You never thought this day would be so bizarre. Minding your own business, perhaps scrolling through your phone or watching TV, when a weird tingly feeling spreads across your body. You look down to see the world around you starting to warp, blending into strange shapes and colors until they become completely unfamiliar. Panic rises in your chest.
"What the...?" you mutter, but your voice is cut off as the tingling intensifies, forcing you to focus on your own body. Your limbs feel heavy, and you glance at your hands, which are shrinking right before your eyes. The sight of your fingers growing smaller and stubby fills you with dread. It quickly becomes apparent that your entire form is becoming chibified - your once detailed human body reduced to smaller proportions, your head becoming oversized in comparison to the rest of you.
If you were female, your breasts flatten, your feminine curves disappear; your body reshapes itself into a distinctly male form; an Adam's apple forms in your throat. A feeling of uncomfortable inversion makes you acutely aware that your very genitals have irrevocably transformed into male ones. You barely have time to process this when an overwhelming dizziness overtakes you.
You attempt to resist, holding your head, trying to remember who you really are. "No! I... have to remember... Who was I? What was I doing before this?"
But your mind is already slipping, memories evaporating one by one like mist in the morning sun. Faces, names, moments that defined you dissolve, replaced with knowledge foreign yet integral to you. Skills to combine materials, to build new things from nothing. Your own best efforts to fight off this assault on your identity fail miserably; the clarity of your previous self shatters into incomprehensibility.
You can feel yourself becoming someone else. "Think... remember...!" you scream in your mind, but then even that fight, that voice, is lost. Instead of who you were, you're left only with who you are now: the Legendary Builder.
You open your eyes to an unfamiliar place. Darkness surrounds you, and the words of a powerful being echo in your mind. "Builder, can you hear my voice?" Rubiss's voice resonates within you, like a wave that push away the last fragments of your past.
"Yes... I hear you," you think, finding yourself unable to speak but able to comprehend every word.
"A great curse has fallen upon this world. The Dragonlord’s foul magic has left Alefgard in ruins, stripping its people of the ability to create and leaving them to the mercy of the elements and monsters."
Your confusion diminishes as her message becomes clear. You understand. You're the only one left with the power to rebuild, to create. Others may have given up hope, but not you. Not anymore.
"The fate of this world depends on you. You must learn to forge items from raw materials, combine them to sustain life, and protect the people of Alefgard. This grave," she continues as you find yourself in an unmarked tomb, "shall be your starting point. Your new life begins now."
With Rubiss's guidance, you familiarize yourself with the basics of your new abilities. Each time you follow her instructions, it's as though the actions are imprinted within you; knowledge feels like it's being recalled rather than being learned anew.
In moments, you craft your first tools, ready yourself to face the shattered world. As Rubiss's tutorial ends, she hesitates before saying, "Remember, Builder, you are not a Hero. Your task is not to slay the Dragonlord, but to rebuild, to bring hope back to Alefgard."
You nod, the urge to build is already etched into your soul.
"And yet..." Rubiss is momentarily incredulous as your thoughts leak to her, "All you worry about is building things...?”
For a moment, the small part of you remains distant, unattached. Lofty goals and destinies do not interest you as much as the simple, rewarding act of creation.
Your journey starts now, and though your memories of your past life are gone, the adventure that awaits you will soon fill your world. You face Alefgard not as your old self but as Builder—the Legendary Builder destined to rebuild and restore hope.
Your first steps into this new world are cautious but filled with a sense of inexorable purpose. You're here to construct, to develop, to create worlds where there was nothing but darkness. Your heart beats with anticipation; Alefgard is broken, but with your help, it might just be made whole again.
This story was generated by user LanHikari with assistance by one of OpenAI’s large-scale language-generation model; prompts used to help generate the story are shown below.
