The Family for the Whole Family
What do you do when you need some big, tough guys to menace the heroes, but don't want to risk having them actually, you know, hurt anybody? You call in The Family for the Whole Family. They're not the scary, competent, make-it-look-like-an-accident mobsters seen in Mafia movies; they're the harmless, ineffectual, and very, very stupid mobsters that are a staple of family-oriented comedies. No matter how many of them are in their group, you can be sure of two things: there will only be one shared gun among them (if they thought to pack any weapons at all), and they'll always forget that there's a trigger on it when they want to threaten someone, rarely having any Plan B in case
Bemoaning The New Body
Shapeshifting can have a vast variety of outcomes for people. And in many cases, transformed characters can find those outcomes rather unappealing.
Why certain forms are disliked can include:
Your new form looks uglier than your original form, or at least a lot scarier-looking. Your new form is or resembles a demographic group that many are prejudiced against in the setting. Your new form resembles a particular individual people dislike. You went through a
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