### Transformation of the Builder
You are just going about your day, lost in the mundanity of modern life. The sky clear above, the familiar hum of the city surrounds you. Everything is perfectly ordinary until... an odd, tingly sensation begins to creep up your spine. You look around, but nothing seems out of the ordinary. The ground beneath you distorts, appearing to ripple like water underfoot.
"What the..." you mutter, feeling an unnerving shiver course through your body.
Suddenly, your surroundings begin to warp and twist. The cityscape around you dissolves into patches of bright colors, transforming and yet to emerge as a different place -- a simplistic blocky landscape from your childhood memories of “Dragon Quest Builders.” You watch in horror as the world reshapes itself before your eyes.
Your own body starts changing as well. If you are a female, you immediately feel your feminine curves recede, your breasts flattening, your very physiology morphing into a more male shape. There’s a tightening in your throat, and you can't help but touch it as you feel an Adam's apple form.
"No, this can’t be happening!" you scream, but the voice that comes out is unmistakably masculine. The involuntary change is as bewildering as it is terrifying. Your hands grasp your clothes desperately, attempting to shake off your horror, but they too begin to alter, melding into the iconic blue tunic and red scarf of the Builder's garb.
Your muscles and bones constrict, and you shrink rapidly, becoming chibified with stubby limbs and an oversized head. It is a strange sensation, and your vision reels. Dizzy with this irrational transformation, you feel yourself rapidly losing your sense of identity. The world settles into the familiar, blocky landscape of Alefgard.
Your mind spins, struggling to maintain a hold on who you were. “Remember! I have to remember!” you cry out, but a thick fog sets in your consciousness. Your memories start slipping through your mental fingers, replaced by a new flood - the memories, thoughts, and identity of the Builder. The dizziness intensifies, your resistance waning.
"No! Hold on!" you scream to yourself, clutching your head in a fruitless effort to hang on to your past. But soon, even the sound of your voice is gone, draining your energy for every struggle you make. Words abandon you as you can no longer vocalize your protestations - only grunts, yelps, and battle cries remain capable of passing your lips.
In a final, heartbreaking moment, you realize you no longer remember who you were.
Your only identity and being are now those of the Builder, the Legendary Builder who has been revived to save Alefgard.
A soothing voice echoes in your now-clear mind, breaking the silence. "Builder, can you hear me?" the voice asks.
You sit up and look around, seeing the unmarked grave you're entombed in, illuminated by an ethereal light. The voice belongs to Rubiss, the Goddess.
"This world lies in ruin," Rubiss explains, her voice serious. "Only you have the power of creation to restore what the Dragonlord has destroyed. You must rebuild, safeguard the survivors, and bring life back to Alefgard. Though you're no Hero, your creativity can defeat the curse that has stolen the memories of creation from the people."
You feel an innate understanding of your task, but your mind, fresh from transformation, begins to question everything. "But do I need to save the world?" you think instinctively, realizing you'd much rather build for the sheer joy of it than for some grand purpose.
"B-Builder...?" Rubiss stutters, almost taken aback by your nonchalance.
You nod, your first steps into Alefgard filled with anticipation. The voice of Rubiss continues to guide you through the creation process and explain your responsibilities, but deep down, you cannot hide the excitement of building things anew.
"Protect them, provide a safe haven," Rubiss insists, her voice laced with urgency.
But as your hands craft the raw materials to begin something new, you think to yourself, "I'll do my best, Rubiss. But whether I settle everything depends on if I decide to build or to protect."
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.
Images were generated with OpenAI's AI system, DALL·E 2, or uploaded by the user.
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), instant clothes change (the reader's clothes instantly transform into male Builder's outfit), height regression (making him/her shorter due to his/her chibification, making his/her body small with stubby limbs, an oversized head, anime eyes, 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 (which he thinks was just a simple amnesia, this explaining why he has no memory of anything before this moment), 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 leather sash that wraps around his left shoulder to his right waist, and a brown leather belt (with a gold circular buckle at the front) around his waist that is 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: ### Transformation of the Builder You are just going about your day, lost in the mundanity of modern life. The sky clear above, the familiar hum of the city surrounds you. Everything is perfectly ordinary until... an odd, tingly sensation begins to creep up your spine. You look around, but nothing seems out of the ordinary. The ground beneath you distorts, appearing to ripple like water underfoot. "What the..." you mutter, feeling an unnerving shiver course through your body. Suddenly, your surroundings begin to warp and twist. The cityscape around you dissolves into patches of bright colors, transforming and yet to emerge as a different place -- a simplistic blocky landscape from your childhood memories of “Dragon Quest Builders.” You watch in horror as the world reshapes itself before your eyes. Your own body starts changing as well. If you are a female, you immediately feel your feminine curves recede, your breasts flattening, your very physiology morphing into a more male shape. There’s a tightening in your throat, and you can't help but touch it as you feel an Adam's apple form. "No, this can’t be happening!" you scream, but the voice that comes out is unmistakably masculine. The involuntary change is as bewildering as it is terrifying. Your hands grasp your clothes desperately, attempting to shake off your horror, but they too begin to alter, melding into the iconic blue tunic and red scarf of the Builder's garb. Your muscles and bones constrict, and you shrink rapidly, becoming chibified with stubby limbs and an oversized head. It is a strange sensation, and your vision reels. Dizzy with this irrational transformation, you feel yourself rapidly losing your sense of identity. The world settles into the familiar, blocky landscape of Alefgard. Your mind spins, struggling to maintain a hold on who you were. “Remember! I have to remember!” you cry out, but a thick fog sets in your consciousness. Your memories start slipping through your mental fingers, replaced by a new flood - the memories, thoughts, and identity of the Builder. The dizziness intensifies, your resistance waning. "No! Hold on!" you scream to yourself, clutching your head in a fruitless effort to hang on to your past. But soon, even the sound of your voice is gone, draining your energy for every struggle you make. Words abandon you as you can no longer vocalize your protestations - only grunts, yelps, and battle cries remain capable of passing your lips. In a final, heartbreaking moment, you realize you no longer remember who you were. Your only identity and being are now those of the Builder, the Legendary Builder who has been revived to save Alefgard. A soothing voice echoes in your now-clear mind, breaking the silence. "Builder, can you hear me?" the voice asks. You sit up and look around, seeing the unmarked grave you're entombed in, illuminated by an ethereal light. The voice belongs to Rubiss, the Goddess. "This world lies in ruin," Rubiss explains, her voice serious. "Only you have the power of creation to restore what the Dragonlord has destroyed. You must rebuild, safeguard the survivors, and bring life back to Alefgard. Though you're no Hero, your creativity can defeat the curse that has stolen the memories of creation from the people." You feel an innate understanding of your task, but your mind, fresh from transformation, begins to question everything. "But do I need to save the world?" you think instinctively, realizing you'd much rather build for the sheer joy of it than for some grand purpose. "B-Builder...?" Rubiss stutters, almost taken aback by your nonchalance. You nod, your first steps into Alefgard filled with anticipation. The voice of Rubiss continues to guide you through the creation process and explain your responsibilities, but deep down, you cannot hide the excitement of building things anew. "Protect them, provide a safe haven," Rubiss insists, her voice laced with urgency. But as your hands craft the raw materials to begin something new, you think to yourself, "I'll do my best, Rubiss. But whether I settle everything depends on if I decide to build or to protect."
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