Theatrical Muse, 199

[singindemonhq]

199. you've woken up as the opposite sex this morning... now what?

Yeah, it’s happened every day this week, it usually wears off by noon. It was a bit unsettling at first, but I’ve checked out how everything works and I’m getting used to it.

That doesn't mean I'd want to stay this way. This body’s balanced differently. The top's bad enough, they're heavy and I'm kind of in my own way. It's worse that none of my steps feel right; I'm damn sure they don't look right - some of these bits bounce. The voice isn’t bad but my kind has sex-linked talents and … let's just say this gender’s fine for a holiday but I wouldn’t want to live in it.

This situation can make me feel wrong-footed because it took me by surprise. It shouldn’t have done. If I’d ever thought about it I’d have known it was possible. It was just … the whole thing was kinda unexpected.

Magic has a helluva kick in some dimensions. I’ve heard Wicca from those places sing that spells are better than sex. Maybe it depends on how they look at it. The truth is that the kick from those spells and the kick from really good sex doesn’t seem much different. It's a thing that changes lives, there. The girls tend to teach each other the spells and when that happens they can end up feeling real close. A lot of the Wicca in those dimensions are gay, or they end up that way after they “advance in the art.”

That can hit them with even more problems if one is much stronger than the other, or when they get addicted. The whole thing can lead to some burning issues. The most recent Gig had a mismatched pair of magic users with the weaker one trying to talk the stronger out of magic-addiction! That’s a recipe for disaster. Neither of them were stupid and if they’d thought about it they’d have both known they were heading for hell on a runaway train. Then one of them figured out a way to bail.

Now, one big problem with the Gigs in your world is the security cameras. They turn up everywhere. It made a public show out of one Gig and if you saw that you’ll know that I do a kind of introductory number that makes it clear that I can change shape pretty much at will. It's also kind of negotiable. What they get is what they expect, unless they care to put some thought into it or they’ve got really strong feelings about what they want. The Wicca who called me later had probably given that aspect a lot of thought.

I should have said that some of the shapechanging happens at will - but if I get distracted and if the girl who summoned me is a “never-even-thought-of-going-with-a-guy-gay-girl ...“ Yeah, you can probably guess the rest! I got summoned by an advanced Wicca who feels a whole lot more comfortable with the shape I am now.

The Gig team got her back to this dimension but she can't stay here long. The geneticists are going crazy. Ain’t no way the latest queen and me are going to have children and I sure as hell ain’t indulging in heterosexual sex in the shape I'm in now! Sooner or later the Powers’ll get the whole thing annulled. Then she’ll be put back in her own world somehow and I’ll be back to normal - it'll just never have happened.

Until then you could say I’m having an educational experience. She's been teaching me some new spells. I'm not always a fast learner - but practice makes perfect ...

Muse; Sweet the Singing Demon,
Fandom, BTVS,
Muse, 458

Comments

[doommarine.livejournal.com]

And I thought it was bad when I gained two feet, two hundred pounds of muscle and a tail.

Let me tell you, a wet, cold tail is no way to wake up in the morning.

[singindemonhq.livejournal.com]

Nobody wants to wake up with a cold, wet tail - not unless they've married a mermaid!

As for gaining two feet and two hundred pounds of muscle - don't that happen around puberty, for your kind?

[doommarine.livejournal.com]

Not for me. I was born human. When you spend god-knows (pun intended) how many years in hell, you don't go unscathed. I gained the wolf powers all at once. It's a good thing. On my better days, I can take off a zombie's head in one swipe and if I don't feel like prying open those damnable aluminimum beer cans, why I just EAT the fucker.

Semper Fi!