#shapeshifter wip

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You want the rough new beginning to shapeshifter wip?

Halliel had lost Syn, and she didn't know where to start looking. She turned, wings tight to her back, scanning the crowd around her as best she could, and wished she'd worn heels. "This," Kit said, craning up on his toes and leaning on Conly to make his own search, "is ridiculous. Why did we agree to this?" "To the theme park, or…?" "Letting Syn go off on their own. You saw their grin." Conly shrugged Kit off her shoulder. "I'm just going to message the chat and haul them back here." "You know that won't work," Halliel replied. "That will, in fact, make it worse," Kit agreed. "They're actually a child." Conly groaned. "How do you put up with them, they're a menace."

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"You just suggested putting a collar on me,"

you know. normal conversation stuff.

Her slick fingers push into his hole, and Shane gasps into the pillow. She keeps pushing, rubbing her fingers into the sides of him, stretching him out. Her fingers feel bigger than he thought, and her nails aren't scratching into him like they did when they were on his chest. It feels good, familiar.

"I think you're ready," Rose says, "on your knees." Shane wants to protest that it usually takes longer, but when she presses inside of him there is no resistance to be found.

🌸Cherry Blossom: How does your character feel about death? Have they experienced a lot of loss in their life?

OH SHIT HI I DIDN'T FULLY FORGET ABOUT THIS UNTIL NOW

Anyway hi thaanks <3

I feel like Syn is low hanging fruit here considering their ending but also;

for shapeshifters death isn't so much - so the young shapeshifters, the ones just setting out, they don't think of death as death; it's the end of their journey, it's returning home, it's going back to the bulk of themselves and sharing everything they've learnt, and becoming part of a whole again.

For the older shapeshifters, who've been away long enough to be their own people (Syn, the actor cohort I still haven't named but it's fine they haven't appeared on page yet), returning home is way more death as we know it; that's the end of them, baby!! When they return, they will no longer be the sum of where they've been and loved and learnt. They'll just be a small part of the whole, inconsequential except for the knowledge-without-feeling of the outside world that they brought back.

So Syn in their... ooh I can't remember how many years I said it had been - anyway, they haven't experienced much loss (yet) but like. they're aware of the concept as others understand it.

Obviously, the biggest loss they've experienced (technically) is the moment they were sent out and the companionship of being All One Mass in the shapeshifter conglomerate (have I given that a proper name? unlikely) just sort of. Stopped.

that was fun for them :3 Truly alone for the first time, and what do they do?

yes excellent ok page 126 is a shapeshifter wip page! It's Halliel's "Blowing Off Steam" chapter/scene (in red ink) which is perchance a bit of a misnomer right now but it's whatever :3

Ketch nodded, zir gaze straying back to the book in zir hands. Ze placed a finger on the page and looked up again. "The new liaison for Hult starts today, do they not?" Halliel nodded. "Winter. Silver just brought him up." Ketch nodded again. Halliel smiled slightly. "I didn't mean to disturb you, Ketch, it's fine." "It's going to feel strange with someone else at their desk." "Still quieter." Ketch let out a small laugh. "Like I said; strange."

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have some Syn making friends!

"How early tomorrow?" Wyn asked, a sly look on her face. Syn suppressed a snort. "Late afternoon." "Oh, plenty of time to sleep off getting shit-faced," Wyn replied. "There now." "That's still not a direct answer," Idris said. Cadfael patted at their arm. "I'd almost think you didn't want them along. For the sake of winning a bet? For shame, Idris." Syn fought back their smile, their... Syn-like urge to join in the teasing. It wouldn't be in character.

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📝 List 5 things your antagonist/villain has definitely googled. No context. Let the chaos speak for itself.

mm need to work out who counts as an antagonist lmao. I think the closest? we have in Shapeshifter wip is probably [the bastard spoiler] bc alright sure tensions between the countries etc but frankly the part that fucked 'em up was Syn's family sitch. So.

normal getting to know you questions

how to get people to like you

how to convince someone to go home

best way to alienate someone from their friends

formal terms of address for visiting royalty

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Here, have some Shapeshifter WIP;

"To be clear; Lance is the new toy?" Wyn was not quite hiding her own smile, letting it curl across her face. Syn decided they liked her.

normal behaviour