Shapeshifters and humans

[Fuchsbau]

Fox and human (2.0)

My idea was about a shapeshifter who falls for a human male after he finds her injured and nurses her back to health. She can assume the form of animals in particular a fox or wolf type.

 

[Carnevil9]

What shapes do you see her shifting between? Wild animals? Tentacle monster? Inanimate objects? Or just different individuals?

 

[Fuchsbau]

To reanswer your question. Either a fox or a wolf.

 

[Hypoxia]

The ideal female shapeshifter for many a man: She becomes merely a mouth, only a muscular sac surrounding and eternally slurping his likely-minimal manhood. Of course she must drop a lot of mass to do so, but that's no worse than Dracula going batty. Twist: Her shifted shape is rather like a jockstrap so she can hold on. A meaty jockstrap with a tongue...

Incest variant: She shapeshifts to become Mom, or Sis, or Aunty.

Bestiality variant: She becomes a talking sheep. He *likes* sheep.

Bi variant: She shifts from hot female to buff male. He's never lonely.

Group variant: She divides into many women. No, he's *never* lonely.

Interracial variant: She changes ethnicity. And gender. Bring on the BBC.

LW variant: She becomes his ex, whom he had issues with but still loves.

Celeb variant: She shifts to all sorts of famous personae. Hilarity ensues.

Horror variant: She becomes a beastly predator who devours his enemies.

Vanilla variant: She shifts to anything he wants. He experiments. Fun!

 

[Carnevil9]

Interesting. Our OP has bailed on the entire conversation! I wonder why. I certainly didn't mean to scare him (or her) away; I was merely asking for clarification! If you are still around, Mr OP, please don't be offended. Let us know what you had in mind. Seriously, we don't bite.

(Well, Hypoxia might, but I don't)

 

[emap]

Noodle head, most people call shapeshifters werewolves. Sometimes it's werepanther or whatever but almost always it is werewolves. I remember doing a werewolf story, at least I think I did.

On a side note, though who cares since there isn't really anything to the thread anymore. I remember D&D used to have shapeshifters, as a section of the monster manual.

Fairly sure they have since become something you don't do. I'm not sure that is a good idea though it is rather silly that they are instantly Evil just because they turn into an animal sometimes. Maybe it was sometimes, depends on what version of the rules you look at, not to mention which author you are reading, there are plenty of stories.

 

[Fuchsbau]

Well in your story they can be whatever you want them to be. In MY story she has the ability to assume different animal forms. Silly or not I thought we were here to share ideas not be critical. Guess I was wrong. Grrrrr.

 

[Carnevil9]

Nobody was being critical. It's called "brainstorming." We aren't here to applaud good ideas. Well, not only that, anyway. We're also here to generate new ideas that anyone might use. Each OP is a starting point, and they often spin out of control. Sometimes, something interesting results.

 

[Fuchsbau]

Maybe you weren't but I consider calling someone a noodle head bieng critical and mean.
(Btw Sam on True Blood was a shapeshifter or at least refered as such)

 

[Hypoxia]

ObTopic: The OP has rephrased their inquiry to specify canids: fox or wolf.

I still like the idea of shapeshifting into a sexual tool like the cock-slurping fleshy jockstrap-mouth I mentioned above, or into a wriggling strap-on prick. It's sort of like the guy who reincarnates as a (girl's) bicycle seat or knickers. IIRC Prince Chuck wished / wishes to reincarnate as a tampon.

But I digress. A shapeshifted sex toy won't offer the same emotional connection as s shapeshifted canid rescued from injury by a caring human, as the OP suggests. I may have to write a were-sex-toys story.

And while I may bite, I probably won't bother.

 

[Carnevil9]

Maybe you weren't but I consider calling someone a noodle head bieng critical and mean.
(Btw Sam on True Blood was a shapeshifter or at least refered as such)

You must have mighty thin skin. I suggest you avoid posting any stories in the Loving Wives category!

 

[Hypoxia]

You must have mighty thin skin. I suggest you avoid posting any stories in the Loving Wives category!

Naw, every new author deserves the Ordeal By Fire that is LW. It will either thicken their skin or burn them to a crisp. The author as crispy critter, yeah.

Meanwhile, the mortal guy is proud he has a foxy girlfriend now, and she *loves* puppy-fucks. She bonds with him and they form a P.I. team. BTW the guy's name is Harry Hound; their shingle reads FOX & HOUND INVESTIGATIONS.

Take it, Jimmy!

 

[GrrlFriday]

My idea was about a shapeshifter who falls for a human male after he finds her injured and nurses her back to health. She can assume the form of animals in particular a fox or wolf type.

If you go for the fox variant, perhaps you might be interested in stories about kitsune? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsune)

 

[litmlove]

To reanswer your question. Either a fox or a wolf.

There is a gorgeous Neil Gaiman graphic novel on this. It's really a love story between a Buddhist monk and the creature and it's very dream-like. It's called .. errr.. . The Sandman: The Dream Hunters

 

[Hypoxia]

In the LIT fantasyland the fox-girl can be played many ways. Is her personality mostly fox or human? Does she remember what happened to one body when she's in her other form? What is her character type? Is she a naive, sweet young thang? An (in)efficient predator? A clever manipulator? Too smart for her own good? Will she fall head-over-ass for her mortal rescuer and try like HC Andersen's Little Mermaid to escape her nonhuman past? Will she succeed? Can she turn her mortal rescuer into a were-creature too? A fox, or something else? What is her rescuer's gender? Is the fox the same gender in both forms?

 

[litmlove]

In the LIT fantasyland the fox-girl can be played many ways. Is her personality mostly fox or human? Does she remember what happened to one body when she's in her other form? What is her character type? Is she a naive, sweet young thang? An (in)efficient predator? A clever manipulator? Too smart for her own good? Will she fall head-over-ass for her mortal rescuer and try like HC Andersen's Little Mermaid to escape her nonhuman past? Will she succeed? Can she turn her mortal rescuer into a were-creature too? A fox, or something else? What is her rescuer's gender? Is the fox the same gender in both forms?

Haha, no. It's not exactly like what you are thinking of. Gaiman wrote it to be like a parable. So the "demon" is the ying to his yang to his yang in the love story. Gender; basically female but more specifically it is "demon" (amorphous/unknown/whatever-the-foxladywants).

Because the demon can be anything you as the author want it to be, then the demon is whatever it needs to be to get across whatever you want to do. Eg, by preferring to be in a state that suits our understanding of human-like appearance, or maybe coming to protagonist in a cloud of unknowable form and speaking from beyond the darkness. The appearance can be in flux or be something specific. Sometimes a non-choice is also a choice; the demon could refuse to be a realistic 100% copy and maintain their demonic aura, or only appear in solid form and only changing when "off camera"

Mostly Human or Fox personality? Well that is a trick question given how we anthropomorphise all animals anyway. So, errr, human I guess, but it is still both human&fox and something else because it is demon.

And you know demons, always with some secret agenda, but The Dream Hunter was parable-like so things turned out ok in a manner of speaking.

 

[Hypoxia]

@litmlove: I was referring to the OP concept, not the Gaiman parable. A fox may be nearly whatever we wish in a parable: wise, foolish, clever, vain, shy, bold, hunter, prey, etc. We use the parable fox as a stand-in for some facet of The Human Condition, if any. A literary fox may of course be demonic and terrifying - but in my neighborhood, they mostly terrify chickens, cats, and skunks. I've had no skunk problems since a fox moved into my forest.