A slightly more serious expansion of these silly shapeshifter What If? comics of mine. Based heavily on (with dialogue taken from) this post by @lokh

Shuro pretty much has Laios’ number on a lot of things, so he knows right away that this is a shapeshifter. But I think explaining why would cut too close to difficult things about his relationship with Laios that he’d rather not say outright, so he just waits for others to say it first. 😔

bonus - this is what shuro’s shapeshifter of him looks like to Laios