Nanase Craft - 45 - HD

Sarah wound up a little bigger than I'd originally planned after someone said they were hoping for that outcome.

That isn't because I was feeling especially indulgent or anything, but because I realized their logic was sound. I had planned for Sarah to basically wind up with the figure of Nanase in panel one, but If the scales balance the "hourglass" shape, then the base form with smaller hips and chest would have to be the low end, and the high end would have to be bigger than Nanase's form in panel one.

So Sarah thanks you, speaker of LOGIC!

(Speaking of logic, I'm pretty sure the side Sarah pushes down should be the wrong side for her to wind up on the "more" end of things, but by the time that occurred to me it was 90% inked and now it's officially an Easter Egg for nitpickers).

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Huh. Is there a reason I've never included the site's commentary with these? I can't think of one, really, and I want to share this commentary in particular here, so BAM:

Commentary

I have preferred responses when it comes to indulgent transformation nonsense:

• Happiness
• Surprise
• Confusion
• Curiosity
• Comedic huffiness (sitcom-esque huffiness, not drama huffiness)
• Unaware, or simply not acknowledging, that anything's happened
• Nitpicking of logic (it's an emotion!)

Any interpretation of the list that includes the potential for actual drama is a mistaken interpretation. I might want that for a serious story or something intended to be dramatic, but as this list is in regard to what I call "indulgent transformation nonsense", no. This is, at worst, a comedically huffy place.

I bring this up because it was while evaluating these preferences of mine that I decided "to heck with it, I should just double down on Sarah liking this sort of transformation. It's fun, it's in character, she should just be thrilled about it."

As a result, I went from being sort of feeling "meh" about this part of this storyline to liking it again.

And I really was feeling "meh", because I sort of agreed with Sarah in panel two, and I felt like there wasn't much more to what was happening than an excuse for indulgent transformation. I'm not opposed to indulgent transformation nonsense, but I want more than that when it's part of a story. I feel very self conscious if I feel there isn't.

Sarah's ecstatic reaction, and the potential reactions to whatever happens next, however, has gotten me on board again with this nonsense.