shifter AU where each person’s animal side is the same age as their mental/emotional age
Normally, a person’s animal grows up alongside them; as they go from child to adult, so does their animal side, but there are some variations -
Normally, a person’s animal grows up alongside them; as they go from child to adult, so does their animal side, but there are some variations -
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Gaz’s sea otter is exactly the same age as him, just as rambunctious and impulsive, but more than able to settle and focus when needed -
Only Price has ever seen Ghost shift, though. They all know he’s a cat shifter, it’s in his files and he’s not ashamed of it -
That’s on purpose, though—Ghost is incredibly embarrassed by the fact that his cat is still a kitten, tiny and wobbly, as a result from his trauma and PTSD. He hates how small he is as a kitten, hates the physical reminder of how stunted his childhood made him -
When he and Soap start dating, though, his cat starts to grow exponentially, his mental and emotional age maturing because he finally has a stable, loving relationship that he knows he can rely on and trust