Revision history for BecomingATheri
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==The Short Version==
1) **Resonance** - Completely believe -- for at least that one critical moment, but generally on a more ongoing basis -- that you **are** (in some essential sense) the thing you wish to become.
This process does //not// require magical experience, although it does seem to be simplified by it -- there are more mages per capita among theris than the population at large (see TheriType for details).
The idea of "resonance" (#3) is fairly well approximated by "self-image," and it does require a reasonably specific target. So the main general rule for therianthropy is that you have to //want to be what you consider yourself to be,// and you have to have some idea of what that is. (Note that this process isn't specific to changing species -- although those shifts will certainly be the most dramatic changes.)
==After The First Change==
Once someone is already a theri, changing into their //existing// theri form is //much// simpler: see ShapeshiftingInTTU.
1) **Resonance** - Completely believe -- for at least that one critical moment, but generally on a more ongoing basis -- that you **are** (in some essential sense) the thing you wish to become.
This process does //not// require magical experience, although it does seem to be simplified by it -- there are more mages per capita among theris than the population at large (see TheriType for details).
The idea of "resonance" (#3) is fairly well approximated by "self-image," and it does require a reasonably specific target. So the main general rule for therianthropy is that you have to //want to be what you consider yourself to be,// and you have to have some idea of what that is. (Note that this process isn't specific to changing species -- although those shifts will certainly be the most dramatic changes.)
==After The First Change==
Once someone is already a theri, changing into their //existing// theri form is //much// simpler: see ShapeshiftingInTTU.
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Once someone is already a theri, changing into their //existing// theri form is much simpler: see ShapeshiftingInTTU.
