35 uses for shapeshifting powers

October 29, 2022 0 By Cartwheel

DISCLAIMER: None of this article is meant to be serious or offensive. Don’t take any of the items seriously. But feel free to let it spark your creativity or inspire shapeshifter characters! You may use the shapeshifting system or ideas without credit. Do not quote anything directly, because that is plagiarism, and that is bad. Thank you.

Shapeshifting Capabilities/Limits

In this article, I’m assuming that shapeshifting power consists of these limits and capabilities.

  • The transformation is instantaneous and painless
  • The transformation takes a slight amount of energy
    • If you undergo many repetitive transformations, you will feel fatigued and eventually, once brought to your limit (based on your energy/endurance), fall unconscious.
  • You can transform back and forth at any time
  • You can turn into any animal
    • Undetectable by other animals or magic spells
    • You can speak the animal’s “language”
    • You have all the physical capabilities of the animal
    • You have the mental capabilities of your own brain
  • You can turn into any person you’ve seen before
    • You don’t have their memories
    • You have their physical capabilities
    • You have the mental aspects and capabilities of your own brain
  • You can turn into an imaginary person…
    • that has only the amount of detail you imagine them having
    • This takes more energy than an animal transformation
  • You cannot turn into a person you haven’t seen before
  • You cannot turn into imaginary or extinct creatures

35 Uses For Shapeshifting Powers

(Click here to skip down to my favorite items on the list, or begin reading below!)

  1. Impersonate a famous singer and instantly have an amazing voice! This also applies to artists, actors, musicians, and athletes, because you will gain their physical capabilities.
  2. Be a security bug – turn into a bug and discreetly watch for suspicious activity, transforming back instantly to scare a burglar that comes in.
  3. Turn into a cool cat – Cats are amazing because they are incredibly flexible and always land on their feet. Use your nine lives as a cat to do crazy things you couldn’t do before!
  4. Turn into your favorite animal and experience being the creature you love.
  5. Speak an animal’s language and make incredible scientific breakthroughs on what animals are saying and how they communicate.
  6. Transform into a tree-climbing animal and be able to climb trees easily.
  7. Turn into a duck and be able to swim, fly, and walk on land!
  8. Turn into an octopus so you can multitask better with all your arms (as well as being incredibly squishy and flexible)!
  9. Scare your friends as a spider!
  10. Hop as a kangaroo – they can jump 10 feet into the air, compared to the human jump height of about 2 feet.
  11. Swim with dolphins – but you’re part of the pod!
  12. Turn into a cheetah and run at incredible speeds!
  13. Become a falcon and fly as high as the clouds! Plus you can swoop, squawk, and dive.
  14. Impersonate someone and use it to spy on their friends and family! (this is a joke)
  15. Transform into a reef fish and be able to dart through the coral mazes with your fishy friends.
  16. Turn into an ant and experience lifting an object up to 50 times your weight!
  17. Turn into a bat and have a hands-on echolocation lesson.
  18. Turn into a species and discreetly observe it to get a close-up look at the animal’s behavior, interactions, diet, noises, appearance, and movements.
  19. Become a model – turn into an animal and pose for artists to reference!
  20. Prank someone by shapeshifting into the person in front of them.
  21. Transform into a monkey and swing through the jungle with ease.
  22. Embarrass a mean celebrity or authoritative figure by impersonating them and making a stupid proclamation on public TV! You could also use this to sign bills to change important laws. (Again, this is a joke)
  23. Turn into a hen and raise tiny, fluffy baby chicks.
  24. Populate bees and pollinate flowers – turn into a bee and help pollinate flowers, increase the dying bee population, and be part of a hive!
  25. Shapeshift into coral and help make more coral to save coral reefs. I’m not sure if this is how this works. I do not have a degree in marine science.
  26. Lead a pack of lions, roar like a beast, and run like a lioness.
  27. Turn into a fly and slip into very small spaces to eavesdrop on conversations
  28. Become a rescue dog in an emergency and sniff out injured people.
  29. Turn into a pigeon and deliver messages. Just because. Or pretend to be pecking at the ground stupidly, but actually be listening in on the nearest conversation.
  30. Become a surveillance bird – fly around with a camera on your head and a tracker on your ankle, surveying the ground, picking up topographic data, and exploring the surroundings.
  31. Transform into a blue whale – experience being the BIGGEST animal on earth!
  32. Become a grizzly bear and immerse yourself in forest life by catching fish, sleeping in a den, and eating berries for dinner.
  33. Discreet guard – ride on someone’s shoulder as a flea, then transform back into a human if they are attacked and get advantage on the attacker.
  34. Scare bullies as a snake – stand up for little kids being bullied by wrapping your scaly skin around a mean kid’s face!
  35. Be an educational animal – take up a job at the petting zoo and let kids get close up to different amazing animals, like lions, bees, monkeys, wolves, swans, and more.

Chickabird’s Favorite Ideas

  • Help pollinate as a bee. You could pollinate flowers, and this would help plants and the earth thrive. You could even turn into a queen bee, and help increase the dying bee population. I love this idea because you get to be part of a giant hive, while also saving the earth.
  • Become a rescue dog. The world always needs more rescue dogs to sniff out injured people in an emergency. You’d be a national hero! This also applies to swimming animals who would be able to quickly rescue drowning children.
  • Impersonate a famous singer, musician, or athlete. It would be so cool to have a wrestler’s strength, a singer’s voice, or a piano player’s muscle memory, just for one day! You’d get to experience many unique talents.
  • Turn into a cool cat. Cats are amazing because they are incredibly flexible and always land on their feet. You would be able to use your nine lives as a cat to do crazy things you couldn’t do before!
  • Be an educational animal. You could take up a job at the petting zoo and let kids get close up to different amazing animals, like lions, bees, monkeys, wolves, swans, and more. It would teach them about our natural world and provide and incredible hands-on lesson. The only issue with this one would be that if kids encountered dangerous animals in the wild that they had met domestically before, they wouldn’t know the proper procedures, like how to scare away an aggressive bear. They wouldn’t be as scared of some animals as they should be.

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Squeeze into small spaces and use many arms as an octopus
Help save the earth by pollinating flowers as a bee
Maybe the spinner dolphin in the middle is a human in disguise…
Lead a lion pack with the heart of a fierce beast. Run like a lioness. Shake out your mane.
Connect with other animals, like this peacock and squirrel having a heart-to-heart.
If a shapeshifter was a mother hen, they could raise tiny, baby chicks while being small and fluffy themselves.

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