Werewomen, Sabina Kim, and Future Writing Plans

Hey guys, just wanted to share some thoughts and news about the future of my magical-Werewoman stories, since I know that's something a LOT of people are interested in seeing more of.

Although I have at least two fully-fleshed out ideas for Werewomen plots in addition to Sabina Kim's stories, I've been a bit stymied on Sabina Kim because I feel like I'm not sure where to begin with her and where to take her. I want to do several simultaneous things with Sabina Kim: have a sexy story about a handsome white guy who turns into the woman of his dreams, who happens to a beautiful Korean girl who looks like she belongs in a Kpop group, explore what it's like to be a werewoman, have that werewoman hook up with a vampire (because I find vampires mega sexy), and create a dark, byzantine world of Lovecraftian portents and paranormal intrigue for them to inhabit and survive in. The problem is that I tried to do too many of these at once in A Werewoman and Her Vampire, and it didn't come off too well. The vampire kinda winds up feeling forced, and somewhat irrelevant beyond the uses to which his penis is put, and the world is too... meh, bland, boring, there's no hint of the dangerous shadows all around them. I dunno, it just wound up feeling a bit rushed and poorly executed to me, is all. 

I'm thinking about going back and rewritingA Werewoman and Her Vampire and removing it from the Kindle Store (for future readers, not current owners) until I can publish a second edition that better reflects its overall place in the universe. BUT, before the second edition of A Werewoman and Her Vampire, I need to write I, Werewoman, first. And that means that I need to more fully establish who and what a Werewoman IS so that I can fully explore how becoming one would affect the main character's life in that story. 

Now, in my universe, Werewomen actually have a lot more in common with Vampires than with Werewolves: WW and Vamps both feed on people, they both need to be able to pass for human in order to do so, they both weaponize sexuality... So in designing my Werewomen, I referred more to Vampires than to Werewolves in my design.

Werewomen in My Universe

• Monsters that feed on the Masculine Vitality (vitae, or vigorem, in Latin) of male humans, vampires, etc. They extract this Vitality through sexual contact with males, by means of absorbing the testosterone in their ejaculate or by drinking it from the blood in their veins.
• Vitae, or Vigorem, is necessary for a Werewoman not only to live, but also to fuel her supernatural abilities and in order to maintain her feminine appearance (if she wants to) while the sun is up. Werewomen are incapable of producing vitae/vigorem for themselves anymore. 
• Werewomen, like Vampires and Werewolves, are under the sway of the moon, but unlike Vampires, who are progeny of Hecate and exist to plague mankind, and Werewolves, who were men turned into monsters by Artemis, Werewomen inherit their condition from both Artemis and Venus.
• The ancient origin of Werewomen is that there was once an athletic and handsome young man in ancient Thebes who was a talented hunter. He was named Hieródoulos, and he secretly longed to become a beautiful woman, marry his best friend, and have children together. He prayed to all the goddesses, and both Aphrodite and Artemis answered. Artemis offered to make Hieródoulos an incredibly strong and beautiful woman, with supernatural speed and strength to make him/her the best huntress in all of Greece, and immortal, but only if he would agree to abstain from sex and remain a virgin forever. Aphrodite, on the other hand, wanted to make a point to Artemis and all the gods that beauty, womanhood, sex, and love were enough for some people who didn't feel the need for masculine pursuits, so she offered to make Hieródoulos a beautiful, but petite and delicate woman who was mortal and prone to clumsiness - someone who could never be a hunter again. In exchange for giving up his martial ability, however, Aphrodite promised Hieródoulos that as a woman, she would never be without a willing lover and that she would always have magnificent sex.
  
  It only took Hieródoulos a moment to decide to accept Aphrodite's offer and reject Artemis'. He thanked Artemis for her offer, but the Moon goddess went away sulking and angry. Aphrodite led Hieródoulos to a sacred pool where she approached him in human form and made slow and passionate love to him/her, sculpting and reshaping her into a beautiful woman all the while, and then sent her back to her home, where she leapt into the arms of her surprised best friend, announced that she was now Hieródouli, and kissed him passionately on the mouth. The two were married a month later and were fabulously happy, especially in the bedroom.
  
