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You know how when you were a kid, your mother always kept saying if you keep making that face, it'd stick? This is the Shapeshifting equivalent, where the shapeshifter manages to get stuck in a particular form, unable to use their shapeshifting powers. If they're lucky, they're stuck in their most natural or inconspicuous form (possibly their Shapeshifter Default Form), but if not, the body they're stuck in is either weak and pitiful, or monstrous and riot-inciting. Examples of Shapeshifter Mode Lock include:

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  • You know how when you were a kid, your mother always kept saying if you keep making that face, it'd stick? This is the Shapeshifting equivalent, where the shapeshifter manages to get stuck in a particular form, unable to use their shapeshifting powers. If they're lucky, they're stuck in their most natural or inconspicuous form (possibly their Shapeshifter Default Form), but if not, the body they're stuck in is either weak and pitiful, or monstrous and riot-inciting. Examples of Shapeshifter Mode Lock include:
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  • You know how when you were a kid, your mother always kept saying if you keep making that face, it'd stick? This is the Shapeshifting equivalent, where the shapeshifter manages to get stuck in a particular form, unable to use their shapeshifting powers. If they're lucky, they're stuck in their most natural or inconspicuous form (possibly their Shapeshifter Default Form), but if not, the body they're stuck in is either weak and pitiful, or monstrous and riot-inciting. Conversely, milder forms of Mode Lock may lock someone out of a certain form instead of in to one, or require that they stay in the form they take for a certain amount of time. In practice, used to establish contrivance to why a shapeshifter may not look optimal to a situation. The name is taken from Transformers, more specifically, from the Transformers: Universe profile for Cloudraker, where it is in an issue of the Marvel comic book, which states "His major physical problem is a tendency to suffer "mode-lock" -- the inability to transform from one mode to another." Compare The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body, And I Must Scream, First Law of Gender Bending. See also Power Incontinence. Contrast Involuntary Shapeshifting. Examples of Shapeshifter Mode Lock include:
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