Alternate Form

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Alternate Form, also known as Transformation or Morphing is the psychic ability to assume the form of an object, a creature, or an entity composed of a certain substance/energy/material whenever the user desires. This form could be listed among any of the following:

• Airy Form, also called Air Form or Air Mimicry (“Aeromorphing”) is the ability to assume a windy, airy form. This form is either devoid of visibility and specific shape, or similar to a cyclone. This form allows the user to hide in any space, as well as evade physical attacks. If pressurized (or one moves fast/strong enough), this form can stifle fires, inflate foes’ lungs or travel with the wind. This form can even assimilate into a tornado or other strong form of wind to attack foes more effectively.

• Animal Form, also called Creature Form (“Animal Shapeshifting” or “Animorphing”) is the ability to assume the form of an animal. This transformation may even allow transformation into an animal of any species, whether it is mammal, fish, bird, reptile, vermin or insect. One with this ability could sometimes even turn into a dinosaur, a mythical creature or alien creatures (but only to that form/those forms and back to normal; no inanimate objects, plants or people, as this is not true Shapeshifting).

• Aqueous Form or Water Mimicry (“Hydromorphing” or “Aquamorphing”) is the ability to assume a form similar to or composed of water. One with this ability can assume the various states of matter; solid is an Ice Form, Icy Form or Ice Mimicry; liquid is normal Aqueous Form; gas is Vapor Form, Vaporous Form or Vapor Mimicry. He can even assimilate his form to other bodies of water to expand his size, and control that body of water as long as his form is merged with it, as well as being able to turn invisible while underwater (called Aqueous Invisibility). This form is usually highly vulnerable to electricity.

• Deceptive Form is the ability to assume a form deceptive to the eyes, or any other sense. This ability may include the power to assume a form similar to a kitten, a puppy, a baby, a more attractive version of oneself, or the like, when in fact, the user may actually be a dangerous, maniacal killer (the user would maintain normal thinking and motor capacity) or some similar situation. This form may indicate that the user also has the power Feigning, to fool foes into thinking the user is helpless or defenseless (this ability also helps if the user’s natural form is ugly or unappealing to sight).

• Dimensional Form or Portal Mimicry is the body's ability to mimic a spatial warp (or a form indicating a spatial warp), thus acting as a living portal to another dimension (or to another time/location); this ability may include the power to pull others into this dimension (either psychically, gravitationally or with tendrils of dimensional energy extending from the body), and/or perhaps the ability to travel to and from said alternate time/dimension/location at will. The form may even be that of a black hole.

• Electrical Form or Electrical Mimicry is the ability to assume a form composed of electrical energy. This ability allows the user to use electricity to increase his vitality, and to power electricity-run devices (or use them for shelter). One with this ability can even travel through electrical conduits like televisions, electrical poles or computers (called Electrical Transportation or Electrical Travel), or fly like living lightning; he can even discharge powerful arcs of electricity; often also prone to demonstrate the ability Electrical Conduction and/or the ability Electrical Absorption.

• Ghostly Form or Astral/Spirit/Apparition/Ectoplasmic/Phantasmal/Ghost Form is the ability to alter one's form in either of two ways. One could alter their physiology into an ectoplasmic state to become ghost-like, or they could allow their physical body to fuse with their aura and psyche, turning them into a “ghost”. Once in this form, the user can become imperceptible (invisible, intangible, inaudible, etc.) and possess subjects at will, along with gaining the power of Manifestation, the capability to travel between this world and the Astral Realm (in that form) at will, and the ability to perceive/communicate with true ghosts (with either the ability Mediumism or a Ghost Sense).

• Inorganic Form is the ability to assume a form composed of inorganic material, while retaining organic properties. One with this ability can assume a form that is composed of, or seemingly composed of, inorganic material or refined material (such as plastics, glass, paper, gelatin, etc.; but not metals or anything else that is naturally found in the wilderness). The user may even be capable of voluntarily alternating his form between numerous types of inorganic materials.

• Light Form or Light Mimicry (“Focus”) is the ability to assume a form composed of light. The user could move in the form of a light beam, to move at light speed (the time one can do it is fairly short), along with other properties of light. One with this ability could also replicate himself by moving through a prism or shine brightly to blind foes. The user could also fly by riding light waves, mimic different types of light (infrared, ultraviolet, etc.) and change color at will.

