Story Shifting

Story Shifting
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, a lovely fairytale
Power/Ability to:	Change the elements of story.

"Stories are flexible. You can even use that as the groundwork to make a different story."

― Toussaint Neshinbara

The power to shift the plot, characters, theme, structure, or events of story. Sub-power of Story Manipulation. Not to be confused with Fairytale Warping.

Also Called

• Fairytale Shifting/Tuning
• Fiction Swapping

Capabilities

User can change/shift the events, plot, characters, locations, structure, etc. of one story into another story, changing the plot/concept of the receiving story, such as changing the plot of that story or add another, change the characters or add some from another story, change up or add some events, or even bring in some new locations.

Applications

• Alternate Timeline Creation: By shifting and moving events, plots, etc. in stories.
• Concept Destruction: Destroy the concept of the original story by replacing it with another.
• Destiny Assignment: Due to switching the plot, the characters have a new destiny.
• Event Manipulation
  • Event Capture: Capture the events from one story and put it in another.
  • Event Negation: Negate events in the story in order to add a new one.
• Insertion & Removal: Remove things from one story and add them to another.
• Location Swapping: Between stories.
• Plot Bending: Bend plots between stories due to adding locations, events, or even adding a new plot.
• Speed Theft: Capturing the elements of a story (Plot, structure, events, etc.) and putting it into another story can negate how fast it goes.
• Structure Merging: Merge the structures with other structures in the story to make a new.

Associations

• Narration
• Story Manipulation
• Story Mimicry

Limitations

• Doesn't warp reality.
• The user can't manipulate anything, just switch and move.
• User might need to change the story plan in order to go with the locations and plots if adding.

Known Users

• Chaos Tellers (Grimms Notes)
• Toussaint Neshinbara (Horizon In The Middle of Nowhere)
• Jack Frost (Rainbow Magic); via Fairytale and Storytelling Fairies' Magical Items
• Altair (Re:Creators)
• Ataru Moroboshi (Urusei Yatsura); after destroying the library