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Really? What is it with these body-thief muggers anyway?
It's like the third time this week that some pushy bastard has tried to climb into me from behind and steal my life.
Yeah, you know about vampires sucking the lifeblood of the living to remain powerful and young-appearing for centuries.
And you may have heard about the dhampir, the vampire-predators that prey on vampires the way they prey on normal humans. They keep the vampires in line, keep them from going all-out stupid munch-monster. They're why the vampies have their rules about not making new baby bats every five minutes or so. They're the ones who clean up the ones who go full-murder-spree.
Well, there's a less well-known kind of monster, called the skinwalker (though that's actually a different kind of monster, but the if the skin fits, wear it, right? So people call them that.) Like vampires, there's a predator for them. That would be ME, and the others like me. Unlike the Hopi monsters (who do more than just take bodies) normal skinwalkers are people who at some point learn that they can take over another person by "climbing inside them."
This is every bit as cool and every bit as creepy as you might think. The process of being taken over is usually painless and often even feels very good to the person being taken over. What happens then is entirely up to the temperament of the skinwalker and how well they know the target.
If there's animosity or fear in the target, the takeover is blank. The skinwalker gets little to no clue about the person they just took over. They're the ones that can't pretend to be the same person and have to deal with being someone else. They're also the ones who tend to get stuck, because they have to fight to stay in over time, and they do that at the expense of being able to escape. Their original bodies are burned away slowly. And, they're the ones who have to fight to erase the host, because they don't have the power to take on a new host from inside another one.