While having a conversation with my dear friend, @emmatriarchy, & they asked me about Bobby’s reforming abilities from Vapor & if he uses it to modify or transform his non-ice form/armor form (human form). So when I got the urge to post this picture & make comments about Bobby looking like he’s going through a Sailor Moon transformation I ended up on a tangent in the tags. So this is going from crack to a headcanon. xD Which got super long so it’s under the cut.
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I do see Bobby making modifications to his body. Mainly for his fear of losing control & his powers, or control of said power goes hand & hand with his mental stability & his physical fitness. Maintaining his ice form alone, can be fairly tiring both physically & mentally when he holds it for over 6 hours continuously.
This is discounting the times when he’s stuck in his Ice form/armor. When he loses control of his power, he’s essentially trapped within this form. Which also leaves him emotionally disconnected. He was a huge asshole the first time it happened (mainly when he froze the world with the Death Seed), while other’s he purposely goes to the coldest area of the Earth to keep himself from harming others (marvel voices infinity comics)
With further consideration & how Mar.vel’s artists continue to shift his hair from blonde, brown, dirty brown & even strangely, red. I’m not sure he’s fully aware that he’s doing it. Especially when he makes himself gigantic to fight enemies. Which leads to him shifting his body into muscular fist fighting. Either himself or using a golem to do the fight. (Making himself is normally when he has to reform himself in the middle of the fight & isn’t sliding around with a non-combatant.)
So I do see it as him just changing shape & not noticing he’s left some of those changes behind when he shrinks himself back down to his normal height. Maybe even taking on a few changes he makes to the golem if the fight itself lasts. At least at first, he’d notice when he’s out of his ice form/armor, anyone would but I also don’t see him changing it back unless it’s a ‘oh wow why do i have red hair suddenly?’ or a ‘wow i should not have a spike there o.o’ moment.
Which isn’t all together healthy, reaching peak physical condition overnight or leaving said alterations to his body to get that peak condition. I don’t think he’d let him think about it, or if he picks up on it just ignores that side of it. (which at the same time could be a fun bit to write with any of my partners’ muses that would know his body (at least his current one) & recognize the changes.
Emma also brought up shapeshifting, which we both agreed that he wouldn’t do anything too intense with shapeshifting because of his past experiences with Raven. However, he already shapeshifts, even forming full outfits out of nothing. Well not entirely out of nothing.
In this panel, he started with the suit above, the only thing he didn’t make is the staff and the crown, he did alter Loki’s crown however (not sure crown is the right word). He even gave himself that short beard to finish the look off. & it’s all his doing, considering later loki is just ‘you fell for the classic motivational speech, I can’t give you my power. You had it all along blah blah blah.’
I have a feeling those clothes would stay there if he didn’t absorb it back into himself. Or at least i think his o.o reaction for a few seconds when it sticks around would be hilarious to write.
