Questions about shapeshifters

[Drytron]

If their clothes are a part of their body, does that mean they are always naked?

 

[Minx]

Yes.

 

[DiscoDream]

Depends on your definition of naked. I use a vague aproximation of sex organs as my standard. So a shapeshifter who's sexual traits are not on display, would not be considered 'naked'. (It's like how people consider bikini's to be "clothing")

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Depends on the shape shifter. Most mythological shape shifters can turn into other living things but lack the ability to produce clothing from their body. However, newer shape shifters like from comic books have the ability to form clothes and are considered constantly naked despite rarely, if ever, showing any reproductive organs.

 

[LilRora]

I like to consider those kinds of questions from outsider's perspective. If people see her as clothed, then she is not naked for them. It's a similar kind of question to "if a person covers themselves in an illusion of clothing, are they naked?" The answer is the same: other people do not see them as naked, but to them (or anyone who has knowledge about them or insight to see through the disguise) they are naked, since they have nothing covering them.

 

[georgelee5786]

Yes

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

If their clothes are a part of their body, does that mean they are always naked?

If your shirt is chemically glued to you, your not naked. It’s just stuck

 

[ThrillingHuman]

That depends on what can be considered clothed/naked. If the shapeshifter in question can change their body enough to produce clothes - then it's hard to say.
Is a slime naked? A golem? A building? A tree? A star?
What is the reason to classify something in terms of being naked or not if the very idea of clothing is alien to the entity in question?
And if the shapeshifter can relatively freely change their form (turning into a car wheel one moment, a person next), they don't need nor are bound by the concept of clothing.
Thus this question has no meaning.

 

[Deleted member 54065]

Nakedness is just a social construct brought upon by the patriarchal bias of the community. /s

And I don't even know what I'm typing. I just want to sleep (it's 2 am back here).

 

[AiLovesToGrow]

na·ked​

(nā′kĭd)
adj.
1. Having no clothing on the body; nude.
2. Having no covering, especially the usual one.

Are they without clothing? Yes. Are they without covering? No. So depends on context.

 

[beast_regards]

I call it a story with hidden perversion potential.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Try reading Animorphs.

 

[HelloHound]

the dicks aren't out, the titties aren't out, then they are not naked

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Think of it this way. If I was a living bra, am I naked?

 

[BearlyAlive]

Do you think you're naked even tho you wear bodypaint? Same difference. It's a matter of perspective. Or of perversion. Since for a pervert every state of clothing is naked.

Fun fact: the naked mole-rat known by nerds and dead romans as Heterocephalus glaber is actually not naked.

 

[Iamnotabot]

If their clothes are a part of their body, does that mean they are always naked?

It's a matter of perspective really

 

[Cipiteca396]

na·ked
adjective

1. (of a person or part of the body) without clothes.
   2.(of something such as feelings or behavior) undisguised; blatant.
   
   
   They're disguised, right? So no.