The Size-Shifting Meme

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The Size-Shifting Meme

This meme is for playing out everything where one party is a different size than the other. All configurations are welcome!

Shrinking and growing are popular themes in movies, comics, tv shows, and even in classic stories such as Alice in Wonderland, Gulliver’s Travels, and ancient mythologies. The large and the strong are usually treated with respect, while the small and the weak are not; height and physical strength are tied in to power dynamics. So when a character changes size, it changes their outlook on the world, and it more often than not changes other's outlook on them.

How they view themselves and how others view them, and the resulting actions and reactions are dependent on several factors. What kind of person were they before, and whether or not their personality will differ significantly with a loss or addition of power. Was the change intentional or not? If so, what were their motives? Can the change be reversed? Do they or others even want it to be reversed?

How to Play
•Comment with your character and your preferences, and be sure to include information about your character's original height, and what height they’ve transformed to.
•Comment to others.
•Use the RNG to determine prompts or just go with the flow.

Cause Prompts
1.) Science Experiment (Shrink / Growth Ray, Medicinal Side Effect, Nuclear / Cosmic Radiation, Evolutionary / Genetic Mutation)
2.) Magic of a Higher Power
3.) Inter-Stellar, Inter-Dimensional Differences
4.) Altered Reality

Size Prompts
1.) Microscopic ( Less than 1mm )
2.) Bug ( 1mm to 1” )
3.) Action Figure ( 1” to 1’ )
4.) Doll ( 1’ to 3’ )
5.) Kid ( 3’ to 4’ )
6.) Short ( 4’ to 5’5” )
7.) Tall ( 6’5” to 8’ )
8.) Giant ( 8’ to 20’ )
9.) King Kong ( 20’ to 100’ )
10.) Mr. Stay Puft ( 100’ to 400’ )
11.) Godzilla ( 400’ to 500’ )
12.) Titan ( 500’ to 3000’ )
13.) God ( 3000’ to 1 mile )
14.) Celestial ( Larger than 1 mile )

Prompts
1.) Growth Spurt: All of your friends and/or significant other seem to be getting taller, bigger, and stronger but you’ve somehow missed out and remain the same. Or on the contrary, perhaps you went on a trip and return home/to school/to work to find you’ve outgrown everyone else.
2.) Born This Way: This isn’t a new thing for you, you’ve always been smaller or bigger, it’s everyone else you encounter who needs to get used to it.
3.) Villainous Plot: A villain has shrunk you for some nefarious reason. Perhaps you’re a damsel in distress waiting for a hero to save you, or perhaps you’re the hero and found yourself brought down to size by the villain, or you could just be an innocent bystander who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or on the contrary, you’re the villain and you’ve found a way to make yourself into a powerful giant, or perhaps you’ve found a way to shrink your heroic nemesis. Either way, you’re large and in charge at last.
4.) Ongoing: You’ve not only shrunk/grown, you’re still shrinking/growing. Just how small/tall will you get?
5.) Everyday Life: How does your smaller/larger size impact your day-to-day life? Are you having to shop for clothes in the kids’ section? Can you fit inside your house? How about work and school? Is the media hounding you? Are scientists wanting to run tests on you?
6.) Friends and Family: How are those closest to you handling your new size, and how are you handling being around them now?
7.) Romance: Is your significant other still in love with you? Or if you don’t have a special someone, will you be able to find someone who can see past your size and love you for you?
8.) Fantastic Voyage: You (and probably others) intentionally shrank down to take an internal tour of the human body and find some mysterious ailment inside a world leader before it’s too late to save them.
9.) Kaiju War: You were intentionally grown to fight the giant monsters that are plaguing your world.
10.) Secret Agent Man: A new form of espionage, spies like you shrink down to access areas regular sized people are locked out of and get information undetected.
11.) It's A Living: Being so tall and strong, you've found yourself the center of a lot of job offers; construction, military, advertising, entertainment industry, firefighter, police officer are just a few.
10.) Unforeseen Side-Effects: Perhaps the shrinking process left you with super strength. Or the growth process had a detrimental effect on your mental capabilities and now you’re a cannibalistic giant. Either way, more than a sudden change in size has happened to you.
11.) Unaware: Suddenly finding yourself smaller can be daunting, but without anyone knowing you’re down here can be downright dangerous. Or on the contrary, perhaps you are the one that’s unaware of a smaller person or people in your midst.
12.) Downsizing: Shrinking is simply the newest trend. Whether you want to live like a tiny billionaire, or your goal is to reduce your ecological footprint (and your real one too).
13.) Wild Card

