Back in my room I angrily pulled out my shoebox of junk and threw the rings in. I slammed it back under the bed, shut my bedroom door and began to cry. I just wanted to be cool, I thought the rings would help with that. But I can't even wear them because they don't even fit... When I bought them they looked adult sized and I thought I'd have to grow into them but I must have been looking at the red one that fit dad.
Then Frank come in, violates my space, and calls me a twerp. Then dad calls me a liar. Then Frank tells me I'll be lucky to have as much facial hair as him by the time I'm the same age as him, after he called me jealous!!! Which I am! But I don't want him to know that!
WHY AM I CRYING?
I wish I could grow as much facial hair as him... wait no, I wish I could grow MORE facial hair than him... then he'd be the jealous one. I let out an evil snicker into my pillow. I wish I could grow, did grow, as much facial hair as dad... then Frank wouldn't have said anything! By the time he caught up to me it would be a non issue... ugh.
The tears already drying and I'm holding off giggles... God I hate being a teenager.
Rules "Continuation 1" works off of:
- The characters need to figure out the rules in scene, please don't make them suddenly just know or fully understand a nuance.
- The blue ring is connected to the main character, the red ring is connected to his dad
- The rings don't need to be worn to work. The connection happened by each wearing a different ring.
- The connection remains until someone else wears either ring... doing so will remove both connections. The rings flash when two people bond.
- The ring can swap any trait, specific or vague. Facial hair color, length, density, and growth rate... or beard. Both work just fine initially but just saying beard could be interpreted to mean the hair at current length and that color, not the ability to grow more. It works on concepts like "being a high schooler" or "able to play lottery".
- Simply desiring a trait is enough to start transferring it, wish terminology was used because the character thinks of desires as wishes, but is not needed.
- Only the person who wanted a trait can realize they got it. EVERYONE else including the trait donor thinks things are normal.
- Reality Changes.
- To drastically speed the story along and not require outlandish situations, upon transferring a trait, the recipient is compelled to use it or otherwise access it and it feels normal.
- Transfer timeframe is measured with your heart. Eye color might take 2 minutes, where Full age transfer might take weeks due to height and weight changes... or hours. It depends on how you imagine the science behind the rings work. Maybe the level of desire plays role.
I'm leaving room for others to jump in and make their own rules I did the work getting the rings set up for these two characters and left everything vague enough so you could make things do whatever you want:
2. Body swap - instant
3. Body swap - gradual, already started
4. Life Swap - instant, his body but with dads stats. Age, Job, Access, Expectations, Habits, Knowledge.
5. Life Swap - gradual, already started
6. Part only swap (no traits or concepts someone is said to possess like knowledge or status)
7. Role swap - Son is suddenly treated like adult and father, physically the same as always (boy in a man's world)
8. Unidirectional - only the son/father can request swaps, alternatively it bounces between them.
8. Averaging or limit breaking - doing less than a full swap, or going beyond a full swap like becoming 10 ft tall and 2 ft tall because one was 5'10 and the other was 6'2
