#i love shapeshifters a lot

[randomeggart]

Some space-filling shapeshifting

#a hat in time #ahit #yart #ahit snatcher #love this dude. the snatch #I can't get enough of him shapeshifting #I feel like not a lot of people draw him doing it other than a more human/prince like form

[raaorqtpbpdy]

Okay just watched the first five episode of Gen V and I just wanna say that in addition to Jordan being an amazing character, the actors who play them are phenomenal. There was not a single moment where I didn’t buy that they were the same person. Fucking exceptional there. A++

#they do a better job at it than a lot of older and more experienced actors #like in Shazam (as much as I love that movie) Billy and Shazam often do not seem like the same person #a lot of the character in Jumanji welcome to the Jungle are the same way but it’s easier to ignore because they don’t switch actors as much #but I was fucking sold on this bi-gender shapeshifter #London Thor and Derek Luh are seamless #gen v #jordan li #london thor #derek luh

[3gremlins]

you might have thought the best bit of bg3 is all the hot, romanceable people with intriguing personal trauma but actually that's just the 2nd best thing. the best thing is being able to befriend and adopt almost? every animal/baby monster you come across and then PET THEM (you can throw a ball for the dog now and also summon him as a familiar, kinda like the cat in divinity! also i just like talking to the owlbear cub, it's soo cute, they added some more scenes with it from the EA)

#baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #speak to animals still best skill #living my best druid life #baldur's gate 3 screenshots #screenshots #tav #owlbear #dog #3rd best thing is shapeshifting like not to be the non binary trope but this is my ideal fantasy powerset #i love how all the forms are useful too #like bear is usually best for combat but i got a lot of use out of the raven in the witch fight #and the cat is good for puzzles/exploration #haven't figured out a good use for the other forms yet but it's early #can you pet the dog #yes you can pet the dog and the owl bear #spoilers #bg3 #bg3 spoilers

[skunkes]

i have soooo much more i cld say abt him, and have explored more thru other doodles, but quick summary of talon's whole deal, which is subject to change still as he's only almost 2 yrs old as an oc

#oc text #obvs sparse description of the events bc i dont mean for it to be gratuitous #even if i decided to explore it further in some medium the focus wouldnt be gratuitous ykwim #not that there werent awful stuff within that but my focus with talon is also more exploration of like #even stuff that isnt a big deal (which it wasnt at first) can effect someone greatly #and then once it does get a bit worse the focus is still more on the effects of how he views himself and the aftermath #AS WELL AS LIKE. well. did i do this to myself? i went back. do i deserve this? #he's a lot like me and the reason i like the self insert dynamic is bc he thinks of cheye as Me If It Didnt All Go Horribly #bc ive not gone thru the Extreme but i have had interactions with ppl who very enthusiastically thought i was ummmm underage!!! #while they were already being creepy toward me and making me nervous abt my safety ! #so this isnt ''he's umm 400 but looks 12 bc i want to do weird shit with him 😏'' dude drawing him Fed makes me so sad sometimes... #we're also weird eating buddies <3 #and grief buddies <3 he actually further spawned out of my need to deal with a lot of family members passing away in such a short time #severe death phobia buddies... #i still dont know how he really feels about his Old Wrinkly Form btw all i know is he feels safe in it #as much as id love to sway toward ''he thinks he's hot like that. because he is.'' i also dont want to convey the wrong message wrt this #form being due to....disordered eating caused by Issues. ykwim #though! he can shapeshift quite well when he's fed and maybe he'd choose that form willingly if he ever got. Past everything #he does hate that he never gets to actually age...! he wishes he cld age normally like a mortal...(still scared of dying though) #but we cant knoww for certain yet ykwim. maybe he'll let me know soon. #my issue with talon other than i suck at plots is well he has too many of my issues. and. idk how to solve them. #he's growing with me. #oh and have we noticed he's mean to me when *im* being mean to me...MANY such metaphors #ok goodnite

