Shaun looked up at me with curiosity, but before he could say anything I was walking away thinking of how to get a shape shifting ability by using my power on someone.
Now, more than ever, I wanted to fix this place. The only good people I've met have been enduring constant torture for far too long...
"Hey, I don't know your name but would you rather grant me the ability of shape shifting or shape shifting?" I turned around and asked a random classmate. It wasn't the smartest way of doing it, but... I couldn't think of anything that would work.
The girl I turned to looked very confused at first but then answered with, "That's a really hard question, I think the second option is better though, the first is just weird." She gave a sarcastic joke answer, but my power doesn't care about sarcastic joke answers... It really is that easy huh...
"Hey one more thing, would you rather forget we had this conversation or get hit in the face later by a random object." My question sounded more like a threat, no, it was a threat so her face was understandably concerned.
"Ok your taking this too far, do you think this actually does something or what?" She looked at me like I was crazy, which was fair, but I had to make sure that no information slipped, if she told her friends it could spread, which would be bad for my mental health, and could also lead to my power being found out quicker, which I definitely didn't want.
"Sorry, I like to ask everyone that to see how they react, so, which one would you choose." I normally was not at all this sociable, maybe this power was helping me with that at least.
"Ugh- fine, I'd go with the first option and forge...- what were we talking about again?"
"Oh, I was just talking to myself, sorry." I answered the best I could, hoping that it would work. And of course it did, someone with amnesia probably wouldn't think too paranoid, people forget what other people say all the time, or just think they were being talked too... Anyways, it worked, which a part of me is still waiting for it to eventually stop but you have to take some risks, sorry, a lot of risks, to complete change in the world sometimes.
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Slowly but surely I've been thinking of ways to test my power, and one of them, is making up my own hidden conditions in the choices people make, the problem is, I'm pretty sure if they talk about exactly how they would want a fire power for example, it would change it, because, what they say then changes reality, so it would make sense for it to go past the initial "would you rather," question, and of course, you probably couldn't change anything too big, or at least I hope. I'll have to test it out more.
Well, enough of the inner monologue and explanation of my thoughts, I now have the ability to shape shift, and my hidden condition for it, and the way I wanted it, is exactly the way it was given to me. (Percent of Proxy's understanding about their ability: 58%) I now could Shape shift into any variation of human genetically possible, "And why did I limit myself to just humans?" You may ask. Well, It's quite simple, I have no idea if my mind would stay the same if I changed into a dog for example, and of course, I could just say, "Make it work like how most media depicts shape shifting into animals," but even then I'd like to stay human for now and I have no idea if that would actually work. Even with the limit to humans, I have no idea if I'll be the same, which is why... I just tested it and found out lol.
Almost like video cutting from one frame to another, my transformation took hold immediately, I could feel my body as if it were the one I was always born with, but I still felt like this wasn't exactly me, and I understood exactly what my base form was or I guess normal form, as a way to secure myself back to my body. My options now opened up ten fold, I could do practically as much testing as I wanted and my social standing wouldn't drop to the point where everyone thinks I'm weird.
And so... Standing in the middle of a school bathroom, hoping no one noticed that my face shape now took the appearance of Mr.clean. I had even more hope bubble through me. The second tool for change, is well, change to my appearance. And for the persona of someone who asks would you rather questions that alter reality?.... I haven't figured it out yet. But! It's going to be great, just trust me.
I reverted my face back to normal, but it still looked a little weird because I was smiling so much. It was honestly a little scary seeing myself outwardly showing my emotions so much. But hey, at least excitement was better than pain.