  However, Artemis, feeling spurned and angry that Aphrodite might be right that sex, love, beauty, and womanhood might actually be enough for some people, cursed  Hieródouli, and set out to ruined her happiness. First she stripped womanhood from Hieródouli and returned her to the manhood she renounced. Then she cursed him to crave masculinity like a drug, and to feed on it as vampires do blood. She stole him out of his house and dumped him into the dirt in front of her temple, drained of energy and so desperate to feed from the various men who came to visit her temple that he was mistaken for one of the temple prostitutes. Even worse, his hunger for vigorem was so insatiable that he wound up draining several men to the point of exhaustion and death before fleeing into the wilderness, and the people of the town began hunting for him like he was a monster.
  
  When Hieródoulos and his/her new husband cried out to Aphrodite for help, she went and rescued H from the temple and brought him before Zeus to ask for his judgement. Zeus restored H's womanhood to her, though he did not reverse Artemis' curse, and H's womanhood became tied to the cycle of the moon and to how much she had fed on vigorem recently. However, to compensate H for the pain Artemis had put her through, Zeus also forced Artemis to grant H the immortality, strength, and speed she'd originally offered H.
  
  Returned to earth, H and her husband resumed their lives together as best they could, though they had difficulties keeping up with H's hunger for vigorem (so that she could stay female constantly without turning back into a man) without endangering her husband's life. When on one occasion she drained her husband too much and he almost had a heart attack, she begged Artemis to take pity on her and make her hunger more bearable. Artemis smiled and promised to do so. Artemis told her to bite her own wrist and feed the blood to her husband, who would then be able to make love to her all night without any ill-effects.
  
  H was overjoyed and delighted and went home. To her and her husband's delight, they discovered that H's blood COULD keep her husband going in bed without experiencing the negative effects of her draining his vigorem, so they began less and less careful about controlling the rate at which she fed on him, until one night, without either of them realizing it, she completely drained him of his vigorem. Because of H's blood, he didn't die, just slept soundly through the night, but the next time that a full moon climbed into the sky, to both his and his wife's horror, he suddenly transformed into a woman himself. From then on, they had two debilitating appetites to satiate, and an increasingly feminine husband who slowly became more and more of a woman himself as he spent more and more time in that identity, until they were less husband and wife and more like sisters. In order to make ends meet, once they learned to control their hungers to some degree,  they took up lives as temple prostitutes. Over time, because as a result of their perpetual youthfulness and beauty and immortality they did not die, they accidentally (or eventually on purposed) turned many more men into beings like themselves, and so Werewomen spread slowly across the world.
  
• How Lunar Forces Affect a Werewoman: FIRST> A newly-infected victim first becomes a Werewoman on the first Full Moon following their infection, whether that's one day or a whole month. Once they become a Werewoman, they return to being men the next time the sun comes up, unless they have the vigorem to remain a woman longer. Early on, new Werewomen are usually too horrified and panicked about what has happened to them to sleep with men enough to build up enough vigorem to let them stay women longer, nor do they want to, so they change back when the sun comes up.
  
  SECOND> New Werewomen become women for each of the five nights surrounding and including the Full Moon - they have no choice about it. The transformation sets in later in the evening on the first and last days, earlier in the evening on the second and fourth, and as soon as the moon comes up on the night of the Full Moon. THUS: a brand new Werewoman will become a Werewoman for three nights in a row (for shorter periods each night) before resuming 'normal life' as a man.
  
  THIRD> Every Werewoman will need to turn into a woman at least once a week in order to feed. Most newer Werewomen will just turn once every 7 days, when their hunger forces them, soon after moonrise that day.  
  