[lunar-jewels]

Apotheosis

#my art #you can always draw nimona for enrichment. it's always morally correct. #i love her so much #the transgender urge to imprint on shapeshifters with a sordid history #who eventually grow beyond their conditions and become all they're meant to be #anyways vee and nimona are the gods of my new religion #idk seeing the movie meant a lot to me #especially after reading the comic #i don't think i've ranted enough about nimona on this blog but it's one of my favs. and one of the only movies i've #ever (willingly) rewatched. so here's nimona. i am rotating her in my mind. i love her. i feel so seen by her story #nimona

[bennydwight]

A dialogue snippet that turned into this:

Standoff (TGAMM Oneshot: Spoilers for season 2)

Summary: Half-feral, trapped in a snare barely big enough for his fluctuating form and Oliver Chen's gun trained directly at his head, Scratch is out of options.

So why isn't Ollie taking the shot?

Intrinsically, Scratch was a pretty simple, lazy guy. He liked an easy routine, a familiar path. The hardest work he did most days was figuring out how to avoid hard work. He didn’t have the patience for strategy (why, when cheating was faster and easier?) and trying to think in multiple directions at once just sapped his strength and made his head hurt. All that variety, all that junk humans did to ‘better their mind’ was just so hard.

Astonishingly, it was made ten times harder when he was near bursting out of a containment unit, a wide barreled gun trained directly between his eyes.

He couldn’t even pinpoint where everything had gone wrong, too much focus funneled into clamping down on a base instinct: trapped in a snare barely large enough for his normal size and his afterlife on the line, Scratch’s scare form had started to take over.

He strained against the effort of keeping his ectoplasm intact, phantom breaths coming in rapid huffs even as his teeth lengthened, spines burst from his arms, his shape swelled and pressed dangerously against unyielding steel and electrons. Somewhere, quietly in the back of his mind and underneath the screaming need to SCARE SCARE SCARE SCARE, he realized dimly that he’d never been afraid of being crushed until now, after he’d gained the ability to phase through objects at will. Well, most objects. Go figure.

So it was here, desperately trying to reign in his higher processes, that through an animalistic red haze Scratch glowered into the eyes of his captor. Ollie stood mere feet away, that biohazard-yellow gun a shield between him and his helpless prey, and Scratch acknowledged a terrible gleam of satisfaction as even now the weapon trembled in the boy’s hands.

Across the other side of the warehouse, behind the orangey shimmer of the Chens’s forcefield, Molly lay prone, the tiny movement of her breaths the only reason any of the Ghost Chasers were still alive. Esther knelt next to her, first-aid kit in hand, expression one of barely-contained terror. Not his doing, but he’d take credit. Maybe next time she’d learn not to chuck a knockout bomb at a child. Well, at him. Molly had taken the metaphorical bullet (not a pretty mental image, given the circumstances), and if anything happened to her then Scratch was going to make all their lives a living hell.

Provided he got out unscathed. Somewhere, out of the thick of battle, Andrea fought to take the snare’s electronics offline, and no doubt June was blocking every attack with equal fervor. And even with legs as long as Libby’s, it would take too much time for her to reach the McGee’s house and bring back Pete and Sharon. Time Scratch didn’t have.

Imprisoned, half feral with the urge to survive, and one finger twitch away from total erasure, Scratch was out of options. Just him and Ollie, and the trap and the gun.

And the father.

Ruben stood, face and hands pressed against the forcefield, vibrating with adrenaline. His attention laser focused to his son, caught on the opposite side with the enemy (that was Scratch, he had enemies now), the shouts of excitement and encouragement died at Ollie’s hesitation and veered distinctly into confusion and urgency.

“Finish it, Ollie, it’s trying to take attack form! End it before it escapes!”

Ollie’s only acknowledgement was the hitch of his shoulders, eyes locked with Scratch in a way that felt like he was missing context. Scratch had seen this boy’s hatred firsthand, he put things on the internet that should not be there, so what stopped him now?

