Centaurification

Trope · Genre
Synonyms:	centaur fic
Related:	shapeshifting
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Centaurification is a story trope in which a character is assumed to have the ability to become a centaur part time via shapeshifting. Unlike with animal transformation fic in centaur fic being a centaur is often considered a natural state for the character (usually this makes it AU, though some comic characters are subject to this in canon, and sometimes they are even more complicated such as post-Crisis Comet who is a flying centaur-angel with a fluid gender...) And unlike with most 'plain' canon centaurs (such as Firenze in Harry Potter) a character subject to centaurification is not in centaur-form all the time but a shapeshifter, thus reconciling canon events happening with the character's centaur nature. Though permanent centaur AUs probably exist as well. (Are there any? I've only ever read the part time centaur ones...)

Examples

Horses of Different Colors -- Houston Knights Centaur AU series, also branches off into crossovers with other fandoms (also as zine The Centaur Tales)
Human Enough by Leah -- SGA story with Centaur!John
Myths and Revelations by Nix -- NCIS Gibbs/DiNozzo series where Gibbs is secretly a centaur.
one fan admits she wrote her Professionals story, "Feet" in which "Bodie ends up as a centaur -- I was so tired of Doyle as an elf." ^[1]