You were minding your own business, lost in the vivid world of a good book, when suddenly a strange, tingling sensation crept over your skin. Your surroundings began to distort and warp, as if the reality you knew was being dissolved and replaced with something entirely different. Dimly, you noticed that your body felt peculiar, as if clay in the hands of an unseen sculptor.
“What’s happening to me?” you wondered aloud, but the tingle quickly turned into a wave of transformation.
If you were female before, you felt your breasts flatten, your curves disappear as your form shifted to that of a male anatomy. An Adam's apple formed in your throat, altering your voice even though you would soon find your ability to speak taken away. Your previously feminine genitals inverted and reshaped themselves into male ones, the sensation both surreal and indescribably strange.
Your clothes morphed next, quickly transforming from whatever you had been wearing into a blue tunic with a red scarf, matched with a black undershirt, white pants, and brown leather gloves and boots. You felt a brown leather sash wrap from your left shoulder to your right waist, complemented by a belt adorned with a gold buckle and practical accessories like a sleeping roll and water skin. A blue Phrygian cap with large goggles on top settled on your now sandy-brown, spiky hair.
The changes continued: you watched your height regress, your body becoming shorter, your limbs stubby, and your head disproportionately large with anime-like eyes. Your age flickered as if rewinding, and you became an unmistakable chibi character.
“Why... can’t... stop...” you managed to mutter as your voice grew strained, then rapidly altered. The last coherent words you spoke vanished as your vocal capabilities were reduced to mere yelps, grunts, and battle cries.
You held your head, feeling the dizziness overwhelm you as your mind grew fuzzy. Memories of your previous life slipped through your fingers like grains of sand, disappearing into an unknown abyss despite your best efforts to retain them.
“No... I have to remember...” you mentally screamed, grappling with the encroaching emptiness. But the struggle was futile—the amnesia set in as your previous self and all you knew dissolved.
The transformation complete, you awakened in a crypt, the darkness around you interrupted by the calming voice of Rubiss calling out to you. “Builder, can you hear my voice?”
You opened your eyes—no longer yourself, but the Builder, a young man imbued with the power to create in a world cursed to forget.
Rubiss’s voice continued, “The world of Alefgard has fallen into ruin and despair. You are the only one left with the power to create, to rebuild our shattered world.”
Standing up within the small tomb, you gazed around with a sense of purpose instilled within you. Rubiss explained the basics of crafting tools and your necessary tasks to protect the surviving inhabitants.
"But remember," She cautioned, "You are not a Hero. Your role is to rebuild, to give hope and safe haven to Alefgard’s people."
Though your head was still foggy with the remnants of the magical transformation, the instructions made their way clearly into your mind. You felt an odd sort of excitement and curiosity bloom within you. The creator within you was eager to build. The Goddess seemed to sigh when she sensed your primary focus.
You found yourself saying — through internal resolve, not words — “Let's build.”
Rubiss hesitated slightly, sensing your sassy nature. “Focus on the task at hand,” She insisted, "There is much to be done, and the fate of Alefgard rests upon your shoulders."
Yet deep within, you knew building was your true calling. You took a deep breath—now, you were the Builder, the Legendary Builder, tasked with mending the wounds of a broken world. Your backstory, former identity, everything about your previous self was gone, leaving you with only the excitement and the endless creative possibilities in the world before you.
In the blink of an eye, you blinked away all remnants of what was, and began anew, a formidable Builder ready to face any challenge.
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 a 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: You were minding your own business, lost in the vivid world of a good book, when suddenly a strange, tingling sensation crept over your skin. Your surroundings began to distort and warp, as if the reality you knew was being dissolved and replaced with something entirely different. Dimly, you noticed that your body felt peculiar, as if clay in the hands of an unseen sculptor. “What’s happening to me?” you wondered aloud, but the tingle quickly turned into a wave of transformation. If you were female before, you felt your breasts flatten, your curves disappear as your form shifted to that of a male anatomy. An Adam's apple formed in your throat, altering your voice even though you would soon find your ability to speak taken away. Your previously feminine genitals inverted and reshaped themselves into male ones, the sensation both surreal and indescribably strange. Your clothes morphed next, quickly transforming from whatever you had been wearing into a blue tunic with a red scarf, matched with a black undershirt, white pants, and brown leather gloves and boots. You felt a brown leather sash wrap from your left shoulder to your right waist, complemented by a belt adorned with a gold buckle and practical accessories like a sleeping roll and water skin. A blue Phrygian cap with large goggles on top settled on your now sandy-brown, spiky hair. The changes continued: you watched your height regress, your body becoming shorter, your limbs stubby, and your head disproportionately large with anime-like eyes. Your age flickered as if rewinding, and you became an unmistakable chibi character. “Why... can’t... stop...” you managed to mutter as your voice grew strained, then rapidly altered. The last coherent words you spoke vanished as your vocal capabilities were reduced to mere yelps, grunts, and battle cries. You held your head, feeling the dizziness overwhelm you as your mind grew fuzzy. Memories of your previous life slipped through your fingers like grains of sand, disappearing into an unknown abyss despite your best efforts to retain them. “No... I have to remember...” you mentally screamed, grappling with the encroaching emptiness. But the struggle was futile—the amnesia set in as your previous self and all you knew dissolved. The transformation complete, you awakened in a crypt, the darkness around you interrupted by the calming voice of Rubiss calling out to you. “Builder, can you hear my voice?” You opened your eyes—no longer yourself, but the Builder, a young man imbued with the power to create in a world cursed to forget. Rubiss’s voice continued, “The world of Alefgard has fallen into ruin and despair. You are the only one left with the power to create, to rebuild our shattered world.” Standing up within the small tomb, you gazed around with a sense of purpose instilled within you. Rubiss explained the basics of crafting tools and your necessary tasks to protect the surviving inhabitants. "But remember," She cautioned, "You are not a Hero. Your role is to rebuild, to give hope and safe haven to Alefgard’s people." Though your head was still foggy with the remnants of the magical transformation, the instructions made their way clearly into your mind. You felt an odd sort of excitement and curiosity bloom within you. The creator within you was eager to build. The Goddess seemed to sigh when she sensed your primary focus. You found yourself saying — through internal resolve, not words — “Let's build.” Rubiss hesitated slightly, sensing your sassy nature. “Focus on the task at hand,” She insisted, "There is much to be done, and the fate of Alefgard rests upon your shoulders." Yet deep within, you knew building was your true calling. You took a deep breath—now, you were the Builder, the Legendary Builder, tasked with mending the wounds of a broken world. Your backstory, former identity, everything about your previous self was gone, leaving you with only the excitement and the endless creative possibilities in the world before you. In the blink of an eye, you blinked away all remnants of what was, and began anew, a formidable Builder ready to face any challenge.
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