Initial Reaction: I do like joyful/happy tfs when it comes to my transformations, while I do love using painful and scary transformations that is specifically just when it want it to be creepy or dark to teach a moral of sorts, especially if there are people that get off on transformations that are happening to people that shouldn't be gotten off too.
Role in TF: Both to be honest.
Consent: I do 'forced' sometimes but I mostly prefer willingly unless possession is involved. With some stuff like my dum dum were-aykroyd stories, I make it forced because that is how the relationship of my character and the master goes because he is forced to turn into a female were-aykroyd and he ended up in the dum dum universe and being stuck in that universe in timeline, it is not his fault he ended up becoming female in that universe.
Type of Transformation: Magic, Natural, via possession.
Pain Scale: Enjoyment but not fully turned on by it.
Form: Anthropomorphic or humanoid. I would never do feral animal tfs because that to me is too far, and well let's just say I DON'T like inanimates with a passion. I mean why turn into something that can't even walk or talk unless someone else is doing it for them? Sounds like being physically disabled to me, it's one of those tfs next to sumo wrestlers, stereotype tfs, inflatables, anything Changed related and clowns that I question why they exist.
Sex Change: Both.
Spread of Transformation: I don't know...hands sometimes, feet sometimes first then the rest.
Kinkiness: Despite having called tf 'a fetish I like a lot' in a meme or list I do not actually view it as a fetish nor do I get off to it, I like Tim Burton and character tfs into Tim Burton characters but i'd never say that 'oh yeah, it would be hot to watch myself turn into Betelgeuse' or 'Oogie Boogie would be hot to turn into', I just happen to like character tfs that nobody else has ever done like horror movie characters. Also a lot of my tfs both in roleplays and stories are NOT sexual in the slightest, I mean I liked weight gain at some point but i'm not all 'fat men are hot/aspirational' or anything, I just thought weight gain stories were cute at one point but I grew out of it.
Priority: Story or art. I am not a fetishist by any means.
Gender: Can be any gender really, does not matter.
Mental Changes: None except a few light personality changes and no full animal mindsets when it comes to animal transformations, I mean don't get me started about how cows and pigs and fish are stereotyped as stupid even though in actuality the latter can be taught to recogize an owner. You know what really irks me about some character tfs, they get needessly dark and creepy and then end with MC to make it worse. Is it any wonder I did not like anime character tfs at first? Because if all the tf stories about them are like that, then no wonder I specifically said I wouldn't do any anime character TFs for a while (well that and not being fully versed in anime outside of ones i've seen). If you are going to ruin a character tf by throwing in MC, then forget it, you ain't worth watching, same with RPs with that in them. While if the person likes it that's their preference, but not mine.