Building a better werewolf: shifting (2)

(this whole thing that I'm about to post was not made by me full credit to admin angel from the werewolf shifters amino I highly recommend checking it out )

(I do not personally agree with everything but its a good start point for people)

THE DONTs and THE DOUCHBAGS

The Blackout Beast:

starting with the major player for misconception, as well as a tell - tale sign of a fraudulent claim, is what we will call the `blackout shift. what this is , is a story we all seen before. the narrative goes a little like this......."I woke up (insert outdoor location) coverd in blood(or dirt) with my clothes torn(or naked) and no idea how i got there!" there are usually some minor variables like it was a full moon or weird dreams invold. now, therefore such a story is ALWAYS fiction. any older, seasoned shifter is going to tell you....... shifting SUCKS. its painful, scary, dangerous, and very stressfull both physically and mentally. there is NO SCENARIO where you are going to shift in your sleep. period. thats the equivalent of slleeping through someone pouring acid all over your body. its simply not going to happen.

Spinning a Spell:

Another, but less frequent claim, is the shifting spell. This comes in two major forms. The spell for triggering a shift and the spell to be turned. Both are dudes. Shifting takes a tremendous amount of energy, so the idea you can expend even ore energy into a spell off google (or some social platform like tumblr) in order to trick your body into shifting is going to be a dead end. This will easpetially fail if you are still going through puberty, which we will discuss later. As for the turning spell, i touched on this topic briefly before but allow me to expand upon why turning spells do not work.

Consider how such a spell would have to be designed. Magic would be used to force a living creature on a moleculaqr level that goes against the True inherent nature of the subject. As I have said many times. A bird is not a fish. So in order to force such a thing, and i say force because it is not as nature intends, the amount of energy needed would be astronomical. No witch, magic user, supernatural, or even a group of said beings, possesses that amount of energy. Now in a pure HYPOTHETICAL scenario, lets say such an energy source were avaliable. Lets adress the aftermath. You are taking a living creature, stripping it of its nature and remaking it with an assumption of how new creature should tick in a biological way. Now the most likely outcome is the subject is going to dir. Bing bang boom, dead as a doornail. Simply beacause to the sheer trauma hapenning. So, lets assume for a moment the subject DOESNT die right out of the gate. The body is going to identify the rearragment as a foreignthing and start to attack itself. Much like a failed organ transplant or autoimmune disease. The body is going to start rejecting itself and lead to organ faliure. And lets not forget the mental trauma. Forcing a human to become a dual natured creature. One of the reasons we go through supernatural puberty is so we can adapt for what we are to be. This includes mental conditioning. Forcing a subject into a dual nature WILL drive them mad. So here we have a subjects body attacting itself, no sense of identuty, and onslaught of newfound madness until inevitable death. Fun times. Because not only is this subject going to die, they are going to die a slow, painful death while going mad.

Gives a pretty clear picture on why these things do not exist and cannot work with any degree of success.

 Alternative Shifts:

This is a concept that is pretty prevalent amongst therian communities and has bled over into the shifter community through the years. There are some therians that are very disbelieving of physical shifting and like to take on the title of werewolf for themselves. As such they adopted ideas of `shifting' without truely shifting. These are identified as mental shift, phantom shift, and astral shift. None of these however are legitimate shifts among the world of shifters.

Here's why

Mental shifting is the idea that one is shifting their personality/behavior to said they lay claim to. The problem with this is they are going based on an assumption of said animal's behavior. Mental shifting into a wolf persona is not going to cause anger issues or ravenous hunger urges or anything of that sort. Because these are not specific wolf behaviors. Mental shift is playing pretend. It is imagining what said creature is like based on preconceived notions.

Phantom shifting is a slightly newer idea. It is the belief that one can feel a tail or animal ears or something of the sort. This too is omaginary. You would first have to possess said attribute in order to know how it would actually feel. This is a spin on phantom limb syndrome, which happens with the removal of previously existing limb. so, unless you have physical wolf ears and tail that were chopped off you are not going to experience this.  

And finally, Astral. The thing about this is it is changing form on the astral plane. Anyone who knows even the bare minimum of astral is going to know that nothing on the stral plane is corporeal. That means there is nothing physical. Which in turn means you have no physical form.

(work in progress)