have, no matter how beneficial it might be... though some would consider it a blessing: since humans get bored with old things, they are constantly innovating and remaking things, being an active agent of, well, of change.;)
Sechran
The psychological/biological principle is called, simply enough, accommodation. Stimuli lose their effectiveness overtime, like getting used to spicy food. It's also why things get boring - the novelty dies, so the stimulation wears off, and ceases to entertain.
I would hope that shedding one's humanity would free one from this, but you just can't always have everything.
Ciervo
Well, here it's the shedding of humanity to which the human's gotten accommodated ;)
Kitsune127
Accommodation is sometimes credited with humanity's restlessness and constant quest for novelty. We're one of the few animals that will actually relocate even when there's no shortage of food/water/shelter. After all, why ford a river when there's plenty of fruit on this side? It's thought to have driven human exploration and their spread across the world. Finding the same species natively on every continent is a very rare thing indeed. We take for granted that there are humans everywhere, but imagine being a sailor during the Age of Exploration and coming ashore on the New World, only to find that there are already people there. It's weird, right? These were completely new places, thought to be unseen by human eyes, and there were already people living there millions of years ago.
So tl;dr, accommodation is not necessarily a bad thing.