  FOURTH> Once a Werewoman has been one for a while, one of two things will start to happen. Either A) they'll continue fighting the change, changing only when necessary and clinging to masculinity as much as they can. They'll be forced to change a lot, and sometimes they'll get so hungry and so desperate that they'll be prone to losing control of their hunger while feeding - these are the Werewomen who leave lots of bodies on the ground. They tend to create a big stir, other people who know what to look for start hunting them, and they don't last very long. Werewoman blood is a powerful aphrodisiac, and sells very very well on the black market. Werewomen also make desirable sex slaves. OR B) Slowly, little by little, the Werewoman begins to embrace some of what is happening to her. She begins discovering her feminine side and enjoying it. She may even come to look forward to her transformations. She may start using more of her vigorem to remain female longer, even during the day when the sun is up, which means she'll need to feed more often. Over time, this will have one or more side effects: First, she may be more sensitive to moonlight, and she might feel the urge to transform more than once a week. The more she gives in to those urges, the more frequently she'll get them, and the more easily she'll be able to transform when SHE wants to. Second, as her identity as a woman begins to grow, her longing to be a woman and have feminine things and be seen and desired as a woman will grow, and she'll feel more envious of other women. This can lead to situations where she will be so overcome with the desire to be a woman that she loses control and becomes one on the spot. Third, she'll slowly acquire the power to begin forcing a change whenever she wants it. It'll be hard at first, especially if she tries to do it in sunlight, but after she gets used to it it'll get easier. 
• Usually Werewomen are caught and drained of their blood or broken during sexual slavery long before they get powerful enough to reach this stage, but an advanced Werewoman who has fully embraced her feminine side and glories in her transformation and who fights to stay that way most or all of the time can effectively stop turning back into a man ever again. 
• A Werewoman who has not fed in nearly a week has a tendency to get snippy, even jumpy, like a caffeine addict who hasn't had a cup in a week. If they go longer than a week, snippyness and jumpyness can turn to shakes and anger. Any longer than two weeks, and a werewoman will begin to become incoherent, irrational, and receptive to suggestion and influence. It may be nearly impossible to keep from self-pleasuring, even though that doesn't feed the hunger. Higher brain function begins to degrade, and long-term memory fades. These damages can be irreversible. This is the stage at which many unscrupulous characters can capture and enslave her, keeping her vacillating between horny wantonness and pitiful near-starvation until she completely forgets who she was and what life was like before they dd this to her. At the end stages, a Werewoman who goes without feeding of any sort for over a month will rapidly age, grow decrepit, and desiccate. 
• Strengths and Abilities: Superhuman strength and speed, senses, and a limited cosmetic control over bodily appearance: can enhance and reduce breast size, ass size, etc/change hair color/length/style, and slightly alter facial features. 
• Weaknesses: Sunlight (Whenever she is in direct sunlight, a Werewoman cannot use her powers of charm, seduction, or draining vitality to replenish herself), because she needs all of her power to maintain her female form, Gold (worn or touched) will cause painful contact burns, Mistletoe (allergic reactions to scent/taste).

So these are Werewomen in my universe. I know, it's a slightly different take on them than the one I depicted in A Werewoman and Her Vampire, but as I said, I'm going to rewrite a bit of A Werewoman and Her Vampire, and all of these news bits will be a part of the Werewoman curse that I include in I, Werewoman, when I get around to writing it (hopefully sometime before Christmas? I've got a lot of stories to finish writing between then and now, though.)

BUT, even though I wont be able to write the full-length prose version of I, Werewoman until I finish FINDERS KEEPERS, Addicted to Womanhood, Re/Rolled, and Gender Bending for My Girlfriend first, that doesn't mean I can't work on outlining bits of the story for I, Werewoman and the rest of Sabina's life before I get there. After all, that's what captioned image stories are for!

So: that said, meet my faceclaim for Sabina Kim! This is what I've decided she looks like in my head, or at least as close as I can get with any one model/actress/star from our real world. 

I'll probably wind up using a couple of different models/actresses/etc. to depict Sabina in my captioned images because no one single real woman is an exact match for the image I have of her in my head, but I think this comes pretty close, and I'll use this as sort of the baseline for my depiction of her. 

So yeah,  that's all my news for the moment, hope you guys enjoyed reading it.