the questions of our times: formality and vampires

[rm]

This, thanks to a discussion started by weirdquark. Please do visit the comments where you will learn many things including the many ways formality is structured in different languages (something my questions did not fully take into account, and I apologize for that), werewolf pack dynamics considerations, and whether there are vampires in France.

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[kittydesade.livejournal.com]

... it probably should, as someone above me concluded, but now that brings up an interesting point of etiquette, as in, if you've been talking to someone and you just then found out that they were a werewolf/vampire/ghost/thing that goes bump in the night, would you change your mode of address? Assuming they hadn't taken offense. Or would you just go on as you were?

[weirdquark]

I guess that would depend on whether you feel that changing the form of address (I assume to something more formal) would read as "shit, I just figured out you could eat me" or "I just realized I've been being rude; let me fix that." Because the former might cause more offense than continuing at whatever level of formality you're using assuming they're human.