I was thinking about breedchanges, and it’s probably not an instantaneous process. and completely changing your very physical (and quite possibly mental) self into something entirely different must be terrifying.
consider
-skydancers changing into other species, and being constantly suspicious/nervous around others because they can’t understand other’s feelings as well anymore
-species that turn into bogsneaks or snappers going mad over their inability to fly, and feel crippled for the first weeks after their transformation
-guardians turning into literally any other species and having an immediate and long lasting existential crisis because what’s the point of anything anymore?
-dull coatls turning themselves into another species and moving to a clan full of said species, and being so overjoyed about their new found acceptance
-the sheer pain and weird stuff that must happen during a transformation. excessive weight loss with no appetite, or gorging and massive weight gain as they transform to species of different sizes. muscle growth and death, organs changing size. I know there’s magic and everything, but god.
-mirror dragons changing and then panicking, because they’re going blind. without their heat vision, they feel very lost during hunts.
-snappers not considering the fact that a breedchange will probably damage their near-perfect memory, and mourning the loss of memories with friends and mates long gone, because it’s too late to go back
-the differences in locomotion. how long does it take a once snapper to learn to fly like a spiral, even with a spiral’s body?
-back to the physical change, we’re talking weight difference, organ changing, bone growth and restructuring. how long are dragons incapacitated by this? how many come close to death? or believe themselves to be safe and protect by their clan as they change, but a catastrophe strikes and they can’t even stand.