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Prompt: Write a POV transformation story of the human reader turning into male Builder (who is also a human, albeit magically reanimated unlike the reader himself/herself) from the 2016 video game "Dragon Quest Builders", complete with gender change (if the reader is a female before the transformation; in case the reader is female, her breasts flatten to leave her flat-chested, while her feminine curves vanished to give way to a male body, as an Adam's apple forms in her throat to give her a masculine voice, and her female genitals (vagina, ovaries, and uterus) invert itself into male genitals (testicles and penis); however, the reader could be a male before the transformation, so gender change is optional and only if the reader is female), height regression (making him/her shorter due to his/her chibification, making his/her body small with stubby limbs, an oversized head, and minimal detail), age change, voice change (the voice change also causes the reader to lose the ability to speak and becoming silent (aside from yelps, grunts, battle cries, and so forth)), reality change (the reader's real world becoming the world of "Dragon Quest Builders"), and mind/mental change (with all of the reader's personality and memories being completely replaced with Builder's personality and memories, making him/her dizzy with a fuzzy mind (the dizziness and the mind's fuzziness clears up when his/her memories are fully replaced), despite his/her best efforts on fighting them off (he doesn't want to forget his previous self but then completely forgets all about his previous self against his will), making him unable to remember his previous self, so he remembers (or rather knows) that he has always been Builder (which is his true/real self), completely oblivious/unaware of his previous self (which wasn't real to begin with)). The transformation is permanent (meaning it is forever) and is completely irreversible. For male Builer's appearance (after the reader turned into him), he is a young man (without any facial hair) who has light sandy-brown spiky hair (which is short and spiky), while his skin is fair in color, and his eyes' irises are blue in color. He is a very distant descendant of Erdrick and the last person left in Alefgard who has the power to create new things (as such he is titled as the Legendary Builder and he is tasked with rebuilding the ruined world around him). He wears a blue tunic with a red scarf, black undershirt, white pants and brown leather gloves and brown leather boots as well as a brown belt adorned with a sleeping roll and water skin (representing Wayfarer's clothes). He also wears a blue Phrygian cap with large brown goggles (with yellow rims) on top. He is shown equipped with a Hammerhood's giant mallet. On his hands, Geo wears red fingerless gloves with yellow squares on their backs, which widen into red-and-gold discs around his wrists. Here is male Builder's personality; The Builder is curt and informal when addressing their fellow citizens, and even when communing with Rubiss herself. One such instance of this is upon first meeting Myrlund, the Builder opts to address him as "Gramps". The Builder have a noticeably carefree attitude, often telling others not to worry about their concerns and also is initially disinterested in the larger plight of Alefgard, professing that they would rather build for building sake than doing it so for the good of mankind and their fight aganist the monsters. Over the course of his task however, the Builder's attitude changes, forming deep bonds of friendship with the people he met and assisted. In the end, when asked to leave them under the looming threat of the Dragonlord despite having at disposition all the tools necessary to confront him, the Builder couldn't bring themself to do so, and choosed to challenge the tyrant, even if it meant losing Rubiss protection and critically shortening their own lifespan. Even after proving their identity as the Legendary Builder and earning their respect, the Builder hopelessly appears inattentive and dim-witted to the citizens of Alefgard, who often remark on their vacant stare or overestimation of their own skills. This character follows the Dragon Quest series tradition of being silent, though character's voice actor is employed for yelps, grunts, battle cries, and so forth when taking damage or fighting monsters. Furthermore, a sassy personality is strongly implied for both as the protagonist will talk back to several characters over the course of the adventure, even the Goddess Herself. No dialogue is displayed when this happens, and the implication is carried through by the reactions of the other conversation participants. Here are the male Builder's abilities; The Builder is the only person alive who is able to combine, rearrange and construct objects from materials and the only one who can reduce said objects back to their components by destroying them. This being said, the Builder is not totally immune to the hex--he will be stripped of all knowledge gained during a chapter when beginning a new one, and must relearn every recipe again. Due to the focus of "Dragon Quest Builders" (the game which the Builder is part of) being more sandbox-orientated than previous Dragon Quest game titles, the Builder has far fewer stats than the typical protagonist. Only HP, attack, and defence are shown in-game, with the former improving through leveling up the quality of a given chapter's town and through Seeds of life, with the latter two being completely dependent on weapons and armour. Here is the male Builder's origins/history; The Builder's history prior to the events of the game are never fully explained, only that he died sometime ago by an unknown cause and was brought back to life by Rubiss for the express task of rebuilding Alefguard. The reasons for Rubiss's choice to revive him in particular is due to the fact that the Builder, like the the fallen Hero, is also a descendant of Erdrick--something she does not reveal to him until he has completed his task. However, unlike his ancestor, he was not blessed with strength but with the power of creation, an art lost in this series' timeline. The story is that the reader is minding his/her own business, but is then interrupted by a weird tingly feeling as his/her world suddenly starts warping into the world of Dragon Quest Builders, and his/her body starts to change against his will. After the physical transformation ends, his (the reader is now totally a male if he was a female before) mind starts clouding up (making him dizzy) and he starts forgetting all about his previous self (also against his will), making him hold his head in fear and tells/screams himself to remember, but then he loses his ability to speak (other than yelps, grunts, battle cries, and so forth) and he is losing all memories and personality of his previous self as he suffers from amnesia, making it completely impossible to remember his previous self or life and leaving him as an unnamed Builder. The Builder awakens in Alefgard at the words of Rubiss asking if the Builder can hear Her voice. She explains the fate that has befallen Her world, and that the Builder is the only person alive with the ability to forge items from raw materials, as all others have fallen prey to the curse of the Dragonlord that has clouded creative clarity the world over. The Builder begins the tutorial of the game entombed in an unmarked grave, where in Rubiss explains the process of crafting tools and what will be required of the Builder to save the remaining lives left in Alefguard (while being interrupted frequently). The Goddess ends the tutorial by stating that he is not a Hero, and thus the Builder's responsibility lies strictly with rebuilding the towns of Alefguard and giving safe haven to the people. The Goddess is then flabbergasted to hear Her chosen one "doesn't get it" and "just wants to build things" (but the Builder may in fact rebuild the towns of Alefguard and giving safe haven to the people, which depends on the Builder himself). There should also be quotes from the characters in this story so we know what they're saying and what they're thinking. Also, it is a POV reader story, so it should not be in an author's point of view (my, I, mine, etc), and it should be from the point of view of the reader (you, your, etc).
