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* There's another example from the [[Tortall Universe|Trickster duology]] written by [[Tamora Pierce]] - Nawat is a crow who becomes human after falling in love with the protagonist. At first he continues to act somewhat like a crow, but she doesn't start to return his affections until some time later, once he's started to act more human.
* [[Terry Pratchett]], of course, plays with this in [[Discworld]].
** Ludmilla Cake and Lupin in ''[[Discworld/Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]''. She's a human who turns into a [[Wolf Man|Wolf Woman]] at full moon. He's a wolf who turns humanoid at full moon. They apparently have a relationship for one week a month, and the rest of the time Lupin is kind of Ludmilla's mother's pet dog. Which is a lot [[squick]]ier written like that than it was in the book...
** Another werewolf, Sergeant Angua, has a romantic relationship with Carrot, a human who thinks he's a dwarf. The books mention that relationships between humans and werewolves are usually extremely difficult, but they manage to make it work.
** Inverted ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'', where a wolf called Gavin (well, he once ate someone named Gavin) is said to have had a very Carrot-like relationship with Angua. The [[Squick]] mitigation comes less from him being a smart wolf, and more Angua not being human all of the time she's with him.
*** That, and the fact that it's implied that Gavin is the descendant of a yennork—a werewolf who isn't able to morph.
{{quote|"You see, a yennork would go off and be a human or be a wolf but they'd still be carrying the werewolf...blood, an then they'd marry and have children...or pups...and, well, that's where the fairy-tale monsters come from. People with a ''bit'' of wolf and wolves with that extra capacity for violence that is so very human." She sighed, and glanced momentarily at Gavin.}}
** Nanny Ogg's pet cat Greebo, in ''[[Discworld/Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad]]'', picked up a new skill: he can turn into his human male equivalent, and invokes [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]. He retained the skill, and uses it again in ''[[Discworld/Maskerade|Maskerade]]''.
* Any one person that's in love with a werewolf in the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' universe. Sure, they originally were human so it may be a subversion in that regards, but they're still large wolf -like things that don't really look like wolves in the movies.
 
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== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
* Fox maidens, usually malicious ([[EverythingsCunning FoxierLike Witha FoxesFox]]) are common in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean mythology. Several examples are found in ''Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio'' (''Liao Zhai Zhi Yi") by Pu Songling.
* Rabbit maidens, such as the one in the Cantonese opera ''Tryst with a White Rabbit'', are usually benign.
* Also celebrated is ''The Legend of the White Snake'': a snake spirit falls in love with the student Xu-Xian. A [[Knight Templar]] type monk called Fa-Hai intervenes, not because she is evil, but simply because she is non-human. Fa-Hai's meddling did more harm than good.
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