Centaurification

Tropes and genres
Synonym(s)	centaur fic, centaur art
Related tropes/genres	shapeshifting
See also	Were-Animal
Centaur!Mulder and Centaur!Krycek manip by The Theban Band (~2001)
Related articles on Fanlore.

Centaurification is a fanwork trope in which a character has 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 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. AUs where a character is permanently a centaur exist as well, but may be known as Centaur AUs rather than Centaurification.

Examples

NCIS:

• A Marked Centaur by jo_kay927, Jethro was Marked at at young age and Exiled from the Herds Sacred Grounds while a Colt. Now a Stallion he happily lives within a Human Herd but his Life is turned upside down when he comes across another Centaur, who wants to take him as his Mate before returning to his Home Lands. (Tony/Gibbs)
• Myths and Revelations - (website) and (ao3) by Nix -- Gibbs/DiNozzo series where Gibbs is secretly a centaur.

• 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
• 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."
• Post-Crisis on Infinite Earths, the DC Comics character Comet is a flying centaur-angel with a fluid gender.

Art Gallery

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  centaur art on the cover of Warped Space #16 (1976)
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  Daphne Hamilton is the artist, inside Chalk and Cheese #5, Bodie as a centaur and Doyle along for the ride
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  centaur art on the back cover of Kaliffee by Deb Lewis (1990)
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  centaur art from the interior of The Other Side of Paradise #2 (1977)
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  Centaur!Jim and Faun!Blair by The Theban Band (~2001)
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  a baby centaur from Warped Space #16, Jane Clinkenbeard
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  a centaur fetus from Warped Space #13, Jane Clinkenbeard
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  Starsky & Hutch, with Starsky as the centaur, 1989 as the cover of Frienz #6, and in 2000, for SHareCon, by Suzan Lovett
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  Art by Garnetquyen for the fic The Centaur of Attention, created for the X-Men Big Bang