#body-swap

[girl4music]

FORREST:

“Yeah, you’re a killer.”

FAITH:

“I am not a killer! I am the Slayer. And you don’t know the first thing about me!”

FORREST:

“You really care what I think?”

FAITH:

*Pauses*

“No. I don’t care.

*Thinks. Tries to process her thoughts. Gets distressed. Finally turns around and walks away*

God, I don’t care!”

That���s SO Faith. That’s what her reaction would be entirely!

All I see is Faith here. I see no Buffy even though it’s Buffy’s body. That’s how good of an actress Gellar is. The way Gellar played that. Reacted to him in a way she knows Buffy never would have reacted to him. The way the eyebrows move and the creases in the forehead show up. He clearly hit a nerve in her and rather than spend the time to figure out why that is, she just shuts out her emotions. Even in somebody else’s body she’s still uncomfortable and unsatisfied with who she is.

Buffy wouldn’t talk like that. Wouldn’t move her body or face like that. Likely wouldn’t even answer to Forrest’s comment at all. In fact Buffy wouldn’t have given a shit what Forrest thought. The most she would have done in reaction to his comment would be to scoff then turn around and walk away.

But that just shows how well Gellar has got Faith’s mannerisms down. Facial expressions and everything. Tone, vibe. Her entire energy. It’s just spot on Faith’s reaction every bit of this performance. She’s fucking incredible in this episode as Faith. She’s so damn convincing portraying Faith that she makes Faith’s portrayal of Buffy seem so damn unconvincing. And therefore shows just how much Faith doesn’t know herself and doesn’t understand her own feelings. Has 0 self-awareness and self-security. It’s bloody brilliant. Figures Faith would only come to terms with just how much she hates herself while she’s escaping from it. And as soon as she’s back in her own body, she doesn’t know what to do with herself but just rinse and repeat. If she can’t face the trauma and the pain what else can she do but purposefully self-destruct? That’s what she’s always done.

It takes a lot of self-reflection to truly know one’s self and become at peace with being it. Faith never gives herself the time, patience or opportunity to truly learn who she is. She’s always too busy crawling into someone else’s skin in effort to distract herself from it. And as disturbing as it is, I really do think it’s genius writing how Faith takes advantage of Riley while in Buffy’s body. Therefore taking advantage of the BOTH of Riley and Buffy. Because it doesn’t matter whether she’s wearing somebody else’s body or thrusting herself on top of it or even all at the same time, the whole point is that she doesn’t have to see herself. Doesn’t have to face herself. Because then that means self-reflection. And she wants to avoid doing that at all costs because she’s afraid of what she will reveal.

And Gellar 100% knows how to portray that complex in her. Knows that that’s what the character Faith would do. Instead of self-reflect, deflect and then self-destruct.

Faith’s the kinda girl to wear 25 different faces all at once and not a single one of them is her own. Yet because of that, you can see right through her. Then you look at somebody like Tara,… and while she also harbour insecurities about herself… every single time, the face that reacts when they’re brought to the surface is always her own because she’s always self-reflecting. Faith is more like Willow. Shows you who she wants you to see rather than who she actually is. It’s always a performance. It’s always a way to escape from or avoid self-reflection, and therefore self-growth. The only real difference is Faith chooses offence instead of defence. She prefers to act out rather than cover up. To attack rather than hide away. But it’s all the same to someone like me who has played both sides of the chessboard of identity and came up the loser no matter what strategy I tried to win the game with. Whether it be internalizing or externalizing, it doesn’t matter. Neither works. Neither are a solution or fix. Reflection is the way to go. It’s hard and it’s gruelling but it’s fucking necessary. It has to be done. It is much more worth it to do the hard work required and to meet the pain and the trauma head on rather than waste time and energy trying to escape from or avoid it because all that tends to do is just make it so much worse.