A memory flashed to mind: Molly throwing herself in front of the knockout bomb, and someone shouting ‘NO’ nearby, and Scratch swelled painfully against the snare as a fresh wave of rage tore through his ectoplasm like the hiss from behind his fangs.

Ah. So now he knew.

“We’re so close, Ollie,” Ruben continued to not shut up, voice like fingernails down Scratch’s strained self-control. “Our family’s whole legacy has led up to this! You can give us everything we’ve ever dreamed, just pull the trigger!”

The monster was caged, and still fear shone like a beacon behind Ollie’s eyes. Everything they’d worked for at his feet and he still didn’t move. Didn’t look away.

Scratch was not a smart man on the best of days and now, claws scoring uneven grooves in the ground as their length oscillated with his concentration, he was grossly, hilariously far from his best. “Do it kid,” Scratch snarled, sucking harsh breaths from between gritted teeth. “You know what it’ll cost ya.”

“Do it, Ollie! This is our only chance!”

A long beat passed.

Ollie’s hands shook, but his trigger finger didn’t waver.

From outside, a roar, and then a scream. Good old Geoff. The Chens’s heads whipped towards the door, and their combined fear-smell nearly whited out Scratch’s mind for good.

“Go help June!” Ollie’s voice pitched high with terror, and something else that tugged Scratch’s mind back to clarity. Surprise registered through the darkness clouding his mind as his parents obeyed, gathering a limp Molly into their arms, and a strange quiet settled over the warehouse.

And then, there were two.

Most of the threat and the fear-smell were gone, but Ollie still had a gun to his head and Scratch was still angry. His hue shifted, deepening to a sickly green, mouth stretching wide in a grotesque grin. “So what’ll it be, Ollie? Gonna finish me yourself? Or gonna make your daddy do it for you?” The snare creaked ominously as his growth strained the limits. The ropes of plasma burned fierce red lines through the green, but he barely registered the pain. “Either way, she’ll never talk to you again. Won’t even look at you. She thought better of you, y’know. Tried her darnedest to change your mind. You want her to wake up and find out she failed?”

Ollie’s eyes hardened, and Scratch’s temperature dropped several degrees. He really should’ve known better by now than to make calculated risks, this one might’ve just cost him his life.

Ollie’s hand moved, and Scratch bit back a flinch before watching it dip into a pocket and emerge with a square device. As he pressed the giant, terrifying button right in the middle, Scratch braced for pain.

Instead, the pressure around him retreated, and Scratch floated up into the air. Free.

Free, and alone with the Ghost Chaser, who kept the gun trained on his head even as scared tears pooled at the corners of his eyes.

They stared at each other in a stalemate, Ollie unwilling to put down his weapon and Scratch wobbling between forms as he considered whether to put his uncomfortably pent-up scare energy to good use. Or at least entertaining use.

“Run,” Ollie whispered, and Scratch couldn’t tell if it was a threat or a plea.

The instinct-induced haze lessened. If Ollie took the shot, he’d be disappointing Molly. (Who was he kidding, life without Scratch? He’d be devastating Molly!) But if Scratch proved the Chens thoughts on ghosts right, he’d be doing the same thing.

Ollie hefted the gun higher, looking no keener to use it. “Run,” he repeated.

The easy way out. No lie, Scratch had considered it immediately. Molly was safe enough with the Chens, and all he wanted was to disappear into a dark corner and forget this whole nightmare ever happened. He could run, and they’d be more careful, and this whole debacle meant Molly would stop hanging out with Ollie, and Scratch’s life could go back to normal. Save being on the run. Forever.

(Or until the Chens died out, and with Scratch’s luck this would absolutely turn into a multigenerational blood feud.)

Facts were: he was outed, and so was Molly’s connection to him. They’d never be safe, not while the Chens were determined to cleanse the world of ghostkind.

