#shapeshifter ben

[simply02artists]

Shapeshifter Ben 10 au: married sed alternative universe.

Nane: my husband is a very sweet man.

Gwen: *mumbles* so was Lucifer.

@sweetpeaches666

[simply02artists]

Also wanna add this, in my shapeshifter Ben sister au, after Jenny turns 16 (at this time Ben will be 28 years old)

I can see some of the dads coming on earth during her birthday, and they corner kiven, they warn/threaten him if he ever pull a stunt like with Jen like he did with Ben.

They will not show him mercy this time if kiven pull a similar stunt with Jen.

I don’t know why, but I badly want to see Ben’s dads chase after kiven after learning he is the reason Ben is engaged to looma.

I know they won’t hurt him because he is Ben’s best friend, but the idea of them not caring and wanting to whoop his ass for it is stilll funny to me. (Because I would whoop his ass if I was in Ben’s place)

Well, if your son's best friend made him engaged to this warrior princess, who your child isn't attracted to and it was because of said friend refused to return to Gar's tech like a normal person.

So, yeah.

I can definitely see Ben's dads not being happy with Kevin for getting Ben engaged to Looma without their knowledge or consent. Of course, a lot of them are angry at Kevin for his stunt. Kevin pretty much went into hiding after that and had to change his identity for two months before things calmed down a little.

[cheruv-ii]

How the fuck does he do that within like 5 frames

[thesirenbanshee]

Here’s an early Christmas present—“Chapter 18”! 🎁

TITLE: A Force of a Different Color

RATING: Explicit

SUMMARY: 

“What is your favorite animal and your favorite color? Is it a lion, and purple? Or perhaps a porg, and blue? And, more importantly, what is your soulmate’s favorite animal and color? You’ll find out the answer when your soulmate is born . . . because you’ll suddenly shapeshift into whichever animal and color your soulmate loves best. Which can get really annoying really quickly, as ten-year-old Ben Solo learns one day when poof, he turns into a pink bunny.

Or, the crack-canonverse-shapeshifter-soulmate AU that makes, like, zero sense.”

[fandomgeeknerd]

latest table ep editssssss

holy jesus i didn't mean to go so bright

[whatudottu]

Me: Aw, my ideas for ectonurite reproduction are unrealistic, good thing I can use magic and the presence of Anodyne to justify them!

The humble turritopsis dohrnii: Let me introduce myself

So, after bumbling the idea of how the freak ghosts would produce more of themselves, I can now use an actual real world base to actually understand how the mechanisms would work.

Even though I've linked where I found out about the aptly named 'immortal jellyfish' I'm not going to expect anyone to read it, especially since it's pretty dry as more of a scientific debrief on the life-after-adulthood cycle of the t. dohrnii, but to summarise; outside of the standard reproductive cycle, a 'reverse development' would start in the medusa stage (essentially the adult stage but both mature and immature medusae can reverse develop), transition to a ball-like cyst stage where their features disappear, then metamorphizse back into a polyp where it would then reenter the standard reproductive cycle by developing from a bud to an adult polyp again to reproduce asexually, creating medusae once again. It's not quite as extreme as to say it reverses it's mitosis, simply that the transition to becoming a cyst allows for the cells to metamorphose and reattach themselves to the sea floor as a polyp, a 'hydroid colony' with reproductive zooids (something about 'fulmini = siphonophore' post).

Anyway! That's the general gist and I wanna go ahead and apply that to ectonurite AND expand on how it'd define their culture, not just being genetically immortal but also how the different life stages interact socially.

One thing I didn't mention in the summary but will use as an introduction to this section is that a precursor to the reverse development process is a 'weakened' state, which aside from the slow natural degradation of aging and a more controllable but also slow deterioration from the environment (faster if the environment is at least slightly harmful), also includes physical damage. I know I haven't made a whole post about this before but I think I might've implied in other topics that ectonurites need to die in order to reproduce, but I suppose 'dying' is now less literal as it's more the cells work overtime to heal from whatever physical issue put the individual into their state, doing so by morphing them into what amounts as scar tissue; a cyst. A lesion, a wound, a scab. Something that will in it's own right metamorphose yet repair in it's own right, become something new directly from the old.

An ectonurite medusa, the main body beneath the skin, would undergo the process of reverse development and become a cyst, the skin it's new cocoon yet also it's sail, leading the pulsing core of the cyst where whatever winds will take it. It will eventually make landfall, whether it was lead by the environment or nurtured by observing family - siblings and cousins and auncles but no parents, parents are impossible to have - and it would begin to metamorphose using the skin as nutrients and begin the steps again to become a polyp, a sprouting flower. Wherever they had landed they have become something new, and will continue to develop into being that something new until they create themselves once again, being born of their own body and creating more than they had ever been alone. From one into a myriad, the budding of the polyp creates more of themself and though in large quantity, the mortality rate is quite frighteningly significant. However when all is said and done, the asexual reproduction of the polyp spawns new descendants of the original medusa, in clutches of 5-20 on average; some more... some less.

