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[MrRoboto75]

I vote for the super fucking

[Egan_BW]

The world desperately needs a superhero to get society on the same page on where we actually are as a civilization. Or supervillain. Or super fucking something, fuck you, get with the fucking times

I personally think that it's bad when bad people do bad things,and would be worse if said bad people also had magical abilities. Considering that have very reasonable reason to object to your idea, it is a controversial idea and you lose 1 imaginary internet point.

[EuchreJack]

We already have a supervillain, his name is Putin.

+1

[Scoops Novel]

We already have a supervillain, his name is Putin.

+1

Trash. This is exactly the shit I'm talking about. Where's my sexy killer robots Putin? No style.

[Egan_BW]

*sighs*

Shoo. Unless you've got something trivial and uninteresting to say, why are you in my nice uncontroversial ideas thread?

[chaotic skies]

I like to consume food that tastes good to me.

[Eric Blank]

Being a shape-shifter would be rad as hell tbh

[EuchreJack]

Vampires are supersoldiers.

[Frumple]

Eh... a fair amount are remarkably puny, though. Not getting into some of the stuff actually living called vampire, some of which are literally microscopic, heh.

Being a shape-shifter would be rad as hell tbh

Could be, would be the uncontroversial formulation. Some shapeshifters are staggeringly unrad

[Egan_BW]

I wanna be a fleshhorror.

[Frumple]

It's less the flesh horror part that's unrad as the screaming misery part. It's fairly... common isn't the right word, but something between it and unsurprising but uncommon... in depictions for the process to be intensely unpleasant for the critter doing the shifting. That'd be pretty unrad. You want one of the rad versions without that

[Egan_BW]

Past a certain point it's difficult to tell but IMO The Thing and the Carrion beast prolly don't feel pain from shifting. Once you're at the point where you're casually growing body parts as part of movement that's likely not to be an issue.

[Frumple]

Sure, they're probably one of the rad(-ish) ones that don't have that problem. You want the radish shifters, for they're rad and presumably delicious.

[Egan_BW]

Got any examples of something which you'd define as a flesh horror (as opposed to more standardized/limited shapeshifters such as werewolves) where being one isn't rad?

[Frumple]

Eh... not off the top of my head? I've read it before several times, somewhere, but I read voraciously enough it can be incredibly difficult to pinpoint where that somewhere is if I haven't read it fairly recently.

The most common formulation I've seen like that is where turning into it is pretty involuntary, and utilizing the effect is intensely, just-let-me-die, painful (or otherwise deeply unsettling, like wild dysmorphia, major coordination problems, etc.). Where it's basically just a straight up deformation or curse for whatever poor bastard is stuck like that, particularly if the writer is leaning hard into the body horror angle and not in the slasher gorn sense.

There's one I'm forgetting the name of I'm pretty sure involved slowly breaking every bone in every limb that changed shape, ferex, and the poor sod felt every moment of it. Stuff like that. Just take your average shapeshifting fleshblob, then add crippling pain, poor functionality (slow, lack of detail, etc.), and major psychological issues (most/all shapes feeling very, very wrong, ferex), and you have your extremely un-rad shapeshifter.