#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

This week we have animal transformation. What do you like? What do you hate? What would you like to see?

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

Ovechkin gets bitten by the sheep that Russian TV station gave him for his birthday one year, at which point it disappears into the night and he becomes a were-ship, I mean sheep. I have no idea what would happen next but it probably wouldn't involve falling out of windows.

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT Sheering and giving people knitted items made from his wool.

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

Ha, there's an SPN RPF werewolf fic where a knitter makes a scarf from the werewolf's fur and wears it as a "come hither." Little does Ovi understand why it pleases him so much to make his teammates wear his wool...

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

I want more worldbuilding! "LOL this just happens in hockey" was only amusing the first dozen times or so.

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - Yes, there could certainly be more world building and maybe more confusion about what is happening to them.

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

I'd like a more serious/darker take. I know the trope is pretty much the opposite of dark, but in general I like the "crack being treated seriously" treatment and I just think there's potential for fucking someone up in animal transformation fic.

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

NA

Exactly what I was coming over here to say. My idea was of one of those "second form matches the team's form" stories, only with some kind of condition that forced transformation sometimes (full moon?) and some pretty horrific consequences that could happen to those psychologically "stuck" between their old team's form and the new one. (You're 100% fucked and probably dead if you're slow to deal and end up transforming into a half-leaf half-whale, but even the easier transitions could suck pretty badly if your body got confused when it was trying to put your organs back where they were before.)

...which all sounds pretty gruesome, but I was thinking more about a story where someone was panicking about not adjusting quickly enough and the crushing psychological pressure of knowing that he could die if he didn't get with the program fast enough, rather than actually detailing any grisly fallout.

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

da

But if your choice was change or die, and you weren't changing, why wouldn't you put in a trade request or, you know, quit hockey? And what is the point of team transformations in a universe where they risk injuring or killing the team's assets? I think this is a dark take that would need a fair amount of worldbuilding to be convincing, if being convincing is a goal.

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

I would actually love to read this! It'd be interesting to read about how the league would deal with cases where players did get stuck, are they blaming the other team? The player? And how that was being treated by the public, too. (Although this might fall under that grisly fallout part...) Does this affect how trades are done? Is it harder to change your mindset if you're being traded mid-season or during the off-season or what?

Maybe I'm thinking about this too much, but "crushing psychological pressure" really appeals to me, lol.

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

I think there was a K/T fic like that. I thought it was decent but I'm not sure how many "animal transformation as the hurt part of hurt/comfort" I'd be able to read before I got just as sick of them as I am of the stress form otters.

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT There are dark options, someone does something horrifying in their animal form and they can't forgive themselves. Getting stuck as an animal forever and not being able to communicate with anyone, but still remembering who they were. Or they keep behaviours when they turn back, so they can't play the same anymore.

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I'd love to read all of these. I feel like the second one would be best for a proper horror fic, but the first would be fun (... "fun") as well, it reminds me of (more oldschool) werewolf fic which I always liked.

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

There's definitely a Kari Lehtonen weasel transformation fic waiting to be written.

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - I'm probably going to regret asking, but why a weasel?

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

His nickname is Kärppä, which is Finnish for weasel (the same thing that Oulun Kärpät refers to)

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

I'm like almost positive I've seen at least a snippet of that before.

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

On FFA. There was.

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

I've always wondered about size, like do people turn into giant cats or massive otters.

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

This is always my problem, too! What about conservation of mass?! I'm not sure why this bothers me so much, but it does.

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

Man, you guys. And here I just came to say, it'd be nice to see some orca/shark action, wouldn't that be funny?

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

I just want to know how it works. Is this an AU where the Canucks rink is built on the water's edge and there's, like, a water entrance for the players to duck into when they need to be orcas and they swim directly out into the ocean? Do the Sharks have a literal tank in the arena somewhere? Or are they itty bitty versions of orcas and sharks that just need a large aquarium to share?

NGL, I have always imagined the Jets rookies looking like this:
http://www.internationaljettrash.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/DSC1255-1024x680.jpg

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

This is becoming one of my favorite tropes. I'm not into some of the horror ideas mentioned upthread, but I wouldn't mind seeing some that are more serious than "lol, he turns into a puppy when stressed." Maybe Tyler Bozak has always hated the feeling of being a maple tree, staying in one spot, rooted. A feeling that gets worse after Phil has been traded, like he's been left behind and Phil will do all these great things, and Bozie will never change.

One thing that often comes up when the second form idea is used in fics is why don't teams name themselves the Minnesota Goal Scorers or the Tampa Bay Stanley Cup Winners. But maybe it's the other way around. It's not that team name/mascot/etc. determines second form, it's that teams name themselves after the second form they start to take on. That's why Vegas hasn't been named yet. No one in the front office has started changing, and no one knows what the second form will be. Of course, front offices can be hit or miss. Front office folks don't always change and there's a lot of opinions about whether it matters if a coach or a GM or a VP transforms. Not to mention that as people get older, sometimes their form can revert to old teams. Nobody gave George McPhee grief that his eagle looked a lot like a falcon when he was the GM of the Capitals, but maybe people are whispering now that he's the reason Vegas is nameless and the owner is losing merch money daily. What if they pin their hopes on the expansion draft with crazy reporters stalking all the claimed players over the summer hoping to get the first scoop on what the new second form will be? How does that make the players feel? Are they still changing into their old forms or unable to transform at all as the summer wanes? How much pressure are newly signed free agents under to come into camp able to transform into the right thing or is that the reason for the weird team building activities we hear about teams doing in camp (there's an expectation that it takes time and practice and feeling)?

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Also, I realize trees aren't animals, but I was contemplating the second form thing and I forgot we weren't just talking about transformation in general. Maybe the Leafs can be squirrels.

Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation

[(Anonymous)]

There is room for more serious takes which aren't dark fic. Like turning into a puppy could be treated seriously, how do you adapt to the different sensory impact, just how bad would a locker room smell to a dog or how do you face your team after being caught as a dog in the dirty laundry.

That trapped feeling is an interesting idea.

Learning the second form could be like learning the system. Are coaches judged on how quickly there players adapt.