Ectonurite spawn are still affected by their anti-mana life force, in reaction to the intersection between the planes allowing Anodyne and Lederdomain influences to spread amongst Anur Phaetos, so no matter where they end up budding they still take on the traits and attributes of the life around them like a sun-hungry plant. Technically fully mature medusa are also affected by this but it occurs less due to their final state, it is the cyst that initially begins to integrate the medusa's external influences into it's genetics, which in turn it uses in it's metamorphosis including the older genes present in the skin. Sisters Zs'Iza and Zs'Oise are an example of such with their visibly transylian faces in addition to their skin having the bandaged texture of thep khufan's many limbs. They are also an example of the 'less than average' clutch size a polyp can develop, a scorn say a power-hungry High Ecto-lord cannot bare to face, let alone acknowledge that it was amongst his genetics to barely remain biologically immortal.

AKA the reason why Zs'Skayr held interest in the Omnitrix, preservation of his genetics in a way that his species could even compare to even as close as they try. Something about desiring something more when it is just out of reach instead of being completely unattainable, immortality an easy concept to grasp when it is not hard to deride reincarnation from ones own natural biology. Especially since with the technology of the Omnitrix inherently blocking the influence of mana and thus rendering Zs'Skayr completely himself without the genetic differences of the life around him.

Speaking of the High Ecto-lord (a dumb name I'll give it the benefit of a mistranslation of a Phaetan or even a general Anurian term into English to cope with it), politically with their reproduction in mind I can see it in two ways; an absolute monarchy where the High Ecto-lord passes the role to their next life or something like a post-constitutional monarchy (emphasis on post-monarchy) where ectonurites have biological knowledge to know that appointing the one literal same guy over an over again with absolute power is bullshit but they recognise them as a figurehead with a political force of chosen reps behind them. Having a preference for the second, I'll say that Zs'Skayr is extra motivated to figure out actual immortality of the self in order to retain what little rule he does have, especially if with his clutch sibling only ending up producing two young with no other family of his in Zs'Castle Zs'Skayr to speak for, it seems he is at the end of his rope and wants to cling onto that for as long as infeasibly possible.

Moving on and hah, reverse developing this discussion to an earlier point, let's go back to ectonurite cysts and expand what I mean by 'observing family'.

Ectonurites, though biologically immortal, do host something equivalent to that of a funeral. However, unlike most funerals where the person who's the main event OF the funeral is very much dead and lacking any agency over the event, ectonurites old significant age or those with a significant amount of physical damage host their own funeral; in some cases, either immature medusae who's current combination of genes have given them rapid cell death and accelerated aging, or someone is significantly injured they cannot do much anything else, a funeral is hosted for them. It's an event that simultaneously mourns the old and celebrates the new, where during the middle of the funeral the host instigates their reverse development (or it's instigated for them) and the procedure from medusa to cyst to polyp takes place. These events often take place outside, but if the atmosphere is thick enough and there are no land-locked species in attendance then they might take place in the air itself, if not the full event where maybe the host wants a feast or activities before they reverse then in the reversal itself. This is done to make sure the cyst has ample time to drift to be coerced into drifting into a spot they and the family agreed upon away from the event space, more often than not directed to a family garden or a community garden, but sometimes in spots the host specifically wished to drift to or even through chance alone.

This can have a few Karen moments treated similarly to the way say human mother-in-laws demand full creative control over their children's wedding or guests that want all the attention come wearing white to the very same, but applied to what is essentially simultaneously funerary rights and also a baby-shower hah. The Tr'Riken moment perhaps for family name given name *pans over to me scrabbling to piece together a Phaetan equivalent name to Karen* maybe Pani'Kn or given name family name, who knows.

And with funerals being as casual conversation as humans consider weddings to be, sometimes some auncles siblings and cousins like to push the idea of their family member hosting a funeral someday, especially since unlike marriage it's a pretty guaranteed thing to happen. Sometimes though family would pester ectonurites with benign or otherwise non-terminal diseases illnesses or disabilities with arranging funerals because 'well, this combination of genes hasn't really worked out for you, but if you spend time with [xyz] and host one maybe you could get a different pattern and avoid all that'.

