Oh! To Shape-shift

There was this one time, in grade 6, I and my classmates were asked the names of our role models, to be featured in our year book, and I told them the name Mother Theresa, just so my spot didn’t stay blank. Many of my classmates, seemed to have people they looked up to back then but me? It didn’t actively think of that one person. I had people I admired what they did, I had people I looked forward to emulating the parts of their lives they showed us, but choosing one human was real hard. And so, I settled for a fictional character.

Back then, I always imagined deep down how life would be if I was a particular cartoon character. I watched this character shape-shift constantly, watched him do things regular humans didn’t do, and I fell in love. I was a huge fan of the DC comic - Teen Titans. Beastboy was my favourite character in that show and I imagined how life would be if I were like beastboy.

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This character found ways to make life easy for himself all the time, making us laugh in the process. He didn’t need to do too much to be the life of the show and that was one thing I admired. I don’t know what my childhood self was thinking when I admired beast boy’s life but it was so silly. It’s so funny writing about it now, to be very honest.

Beastboy was a vegetarian, yeah. So, there was this particular week I told my mom I was going to stop eating meat just because I wanted to imitate Beastboy. Unfortunately, that wasn’t my calling seeing how I couldn’t resist eating chunks of meat alongside my siblings.

I imagined myself shape shifting so bad, I always told myself that the first thing I was going to turn into, if I found out I could, was a bird. I pictured myself flying high above and watching people do their thing, from a different height. The sight appealed to me. The life portrayed in Teen Titans simply revolved around super heroes who were never enthusiastic to go fight. Instead, they were always nervous and tried to find ways to evade their jobs. Making the show 10x funnier. Although it was a children show, there wasn’t a constant need for them to be proven as heroes, and that’s why it’s been my favourite.

I mean if I could shape shift so bad, I could literally turn into a whale. I’ll have little fear of any animal brutally attacking me, and if I wanted to eat, I’d just move around the sea, open my mouth at a particular spot, and my food will fall into it. So simple!

The prompt for this week centers around role models, and this, is my response. Beastboy was one character I admired back then. From his powers, to his humor and most of all, his love story. I loved literally everything about him.

Thanks for reading.

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