Fade In Fade Out

How well do you know your friend?

I don't know where this specific idea came from... but I can tell you that the first thing I thought of with this cap series, is the design and NOT the story.  I've read stories and caps before that involved someone falling in and out of consciousness and honestly enjoyed them.  I've always thought it was an interesting way to help pull people into the subjects roll.  You never know what happened in between the bouts of consciousness, and it offers many more opportunities for fun little reveals.

With a story it's easy to write this in.  Each new bout of conciousness will start with the subject waking up, and can end with them simply fading away.  But in cap form, I thought that it might be kind of cool to show that fading in and out visually.  It would remove the need to narrate anything with phrases like "...and the world slowly faded to black.".  And with the way that I lay out many of my caps, it wouldn't be too hard.  Simply have the text fade from the color of the text background to a more contrasting color.  Each text box would be a moment of consciousness and could remain just his/her voice.

So I knew roughly how I was going to lay this out.  I just needed a story.  And last night it came to me.... at least the basics of it.  I was watching "Last Resort" (a completely meh show, but it passes the time) and they had the crew drugged up.  At one point the captain falls unconscious only to wake up with a needle sticking out of his chest (it was full of adrenaline and had saved his life).

Now I wasn't going to set this cap on a rogue nuclear submarine... but having an injection knock someone out would be a nice story tool.  Now I just needed a reason that someone was transforming our subject, and using a needle to knock him out over and over again.

To be honest, I didn't come up with this story.  Killing a wife in a car accident and being forced to take her place has been done before (and wonderfully too!). I just took the idea since it worked with everything I had set up, and told it in my own way.  I went to writing, and planned that the first few words and the last few words if each paragraph would be obscured, so I had to write something to fil the space, but not have it be important enough to be missed.

And seeing as I still owed Brenda a cap, and this involved a karmic revenge, I figured it would be right up her alley.   Sadly after I finished writing it, I double checked her preferences and realized that she didn't like the idea of full memory loss, nor the idea of being transformed through surgical methods.   So I simply edited out any references to 'Brian' and 'Brenda' and replaced them with 'Calvin' and 'Caitlyn'.

I think the story is a little weak... I originally had intended there to be sex involved in a more direct way.  Something about 'Calvin/Caitlyn' performing a blow job and half way through remembering that she wasn't really Caitlyn (and of course getting an injection to knock him out because of it), but as with the last few caps, I just couldn't write that out with any zeal.   So the only sex is mentioned in passing.  I think the story suffers from that, but it's just a limitation that I have to live with for now.  Hey... at least it might work for all those people out there that don't want to read a XXX cap.