Response: You never thought this day would be so bizarre. Minding your own business, perhaps scrolling through your phone or watching TV, when a weird tingly feeling spreads across your body. You look down to see the world around you starting to warp, blending into strange shapes and colors until they become completely unfamiliar. Panic rises in your chest. "What the...?" you mutter, but your voice is cut off as the tingling intensifies, forcing you to focus on your own body. Your limbs feel heavy, and you glance at your hands, which are shrinking right before your eyes. The sight of your fingers growing smaller and stubby fills you with dread. It quickly becomes apparent that your entire form is becoming chibified - your once detailed human body reduced to smaller proportions, your head becoming oversized in comparison to the rest of you. If you were female, your breasts flatten, your feminine curves disappear; your body reshapes itself into a distinctly male form; an Adam's apple forms in your throat. A feeling of uncomfortable inversion makes you acutely aware that your very genitals have irrevocably transformed into male ones. You barely have time to process this when an overwhelming dizziness overtakes you. You attempt to resist, holding your head, trying to remember who you really are. "No! I... have to remember... Who was I? What was I doing before this?" But your mind is already slipping, memories evaporating one by one like mist in the morning sun. Faces, names, moments that defined you dissolve, replaced with knowledge foreign yet integral to you. Skills to combine materials, to build new things from nothing. Your own best efforts to fight off this assault on your identity fail miserably; the clarity of your previous self shatters into incomprehensibility. You can feel yourself becoming someone else. "Think... remember...!" you scream in your mind, but then even that fight, that voice, is lost. Instead of who you were, you're left only with who you are now: the Legendary Builder. You open your eyes to an unfamiliar place. Darkness surrounds you, and the words of a powerful being echo in your mind. "Builder, can you hear my voice?" Rubiss's voice resonates within you, like a wave that push away the last fragments of your past. "Yes... I hear you," you think, finding yourself unable to speak but able to comprehend every word. "A great curse has fallen upon this world. The Dragonlord’s foul magic has left Alefgard in ruins, stripping its people of the ability to create and leaving them to the mercy of the elements and monsters." Your confusion diminishes as her message becomes clear. You understand. You're the only one left with the power to rebuild, to create. Others may have given up hope, but not you. Not anymore. "The fate of this world depends on you. You must learn to forge items from raw materials, combine them to sustain life, and protect the people of Alefgard. This grave," she continues as you find yourself in an unmarked tomb, "shall be your starting point. Your new life begins now." With Rubiss's guidance, you familiarize yourself with the basics of your new abilities. Each time you follow her instructions, it's as though the actions are imprinted within you; knowledge feels like it's being recalled rather than being learned anew. In moments, you craft your first tools, ready yourself to face the shattered world. As Rubiss's tutorial ends, she hesitates before saying, "Remember, Builder, you are not a Hero. Your task is not to slay the Dragonlord, but to rebuild, to bring hope back to Alefgard." You nod, the urge to build is already etched into your soul. "And yet..." Rubiss is momentarily incredulous as your thoughts leak to her, "All you worry about is building things...?” For a moment, the small part of you remains distant, unattached. Lofty goals and destinies do not interest you as much as the simple, rewarding act of creation. Your journey starts now, and though your memories of your past life are gone, the adventure that awaits you will soon fill your world. You face Alefgard not as your old self but as Builder—the Legendary Builder destined to rebuild and restore hope. Your first steps into this new world are cautious but filled with a sense of inexorable purpose. You're here to construct, to develop, to create worlds where there was nothing but darkness. Your heart beats with anticipation; Alefgard is broken, but with your help, it might just be made whole again.
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