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Can body swap count as transformation? For example if a male and female were body swapped, would that be gender transformation?
Should heart swap be aliased to body swap or is it distinct enough to just imply it? It refers specifically to a Pokemon move which in the anime is able to body swap others, but it's usually depicted in a somewhat unique way and involves a specific character.
braixenarchivist said:
Can body swap count as transformation? For example if a male and female were body swapped, would that be gender transformation?
Good question. My instinct would be to say "no", that transformation is about physical changes. Changing a character's species, sex, size, etc. Although mental_transformation exists, it's usually accompanied with a physical transformation, and I often see it incorrectly used (where there's no apparent mental change to a character in the post; since you can't see a character's mental state, it's not easy to determine whether differences in behavior is just the character wanting to do something different vs being influenced to think differently). But a body swap does involve character becoming and physically being someone else, even if it's not through their bodies swapping forms, so I can see the argument there.
braixenarchivist said:
Should heart swap be aliased to body swap or is it distinct enough to just imply it? It refers specifically to a Pokemon move which in the anime is able to body swap others, but it's usually depicted in a somewhat unique way and involves a specific character.
I guess this depends on whether we really want to be tagging pokemon moves. If no, an alias, if yes, maybe an implication, unless there's a way to depict the move without depicting the body swap. I've always seen it a bit weird to be tagging pokemon moves, since I don't think there's strict rules about what they look like. And they often are common fighting moves just performed by a pokemon (e.g. aura sphere looking like a common energy ball attack, similar to a hadouken in Street Fighter or kamehameha in DragonBall).
