» Thu Jun 06, 2013 11:29 am
No reason. I think it is comical, too.
The Companions don't have that much control either. Vilkas complains about still feeling the Call of the Blood, which we believe it is the urge to hunt and transform. Besides, Aela even was surprised that the player was able to "come back" after the first transformation, meaning they don't have as much control as it may seem. Farkas can turn into a werewolf and back a few seconds later as he did in the first Silver Hand quest, but werewolves in Daggerfall can do it too. It all comes down to willpower, how they are able to cope with Lycanthropy and how they are able to survive the life-changing ordeal. They might have different abilities(bloodlust), but they are still carnivorous monsters.
I suppose the only level of control they really have is resisting to attack another person who isn't a werewolf, as Aela did in the Underforge. But most often times, the Beast inside them wholly dominates them. This has been said many times in Daggerfall, mentioned in Bloodmoon, and and in Skyrim it is spoken a few times. Basically, they have an alter ego, an animalistic counterpart. It is why some of them are always confused, beffudled and at times even go insane. Because their urges dictates what they should do and not do. A good example is how Aela described some werewolves going feral; the wolves in the Silver Hand cages or the lunatics you find running around in Bloodmoon. Another example is Sinding killing the girl out of the urge to attack her because she pretty much looked like a fresh piece of meat, a rabbit, per se.
I think he might have been in werewolf form, but he might have shifted since he tore the girl up pretty badly. I mean, they can do some damage in human form, but the way her father described it, she was in pieces. Additionally, Sinding mentioned how he felt weaker in his human form compared to his lupine form. No claws, teeth for chewing cud, etc.