[F4A] Pokeball-based transformations are very underdone and have tons of potential. Catch me, train me, and make me part of your team!
The pokeball is a super underrated transformation method. Think about it. It's a device:
- intended for non-human targets
- that apparently compels (or at least really encourages) obedience and loyalty to the trainer
- can trap its occupant inside and apparently manipulate their form (at least to turn them from corporeal to not, but who's to say it can't do more than that)
- has no obvious reason it wouldn't work on humans.
Yet barely anyone experiments with it as a TF method! I got no idea why. It's not like pokemon TFs are even that rare, they just almost never use it as a method. I've only seen two examples on FA, and they're both great.
This isn't so much a full prompt as it is just wanting to explore it as a method of transformation, usually fully into a new species (if it's just partial, you need to have some other good ideas!). Do the balls just work on people, or is it some sort of editing to make it work? What's it like to be inside one? How does it actually bond the newly-transformed captured human-turned-pokemon to its trainer, and how does it change their form? Who's to say? (We're to say - that's why you should message me and tell me some of your thoughts!)
Aside from this concept, I mostly enjoy animal TFs (particularly livestock, and I would include poke-TFs as pseudo-animal-TFs), partial TG (I'm trans, so this usually looks like a reproductive change rather than my whole body, but I could start male), mental influences and orientation change, or just major changes to my place in the world. The big thing is that there should be a lot of contrast between the old me and whatever I've become or am becoming. I do not like heavily sex-focused play.
It's otherwise a pretty open-ended prompt, so I'm interested to hear your ideas! I'm pretty picky about writing quality (seriously, please be able to write full, interesting, fluent English sentences). I've had a lot of fun with this prompt already exploring some of the weirdness and the kinky interpretations of canon that it makes possible, so please feel free to get weird with it!
I'm looking for short-term, medium-pace setups: I like exploring character dynamics and interesting details, but stuff needs to happen in play! A good setting and detail are good things, but they're in service of fun kinky fantasy.
This post attracts the most frustrating set of partners of anything I've ever posted on this sub, so please read this bit. I am not looking for a mutual TF. I play in single sessions, or at most two or three, and am not looking for elaborate worldbuilding or "post whenever" play. I am picky about basic English writing quality, and it really needs to not take you 15 minutes to write a few sentences. I get like twenty frustrating replies to this post for every good one, so - please tell me you read this when you message, so I know you're at least freakin' trying!
Some ideas that have come up already that I liked:
- A willing experiment where a researcher becomes a member of someone's team to learn things they couldn't otherwise.
- An accident during research on how Pokeballs work. We'll turn me back as soon as we figure out how, but in the meantime, it might be hard not to feel some new urges and a change in our dynamic.
- The ball giving me an ability like Water Absorb as a partial TF method (think water-TYPE absorb)
- Using an Exp. Share without letting me out to gain exp and encourage further transformation
- The ball misreading some part of me (a shirt, an object in my hand) as a signal of my species
- Friendship berries as a sort of soft mind control
- Training/leveling up encouraging further transformation or mental changes
- TMs pushing moves into my mind, and the moves themselves demanding the physical changes to enable their use.
Stuff that does not work:
- Pure fetish "anthro gardevoir with big tits" stuff. Just not my thing. It's about the changes and the discomfort or confusion, not (just) sex.
- "Punishment"-heavy scenarios.