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## The Curse of the Starcutter

Cherry Jane had always been a girl addicted to excitement. With her neon-pink hair streaming behind her like the tail of a comet, she darted through her animated world, popping in and out of scenes from her favorite cartoons and video games. Her nimble fingers brushed the black sunglasses perched on her forehead as she adjusted her dark red jacket, feeling invincible in her vibrant, perplexing existence.

"What should I binge next?" she grumbled loudly, her deep blue eyes scanning the colorful terrain. Yet again, she found herself bored. Her girlfriend was away on a college tour, leaving Cherry to navigate her hyperactive mind alone. She let out an exaggerated sigh. "Being a toon is great and all, but sometimes it's just not enough."

A plot twist was exactly what Cherry craved. She should have been more careful of what she wished for.

As she wandered, a shimmering portal materialized in the sky before her. It whirred softly, catching her attention. Curiosity, the very thing that led her through countless adventures, now pushed her forward into this unknown. Cherry touched the portal, feeling an alluring itch in her fingertips that echoed across her entire being.

"Whoever made this better load it with cutscenes and boss fights!" she murmured excitedly, stepping through the portal.

The shift was not gentle. The kaleidoscopic swirl of colors abruptly turned dark, almost oppressive. Her skin began to tingle, and a cold wave started from her toes up to her head. Her body began to cramp and shrink, causing deep discomfort as she tried to readjust clothing now too large for her transforming frame.

"What... what's happening?" Cherry’s voice trembled as it began to deepen, each word slipping like sand from her tongue.

Her long pink hair started retracting into her scalp, leaving her scalp bare and smooth, while her limbs vanished entirely. Her tall, lithe form rapidly compacted into a smaller, ellipsoid shape. Her eyes, those deep blue windows to her soul, morphed into two yellow ovals peeping out from new brown skin, growing void of emotion but fueling intellect.

"Wait... this isn't... me!" Cherry's thoughts fragmented, blending rapidly with foreign memories—new aspirations, new deceitful intentions.

Clothing worn as Cherry Jane dissolved into a blue hood with yellow and white accents, and a scarf-like belt wrapped around what had once been a torso. Memories of flying into galaxies and deceiving innocent stars filled her (or rather his) mind, pushing out notions of teenage angst and love for Saturday morning cartoons.

"I... I am... Magolor," he (or once, she) whispered, the transformation now complete—accented in otherworldly tones, reflecting just a hint of sorrow for what was lost. Cherry Jane no longer existed.

Magolor hovered in place, his disembodied hands beginning to shake off the last remnants of Cherry's mannerisms. The creature now had all the memories and ambitions of traveling across the dimensions, manipulate friends, and reach for the Master Crown.

"Funny," he mused aloud, his voice carrying an accent so foreign and irregular that even Cherry's old friends wouldn’t recognize it. "I dreamed of being someone else, and now, here I am."

A rift in space appeared before him, urging him back to the Lor Starcutter, his grand ship. Inside the control room, he examined the empty walls and flashing, animated lights, now aware it was his home and fortress. The ship's Energy Spheres had scattered far and wide, and he couldn't suppress a sly grin.

"They shall come to my aid again. Kirby and his friends will help me restore what is lost," he giggled, the sinister violin of his past echoing softly behind.

The faint image of Cherry Jane flashed momentarily on the display screens. He waved his hand dismissively, filled with Magolor's pragmatic focus.

“No need to cling to fragments of a past shell,” he laughed, flicking the image off. “Adventure awaits, and I must be ready.”

Tiny but powerful, deceptive yet determined, Magolor exited the ship to scheme anew, racing back into the fray with memories, machinations, and a few vestiges of Cherry's undying, unflinching spirit hidden deep within his ellipsoid form.

The story of Cherry Jane was over. But for Magolor, an entire universe of opportunity sprawled ahead, waiting to be twisted to his will.

This story was generated by user FairlyOddFairies with assistance by one of OpenAI’s large-scale language-generation model; prompts used to help generate the story are shown below.

Images were generated with OpenAI's AI system, DALL·E 2, or uploaded by the user.

