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crazyw3irdo · 1 year ago

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oh yeah believe me im very much not into putting labels and strict conditions on irl things, and im all for overpowered shit, i just ask out of curiosity's sake on my part

i always see ppl say they wanna be shapeshifters when there's discussions of superpowers, but idk, to me, i always feel i have to ask followup questions, yknow? cause two people can say they wanna be shapeshifters and both mean entirely different things! and i think its neat to know how many people mean they wanna use those powers for like, animal reasons or humanoid reasons or something.

ppl are free to hit other and say they wanna be a combination, and they're free to not even vote in the first place. but like, if a person would want to be a shapeshifter just to be various humanoid forms and not animal ones, then they wouldn't need to have the animal options.

okay, i think any time anyone asks what superpower we’d like to have most everyone on this website would say shapeshifting but what kind of shapeshifting would you like

type 1- wild shape, you can turn into any animal, real or fictional

type 2- mystique, you can turn into any real person

type 3- cosplay, you can turn into any humanoid fictional character

type 4- jake the dog, you’re super stretchy

type 5- character creator, you can alter your own appearance- like changing voice hair length texture color, changing height and weight, transing gender, etc, but you can’t add anything non-human (ie horns, wings, claws, etc)

type 6- additional features, you can add things like snake eyes, horns, cat ears, tail, claws, wings, mermaid tail, but you remain humanoid overall and can’t change things like height or gender presentation or hair color. you can still change your voice tho

type 7- were-wolf, we all know what a werewolf is, lads. can be any kind of animal. can be straight up wolf or more monstrous wolf form that’s up to you.

type 8- furry, you just become your fursona. or any kind of fursona really you can change between them

type 9- antman, can become small or big

type 10- other, say what kind ya want

#like personally i chose additional features because i dont really care about changing size or stretchiness or becoming a full on animal #itd be fun to have those other powers sure but i wouldnt ever really use them yknow?#besides; this is all hypothetical yknow. im not a person who deals in labels outside of hypotheticals mostly #in a comparison here; shapeshifter is like the term nonbinary; if that makes sense #that can mean very different things for various people who use the label; and various ppl that use it can have v dif experiences w it #for some people its too vague so they narrow it down to specific microlabels; for some people that vagueness is the point #they all fall under the same umbrella; but with different specifics #idk the comment about ppl putting themselves in boxes prob got me a little more defensive than was necessary #im like. mostly against ppl putting themselves into one category yknow. cause ppl change and no category is going to be perfectly them #very nonbinary of me i know #but also i just say 'mostly' against it cause while i dont think its a good system im not gonna tell people 'no'#if ppl wish to categorize themselves then good for them as long as they know that if one day the label no longer fits them they dont have t #stick with it nor does it make their previous experience with said label invalid #im getting too far away from the original point here. long story short (too late) i wanna know how ppl would use their powers

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