My Own View on Werewolves

Hint: it's not that.

   I have my own idea for how werewolves function in my own fictional universe, which I am conceiving as a trilogy set hundreds of years after the werepocalypse. I'm not sure what even happens in them, but their names are to be Hic Cenocephali Nascuntur, Homo Homini Lupus, and Cave Canem. In the future, there is a lunar eclipse. During this eclipse, something fundamentally changes in the core of the sun, or there is some kind of solar burst. Everyone not behind the moon or on the other side of the world while this happens gets doused with incredible amounts of radiation, enough to permanently alter their DNA. The moon takes the brunt of the radiation, leaving it so that every time the moon is full the earth gets doused in the radiation again somehow. This monthly douse of radiation changes the body chemistry of those mutated, so that they transform into loup-garous again.

   No, I'm really not sure why there's so much Latin. It's cool, I guess.

   The main locale for the story is an old Boy Scout camp, where the eclipse occurred, that has been converted into a fortress to defend against the waves of wolves that come crashing in every month. The characters are the descendants of the scientists and Boy Scouts who got to observe the original eclipse. Naturally, they are a hardy, intelligent breed, bred and trained for survival. When they are not fighting the werewolves every full moon, their lifestyle is surprisingly laid back. They take their time to do things, such as think and do DIY projects. Society for them is based around the lunar month as the basic unit of time (a new loup-garou wave every unit, baby born after nine units, female fertility cycle one unit long, etc.) so their age is gauged by months instead of years.

  That's the stuff I'm sure about. Stuff I'm not sure about: what actually happens in it.

  Other ideas: Maybe in keeping with the theme of the antiquities, the characters should be named in homage to mythology. Like, Lycaon, Autolycus, stuff like that. And I'm not sure how it would fit in with the science, but maybe there should be vampires in this, too. Vampires and werewolves go together like peanut butter and chocolate. There's even a Count Chocula and a Werenut Butter (or at least there should be.)

   So, uh, yeah, that's about it. Werewolves, and, maybe vampires. Or at least some kind of mutant  bat. Like this:

People in the past were messed up, dude.