What do you think of body swaps. I feel like we need more honesty.

I think body swaps are, generally, boring and overdone.

That said, there are ways they can be done well, and I’m a big fan of partial swaps (like exchanging body parts and attributes with others) and also a big fan of reality/life swaps (that is, same basic body and mind, but forced into a new life/history which one slowly is forced to adapt to). But body swaps themselves….

It’s hard to explain, exactly. They just lack narrative punch for me, and the net result, in the end, is functionally equivalent to what you started with. They are…experientally creative (as in, they generate unique experiences for the characters) but materially conservative (once the swap is finished, literally nothing in the world has ceased to exist, or come into being). That is, there’s no real change. 

But I like change. I like forcing characters to change. I like making the settings of these stories shift and twist. Body swaps don’t do that. Body swaps are fundamentally conservative transformations (not politically mind you, but I think a case could be made for that too) and thus not really something I tend to use often.