hero trying to stop the villain from launching his doomsday device, but feels weirdly conflicted when the grandstanding villain explains his master plan: release a gene plague that will cause men to spontaneously form a chrysalis, dissolve their bodies, then reform as women - ThreadSky

catastro-v.bsky.social • 15 days ago

hero trying to stop the villain from launching his doomsday device, but feels weirdly conflicted when the grandstanding villain explains his master plan: release a gene plague that will cause men to spontaneously form a chrysalis, dissolve their bodies, then reform as women

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tazman1a.bsky.social•15 days ago

You still need consent.

ekkochambers.bsky.social•14 days ago

Ahh... So that's why he signed that executive order... Playing the long game /s

vermintamimarie.bsky.social•14 days ago

Yes!!! I would love to read this book!

valerievalkyrie.bsky.social•15 days ago

omg this is amazing

louishenwood.bsky.social•14 days ago

As long as I dissolve and am re-created as a younger woman

karlaceguy.bsky.social•14 days ago

Women that can then reproduce by parthenogenesis? Cause if that’s the case, I’m all for it.

linda4us.bsky.social•14 days ago

Lmao

bookishghourl.bsky.social•14 days ago

Woah

catastro-v.bsky.social•15 days ago

his hesitation almost costs mankind everything: but though the villain defeats him and begins the missile launch, in one last desperate act the hero fires a wrist-mounted launcher at it and destroys it—releasing the plague in the villains antarctic lair and its environs

catastro-v.bsky.social•15 days ago

he and his archenemy stare at each other as the chrysalisation begins: him smirking triumphantly, and his foe glaring in fury. before the villain can vent his anger on his defeated foe, his limbs go numb & limp and his vision fades to nothing as the energy is rapidly stripped from his body

catastro-v.bsky.social•15 days ago

at first they dream, of strange and wonderful and, above all, terrifying things. lives that could have been, perhaps *should* have been, but even that flickers and fades eventually, leaving only the barest traces of intent amidst dissolved and fragmented nervous systems

catastro-v.bsky.social•15 days ago

in what seems an eternity and an instant, dreams return. theyre different now, more vivid and feeling far more like reality. the dreamers are different too, something they sense—though they cannot pinpoint what, exactly, about them is different than before

catastro-v.bsky.social•15 days ago

it is no simple thing to reduce a human body to its raw materials and rebuild it from scratch, especially if youre attempting to preserve who they were before. these processes take time, and when at last they wake from their dream and force their way free, five long years have passed

catastro-v.bsky.social•15 days ago

rebirth is a traumatic event. they struggle and thrash and claw until the walls give way and they can at last push and pull through the opening. after hours of struggle, they fall to the floor, coughing and crying in shock at the harshness of breathing air into their lungs and seeing with open eyes

zzeddc.bsky.social•15 days ago

All of humanity could have gotten that.
Tragic

comradephoenix.bsky.social•15 days ago

The mass transformation we all deserve, but will never get. 😔

liliana.transsexual.gay•15 days ago

What if, due to the misfiring, the hero and villain were trapped in the same chrysalis and became one hybrid woman, maybe twice as big as a regular woman

comradephoenix.bsky.social•15 days ago

Or, like, 1.25x a regular woman, but also, plural.

elmyrajones.bsky.social•14 days ago

I would help them tbh

xiaosketch.bsky.social•14 days ago

Someone already mentioned Ranma 1/2 but gender shenanigans aside the comedic beat is giving me so much nostalgia I'M LOVING THIIS

maxwellmercy.bsky.social•15 days ago

Gonna need the villain origin story

riley37.bsky.social•14 days ago

This would be SO cruel to trans men who have surgically transitioned. All that effort, all that pain, all the compromises, and then the villain reverses and negates their transition.

alchemistwriter.bsky.social•15 days ago

He gonna Ranma 1/2 everyone!

catastro-v.bsky.social•15 days ago

nono hes gonna ranma 2/2 everyone

idyll-dream2.bsky.social•15 days ago

No conflict here: choice and consent matter.

frothythesquirrel.bsky.social•14 days ago

Can... can I at least keep my lower junk?

