Shapeshifter Showdown: Difference between revisions

When two shapeshifters fight, the only thing holding them back is their imagination and the versatility of their shape shifting abilities. Two similarly gifted shape shifters can play a deadly escalating game of Cat and Mouse [[Escalating War|and Dog and Cougar]] and [[Metaphorgotten|Manticore and Phoenix]] until one is finally outwitted and defeated by a form they just can't counter. Indeed, this is pretty much the ''only'' way for a shapeshifter'''Shapeshifter duelShowdown''' to end. When compared to a normal fight, and even ignoring the [[Healing Factor]] issue, using blunt force trauma to win seems passe and overly prosaic. The winner is not necessarily the one who manages to get the biggest form; wits are more useful than brute force.

This is a recurring theme in myths and folklore, and is at least [[Older Than Print]]; folklorists call it a "[[transformation chase]]". There are a number of Celtic ballads, in particular, where a suitor pursues his chosen bride through a series of forms before she consents to marry.