God this Empathic Shapeshifting thing is hitting so many of the right buttons for me, and I think it has less to do with the concept itself being good, and more with just… where I am in my life now.
I used to be a people-pleaser, changing myself for my company, not for their benefit or my own, but so I’d be kept around, stay in good graces. I buried the parts of me I thought people wouldn’t like, wouldn’t appreciate, and it made me bitter, hollow. So on the surface of it, making my whole schtick “I change for the people I love” almost sounds like a return- but the difference is right there, isn’t it: I change for the people I love.
Each form feels tailored to the feelings and the joys they bring me- A big, goofy dragon for some, a sweet, cuddly canine for others, a soft, gentle dragoness for others- forms ever-changing not out of obligation, but to find new and wonderful ways to express myself, to express how I feel, how I love. Who knows what else I have in me, what more I’ll learn from both my company and myself? It’s many new horizons as of late, and I hope to approach them with enthusiasm…