What I haven't mentioned yet is the family and community gardens. Gardens of polyps that either live on family property or exist in lots where housing and or hospitals are close by. When one says biologically immortal one might assume that the polyps that produce their youth asexually would be also immortal and thus outgrow any physical lot, but that is untrue. Instead, though the polyps last much longer than a corpse would in addition to being around longer with maintenance of the family or community gardeners, they are not immune to dying of old age. Since polyps are not the reverse developing medusae they cannot themselves persist in life beyond death and just like all polyps do eventually come to pass. Unlike a funeral perhaps where there is a person to actively mourn however, the passing of a polyp is seen as beautiful. The medusae produced by the polyp have legal rights on what to do with the remains of functionally their earlier self, whether to perserve it like a flower crushed within the pages of a book (though much more elegantly than that), to seal it in some resin as the equivalent of an urn (a display piece that does not decay), or to let it 'metamorphose' one last time an let it feed the grounds of the garden it lived in.

Zs'Castle Zs'Skayr's entrance was guarded by pumpkins yes? Like a form of garden right? I wonder what happened to all the Zs' family's polyps *blinks innocently*?

[phoenixlionme]

Ultimate Shapeshifting Team!

[immortalbeigewizard]

listen i think if you've got a "cis het" character who frequently shape-shifts into other genders and or species then thier should be some gender fuckery there & that character probably isn't going to be cis and or het anymore

[imjustavenuxwithaboomerang]

they can never make me hate you

(collage by me)

[benbraeden]

the shapeshifter tried to attack @sarahbraeden during the year that she and ben were apart and broke up, and nearly succeeded in killing her, but he was held back by something that has never happened before: the shapeshifter realized that he was in love with sarah as well, due to how intensely ben feels for her. ben loves sarah so much that the shapeshifter started to inhibit these emotions/feelings as well due to wearing ben's face for several years at this point, and because of this, the shapeshifter couldn't bring himself to kill/hurt sarah any more.

[simply02artists]

Just a small low effort sketch.

It’s basically shapeshifter married sed au, when nane first meets the jackles, she was scared of them because of bad experiences with jackles.

Sed had to help her get used to the jackles and show her they do not tend to hurt her.

Shapeshifter Ben, sed belong to @sweetpeaches666

Nane, married sed au belongs to me

Ben 10, The mummy belongs to man of action.

[drama-glob]

I just love making crossover art with Globby and I honestly don’t blame him for wanting to touch Goop’s anti-grav device. ;) Unfortunately, that device keeps Goop from turning into a puddle, so while able to regenerate, turn into acid and take any form, Goop does have the big weak spot there (and it even has a button on top of it, so I’m just like why?).

[cheruv-ii]

My favourite part about Ben's design is that like- with the other characters their story board art/concept/expression art all looks like them, albeit in a dif style, but still v much them whereas Ben looks like Ben but in a completely different font every time, like some he looks a lot more masc, some he looks like a completely dif dude, some he straight up looks like Fred Jones (this ones a personal favourite) Ben Pincus is an enigma and I love him for that.

[thesirenbanshee]

Behold, “Chapter 15”! 😸

TITLE: A Force of a Different Color

RATING: Explicit

SUMMARY: 

“What is your favorite animal and your favorite color? Is it a lion, and purple? Or perhaps a porg, and blue? And, more importantly, what is your soulmate’s favorite animal and color? You’ll find out the answer when your soulmate is born . . . because you’ll suddenly shapeshift into whichever animal and color your soulmate loves best. Which can get really annoying really quickly, as ten-year-old Ben Solo learns one day when poof, he turns into a pink bunny.

Or, the crack-canonverse-shapeshifter-soulmate AU that makes, like, zero sense.”

[emmodii]

30/08/2024, 4.30pm

[whatudottu]

Actually wanted to address your tags re: tails

The tail isn't actually symbolic of anything it's more of a personal body plan choice since mechamorph's are shape shifters

I actually did give toddler ship a nubby tail (that's gonna disappear as he grows more) and Aether also has a stumpy tail too (personal choice). Ephem doesn't have one and upgrade and baz-l won't have them either

Evolutionarily tails do provide allot of balance, realistically Ship would probably benefit from having a tail but all those nanites are going to growing him limbs longer

Ah woopies, just a little misinterpretation then! Only spotted them on designs that with meta-knowledge - I guess - looked like a non-standard body plan, and I guess technically that’s true but for different reasons than I assumed :P

Either way, I really do like the tails and I guess with shapeshifters (even if for mechamorphs it’s exclusively shape shifting) one can have literally any body plan within physical reason, but now I’m wondering if ‘tails for balance’ symbiots and ‘tails for aesthetic’ adults I’d suppose have some form of differences haha! Xenobiology on the mind and all!