You know what's interesting about asian mythos? Quite a number of them have shapeshifter power. Kitsune, tanuki, dragons of various culture. There's probably more, but off of the top of my head, that's the typical few. I feel like shapeshifting is more often coming up than storm based power. Wouldn't that be funny? Where the western type of dragons gets overshadowed by fire breath or any sort of breath weapon, on the east side it's all weaving weathers and metamorphosing the physical form. I'm generalizing.
Out of all my identitype, only I myself as the dream dragon(kin) feel the capability to shapeshift. At least from the phantom sensation, I think they are all tied to me myself. Like I mentioned on day 4, the kitsune is more a static one that's tied to Naruto, who, yes, can shapeshift in the form of a ninja technique (the henge no jutsu変化の術/transformation technique). Not sure if my hearttype's ability is solid or not, I don't really know, it's tied to the whole thing where there seem to be a number of my identitype capable of shapeshifting, but only I do. Even amongst the head buddies, Akumu, who is my mirror/other self, does not. Nor do Beast, who is my wrath/rage daemon, also incapable of shapeshifting. It's as if I sucked out all the potential power of shapeshifting and hoard it within myself. That's a interesting thought. I feel like Morikai, my kardiatype, was definitely capable of shapeshifting, as per asian folklore on dragon spirits goes. He probably shapeshift into human to go and mingle with the town that he guards. But well, similar to the whole kitsune thing, he is a static image, because he is a past tense. Was? Wow, I cannot do tenses if you haven't been able to tell. My Mew archetrope is also a shapeshifter, but that identitype is also a static one in a way. I'm embodying the role where Mew would be, I am the shapeshifter, and Mew is not a identity of the creature itself, but the role which Mew plays.
It's a strange thing, or not so strange. I am the one living and growing, I'm the one changing. The two vaguetype (one linked one a flicker) aren't shapeshifter within their source material, so I can't compare the experience there. I think I'm most baffled by Akumu's state of being. Maybe because he is mirroring my core essence, which in the more literal sense, mirroring my Core Form.
Maybe I can try linking (kintype style) an actual shapeshifter for a change, to see how it feels. So I can contribute to the whole polymorph AND polykin experience conversation. Eh, not sure if I will ever get there.
