Do you have any tips for a transShapeshifter?
Of course! 🦢🐉🦭
- change your appearance often, using things like colored contacts, wigs/hair dye, piercings/fake piercings, drawn-on tattoos, and makeup to change your face shape. focusing more on physical characteristics (especially ones that are harder to change like tattoos) can help people see you as a shapeshifter.
- alternatively, changing your aesthetics, wearing very different outfits, and changing your voice and cadence day-to-day can also help, even if you can't change more physical characteristics
- having a few preset outfits/personhoods can help especially day-to-day so you don't have to invent a new persona every day (eg. pink wig + contacts wearing dresses or black wig and emo makeup). it can also help to build an appearance around characters or IRL people, or pick a single item that inspires you and build around that.
- learn about shapeshifter history and culture, and maybe use a name and/or pronouns based upon that
- if you transform into animals, plants, or objects, both changing your appearance and behavior in accordance with that can help (eg. relaxing in the sun, doing quadrobics, moving your body in a more inhuman way). if you have specific animals or monsters you transform into the therian/transspecies communities often have a lot of helpful information!
- reality shifting can also help alleviate dysphoria and explore your transformation capabilities (if safe for you to do so)
