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Should tfs be painful?
I have another origin story in the works that uses a hybrid transformation in that the first transformation changes the heroine physically.
I won't tell you how deep the rabbit hole I went on the below question but I can't seem to reconcile it in my head.
how much pain would, should a heroine go through in a transformation?
the sciency part of me thinks if a body is changing there should be some pain involved.
the writer in me is arguing that point.
I don't want to go down the route of orgasms whilst transforming. 1 it's been done and 2. it makes no sense in my mind.
let me know what you think?
now onto item 643579 on the list. Is there a better case of irony then drawing a tree on a bit of paper?
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Please don't ponder this at any length, Woody, but sometimes we can spend too much time and energy trying to determine whether or not we are overthinking something.
What's the fantasy image in your head/heart/private parts ? Is the character in pain in that image? In ecstasy? Neither? Whatever the answer, make the science fit that.
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I think that a lot of it hinges on how the transformation actually work.Welcome to today's edition of Woody overthinks everything.....
I have another origin story in the works that uses a hybrid transformation in that the first transformation changes the heroine physically.
I won't tell you how deep the rabbit hole I went on the below question but I can't seem to reconcile it in my head.
how much pain would, should a heroine go through in a transformation?
the sciency part of me thinks if a body is changing there should be some pain involved.
the writer in me is arguing that point.
I don't want to go down the route of orgasms whilst transforming. 1 it's been done and 2. it makes no sense in my mind.
let me know what you think?
- Being rebuilt on cellular level (She-Hulk)? That should hurt a lot.
- Magical transformation into another being (Mary Marvel)? I think it depends on the being in question.
- Swapping bodies with a different being while retaining control (Darkhawk)? I think it should be relatively easy.
Is the transformation a process that the character goes through regularly?
If so, how does she endures the feeling that this awoke?
Or, is the transformation a one-off deal that is more symbolic of a new stage in the character's life?
In this case, whatever sensation she feltforeshadows something more?
Plastic dinosaurs.now onto item 643579 on the list. Is there a better case of irony then drawing a tree on a bit of paper?
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But, how would she transform back to agent Diana Prince? Would the after-effects of her transforming back hurt her?
Perhaps she wouldn't want to transform back if there was a pain threshold...
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The latter is less likely be painful unless you want to focus the story on power coming with a price.
Again, it all comes down to the story you want to tell. If it's important that the transformation come at a terrible cost, then pain away. If it's just a means of getting from unpowered to powered, then it really doesn't matter.
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Really, it should probably hurt a lot. But that's describing what would probably happen in a real world scenario modified to the absolute minimum degree required to allow a normal woman to be transformed into a superwoman. Very few if any of our stories take place in such a reality. Most of our realities are tailor made to appeal to our fondness for superwoman stories and the various aspects that make up the genre.
In other words, don't sweat it. None of these stories take place in the actual real world, and if transformation is supposed to be painless or pleasant, or even orgasmic, then the fictional world in which they take place is one in which superwoman transformations feel that way, and I doubt many (any?) of us will question that particular detail when reading the story. It's one of those details most of us readers will happily stuff into the box labeled "Willing Suspension of Disbelief."
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Magical girl TFs, whether a Mary Marvel "poof" or a Sailor Moon/She-Ra henshin almost always are depicted as pleasant and empowering. In fact back in the 1990s, I had an official Sailor Moon book that featured "interviews" with all the scouts. Sailor Mercury was specifically asked what a transformation felt like and she said it was scary at first but soon felt like the most natural thing in the world.
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It entirely depends on the kind of story you want to tell. Adventure? Comedy? Horror?
In the 70's Wonder Woman and Isis TV shows, it was breezy fun and adventure for the women to change into their super-selves.
In werewolf films, it's agonizing to have one's body reshaped at the full moon.
In Superman II, it's just a magic spin around the door, or in the time it takes to fly down the outside of a building a few dozen stories, to casually replace the business suit with the super suit and the hair curl. And nobody asks where the glasses went.
In Watchmen, Jon rebuilding himself into to Dr. Manhattan was excruciating.
It's all about whatever you want the heroine to go through.
Once you have the story purpose, hand waving fake science babble can easily justify it. Muscle fibers expanding is painless because there aren't nerves inside actin-myasin sheathes. Muscle fibers expanding is fun because the filling up of the muscles feels great. Muscle fibers expanding is brutal pain because the connective tissue rips apart before it gets rebuilt half a second later.
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