People try relentlessly to either be somebody that they’re not or distract themselves from themselves. But you can’t escape from or avoid being yourself. It is relatively impossible. And lying does you no good either. Better to be honest. With yourself as well as everybody else because it’s you that has to face yourself no matter what in the end. Delaying the process only ensures one thing. That it’s much more difficult to do everything else. Faith believes letting loose and going wild is the easy way out of her pain and trauma. But it only makes it harder to handle the next time something bad happens. She’s making things much more difficult to deal with in the long run by escaping and avoiding dealing with it now.

And the fact that that’s only realized while in somebody else’s body is storytelling poetry.

[airasora]

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[a-few-of-my-favorite-mangas]

Star⇄Crossed!!

Story and Art by Junko

Manga Volume 1-4 [END]

Shoujo, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Body-Swap

Story  ★★★☆☆    ||   ★★★☆☆   Art

Summary

Azusa lives for only one man: Chika-kun, of the idol group Prince 4 U. But when she accidentally dies trying (and failing) to save him, she can't believe her luck -- to be in literal Heaven with the man she loves! But never one to lie, God says this one is on him, and sends them both back to continue their lives... but there's just one little problem. Their souls have been sent to the wrong bodies! 

Not knowing the cause of the switch, Azusa is a bit agitated... Chikashi's manager, Matsumoto, knows about the switching, and as a countermeasure, he has Chikashi transfer into Azusa's high school...?! The confrontation between her student life and her life as a fan has Azusa's heart pounding non-stop!!

Azusa is forced to hop into the bath with the other P4U members in Chika's body -- but apparently, she can't handle the heat of seeing the other members in the buff! And not only that, she realizes in her semi-conscious state that their leader, Haru... is KISSING HER?! When Azusa learns of Haru's secret feelings, she tries desperately to avoid him in a bid to protect Chika's virtue, but neither of them is willing to back down without a fight... When a die-hard idol junkie confronts her popular idol rival, you know the fireworks are about to fly -- after all, these Stans can't be friends!! 

Chikashi has decided to once again pursue his dream of becoming an actor, something he had given up on when he was a child actor, and the distance between him and Azusa who supports that dream is steadily closing... However, the situation suddenly changes when Arisu Akane, Chikashi's ex-girlfriend, appears before them!! And Chikashi collapses while clutching his chest...?!  When the trigger for their body switching finally becomes clear, they find out it's tied to their lives...?! They're in desperate and dire straits! 

Review

This was a short and sweet series, from the same creator of ‘Kiss Him, Not Me,’ and has a similar tone and comedy as that series. In fact at the end of each volume is a short from that series that gives you a little more on what happened to those characters after the series ended. The main is just as excitable and fanatic about her interests and her dedication to her idol, that it borders on a mental illness obsession, not sure I really liked the over all relationship as it is mostly one-sided and thus harder for me to relate to. 

The ending seems kinds abrupt, there is an ending of sorts to try and wrap everything up, but it is really rushed and still left kinda open-ended, at least as far as correcting the body-switching. It was a satisfying end, but shame it didn’t get a few more volumes to be able to flush it out more. The relationship needed more time to feel like it works, especially on his end. Felt more like he is just stuck with her, and resigned to it, because, well he has no choice, and she is 100% loyal and self-sacrificing, so it could be worse? 

[camilleflyingrotten]

Thinking about the Good Omens S1 body swap…

LATER

[foerchen]

Next fic: bodyswap

Jason: *in Dick‘s body*

Jason: I feel awful. What is wrong with your body???

Tim: *absolutely obliterating a punching bag in Jason‘s body*

Dick: *looks affronted at Jason in his body*

Dick: My body is fine! What do you mean??? You aren‘t the one who needs to consume an unholy amount of caffeine to function!

Jason: I feel like someone is about to push me off a fucking cliff, Dickhead.

Dick: *grins suddenly*

Dick: Ohhhh. Lemme fix that for you, Little Wing.

Dick: *walks up to Jason and hugs him tightly*

Jason: *relaxes before tensing up*

Jason: WAIT. YOU NEED HUGS TO FUNCTION?!?!

