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, their worldview changes (literally and figuratively), and it often changes other's outlook on them.

How they view themselves and how others view them, and the resulting actions and reactions, is dependent on several factors. What kind of person were they before, and whether 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, 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 and/or 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.) A 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.) Going Through Changes: You’ve not only shrunk/grown, you’re still shrinking/growing. Just how small/tall will you get?
5.) Not-So-Boring 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.) It’s Complicated: How are those closest to you handling your new size, and how are you handling being around them now? 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?
7.) You Still Need To Make A Living: At your new size, be it big or small, new job opportunities have arisen. It could be that 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. Or perhaps you were intentionally grown to fight the giant kaiju that are plaguing your world. Another possibility is espionage, where spies like you shrink down to access areas regular-sized people are locked out of, and where you can go undetected. Whether it’s construction, military service, medicine, advertising, entertainment, firefighting, or enforcing the law as a police officer – there are jobs waiting just for you.
8.) Side-Effects May Vary: 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 (via Attack on Titan). Either way, more than a sudden change in size has happened to you.
9.) 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.
10.) 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).
11.) Wild Card

Comments

Midnight | BNHA

[love_the_smell]

[ Would prefer that she become either action figure or doll sized! She'd throw a fit if she suddenly blew up like Mt. Lady. ]

Raylin Palmer/Fem!Atom | DCTV

[amazingshrinkinglady]

[Well she does have the technology to grow and shrink to any size.]

Gemini de Mille | DC Comics (New Earth)

[stretchy_girl]

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Oliver Queen / The Green Arrow | Arrow | m/m

[something_else]