I am ecstatic that someone asked for this chapter. It has got to be my most favorite scene to write so far for any of my fics. Weird, I know, but I just loved the overall ick about the transformation.
I wanted the transformation to be painful. I mean, think about it, your entire body is pretty much doubling in size almost. And in such a quick amount of time? It has to be painful and a bit gruesome on top of that.
I took a hell of a lot of inspiration from The Thing. If you know me, you know I love horror transformations and The Thing is like gold to me. One scene in particular is pretty much exactly mirrored in the Chapter and if you remember the movie, you’d recognize it. It’s the scene where Dr Copper goes to defib Norris and Norris’ chest splits into a gruesome mouth and bites Copper’s arms off. Boy if I didn’t do at least some of that I’d be sorry, so that’s where we get Garrus’ chest caving in under Jai’s hands, haha.
I admit I love that scene way more than I probably should. Not just because I can give Jai quite the scare or put Garrus through the torturous process, but just because I’m crazy for the trope. I’m weird but, eh, I had to do it for a dark fic like this. I mean, vampires should have horror with them, so what’s more horrific?
And if you’re weird like me about transformations, I give you this:
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