• Marasmic Form or Cadaverous/Zombie/Undead Form is the ability to assume a form similar to one of the undead. One with this ability is often hideous in appearance, and may have rotting skin, as well as smelling like death. The user is prone to intimidate and/or disgust foes, and may also have an ability like Feigning as well as Anatomical Automatism, Anatomical Recall or the like; may also be prone to have the ability Deathspeak (at least while in this form) as well as a high resistance to psionic abilities, sonic attacks, radiation and poisons/disease (this form may not even need to eat, sleep or breathe).

• Metallic Form or Metal Mimicry is the ability to assume a form which is (or looks to be) made of metal. This ability automatically turns the user’s skin a lustrous silver color. In addition, this form endows the user with Electrical Conduction, Heat Conduction, Superhuman Endurance and Stamina, and Superhuman Strength (fortifying muscles with metal). In some cases, the user is also bestowed with resistance to psionic abilities and sonic attacks, and less need to eat/drink, sleep and breathe. This form is extremely susceptible to magnetic forces (and manipulation by Magnetokinesis or Metallokinesis)

• Monstrous Form is the ability to assume a form which is far more grotesque and frightening than one's normal form. This form has ugly or scary features, but may also have far-enhanced versions of any other abilities the user has in his normal form (this form is also prone to have the ability Psychic Intimidation). This form may be beastly (like a humanoid animal, or with strange skin coloration, or markings/features), alien, or just the user's appearance distorted (sometimes larger or smaller than one's normal appearance).

• Plant Form or Botanical/Arboreal Form is the ability to take a form likened to a plant. This form may be a tree, a flower, a plant, a bush, or even a weed; one is often able to even shift between these different types of foliage, or to change the species of plant he becomes to match those native to his environment (called Botanical Assimilation). This form may be able to move like an animated plant, mimic plants’ abilities (Photosynthesis, Rapid Regeneration, Ingrain, etc.) or even control other plants in the immediate vicinity. The user can only mimic plants’ properties/abilities while in this form.

• Plasmatic Form, also called Plasma Form or Aurora Form is the ability to take a form composed of plasma (superheated gas), similar to an aurora (a streamer of multicolored light) or an aurora-skinned version of oneself (one would softly glow and emanate a trail of light like an aurora as they move). One with this ability could ride the earth’s electromagnetic emanations to fly, and produce high-energy events. The user could innately produce superhot plasma and extract it from one’s environment (using it for attacks or sustenance), as well as withstanding all sorts of radiation.

• Pyric Form or Fiery Form (“Pyromorphing”) is the ability to assume a form composed of fire or biofire (a psionic form of fire). One with this ability can use his fiery composition to shoot powerful blasts of fire at foes, or to burn/ignite matter by touch; they could even fly, using fire generated by their body for propulsion (like a rocket). This form allows complete immunity to heat and radiation (even from the sun), but usually also implies vulnerability to intense water (which can negate the user’s fiery form, or kill him in more extreme cases). This form is achieved through successful human combustion.

• Sand Form or Dust Form is the ability to assume a form which looks like the user is made out of sand, a constantly-swirling sand cyclone, or a constantly-floating dust cloud. This form can be used to obscure the vision of foes, flay flesh (if whirling fast enough) or travel on air currents for flight. The sand form is malleable, and capable of not only assimilating into other bodies of sand, but also changing density. In addition, this form also renders the user highly resistant to mental invasion/domination, including Telepathy and Empathy and the like (because of the loose constitution of one’s body).

• Shadow Form, also called Umbrageous Form or Shadow Mimicry (“Nigrescence”) is the ability to assume a form composed of shadow (deactivated photons). The user can blend into shadows completely (called Umbrageous Invisibility), or even teleport through them (called Umbrageous Teleportation). One with this ability can even flatten up against walls and impersonate the shadows of others (allowing one to sneak up on or away from foes), and may be prone to Umbrageous Superstrength.

• Sonic Form, also called Sound Form or Sound Mimicry is the ability to assume a form composed of sentient sound waves. One with this ability could project sounds and slightly manipulate the sound he generates to his will, absorb and re-release ambient sound, and move as fast as the speed of sound (for a short while). The faster the user of this ability moves, the louder a sound is released. The user can act as a living sonic boom; by simply moving fast enough, he could disorient opponents and shatter windows.

