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Happy Hallow Haunting
A young man decides to entertain his college sweetheart and her siblings she got stuck babysitting on Halloween with a night out, only for things to get spooky for this impromptu family outing...
Happy Halloween! It's a surprise Story Commission! My grand return to doing Writing Comms (for people who think that's worth having a grand return to, anyway). I've been wanting to try getting back into it and
MrTherandomguy42 has decided to be the first at my door for a Seasonal Tale. Honestly, it felt like I was returning to my roots getting comm'd to do a good old fashioned Pokemon TF...
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Mewscaper
Final Wordcount: 8635
Happy Halloween! It's a surprise Story Commission! My grand return to doing Writing Comms (for people who think that's worth having a grand return to, anyway). I've been wanting to try getting back into it and
MrTherandomguy42 has decided to be the first at my door for a Seasonal Tale. Honestly, it felt like I was returning to my roots getting comm'd to do a good old fashioned Pokemon TF...Feat. Art from
MewscaperFinal Wordcount: 8635
Category Story / TF / TG
Species Pokemon
Size 120 x 120px
File Size 1.97 MB
Listed in Folders
Finally got around to this one, I really enjoyed your writing back in the day and was very intrigued by you making this kind of TF (especially Pokemon-related stuff, I can always get behind that). Overall, I really enjoyed this one! For one, I appreciate the time spent to set up this story even if the concept isn't anything mind-blowing.
The time taken to establish the TFees' relationship really served as a boon to the eventual TF. I always like when people take time to establish some preexisting personality for the person TFing, especially when it's paired with some MC so the changes described are elevated. As for the changes themselves, I really like the approach you took with Jack and Tabitha's changes where while they notice them, their minds are being rewired to accept them as who they "really" are. I tend to like the "was I always like this? yep I sure was" kind of beat in this stuff, and it really works in the context of these haughty Ghost-types. The way you portray the puffing out of Tabitha's body as she becomes a Gengar is very well done (though I fully admit I kinda expected a mention of the giant ass tongue they got lol), and I really like the creativity of how the Gourgeist's limbs originating from the hair for Jack (I feel most people writing this would've gone for the regular arms transforming into them but I honestly kinda like this one better). I think my favorite part of the Jack/Tabitha scenes is definitely the interplay between them as they get more intimate, romantic, and heavily accented. I'm not nearly invested in accents enough to know what the intent was, but I think it's a great shorthand way to accentuate any personality change. Also I really like the throwaway line of them not speaking English anymore, I know Poke-speak is rather divisive in TF so I think it's a great way to split the difference while leaving some implied content for the people who really enjoy that kind of stuff.
As for Kyle and Lulu, I find it interesting that they seemed to recognize the scenery but the same could not be said for the previous two. It's an interesting dynamic with any kind of preexisting character/species TF, where there's this spectrum of familiarity the in-universe characters have with the source material, and I think you made a great decision splitting them off like this to provide some variety. I think their specific changes could have used a bit more time but I understand that it might have been a bit more difficult considering the simple designs and the fact that you're turning already innocent kid characters into innocent kid Pokemon, so it's definitely excusable. I do think their section is well-constructed, though, and the eventual bits of family dynamic they have really sweet and enjoyable.
Overall, a really well-done Halloween story! Some pitch-perfect characterization and fun usage of the setting. I'd love to see more works in this vein from you in the future, since you nail this kind of homey and fun TF. Hell, part of me wants to write a little drabble or something about them doing some scaring, that's how pulled in I was by these characters. If that isn't a ringing endorsement, I don't know what is.
The time taken to establish the TFees' relationship really served as a boon to the eventual TF. I always like when people take time to establish some preexisting personality for the person TFing, especially when it's paired with some MC so the changes described are elevated. As for the changes themselves, I really like the approach you took with Jack and Tabitha's changes where while they notice them, their minds are being rewired to accept them as who they "really" are. I tend to like the "was I always like this? yep I sure was" kind of beat in this stuff, and it really works in the context of these haughty Ghost-types. The way you portray the puffing out of Tabitha's body as she becomes a Gengar is very well done (though I fully admit I kinda expected a mention of the giant ass tongue they got lol), and I really like the creativity of how the Gourgeist's limbs originating from the hair for Jack (I feel most people writing this would've gone for the regular arms transforming into them but I honestly kinda like this one better). I think my favorite part of the Jack/Tabitha scenes is definitely the interplay between them as they get more intimate, romantic, and heavily accented. I'm not nearly invested in accents enough to know what the intent was, but I think it's a great shorthand way to accentuate any personality change. Also I really like the throwaway line of them not speaking English anymore, I know Poke-speak is rather divisive in TF so I think it's a great way to split the difference while leaving some implied content for the people who really enjoy that kind of stuff.
As for Kyle and Lulu, I find it interesting that they seemed to recognize the scenery but the same could not be said for the previous two. It's an interesting dynamic with any kind of preexisting character/species TF, where there's this spectrum of familiarity the in-universe characters have with the source material, and I think you made a great decision splitting them off like this to provide some variety. I think their specific changes could have used a bit more time but I understand that it might have been a bit more difficult considering the simple designs and the fact that you're turning already innocent kid characters into innocent kid Pokemon, so it's definitely excusable. I do think their section is well-constructed, though, and the eventual bits of family dynamic they have really sweet and enjoyable.
Overall, a really well-done Halloween story! Some pitch-perfect characterization and fun usage of the setting. I'd love to see more works in this vein from you in the future, since you nail this kind of homey and fun TF. Hell, part of me wants to write a little drabble or something about them doing some scaring, that's how pulled in I was by these characters. If that isn't a ringing endorsement, I don't know what is.
Thank you very much! Such a thorough review gives me a whole lot of warm and fuzzy feelings~ It certainly feels good to get back into writing things like this, with everything I've learned since then... though I may be out of practice writing non-human/pokemon TFs, ufufu.
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