How to Cop a Plea

And you thought being transformed was always a dream come true!

So owed Dee a cap.  As I've mentioned times before, I try to do something different for Dee whenever I cap her, so I figured this might be a good idea to explore an idea I had floating in the back of my head for awhile.  The idea wasn't really revolutionary, but I hadn't explored it before;  What would the NEXT 10 minutes be like?

I think Rauk's last cap really brought this idea back to me.  So with just that little bit in mind (and of course keeping in mind no penis in a Dee cap), I started looking for images.  I tend to get drawn into goth girls for Dee so when I came across this image set, I liked it.  The image in the first panel is just as it appeared to me... I didn't crop it at all.

When I looked at that image what I got was nervousness.  Not nervousness like 'oh my goodness, I'm a woman!', but 'Hey copper, stop interrogating me!' So without a real ending in mind I just started writing.  The scene to me was Damien woke up in this body with cops all around not knowing what happened.  But as |I wrote and wrote, I realized that I would need something more for the ending.  And of course more story means another image.

Since I had already established 'Dee' without a face, I figured I would stay with that.  So my main criteria for the next image was something that I could crop the face from, and still have it be an interesting photo.  The photo in the 2nd panel met that criteria... but what the hell was I going to do with the playboy?

I thought about having Dee picking it up out of nervousness, but that's hard to write in a dialog only format.  I thought about putting the 'note' in the playboy, but that just didn't come out very smoothly.  And then it hit me that she's sitting back in her seat, as opposed to sitting forward (like in the first photo).  Almost as if she was shocked.

That's when the idea came to me to use Simone.  Before I had been using Steffi (as Petra and Steffi on the haven are very close).  But Simone has the advantage of not only having a last name, but a well established character that changes men into women, and not always politely.  So I thought of Simone as a villian.... which of course changed the tone of the story to one of 'what just happened' to one of 'wait, I didn't do that!'.

But as I was approaching the end, it was still missing something.  Ironically, Dee was online at the time and we were chatting.  One of the things that came up was the 'HA' caption.  A caption that really has no other purpose than to make someone laugh.  My caption "Where the hell is...." is a good example of that.  No story, no dialog... just funny.  Dee mentioned one that was a picture of Mothra with the text "I said I wish to be Martha... MARTHA!"

And that's when I realized what was missing.  A zinger ending.  I could erase all the dark story (murder plot) that I had started by a quick joke.  That let me write out the last two paragraphs quickly, and become happy with the story.

I mean... come on... who hasn't had a fantasy of not only being a woman, but being in a woman's prison!?

Oh... and funny side story.  Once I cropped the image down for the 2nd panel, I KNEW that I recognized those breasts... but I just couldn't place them.  It only hit me once I posted it.  This is the same girl from "Literature for the Mind, Body, and Soul".  A cap I made just over a year go!