• Stellar Form, also called Stellar/Star Mimicry or Quasi-Stellar Anatomy is the ability for the body to perform processes similar to those of a star/celestial body. One with this ability could generate a personal gravity field and nearly-perpetual energy (removing the need to sleep or eat), along with plasma energy in other forms. Their body is likened to a star, maybe even capable of generating (not manipulating) solar winds. The offensive part of this ability (radiation, burning things) may often be suppressed at will. This ability is often accompanied by Vacuum Adaptation, so the user can withstand the conditions of space.

• Terrene Form or Earthy Form (“Geomorphing” or “Terramorphing”) is the ability to assume a form composed of rocks, dirt or stone. This form can sling the earth of which one is composed to attack foes, or dig into the ground by assimilating oneself into the geography of the land. This ability can sometimes even be used to assimilate other earth and rock into one's form, increasing one's size, one’s strength and/or one’s endurance. This form may be composed of coal, tar, quartz, diamond, or other types of earth and stone (or perhaps even a composite of numerous different types of stone, minerals and earth).

• Toy Form, also called Object Form or Object/Toy Mimicry is the ability to assume a form similar to a toy or an inanimate object, such as a toy ball, a doll, a teddy bear, a lamp, a couch or the like (and often capable of changing what type of object one becomes). One with this ability could use it to blend into one's environment (and thus keep from being found) or for easy transportation. This form is impervious to pain, and if one sustains lethal injury in this form, they usually just revert to their normal form, either unconscious or damaged. This form can move as though one were an animated toy/object.

• Wave Form or Waveform Mimicry is the ability to assume a form similar to a wave or vibration. One with this ability could use it to bounce off a wall as an echoing sound wave, or channel through the ground to act like a living seismic shockwave. The user of this ability could even ride water currents to induce extremely powerful tidal waves, and the like. Many times only one type of wave is possible, while other times these and others are all possible.

Of course, the user gains the abilities inherent in whatever form they take (breathing fire and flying if one became a dragon, etc.), but after the user takes this form, only rarely can the choice be taken back. The user can only "shapeshift" to that form and back to normal (or in some cases, may be born in that form, or may retain that form after the first time it is assumed). If the form is composed of an element (electricity, fire, water, etc.), then manipulators of that element can dominate that superhuman (Hydrokinesis can control a superhuman with Aqueous Form, etc.).

Note: Sometimes, one only has the ability Electrical Transportation instead of entire Electrical Mimicry (they only zap into electrical appliances to travel; they can’t maintain an electrical body composition for more than a few seconds unless traveling through an electrical conduit) which is why that faculty is explicitly mentioned in that part of this article.

Note: Many times one with Aqueous Form can only assume one of the states of matter (Vapor Form, Ice Form or normal Aqueous Form), while other times, they can assume any of them. Vapor Form is not the same as Sublimation or Air Form; Air Form is a form constituted of air particles, not water in a gaseous form; Sublimation allows the user to also turn others and objects into vapor (and back).

Note: Metallic Form is different from a Metallic Exoskeleton; the exoskeleton is just an outer covering, while Metallic Form allows one to infuse metal with their genetics, or to mimic its traits and appearance, thus actually taking on properties of metal (even the lustrous, metallic color).

Note: Spontaneous human combustion is an unfortunate phenomenon that occurs as a result of the unsuccessful manifestation of either a Pyric Form or the ability Pyrokinesis.

[edit] Variations:

Constellation Form

• Constellation Form, also called Zodiac Form/Mimicry or Astrological Form/Mimicry is the obscure ability to psionically take the form of the semantic representation of one’s zodiac sign. One with this ability, being a Leo, may turn into a lion (a lioness, if the user is female); or if they are a Taurus, they may turn into a bull (or a stampede of bulls), or the like. The user also gains strength, stamina and power whenever their astrological sign’s planets are in certain positions in the sky, and may be able to perceive when said event is about to take place or end.

Cytoplasmic Form

• Cytoplasmic Form, also called Protoplasmic Form, Cellular Form or Single-Cell Form is the ability to assume the form of a single-cell organism. This often implies that the user’s cells fuse into one life-sized single-cell organism. This form is highly malleable (perhaps hyperelastic), and is nearly incapable of sustaining lethal damage; it also renders the user capable of binary fission or cellular mitosis (the user can replicate himself). This form may even be capable of Size Shifting (Shrinking) and acting like a living virus/bacteria (though this is not common).

•Any disease, bacteria or virus the user has in his system at the time of his transformation can be mimicked, if the user’s Cytoplasmic Form allows the user to shrink to microscopic size. This form is highly vulnerable to superhumans with the superhuman ability Nosokinesis.