Scratch took a deep breath and thought of his family, and the last of his spines smoothed and his colour returned to its natural blue and his shape stabilized. It might’ve been easier to go underground, but even these past few months of avoiding their (many, many) ghost traps had triggered an exhaustion that would’ve been called bone-deep if he’d had bones. He didn’t want to put his family through that, and frankly, Scratch was just damn tired. All he wanted was to sleep for a century.

He'd finish this first.

“Look, Ollie,” he started, relieved to find the bass in his voice had returned to normal. “As far as ghosts go, I’m a pretty lazy guy. Rather take a nap, y’know? All that exercise ain’t good for you.”

Ollie’s eyes darted to the side, face screwing up in that ‘um actually’ wince that Molly liked to adopt whenever she annoyed him enough to bring up the flat-earth theory. The first flicker of character he’d shown since this whole standoff started. “Not how that works, but what do you mean?”

Scratch smiled at his mortal enemy, and somehow it felt natural. “Means I’m tired of running, kid.”

 END

#the ghost and molly mcgee #tgamm #tgamm season 2 #tgamm spoilers #scratch #ollie chen #oliver chen #writing #oneshot #art #background intolerant #set post canon #tw gun mention #i love the concept of instinctual shapeshifting so lots of that #probably wrote scratch too much like a werewolf but whatevs #semi feral scratch #ruben isnt a bad dude #the real antagonist is parental expectations

[bloo-the-dragon]

*holds nebula like hamborger* what am i to do with you.

#bloo talks #nebula #i'm speaking specifically of the cryptid one not the mer one here #it's 3am and i'm having thoughts about him #the lore i'd made for him long ago while was a lot of fun to mess around with at the time just gives me a headache now #i made it all so needlessly complicated jgkfg #making him a mer helped fix/retcon that and i'd almost abandoned his original design to just stick to the mer version #but drawing him again recently has re-ignited my love for the old design #and now i'm thinkin 'well frick what am i gonna do with him now' #because while i'm keeping his design his og lore has been mostly retconned now #as for what he is well he's no longer a robot but a full blown actual shapeshifting cryptid like Bloodmoon #which is funny for sun and moon given his look #They'd be like: 'if we had a nickle for everytime some fae/cryptid changed to look like us we'd have two nickles #which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice' #something something celestial themes and faerie folk being attuned to them kinda deal i guess #either way i'm going to bed

[fourphoenixfeathers]

Somebody help I keep making new aus

Or in this case, aus of aus

What if Warden Emmet but I crossed it with ditto Emmet au

Pearl clan thought he was a zoroark, so they left him in the snow, and Lord Braviary decided he was free warden. Diamond clan hesitantly accepts him bc they trust Braviary's judgement, but they eventually warm up to him.

Emmet has amnesia, but he remembers most of his form by muscle memory. But every once in a while, he might get his age wrong or accidentally take on some features of whoever he's talking to or who he's close to. Some days he looks closer to a teen. Some days his hair looks really fluffy like Braviary's crown. What color his hair is at any given moment is a roll of the dice, but silver and purple are the most common.

Just for fun, I decided to frenzy Braviary instead. Emmet isn't allowed in Jubilife, but even if he was, he wouldn't be meeting Rei there because he's too busy looking like a really weird unovan braviary and keeping his lord from destroying the Icelands.

