The Camera Girl

 

 

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I always thought trait swaps were interesting, but could never think of something worthwhile until now!

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The girl with the camera had only had the thing for a few hours, but she’d already used its power dozens of times. For each person photographed, the magic-infused device would copy a random trait onto her body. To take full advantage of her newfound power, she’d first turned herself from an average-looking high school boy into a cute, easily approachable girl—one who would be able to easily take any picture she wanted.
 
Asking strangers on the street for photos was awkward at first, but with each attractive girl (and occasional guy, at first), it became easier to get the next one. And with each new trait that she gained, she could sense that the way people would look at her was also slightly changing. Still, it was a convoluted system, since she was never able to guess exactly what might change next, and half the time it felt like something completely new was changing that she’d never even thought of before. Her body slimmed down, her waist thinned, and her proportions took shape as, one by one, each trait was replaced until no trace of her former male self was left. The changes were coming so constantly that occasionally her body had to tune out the feelings, but even just the knowledge and vague sensations of them was completely addicting to her.
 
Some of the changes weren’t even noticed—sometimes her hair grew longer, then shorter, stopping at different lengths along her back, becoming darker, then lighter. It gained and lost various natural stylings, eventually developing long bangs and growing long at the sides. Her face became thin, then wide, then overly cutesy, and her eyes turned from brown to a rare, brilliant blue.
 
Occasionally her height or age would adjust, losing a couple inches or years each time. She was used to being taller than most of the girls her age, and this caused her to unintentionally photograph shorter and smaller girls each time, until she was left with the appearance of a young teenager. But when she finally realized the change and tried to correct for it, she made the mistake of giving herself a much larger-than-average chest from a mature, well-developed lady!
 
Knowing that it could take a while to undo, she decided that it was finally time to stop and take a breather. But even as she tried to relax and assess the changes, the urge to keep people-watching consumed her. Already she had a long list of things that she wanted to try at least once, and for her first day as a girl there were a few more changes that she was not going to settle for. And—along with the tight, heavy feeling under her jacket—there were some things that had to be undone.
 
She never did find out that the random nature of the changes was just due to using the wrong mode. Because when the naive-looking girl gets too lost in her imagination, her expensive-looking camera just might get stolen…