Writing What should I call the race of my character?

binarysoap

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Originally, I was planning on calling it a werewolf because in terms of outer appearance, it fits quite nicely. However, my character doesn't fit a lot of typical characteristics of werewolves such as: inability to transform, no special weakness to silver, can't infect others, etc.
What should I call it? Werewolf? Something like a werewolf? Lycanthrope? Anthropomorphic wolf? Wolfkin? Should I make up a name instead?
 

Assurbanipal_II

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I would call him a Lycanthropoid, but that depends mainly on how much the human element in your character is still relevant.
 

Allarielle

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I think just Lycan would be fine. I've seen Luperan used, and wolf-kin. I would avoid Lycanthrope, because that implies that the character has lycanthropy, which is the name of the infection that turns people into werewolves.
 
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