Time for something fun!

[untilavalon]

Need a little pick me up? Or just feel like playing something really stupid? It's time for a meme.

The Magical Swap Meme
or the 'oops, you done fucked up' meme

courtesy of Luc*

Directions

1. Post your character with the name/canon in the subject meme. In your comment, put your preferences such as, "I don't want to do prompt #1" or "for the gender swap prompt, [character] will look like [this]" or "for the age swap prompt, my character will be 5 years younger".


2. Tag each other and have fun.

Prompts

• Body Swap: Holy shit. You're looking at yourself like you're looking in a mirror. The only problem is, when you're looking down at your own hands... you're in someone else's body.


• Gender Swap: Well, this is new; you're now no longer in the right body, but it's still yours. Were you always a girl? You sure weren't yesterday. Of course, this is probably another one of the city's tricks; no point in getting all up in arms about it, is there?


• Age Swap: Are you starting to see a pattern here? Now you're younger-- or older-- than you were a little while ago. Who're you going to bug about your height now?


• Canon Swap: Your entire history is different now. Suddenly, you're a homestuck. Or maybe you're an elf. Or perhaps you're not even switching canons with the person you're threading with. What's the damage?


• Power Swap:...Like the one above, but with powers instead of canons.


• Moral Alignment Swap: Suddenly, you're evil as hell. Or maybe you're really good now. Or maybe your moral alignment is "eh /non-commital wiggly hand gesture". I don't make the rules here, bucko.


• Luc, you didn't include this swap I wanted to do!: Well look at you, you have a bigger imagination than I do. What are you waiting for? Swap it. Just swap it. Do it, before it's too late.
  

You now have four minutes to save the world.**

*If it's a bad meme, it wasn't my idea.
**You do not have four minutes to save the world. In fact, there's really no point in worrying about world saving right now.

Comments

[oncedevil]

[He really is a goat! Look at him go. But Dante can't waste too much time watching, so he's hot on the devil's heels, hopping up rocks nearly as gracefully. He's had a lot of practice you see.]

[superstylishsquid]

*He leads Dante to a shallow cave that narrows to a small tunnel, most likely a very old animal den that's weathered away into a wide cave.*

This should work.

[oncedevil]

[That'll definitely do the trick.]

Good find. Go on, I've got the door.

[He'll duck in after Alastor and plant himself on the ground closest to the entrance. Yes he's guarding it, shut up.]

[superstylishsquid]

*He's not commenting. In fact, he's going to drop the lion carcass inside the cafe, then tear a chunk of rock out of the wall to plug up the tunnel.*

So we're going to stay here until I can look like a human?

[oncedevil]

Woah, geeze!

[Dante's quick to skitter out of the way because holy crap, dude.]

Careful! You'll bring the place down on us.

[Huff huff. Not a fan of being crushed to death okay.]

Yeah, once you've got it down we can go back to town.

[superstylishsquid]

It wasn't supporting any weight. And I wanted to block the hole, just in case.

*This kid's even more paranoid than you, Dante.*

Do you look like humans?

[oncedevil]

[But now they have no escape .A. Oh well, it'll do. It's not like he can't break through it after all.]

Yeah, white hair doesn't blend in so well, though. So you might wanna pick something else.

[superstylishsquid]

*It was too small for them to crawl through easily, anyway.*

Can I keep black?

[oncedevil]

[Even so! Feeling a bit claustrophobic here, but he'll be alright.]

Yeah, that'll work fine.

[superstylishsquid]

*One entrance is easier to watch.*

Alright. ...Do I have to make my eyes not glow?

[oncedevil]

[That's true.]

Yeah, yeah you do. Humans don't have glowing eyes. Or claws, tails, or hooves.

[superstylishsquid]

*He sits down, stares at Dante, for a moment, then closes his eyes. Getting rid of the horns and shortening his nails is easy, that's not changing any of the actual body structure. The fur goes away quickly too. Then he opens his eyes and looks at Dante's legs, then at his own.*

I need to get rid of joints?

[oncedevil]

[The staring makes him a little uncomfortable, but he gets why. So far so good, the demon's starting to be able to pass for human. Well not really but close.]

Uh... Here, I don't know.

[Okay fine, he huffs and kicks off a shoe, rolling up a pant leg so Alastor can get a look at how human legs and feet are built. Well this is one of the weirdest evenings he's ever spent.]

[superstylishsquid]

Oh, I see!

*He doesn't get rid of any joints, but a visible effort of concentration changes the proportions so that his leg looks more like a human's. His hooves soften into toes...but there's only four of them.*

Um...is it okay if the feet aren't quite right?

[oncedevil]

We'll get you some shoes.

[That'll solve that problem. But the features still aren't quite right.]

You're a little tall for a six-year old.

[superstylishsquid]

How tall should I be?

*Next he'll handle the eyes, which takes real effort. He's not going to be able to keep them not glowing while he uses magic real magic...also, might wanna tell him that humans don't have red eyes.*

[oncedevil]

Uhhh...

[He holds a hand up at what he thinks is roughly the height of a kid. You're going to need to lose a foot or two.]

And dude, red eyes aren't in style. I'd go for brown.

[Or a similarly dark color.]

[superstylishsquid]

*The eyes change to a dark brown and he shrinks, ending up roughly three feet tall. That just leaves the wings, tail, fangs and purple skin. And learning he can't manage round ears.*

This feels weird...

[oncedevil]

[Height's good, eyes are good, overall form is good, minus the really demonic bits. Gotta work on those wings and that tail, those would be too hard to hide.]

Hah, I bet. And you're not even all the way there yet. Think you can get any further? Maybe nix the tail?

[Might be the easiest bit.]

[superstylishsquid]

*He shifts uncomfortably a bit before focusing again. The tail shrivels and dissolves, leaving him looking highly uncomfortable.*

I don't like it...

[oncedevil]

[You are a fish out of water, Alastor.]

You're looking good. Wings?

[It's going to be a push, he knows, but maybe... And idly, Dante pulls off his coat, takes the guns out of their holsters to keep by his side, then tosses it the demon's way. Might be a bit uncomfortable in human skin, he doesn't really know.]

[superstylishsquid]

*He catches it, blinks, then notices it's thicker than his now fairly soft, if still purple, skin.*

I don't like walking...

*He sulks a bit, but takes a deep breath and the wings also shrivel and evaporate. He's breathing a bit heavily, but he now looks more like some strange type of dark elf than an actual demon.*

[oncedevil]

[Yes, humans have to protect their hides.]

I know, man, but you're not gonna blend in at all looking like bat boy.

[It's an improvement? He's almost passable, get that purple mellowed out a bit and they can use a hat to deal with those ears. It'll have to do. Except the poor thing looks exhausted.]

You alright? Take a break if you need it.

[superstylishsquid]

I'm getting hungry again...

*He tries to get up to walk over to the lion carcass...but ends up just falling flat on his face.*

Oof!

[oncedevil]

[He can't manage to hold back the laugh of surprise at seeing the poor kid faceplant, but man that's also kind of pathetic. Okay, okay, stay there.

He scrambles over to help him back to his feet.]

I can see we're gonna need some practice.