Karyn Pig: Old Times

ThePro on 8/13/2010 12:40:59 PM
Episode last modified by ThePro on 8/13/2010 12:40:59 PM

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That night was different. It was the weekend, so they stayed up. And they talked, laughed, played video games (after wishing up a controller designed for Karyn's hands), watched movies. For a time, Jon forgot, and he hoped Karyn did too. "Jon, can I take a bath?" Karyn's face had taken on a determined look. "I stink. Don't think I can't smell it." "Of course, but, you'll probably have to use the stone. I don't know how my parents would react to you using the bathroom. The way you are now, I mean." "Well, we've already wished that I can use the toilet without being noticed. Shouldn't be a problem. Only...I don't like going out there. Whenever I'm around them, the way they treat me. Look at me..." She grimaced, removing the stone from its box again. "I wish that Jon's room had its own adjoining bathroom, complete with bathtub." And then there was another door out of Jon's room. Karyn walked towards it as if marching to a battlefield. Or waddling to a battlefield. Jon had a bad feeling about this. This would be the most Karyn had seen of her new body in days, and he wasn't sure how she'd react. Her apparent recovery was simply too fast to believe, and Jon was worried that it might also prove fragile. She was in the bathroom nearly an hour. When she emerged, he found she'd had to wrap two towels around her to cover herself, though he wasn't quite sure how she'd pulled it off. Without a word to Jon, she again took the stone in her hand. "I wish that Jon's room had an extra closet, with a copy of every article of clothing I used to own fit for my new body." She glanced at Jon. "Sorry to keep altering your room. Just wasn't much point in changing back into those filthy clothes. And I miss my sweater." She glanced at him a moment. "Well? What are you waiting for? Not putting on a show for you, Jon-boy." "Oh. Right. Sorry!" Jon blushed and fled into the bathroom. A few moments later Karyn knocked on the door and quietly told him she was finished. She was indeed wearing her favorite green sweater, which did an admirable job of hiding her extra breasts, though nothing seemed capable of concealing her massive hips and thighs. Jon plopped down on his bed, picking up his controller. "Want to go another round?" Karyn had her eyes closed, a pained expression on her face. "Mmm...not right now." She gave him a sad, tired look. "I'm sorry, Jon. I'm trying. I really am. It's just every time I see myself. Really see myself. In a mirror, or taking a bath, or anything...it all comes back. Not just what I look like, but what I am. I can never go home. I'll probably never see my parents again. And If I do...they'll think I'm an animal. When I'm around other people I even *feel* like an animal." She snorted back an oink. "I want to cry. But there's no tears left. And there's times when I can't stand for you to see me. Especially like that. I feel so weak and girly and stupid. So I run away. I'm a coward. I-" "Karyn, stop. You've gone through so much. But look at you. Most people in your position would be catatonic. Hell, *I'd* probably be catatonic. Or completely insane. Or a crying, gibbering wreck. You're strong, Karyn. You've always been strong." "It's just so hard. If I were really strong, I'd keep trying instead of blubbering to you like a stupid damsel in distress." "Maybe you don't have to try. Maybe you *shouldn't* try. People cry, Karyn. They get scared and sad and they don't have any idea what to do, and they cry. It doesn't mean you're weak. Just human." Karyn gave him another of those looks, and he wondered if he'd made the wrong choice of words. But instead, she came to him. Reaching a hand down, she gently cupped the side of his face. "Ok. Maybe I'll be weak then. Just this once." She lowered herself into his lap. Jon didn't have any words anymore. His face burned almost as fiercely as his hand had a week ago. "Karyn-I, are you sure you want to-" "Just shut up and hold me." She leaned back against him. He did.

Things between Jon and Karyn intensify (2)

Actually this should be easy to fix, they’re just not being creative enough. For example, if she’s just constrained to be half pig, she could be changed to have a complete human body but with a complete pig body growing out of her belly button with the pig’s tail as an umbilical cord and none of her nervous system in the pig part and then simply amputate the pig portion from the rest of her body. With the stone unable to do it with magic, you could wish for an advanced technological device that operates purely on science, that can splice genes and mutate living things into any other genetically engineered organism. You could also note that humans and pigs already share more than 50% of their DNA, and the half of her that is pig could be made part of the DNA which is exactly the same between pigs and humans anyway, and then the other 50% would be whatever she was missing from her original genetics. This would fix her DNA but not necessarily her body, until they wished for her injuries to be healed and her body therefore reset to what her DNA codes for. If she’s half pig, you could also make the other half be a shapeshifter life form, making her not half pig half human but a hybrid pig shapeshifter with the shapeshifter ability a dominant ability. She could also wish for a cyborg body like a terminator, which would look like whatever she wanted but just have her brain contained in it, like Robocop or Nuku Nuku or Metallo. And if none of those are any good, then also just because she's a pig, doesn't mean she needs to have so much body fat, any animal can have any level of obesity, it wouldn't take away her pigness to decrease the body fat, so he could wish away all her body fat except 20% of that found in her breasts. Also, being half pig, could just be the biochemistry. She could still physically look like she did originally, and not be forced to have pig mannerisms, but on a cellular level, if she needs a blood transfusion would need pig blood or if she needed an organ transplant would need a pig heart or kidneys or something, she doesn't need to physically have her body changed to be half pig. Perhaps none of these would fix her other problem that everyone but herself and Jon perceives her as a pig, but actually the robocop body one probably would, since their line of sight wouldn’t be any part of her original biological material but rather the robot. Karyn could also wish for Jon to feel no pain while touching the stone, and for his body to become invulnerable while touching it, and for it to undergo rapid healing while touching it, then he could hold it even though it is red hot. Of course for dramatic and story purposes, it perhaps is no good for things to just be fixed and necessarily get a happy ending, there's value in her reaction to and coping with this scenario. I'm just saying. They could be of use in some sort of final confrontation with the evil brother Mikey. But Mikey absolutely needs an appropriate punishment. You just glossed over that. He's still *there*, living with them in the same house! And just happy to have no consequences for himself? Turn him into a pig and give him the compulsion to eat shit all day long and release him into the wilderness. Or literally send him to hell. And what about the gun? He can't use the stone any more but there was the shapeshifting gun. Considering how irreversible I'm expected to accept things as being in this version of the story, I am not so sure you can just wish for the gun's powers to go away because that would be undoing a wish, and she didn't wish for its powers to go away, she wished for its effects to wear off, which could just mean that everyone who had been changed so far changed back to normal, but with the gun still functioning into the future.

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