Hello!

[xp_chameleon]

Terry told me to introduce myself here, so here I am! My name's Jessie (just Jessie, not Jessica, I got into a shouting match with a teacher over this once. "No one name's their child just Jessie, Ms. Drake" well it's MY name and I chose it and it's NOT JESSICA and also who still calls their students Ms./Mr.? It was a small town public high school in the late 2010s, not a boarding school in the fifties), and I guess I live here now? I'm still not sure how that happened but man I'm going to save a FORTUNE on campus housing.

Hmn, what else... oh I'm a mutant, but I think everyone here is so that's not really newsworthy. I can't really do anything too flashy, I just change things on my body - like hair color, eye color, little things like that. So if you see me and suddenly my hair is the same color as yours, I swear I'm not making fun of you or anything, sometimes I just see something and think OH PRETTY and then my body decides it also wants to have that thing. I also have a bunch of tattoos that I can kind of move around, so if I want to just have one tattoo on my arm for a day or something, I can. I can't give myself new tattoos though which is a shame because that would be another small fortune I could save (I make up for that with never having to buy hair dye though).

I'm so bad at introductions idk, ask me questions! I know there are a lot of people here, I want to meet EVERYONE.

Comments

[xp_catseye]

Another shapeshifter?

This is interesting.

How voluntary/intentional is your shifting? Is it only cosmetic, or can you effect deeper changes to muscle mass, skeletal shape, etc? What about cartilage, for example ear and nose shape?

Also, I'm Sharon.

[xp_chameleon]

Hi! As far as I know it's just cosmetic, but I've never really tried to do more because what if I get stuck? I can change my ear and nose shapes to a point - idk how to explain it, though, I can't give myself cat ears for example (damn shame), but like... you know when people see a friend's kid and their like "aaawww he has your nose" or whatever? I had my dad's ears and nose. Now I have mom's.

It's... mostly voluntary? It happens involuntarily sometimes, but I can change things on my own. Hair is the easiest example - my natural color is blonde, but if I decide I want to have blue hair for a day, then bam, I've got blue hair. Everything resets when I go to bed though, so part of my morning routine is "okay let's tweak that nose, change the eye shape a little bit..." and so on.

[xp_catseye]

So you revert every night? This implies a default state. What if you get sick or injured? Is the form you revert to the one that had your father's features or your mother's?

I'm also working on cat ears. We should compare notes.

[xp_chameleon]

The one with my father's features. I was born looking more like him, but that ended up not being ideal for a few reasons. Taking on my mother's features was a pretty early thing that I didn't do on purpose, but I like the way I look way more now

[xp_catseye]

I respect the right to reinvent yourself.

The fact you revert to form is interesting to me. I have only four set forms, but once I'm in one it'll persist until I make an effort to shift out of it.

(While my fetal ultrasound indicates I might have a baseline form, it's not the one people think.)

[xp_chameleon]

Oh, what do you do? I never even asked!

[xp_catseye]

I'm an ailuromoprh. I may become a housecat, a big cat, a human, and a secret fourth thing.

[xp_wildchild]

Yeah, and when that 4th thing stops being a secret you'll add a secret 5th thing until we get to

I mean it feels poetical to stop at nine, right?

[xp_catseye]

I meant the shape which has no convenient name, but the prospect of nine forms is appealing.

I should set this as a goal with Kevin Sydney.