There's a whole Monty Python song describing my feelings on it.

frothythesquirrel.bsky.social•14 days ago

Nevermind, just saw the rest.

shookegg.bsky.social•15 days ago

Oh fuck yes

saltymoongoddess.bsky.social•15 days ago

for future readers who are Enjoying A Nice Thing here, when you see goofies saying goofy things that are clearly being said in bad faith you really should just block them instead of engaging w/them b/c one glance at their profile kinda tells if they're a bot and/or a troll.

protect your peace, fam~

osheokenoya.bsky.social•14 days ago

I very much like your brain and the way you write

liliana.transsexual.gay•15 days ago

Yes please. Second puberty is taking forever. I'm ready for dissolution

catastro-v.bsky.social•15 days ago

skip five years then emerge completely physically refreshed and repaired? yes pls

scarlett-x.transsexual.gay•15 days ago

I would like to second this

splashygirl.bsky.social•14 days ago

hey i wanted to let you know the description of their rebirth was so so so beautiful omg ;_;

mschemistrymd.bsky.social•15 days ago

Lmao, I think I saw a comic like that recently... lemme look!
Found it! 😍

https://www.reddit.com/user/GRS-/comments/1g0npf1/new_comic/#lightbox

ajhaveonethanks.bsky.social•15 days ago

Pretty effective for ending humanity.
Should happen.

clarabroder.bsky.social•14 days ago

Very funny. Also scary.

iellelea.bsky.social•14 days ago

Yeah, but then they turn into a bunch of Karens 😆

cook1ecrumb5.bsky.social•14 days ago

The monkey's paw always curls

red6host.bsky.social•14 days ago

I welcome The Calgon Plague

hernannadal.bsky.social•14 days ago

This is an insanely original twist on the classic villain monologue. Instead of the usual doomsday destruction, it’s a forced evolution—challenging identity, power structures, and biological determinism.

hernannadal.bsky.social•14 days ago

And honestly? Given the state of the world, with reactionary forces clinging to toxic masculinity and gender oppression, it almost reads as a radical act of liberation.

hernannadal.bsky.social•14 days ago

The hero’s hesitation? Maybe it’s because deep down, they know that change—real, fundamental change—terrifies those in power more than any apocalypse ever could.

beckymay74.bsky.social•15 days ago

There's a movie from 90s called Switch...I think you would rather enjoy it. 😉

oyasophia.bsky.social•14 days ago

I would like to help fund this doomsday device, but I'm living on Social Security. I can send 89 cents.

d3vitron.bsky.social•14 days ago

Does this follow the hypothesis of caterpillars retaining memories during metamorphosis.
If so, do it.

stuffabouthockey.bsky.social•14 days ago

Can't the villain just put that stuff in the water that turned frogs gay instead?

extradoodley.bsky.social•14 days ago

whoaie!
good read

curtisma.bsky.social•15 days ago

Plausible

toobiefrank.bsky.social•15 days ago

That’s one way to get world peace.

savean.bzky.team•15 days ago

Well hang on a second, he's got a point there...

mrkurlee.bsky.social•14 days ago

Only the men, right? I'm not going to half-mutate, am I?

ardenonyx.bsky.social•14 days ago

This story is wonderful!

apollomax289.bsky.social•14 days ago

We already saw this in amazing spider-man when he stopped the lizard from turning all of Manhattan into lizard-people. If you go along with the villain to forcibly change people then you are not the hero of the story.

thehalfman.bsky.social•14 days ago

Question: Do you get better knees with the new body?

catastro-v.bsky.social•14 days ago

oh yeah ur good as new

thehalfman.bsky.social•14 days ago

happynoodlegirl.bsky.social•14 days ago

Villain or hero indeed, quite the conundrum. Hero may indeed be stopping another hero from saving mankind (as long as there is some frozen seed stored somewhere). I mean, just look at what happened to Rwanda.