(Next fic is in the works! o7 It isn’t the one I had originally planned cuz my brain went brrr. Have a good one, my lovely birdwatchers! <3)

((Edit: https://archiveofourown.org/works/59545189/chapters/151862587 ))

[ulkaralakbarova]

Married for ten years, in full crisis, thinking about divorce. But following a failed scientific experiment, they suddenly find one inside the body of the other. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Andrea: Pierfrancesco Favino Sofia: Kasia Smutniak Michele: Valerio Aprea Maria: Marta Gastini Brancati: Andrea Bruschi Cristian: Gaetano Bruno Angelica: Paola Calliari Luca: Flavio Furno Anna: Francesca Agostini Tommaso: Sebastian Dimulescu La psicologa: Giselda Volodi Lo Foco: Luigi Diberti Ivan: Gabriele Falsetta Film Crew: Director: Simone Godano Story: Carmen Danza Story: Giulia Louise Steigerwalt Co-Writer: Daniele Grassetti Production Manager: Claudio Sorace Casting: Chiara Natalucci Costume Design: Maria Cristina La Parola First Assistant Director: Fabrizio Procaccini Line Producer: Paolo Lucarini Sound: Paolo Giuliani Production Design: Tonino Zera Original Music Composer: Andrea Farri Editor: Davide Vizzini Director of Photography: Michele D’Attanasio Producer: Matteo Rovere Producer: Roberto Sessa Delegated Producer: Chiara Grassi Delegated Producer: Gabriele Lilli Delegated Producer: Alessia Polli Location Manager: Lorenzo Catalano Production Coordinator: Katia Abbate Production Secretary: Luca De Giorgi Assistant Editor: Pierluigi Darino Assistant Editor: Lucia Sblendorio Script Supervisor: Claudia Nannuzzi Second Assistant Director: Claudio Aloia Second Assistant Director: Stefano Farina Camera Operator: Matteo Carlesimo Camera Operator: Andrea Arnone Assistant Camera: Danilo Caruso Boom Operator: Diego De Santis Set Decoration: Valeria Zamagni Makeup Department Head: Arianna Agosta Hair Department Head: Daniele Perosillo Gaffer: Loris Felici Key Grip: Raffaele Alletto Unit Manager: Vincenzo La Gatta Movie Reviews: Jolang: Andrea (Pierfrancesco Favino) and Sofia (Kasia Smutniak) are a lovely couple, indeed they were. Married for ten years in crisis, they think of divorce. But as a result of a scientific experiment by Andrea suddenly they find themselves one inside the body of the other. Literally. Andrea is Sofia and Sofia is Andrea. With no choice but to live each other’s existence and everyday life. You in the shoes of him, a brilliant neurosurgeon who carries out an experiment on the human brain, he in the shoes of her ambitious TV presenter on the rise.

[gammija]

nothing personal but this kind of comment rlly exemplifies to me a disconnect between canon and popular fanon jmart characterization because they almost literally had this conversation in canon - except, their lines are swapped!

jon, for all his scared grouchiness, is a secret romantic, while martin, for all his forced optimism, is at his core a pragmatist

[sissybetch99]

[marionette-j2x]

Wrong Spell... A sequel- 😭😂

Oops! Wrong spell! <- First

[captainzigo]

[bacchuschucklefuck]

no more fan-ta-sizing about it! everything's already changed~

[appy143]

Yesterday's battlefield with my bull. I lost yet i won.

pc: my bull & hubby 💋

[bubblesthecow]

The thing that I love the most about Doctor Who is that it’s just SOOOOOO bad. It’s awful. It’s dreadful. It’s cheesy and stupid and terrible. It has dialogue like “I am the beep of all the meeps!” It’s truly the most embarrassing cringeworthy thing you’ve ever seen. It’s been that way for 60 years. It’s gonna be that way for another 60. It doesn’t matter what kind of budget or fan base they receive. It’s always gonna be this stupid.

I love it so fucking much.

[insomniphic]

Saw this really cute art trend and I wanted to bodyswap the MW crew!

Too bad that there’s only four slots haha XD

Template below cut!

[groovyglittermoon]

The Substance Body Swap Man to Girl with Lea Elui

Yes king!! It was no accident he meant to show us his Titty !! 😍🔥😍🥵

Look at the tit 😍😍🥵🥵