#submas #emmet #ditto emmet au #warden emmet #the reason his coat is goopy is bc he stopped wearing the real one when it started getting beat up #he wanted to keep it safe so he started copying the real one onto his form #also its hard to transform when your clothes dont so it with you #and becoming a pokemon is a lot more conveniemt and necessary than in unova #i have. so many thoughts. #another disclaimer cuz im paranoid: #im not making emmet a ditto bc hes autistic. #im making him a ditto bc shapeshifters are awesome and i love goop characters #rae art

[ravenmoodle]

I would like to share @maiaawhimsy's OC!

an art trade where we design eachother's OCs as if they where in the other person's story! I decided to turn their hummingbird shapeshifter into a divine curse in my Keeping Crow's universe.

they wouldn't be the only hummingbird themed divine demon though, so there's a little Norman at the bottom with them. c:

#my art #your OC #art trade #art meme #Keeping Crows #Divine #celestial #angel #character design #this was a lot of fun. i kinda saw the golden hummingbird necklace and went full send with it. #since the stronger divine demons can shapeshift anyway it fits!! #i also turned the necklace design into an 'eye' when they're in their 'angel form' as it would be in they where in this universe #also i did not do the hair and fit justice. their character is super cute- love this guy #ignore the fact that those are DEFINITELY not hummingbird wings ok

[cyberp-1-nk]

I thought you were just joking when you said you were obsessed with Homelander. You weren't.

WHY IS IT ALL OVER YOUR REBLOG PAGE? IT'S ALL JUST HOMELANDER. I WAS SCROLLING FOR FIVE FUCKING MINUTES.

DUDE I'M SORRY - BUT HE'S SO FINE. I'm sick and tired of pretending that I don't wanna squish his man tits, and call him my babygirl. I have to live in a society where I have to pretend like I WOULDN'T allow and tolerate his possessive behavior. I'm tired of pretending that I wanna fix him. I don't. I wanna make him WORSE. I would 100% be his enabler.

"It's us against the world babyboy😫💔🥀🖤⛓️"

#i'm /j but also not /j #these anons are coming for my Homelander obsession and its scary #god what I'd do to have to have him lay on my lap #homelander is hot. #i'm gonna release a fic about him on my sideblog soon #I want that man so bad yall have NO IDEA #i'd probably keep a cow in my HOUSE just to give him the best possible quality of milk. i don't trust them companies. #“well actually raw cow milk is bad🤓-” SHUT UP NOT IF I MAKE IT WITH LOVE #wait technically im not making it #unless.. #i'd literally shapeshift into a cow for him #i'm very downbad #homelander #i just realized that I can legit produce milk on my own 💀 so I wouldn’t even need to shapeshift into a cow wtf #i'm so stupid #i have a job interview today and this is what I'm doing instead. #says a lot about my character #sobs. #hes just so fine #homelander is my babygirl #thank you to the homelander writers on tumblr. you guys are my reason for rolling out of bed in the morning. #i'm being 100% serious btw #anyways #homelander x you #ฅ'ω'ฅ 𝐌𝐫𝐬. 𝐒𝐚𝐱𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭

[lesbianfakir]

My guilty pleasure is making fankids (I am cringe but I am free 😭😭) anyways thank you to princess tutu for making me think about the logistics of a magic half duck half human baby

#it would be soooooooo funny if she could shapeshift #because babies? they don’t go anywhere #at least not for a while #but ducklings? ducklings waddle #so if you have a magic shapeshifting baby chances are you’re gonna fucking lose her #a lot. #anywaysssss if anyone wants to see my fankid design 👉👈 #haven’t posted it on here because I’m like so embarrassed #part of it is I’m ace and all my favs are by extension ace because I said so and fankids feel antithetical to my headcanons #and the other part is somewhere in my brain I’m like noooooooooooo this is cringe #but I love seeing other people’s fankids soooooo #lea talks

[musiclover2732]

not enough of you are appreciating that Stringbean is a snakeshifter so this is a snakeshifter Stringbean appreciation post

#get it #instead of shapeshifter she’s a snakeshifter #cuz not matter what form she takes there’s always snake elements #also i love that we have two shapeshifters that are close with the protag #shapeshifters get such a bad rep in a lot of media #like the new wednesday show and mermaze mermaids both have antagonistic shapeshifters even if they’re not the main villains #so it’s nice to see shapeshifters being friend shaped #vee noceda #stringbean #the owl house #toh #toh spoilers #for the future

[tum-bakery]

After that last post I also gotta just say shapeshifters are such a gender dream come true. Wanna look more feminine/masculine? go right ahead! Want to be shorter/taller? Can be done! Want to easily switch between being soft and pudgy and a more lithe physique? Whatever gender meets the moment can be done!

