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I wonder how "Karyn"/Jon will react to the new Karyn life.

This is an interesting way to connect Mackenzie and Karyn.

This is amazing.

Serves her right. He accidentally turns himself into a girl, and she takes the rock from "him" and refuses to change him back because "But Jonnnn... I like you this way!", but when she messes her own body up, Jon is expected to fix it without delay? Nope, karma b.

He shouldn't be able to undo it. He wished he was a girl. That's it. No chance to twist that.

Except that he already earlier wished "I wish that any effects of the wishes made with this stone for the next 48 hours will and in exactly 48 hours from now on." I'm pretty sure the and is supposed to be "end", so it would be "I wish that any effects of the wishes made with this stone for the next 48 hours will end in exactly 48 hours from now on." In other words, it shouldn't matter what this woman wishes for here, she can't make it until he dies because he already limited it to 2 days.

I half expect Sarah's programme to go through a critical Runtime error over this LOL

Actually, tigers don't have slit pupils like small cats, they have round irises like humans. See for yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGq5t7oKV0g

no, a female fox is called a vixen

I'm very much liking this branch so far.

I like Sarah inner thoughts, wonder if/how she will retaliate.

TMI. This should be broken into parts. The first part where it is revealed that the relationship with Karyn was all fake and just because of a wish should be a hub, that anyone else can start from. Because now with it all being a monolith, everyone is stuck with this whole complete huge story where she dies and gets resurrected and all the drama involved as their starting point, or starting something similar from scratch. And it's a big waste for the same part to be replicated multiple times, or for something virtually identical, everyone having to reread slight variations of the same thing many times.

Please, write more :

Another way to interpret this wish is for Jon to experience Karyn life, like a vision or movie or something and when he comes back he doesn't know if he is Jon, cause he knows that originally he was Jon or if he is Karyn since he just lived her whole life and remembers every second of it.

Much like a certain Djinn in another branch, your wish is my command, or at least my strong suggestion.

Basic idea is the wish sent Jon's mind back in time to the moment of Karyn's birth, and he's lived as the new Karyn, creating a different timeline. The original Karyn was shunted into the life of Alternate Jon at the moment the new timeline caught up to when she made the wish.

Dude
Whatever you do
DO NOT DROP THIS STORY I NEED MORE

I figured he's himself.. but living the life he'd have lived if born instead of Karyn...and as a girl,. but I left it open for other interpretations. I figured in this version girl Jon..as yet unnamed(but not Karyn...too confusing) just didn't choose a path that led to being in the bedroom with male Karyn)

I wonder who Jon is in this new life, is he someone completely new, ie was a whole family and backstory created to realise Karyn wish or is he on a family that he knows something about, can't wait for more updates.

Thanks, it's been a fun one to write so far.

It's been a while since I've been so invested in a branch. Great story, fun plot, and an interesting mix of recycled characters.

I'm sure she's not the only licensed driver...besides she might not have gotten a license and makes Biff pick her up.

A friend who already has a license and car, like Sarah? Yeah I don't Julia would like to be friends with her, maybe someone else.

I wonder what would happen if CiCi and Mackenzie meet.

Uh oh

Karyn's home life seems particularly interesting to me here. Clever, clever, using both Bethany and Alyssa for it!

Classic misunderstanding trope.

I wrote this a while ago and I haven't made any progress on it so I figured I would post as is.

Interesting

The intention is that the spark of Karyn and Sarah's big fight was some kind of engineered sitcom misunderstanding, with both of them feeling like the other turned on them.

I did that in my fork..but Zoe is being repurposed as an upgraded Zoe...in yours she could be elsewhere.

An interesting notion, but I do have the Gibson family written off as moving to Greece. That said, the programs that played Zoe, Mikey, and Linda might be similarly repurposed like Jon was into Mackenzie.

Sadly, “yandere” and “robot” don’t appear to be available tags. Maybe one day.

I wonder who she has her heart set on? Maybe Zoe? LOL Or, and this could be really interesting if done right, she plans on making Jon her love interest and basically redeeming that character from blandness?

Gooose, you are hella creative.

I don't care, as long as Project J has bigger boobs than Karyn.

No, they won't become clones, but most of them will get good enough to pass as who they're supposed to be. In either case the physical stuff is the easiest to learn. Larry will be a fair bit sweeter than Sarah, since he has very recent memories of being on the bottom of the totem pole. Jay's probably going to be less of a bully than Mike was etc. The first two weeks is all about getting them up to speed with their new bodies and lives, learning to act like who they appear to be, but as time goes on they'll be encouraged to make their lives their own within reason.

Some participants are going to throw themselves more into their roles than other. Jon in particular is really leaning into his impersonation, and going to get immersed in the role, while someone like Ms. Wong is going to do the bare minimum for the class requirements.

The kids seem to be adapting to their new bodies pretty quickly.
So will they eventually become clones of the original owners of the bodies?
For example, will Larry become as conceited and stuck up as the original Sarah?

Don't spare the details, I'm loving where you are taking this. Thank you.

That's the plan, Guest! I think some programmers, particularly those who aren't working on the Mackenzie side of things will be more wary of pushing the two together again, but perhaps seeing the benefits once Mackenzie gets to strut her stuff a little bit

I can also see people pushing the new Jon/Mackenzie as Karyn new friend, they already worked before, the problem was that Jon was too bland/generic, but Mackenzie is a lot more interesting and that is kinda the reason they are doing this.

Sarah is definitely going to be driven crazy by her.

Plan is for a higher up in the program to tell them that it's unsafe to swap while pregnant, so Jon will end up swapped longer than the rest of the class.

From a timing standpoint, Jon should be back in his own body long before having to deliver babies - unless the machine breaks down and he gets stuck. Just sayin'.

Oops, I spoke too soon LOL

Seems like the swaps would lead to "experimentation" and experimentation could lead to "unintended consequences," like pregnancy....

Hey Gooose, I love body swaps, and the further the fish is from the water, the better.

Well, the director is also an AI, I'd imagine.

Hey, perhaps they could have met during the 2002 World Cup which Korea and Japan co-hosted. More reasonable timeline-wise than the Olympics...

I like the addition of cutting together a traditional 2d version of the show.