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Prompt: Write a transformation story of Cherry Jane (a teenage human girl) turning against her will into Magolor (from the Kirby franchise), complete with gender change (turning from female to male), height regression, age change (older), and mind/mental change (making Cherry's memories and personality disappear and replaced by Magolor's memories and personality). For Cherry's appearance, she is a teenage girl of 5 feet 7 inches tall with very long pink-colored hair, light-colored skin, and deep blue eyes. She is a living toon who can slightly transform her body at will. She also wears a pair of black sunglasses over her forehead, a dark red open jacket, a white t-shirt, a dark red short skirt, a pair of thigh-high white socks, and a pair of black shoes. Personality-wise, she is openly hyperactive, and can swing her moods on the fly, and is a huge nerd who mainly knows about cartoons and games, she also gets easily bored, being quite irritable without her girlfriend around, and can be a bit gluttonous at times. For Magolor's appearance (after Cherry turned into him), he is a small, ellipsoid being who possesses disembodied hands (which float even without arms), but no feet (no legs neither). He wears a blue hood with yellow and white accents. The rim of the hood, as well as the pattern on his body, resembles the design of a gear, which matches the motif of the Energy Spheres for the Lor Starcutter. His face consists merely of two yellow eyes on a brown surface, the rest presumably being covered up by his scarf-like belt. The belt itself seems to wrap around his entire body, covering some of his face, and has a small yellow-fringed cape that extends around most of the circumference. Here is Magolor's personality; When Magolor first arrives on Popstar, he appears to be friendly and cordial, and easily convinces Kirby and friends to help him in his plight to recover his ship's Energy Spheres. As revealed later in the story, this act was a charade; he is cleverly able to feign grief and joy in order to get people to do what he wants. Combined with his tendency to outright lie, this allowed him to take advantage of Kirby's hospitality, leading him to the Master Crown. Initially, it appears that Magolor's only goal is to rule the entire universe with the power of the Master Crown, but dialogue prior to his reveal makes it ambiguous as to whether he genuinely appreciated Kirby or only saw him as a pawn for his goals (in particular, he sincerely thanks Kirby for helping him repair the Lor while explaining his plan). Extra dialogue added in Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe has Magolor share with Kirby his dream of building an amusement park, which seems to be a genuine desire, as he has built multiple such parks after his redemption. Regardless of intent, Magolor's desires become twisted over time, thanks to the parasitic power of the Master Crown. The pause screen description for Magolor Soul in Extra Mode indicates that he eventually loses control of his actions and becomes "[a] sad shell possessed by the limitless power of the Master Crown, nothing more than a manifestation of the crown itself". Additional context provided in the True Arena of Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe indicates that the Master Crown has been devouring Magolor's soul, and that he is aware of this process, begging Kirby to help him. After being freed from the crown's grasp by Kirby and his friends, and then battling his way through other dimensions and destroying the Master Crown, Magolor has atoned for his misdeeds. To make up for the trouble he caused, he builds an amusement park filled with new challenge courses in New Challenge Stages. In the same Sub-Game, he seems to have a friendly rivalry with Kirby, as seen during the races with him; the two of them part ways on amicable terms in the credits sequence. Magolor is often melodramatic, and even when he is trying to act evil and intimidating (as seen after his Master Crown-induced transformation), he usually can't get the emotion right. He also appears to have an ego about him and is obsessed with challenges, particularly races. He often gloats when he is in the lead, which usually leads to him slowing down and getting passed up, to which he will then get angry and speed up. If he wins a race, he revels in his victory, but if he loses, he sulks. He is shown to enjoy pranks and practical jokes; during one segment of "C-R-O-W-N-E-D: Reprise" in Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe, he covers the screen with a blindfold banner and laughs if King Dedede falls into a pit, and in Team Kirby Clash Deluxe and Super Kirby Clash, he pretends to betray Team Kirby upon purchasing all of his equipment (though he clarifies that he's only joking). Overall, he can be seen as a reformed villain with hints of trickery still buried within him. Magolor appears to be a skilled technician and wizard, as he claims that upon initially excavating the Lor from Halcandra, it was in bad shape and he had to repair it. He has several magical skills (such as teleporting and summoning items) even without the Master Crown's influence, though his powers are greatly enhanced by it. His building and summoning skills are apparent in New Challenge Stages, as he was the one who built all the courses that Kirby played through, and he summons a myriad of foes during the races. His industriousness is also on display when he sets up a Gem Apple cart in Team Kirby Clash Deluxe and Super Kirby Clash. Outside of the video game series proper, Magolor is often used as a representative for news on Kirby series titles, mainly for the Kirby Clash series. Occasionally he interacts with other characters, such as The Three Mage-Sisters, with whom he appears to have a rocky relationship. Magolor is also often depicted in supplementary material associating with Marx, who shares a similar role and personality with him. As the final bosses of their respective games, they share similar attacks, even identical black hole and laser beam attacks. They also appear together in a Stone transformation in Kirby: Triple Deluxe and one title screen animation of Kirby Star Allies, acknowledging the similarities between the two. In the Japanese versions of the games, Magolor is implied to speak with a foreign accent, as many words in his dialogue are spelled with katakana where one would normally use hiragana. Katakana is the syllabary used primarily for foreign words, and using it in place of hiragana (which is used for native words) implies foreign pronunciation, as if the speaker is unfamiliar with the language. There should be quotes from the characters in this story so we know what they're saying and what they're thinking.

