What Can Cause Shapeshifting?
- inherited ability life stage (e.g., pupa, caterpillar, butterfly; puberty, menopause, etc.)
- automatic shift under stress
- automatic shift under certain specific situations
- accidental and uncontrollable shift morphing (Terminator II)
- bite / scratch by creature accident (car crash, fall into grave, coma, etc.)
- advanced medical science / new scientific discovery
- intentional medical experiment
- medical experiment gone wrong
- government-backed experiment
- surgical operation / brain or other organ transplant
- nanotechnology
- genetic engineering
- evolutionary development
- rapidly accelerated evolution
- mutation
- transformation machine
- chemical / pill / drug / radiation
- disease / virus / plague
- herb ingestion (Alice in Wonderland)
- alien technology alien science / medicine / machine
- alien or other interbreeding with humans
- chant / feth-faiidah chant
- ritual / dance
- cloak / wearing of a skin/pelt/clothing with transformation powers/other costume
- magic cloud/smoke
- totem
- channeling of an animal spirit
- tattoo
- talisman
- magical bath/fountain/spring
- assistance of a magical creature, e.g. faeries
- magic
- voodoo
- curse (The Frog Prince)
- transformation by a witch
- magical forest
- full moon
- use of true name
- astral projection
- virtual reality
- travel between dimensions
- time travel
- reincarnation
- shift at death
- symbiosis
- rent-a-body business
- gods playing games
Shapeshifting Results
Physical changes
- complete body transformation
- partial/minor body transformation
- body swap (intentional or accidental)
- combination/assimilation of multiple bodies into one one body
- split into multiple parts
- gender transformation
- size change (larger, smaller, microscopic, etc.)
- >body mass increase/decrease
- shape change change to part-animal, part-human
- change to completely animal
- change to werewolf/other were creature
Acquisition of New Abilities
- enhanced normal senses (hearing, sight, touch, taste, smell)
- paranormal powers (e.g. telepathic ability)
- supernatural powers/superhuman strength/speed/perception/body part regeneration
- acquisition of mental powers
- mental ability increase/decrease
- mental partitioning
- acquisition of knowledge held by other (mind / brain transfer)
- loss of previous powers (e.g., power of human speech)
- spiritual possession
- transfer of souls
- time transfer (e.g., with shift comes transport to another time)
- aura shift
- matching shadows
- personality change
- derangement
- change to inanimate object
- change to vegetable matter
- energy increase/decrease
- age change, older or younger
- age regression/progression