Comments

Eren Jaeger | Shingeki no Kyojin

[preciousbrat]

(the big one)

Logan / Wolverine | Marvel | m/m

[adamantiumbub]

[ Big or Small ]

Rocket | MCU

[furrylittlebeast]

[ Could play up the fact he's smaller than most everyone, or could make him bigger. ]

Robb Stark | Game of Thrones | m/m

[lonedirewolf]

[ Big or Small depending on muse ]

maybe mixing GoT and Disney isn't most sane of me, but I always wanted to? Any prompt preferences?

[wouldilietoyou]

[lonedirewolf]

[ I'm flexible, though I'm afraid I'm completely canon-blind on your muse ]

no problem! Also we can AU this to Westeros if you wanna, I'm familiar enough (watched 6 seasons,

[wouldilietoyou]

(reading "Dance with Dragons" rn :) Anyway, I'm going to bed soon, I'll write a starter tomorrow, just didn't want to ignore. /ooc]

[lonedirewolf]

[ Okay, Westeros I suppose works, if you have a starter in mind by all means :) ]

Peter Quill | MCU | m/m

[moonage_daydreamer]

[ voice-testing. Big or Small ]

Steve Rogers / Captain America | MCU | m/m

[oldschoolsoldier]

[ Big or Small depending on muse, voice-testing ]

Raleigh | Pacific Rim | m/m

[rally_becket]

[ Big or Small depending on muse ]

Wolfgang | Sense8 | m/m

[safe_cracker]

[ Big or Small ]

Slade Wilson / Deathstroke | Arrowverse | m/m

[sladewilson]

[ Big or Small ]

Dean Winchester | Supernatural | m/m

[unmarkedman]

[ Big or Small ]

Oliver Queen / Green Arrow | Arrowverse | m/m

[something_else]

[ Big or Small depending on muse ]

Chibi-Usa | Sailor Moon

[justcantwaittobe]

[saint_sami]

(OoC: Would you like Chibiusa to be the one affected or would you like Sasami here to be the affected?)

we can go with either... oh, I guess I should choose. ok, then, maybe Chibi? or both if you wanna

[justcantwaittobe]

[The daimon's power was really annoying. Especially since even after beating it, she was still... still too small!]

[How could she do anything when she was no bigger than a cat? No offence to Diana, Luna, or Artemis, naturally.]

[she doesn't transform back for now. This is too embarassing, she doesn't need to transfer that embarassment onto her daily life, too. What if anybody sees her.]

[Oh. Too late.]

[she instictively yells, afraid she might get stomped on accident. Though, maybe not. People don't step on cats. Normal people at least.]

We'll go with both!

[saint_sami]

Watch out!

[Sasami had dove at Chibi, getting her out of the way of the unsuspecting human. This was really embarrassing indeed. She had been one of the daimon's random victims and she still hadn't returned to normal, even with Chibi-Moon's victory.

She only hoped that it would wear off soon. There would be no way she could explain this right now. At least not without her sister chewing her out.]

That was close... are you okay?

[justcantwaittobe]

Yes!

[she's instinctively back in battle mode already, but...]

Sasami, you too? You're still small?! I really should call Sailor Moon.

[saint_sami]

Yes, I am... but, do you think she’ll be able to help?

[justcantwaittobe]

"She will, I'm sure!"

Maybe she often bickered with her psuedo big sister/future Mom, but Chibi-Usa still had an utter faith in her. Faith that there was nothing Sailor Moon couldn't make possible.

"Let's go. Ooh, I just hope it won't hurt. Much."

Varian | Tangled TV series

[wouldilietoyou]

Hibiki Shikyoin ♔ Idol Time PriPara

[priforprince]

[ Small would be funnier. ]