: Re: I am searching for a word/name that fits a person that has the ability to swap bodies with another human Not to be confused with a person who can morph themselves into someone else or a

@Pope4766717

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I don't think that there is a real word for this. I would use "swapper."

I chose swapper over a number of alternatives. The closest one, to me, is "jumper."

However, a swapper, to me, jumps to a new body and that body's mind jumps to the former body. Notice that the normal person's mind is now stuck in this body forever, unless he can find and force the swapper to put him back.

A jumper, on the other hand, feels like it would jump to another body and one of two things would happen: the old body would just drop dead because it has no consciousness, or the original consciousness would "wake up" (maybe not immediately) and take over it's original body again. It would depend of if the jumper destroys the consciousness or suppresses it.

I am trying to remember the book in which a group of swappers existed. I believe it was in the Wild Cards series. These swappers were eventually captured and forced to put people right again. Then they were put into old/sickly bodies and put in a prison farther away from people than the range of their power.

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