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  • Like, for The Moonlight Mistress I knew wolves were a symbol of the wild, but linking the shapechanging idea to the human characters sank into my my mind gradually, influenced by something a transgendered woman had once told me about feeling she was a real-life shapechanger.

    Musings on Discovering/Implementing Theme in The Moonlight Mistress Victoria Janssen 2010

  • And in both cases, the wily shapechanger tries to fool the children by taking the form of their father.

    Archive 2008-07-01 2008

  • And Kate completely deserved that after she decided to try to get the most powerful shapechanger in the region - who turns into a gigantic lion - to come out by calling 'Here kitty, kitty, kitty.'

    Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books Kristen 2010

  • And Kate completely deserved that after she decided to try to get the most powerful shapechanger in the region - who turns into a gigantic lion - to come out by calling 'Here kitty, kitty, kitty.'

    Archive 2010-03-01 Kristen 2010

  • If it's presented to the reader with no explanation, has the writer thought through the implications of choosing to make a jaguar shapechanger white?

    Paranormal Appropriation Victoria Janssen 2009

  • Actually, most powers are either physical, or can be reproduced physically, which means that a shapechanger can duplicate it.

    Cute Promotion | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • _The chameleon has also come to Apia, in search of another shapechanger, but things are dull.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • It hadn't occurred to them that they were looking for a shapechanger.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • It was one of the subtler powers of a shapechanger, to make his flesh as thin and sharp and strong as razors, to insinuate his being into whatever fault might present itself and swell in those cracks to split them wider.

    Mercadian Masques Lebaron, Francis 1999

  • I became more Shivetya, pulling away from the point experience of tracking the shapechanger.

    Water Sleeps Cook, Glen 1999

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