#bakerspeakin #I don't talk about my own gender here a lot lol #but wowee being able to be easily masc or femme is genuinely so lovely #ah yes... having pudge or facial hair at will <3 #I'm okay with how I look I just wish I could shapeshift ya know?

[funnyscienceman]

i think one thing i'm never gonna get over about the movie is that the memorial wall full of art — some of the drawings are of shadow nimona. i can't get screenshots right now but like. shadow nimona smiling. beaming. getting hearts and smiles and hugs, from the kids, from other shadow creatures. it's just. it's so sweet. like it's the kids who drew that taking all that raw hurt and vulnerability from the final act and giving it the hug and empathy and solidarity it needed. and it's like, look at nimona's line after the kwispy incident, look at the cereal ad, the board game billboard; look at gloreth being taught hate, and then look at the drawings. and i just lose it every time i think about it

#nimona #it's 3am so idk if im making any sense but #all this abt the memorial wall #plus nimona doing more shapeshifting outside of combat and crimes #nimona is a girl and a boy and a rhino and a bird and an ostrich and a whale and - in her words - a lot of things #she is also the shadow creature #and just seeing that acknowledged w the memorial drawings…. #it's acknowledging all the parts of nimona. every one you can reach. this is her and this is also her and this is also her #and all those parts deserve love too #idk i just like seeing the movie i guess 'normalize???' (for lack of a better term) nimona's shapeshifting #like doing it without objective purpose or functionality or combat or what have you #just chilling on the train eating a pizza. as a gorilla. because those are her vibes right now! #scurrying thru the trash as a cat because. why not. she couldve been a racoon or a rat or anything else but she's a cat. because she is #and then i think about how kids are getting to see this movie and i just feel so much *hope* #im not good at articulating myself sorry i hope this made sense

[layalu]

WIP Whenever

got tagged by @buridanshorse and @greypetrel! <33

don't have anything DA related that's worth showing rn lol, but i got uhh. these two xd

one is practice that i'm vibing with & the other is for a friend; teechnically "finished" but i've been thinking about cleaning it up bc it's cute and i love them

tagging (as always with no pressure ofc) @brainwormterrarium, @a-drama-addict, @giantbukonut, @bearsizedant, @beelzebard, @goofsoup, @exotic-inquiry, @the-penguinspy, @daggerbeanart, @absyntthe, @creativegoblin, @superboyconner, @quakingbirch, @ndostairlyrium, and anyone else who has something to share! :]

#i always feel like im being annoying when the tag list gets long but i also feel bad for leaving out ppl fslkjf #so yea. if anyone would rather not be tagged (or would like to be tagged) please tell me! #wip wednesday #(<- for sorting's sake lol) #my art #the wolf n cat are (shapeshifted) characters from a buddy's dnd campaign and i love them lots #the deer is random lol but i do love me some glowy deer #need to do the foreground still n adjust values n stuff and idk if i wanna make the bg trees cleaner but. probably not lol

[noirineverysense]

yes yes gay knights and nimona is trans but the soundtrack fucks thats the important part

#nimona #tbh they could have just made nimona trans instead of strongly imply it/use an allegory #she could have just been a trans shapeshifter #no more pussyfooting around just make your characters trans! #the soundtrack does go hard tho the main takeaway is new songs to your playlist imo #it was a lot of tropes i personally like demonisation of a creature who just wants to be loved #and found family #and my boy riz plays the main character so it was fun for me #but not life changing you know #maybe my standards are too high after across the spiderverse #which also does the pussyfooting now that i think about it #ramble over its a good movie