Response: ## The Curse of the Starcutter Cherry Jane had always been a girl addicted to excitement. With her neon-pink hair streaming behind her like the tail of a comet, she darted through her animated world, popping in and out of scenes from her favorite cartoons and video games. Her nimble fingers brushed the black sunglasses perched on her forehead as she adjusted her dark red jacket, feeling invincible in her vibrant, perplexing existence. "What should I binge next?" she grumbled loudly, her deep blue eyes scanning the colorful terrain. Yet again, she found herself bored. Her girlfriend was away on a college tour, leaving Cherry to navigate her hyperactive mind alone. She let out an exaggerated sigh. "Being a toon is great and all, but sometimes it's just not enough." A plot twist was exactly what Cherry craved. She should have been more careful of what she wished for. As she wandered, a shimmering portal materialized in the sky before her. It whirred softly, catching her attention. Curiosity, the very thing that led her through countless adventures, now pushed her forward into this unknown. Cherry touched the portal, feeling an alluring itch in her fingertips that echoed across her entire being. "Whoever made this better load it with cutscenes and boss fights!" she murmured excitedly, stepping through the portal. The shift was not gentle. The kaleidoscopic swirl of colors abruptly turned dark, almost oppressive. Her skin began to tingle, and a cold wave started from her toes up to her head. Her body began to cramp and shrink, causing deep discomfort as she tried to readjust clothing now too large for her transforming frame. "What... what's happening?" Cherry’s voice trembled as it began to deepen, each word slipping like sand from her tongue. Her long pink hair started retracting into her scalp, leaving her scalp bare and smooth, while her limbs vanished entirely. Her tall, lithe form rapidly compacted into a smaller, ellipsoid shape. Her eyes, those deep blue windows to her soul, morphed into two yellow ovals peeping out from new brown skin, growing void of emotion but fueling intellect. "Wait... this isn't... me!" Cherry's thoughts fragmented, blending rapidly with foreign memories—new aspirations, new deceitful intentions. Clothing worn as Cherry Jane dissolved into a blue hood with yellow and white accents, and a scarf-like belt wrapped around what had once been a torso. Memories of flying into galaxies and deceiving innocent stars filled her (or rather his) mind, pushing out notions of teenage angst and love for Saturday morning cartoons. "I... I am... Magolor," he (or once, she) whispered, the transformation now complete—accented in otherworldly tones, reflecting just a hint of sorrow for what was lost. Cherry Jane no longer existed. Magolor hovered in place, his disembodied hands beginning to shake off the last remnants of Cherry's mannerisms. The creature now had all the memories and ambitions of traveling across the dimensions, manipulate friends, and reach for the Master Crown. "Funny," he mused aloud, his voice carrying an accent so foreign and irregular that even Cherry's old friends wouldn’t recognize it. "I dreamed of being someone else, and now, here I am." A rift in space appeared before him, urging him back to the Lor Starcutter, his grand ship. Inside the control room, he examined the empty walls and flashing, animated lights, now aware it was his home and fortress. The ship's Energy Spheres had scattered far and wide, and he couldn't suppress a sly grin. "They shall come to my aid again. Kirby and his friends will help me restore what is lost," he giggled, the sinister violin of his past echoing softly behind. The faint image of Cherry Jane flashed momentarily on the display screens. He waved his hand dismissively, filled with Magolor's pragmatic focus. “No need to cling to fragments of a past shell,” he laughed, flicking the image off. “Adventure awaits, and I must be ready.” Tiny but powerful, deceptive yet determined, Magolor exited the ship to scheme anew, racing back into the fray with memories, machinations, and a few vestiges of Cherry's undying, unflinching spirit hidden deep within his ellipsoid form. The story of Cherry Jane was over. But for Magolor, an entire universe of opportunity sprawled ahead, waiting to be twisted to his will.

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