A list of questions I have for shapeshifters
-Can you change your brain/other organs?
-If you can change organs, if you had lung cancer, could you shift your lungs to lungs that don’t have cancer?
-What parts of your body do and don’t count as the shapes you can shift?
-Can you change your braincells?
To any shapeshifters that may be on this website or just to people who know a lot about them
1. All lifeforms are shapeshifters. None of us stay the exact same shape our whole life; even moving our limbs is technically shapeshifting.
2. Some have more control over outward appearance than others, however. Color-changing lizards and especially the mimic octopus are some of the most successful disguise-centered shapeshifters. However, they can’t use their power to do things like cure cancer in their organs; it’s limited to the outer parts of their form.
3. If any shapeshifters had the ability to change their internal organs, we would never know about it. Learning to use this power without destroying the organs would be a steep learning curve, and even one mistake would kill them. So if there are any shapeshifters who ever discovered they possessed that ability, they are probably counted under the statistic of “sudden unexplained deaths due to organ failure.”
4. These points, however, address only innate shapeshifting abilities originating within the body itself. Shapeshifting with the help of external devices (i.e. surgery; hormone therapy) is very successful and can permanently, and with relative safety, alter both inner and outer body parts. Those who have tried it tend to recommend it highly.