Mucilaginous Form

• Mucilaginous Form, also called Gelatinous Form, Viscous Form or Slimy Form is the ability to assume a form composed of mucus, slime/scum, mud or some other sticky, sludge-like substance. One with this ability has a slippery, slimy or sticky body, prone to Rapid Regeneration and Malleability (and if parts are severed from their body, they move on their own, or become smaller replicates of the user). They are also often prone to be able to secrete the substance of which they are composed, at will (spitting or through the skin). This form may also exude a noxious smell.

Note: One with this superhuman ability can be manipulated by the ability Saprokinesis.

Swarm Form

• Swarm Form, also called Hive Form or Composite Form is the ability to psionically take on the form of a swarm/hive of small insects/vermin (dividing the mind amongst each member of the swarm). One with this ability looks entirely normal, but can psionically disengage members (one, a few or the entire swarm) from the body and decide to reintegrate those members back into his body at any time he desires. This form usually also allows the user of this ability to communicate psychically with the species that one’s body is composed of.

• Sometimes one with this ability can even change the species that his body is made up of, by disengaging the members of the previous form, leaving the psyche with no body; the psyche attracts animals of a new species and they psionically meld together to form a new Swarm Form (called Swarm Form Shifting). They must be small (like insects/vermin).

Note: Composite Form also refers to a form that is (or looks to be) composed of the body parts of others (like Frankenstein’s monster).

Chemical Mimicry

• Chemical Mimicry, also called (Chemical) Element Mimicry or Compound/Substance Mimicry is the superhuman ability to mimic the properties of chemical elements and other chemical substances or compounds. The user could emit noxious vapors similar to mercury (or mimic its texture, color and malleability), or emanate the radiation inherent in uranium. One with this ability could light up in the dark as though their bodies possessed the chemical element neon, or temporarily mimic the properties of hydrochloric acid (of course, though, these properties can only be mimicked one at a time). This ability may be accompanied by Material Intuition.

Transformation

• Transformation, also called Metamorphosis or Permanent/Irreversible Form is the ability to (usually involuntarily) assume a new form which is permanent in nature. One with this ability may become a hideous beast, a more mature version of oneself or (rarely) even a member of the opposite sex, but this form is permanent upon change. This ability can be used to start a new life as someone that no one knows, or the like. It is the perfect disguise mechanism, because the change matches the user’s traits, mannerisms and instinct to the creature they turn into and it is untraceable by anything short of DNA Reading.

•This ability can only be reversed by Biokinesis or other forms of extreme genetic tampering (such as Magic). Transformation is also another name for the normal version of Alternate Form.

Werebeast Form

• Werebeast Form, also called Werecreature Form, Therianthropic Form, Therianthropic Transformation or Therianthropy is the often-supernatural ability to assume the form of an animal and/or, more commonly, the anthropomorphic version of an animal (or the physical state of already being in that form). The most common examples include the following:

• Werecat Form, also called Ailuranthropic Form, Ailuranthropic Transformation or Ailuranthropy allows the user to assume the form of a cat/anthropomorphic cat (called a Werecat). This form allows superhuman speed, senses, agility, dexterity, awareness, regenerative capability, and perhaps Feline Omnilingualism (perhaps limited to the type of feline one resembles)

• Werefox Form, also called Alopecanthropic Form, Alopecanthropic Transformation or Alopecanthropy allows the user to assume the form of a fox/anthropomorphic fox (called a Werefox). This form allows superhuman strength, speed, senses, durability, stamina, regenerative capability, and perhaps Canine Omnilingualism (maybe even a specified variation limited to foxes or wild dogs).

• Werewolf Form, also called Lycanthropic Form, Lycanthropic Transformation or Lycanthropy allows the user to assume the form of a wolf/anthropomorphic wolf (a Werewolf). This form allows superhuman strength, speed, senses, durability, stamina, regenerative capability, and perhaps Canine Omnilingualism (maybe even a specified variation limited to wolves or wild dogs).

The animal form allows the abilities inherent to that animal, while the anthropomorphic form allows those abilities to be multiplied greatly. The transformation may be intentional (and may last as long as desired), or they may be brought about against the user’s will, by some phase of the moon (if so, they will instead last for as long as the moon is out). Obviously, other types of Therianthropy are possible, as other types of animals exist. This ability may be accompanied by Lunacy.