“The curse doesn’t roar. It bristles.
First comes the ache—along the spine, the shoulders, the arms—then the splitting. My back ruptures, not with wings or claws, but with quills—dozens, then hundreds, each sharp as vengeance.
My skin toughens, my muscles ripple, my hands curl inward like claws. I hunch, not to hide—but to warn. My face remains, half-human, half-beast with sharp quills—but my eyes? My eyes are black needles of fury.
I am the wereporcupine. I don’t chase. I wait. And when they come close—when they think I am cornered—I strike, a storm of spines and blood.
Let them learn: some monsters don’t howl. Some bristle.”
Were-Porcupine by ivanprime93
The Wereporcupine or Were-Porcupine (plural: Wereporcupines or Were-Porcupines)(were-porcupine (plural: were-porcupines)), or Porcupineman (also spelled Porcupine-Man or Porcupine Man), also called the Acanthochoiranthropy (plural: Acanthochoiranthropies), Acanthochoiranthrope (plural: Acanthochoiranthropes)(from Ancient Greek ακανθόχοιράνθρωπος means ‘porcupine-man’), Acanthochoiranthropic (plural: Acanthochoiranthropics), or simply Acanthochoiran (plural: Acanthochoirans) is an omnivorous mammalianthropic individual who can shape-shift into a porcupine. or especially in modern days, a therianthropic hybrid porcupine/human being, either purposely or after the end of curses, however often a bite or the occasional scratch from another wereporcupine, with the transformations occurring on the night of a full moon.
- The word “Acanthochoiranthropy” originates from a portmanteau of Greek words, akanthókhoiros [ακανθόχοιρος] meaning porcupine. And Anthropos [ἄνθρωπος], meaning human or person; man or woman. So the term translates to ‘porcupine person’ or even ‘porcupine human (man/woman)’.
Acanthochoiranthropy transformation refers to the mythical or fictional process by which a human transforms into a porcupine or a porcupine-human hybrid, but acanthochoiranthropy can involve transformation into any kind of porcupine, such as Brazilian porcupines, North American porcupines, African porcupines, etc. Depicting all humans in porcupine form, known as the Acanthochoiromorphism (singular: Acanthochoiromorphist) or Acanthochoiranism (singular: Acanthochoiranist).
- Acanthochoiranthropism (singular: Acanthochoiranthropist) is a therianthropic representation of deities in combined human and porcupine form.
- Acanthochoirotype (plural: Acanthochoirotypes) is a mammalianthropic animal that is from porcupine identifies as (From Acanthochoiro- + type).
other words based of acanthochoiranthropes are:
- The Porcupanthrope (plural: Porcupanthropes), also known as the Porcupanthropy (plural: Porcupanthropies), Porcupanthropic (plural: Porcupanthropics), or simply Porcupan (plural: Porcupans).
- The Porcupinekin (plural: Porcupinekins) is a short name of wereporcupines.
