This was day one of  CrizBN's Octransfur event. But despite that, it was uploaded on the 9th. To quote my DA upload: "Oh hey, I finally started uploading stuff for Octransfur 2020 and I was only... *checks watch* inexcusably late!"

Anyway, the prompt for day 1 was Burst, which admittedly sounds more like an inflation prompt to me than a transformation prompt, but it works nonetheless.

Octransfur is a month-long event, created by CrizBN and others, to create transformation-based works based around a one-word prompt for each day. Theoretically, this event might be intended for drawings specifically. The description lists it as an Inktober alternative and goes on to imply drawings rather than writings, but somehow I doubted CrizBN would scream bloody murder over this. I figured that, at most, he might transform me into something, but that's just him being him.

Anyway, just for fun, I decided to go ahead and add a brief note comparing what I did to what he did as I submit each Octransfur entry. Unless stated otherwise, each story is completed before I see his or anyone else's work for that day.

For day one, I kinda had an "Oh, duh, why didn't I realize that?" moment after seeing CrizBN's submission. I know there aren't necessarily any wrong answers for interpreting the prompts, but I am slightly embarrassed that I didn't realize that a tail bursting out was probably what was going through CrizBN's (or a different contributor's) mind when they decided on that prompt. That meaning simply went completely over my head. Either way, I know  dragonizedhope is happy with the result!