*Laughs*
No answer I give you honestly will satisfy you, so don’t expect that, but I assume you want some commentary on “Into the Night of God”. I can provide some context for why the story went where it did, but I’m not going to excuse it or apologize for it, so definitely don’t expect that.
The designing mechanism for the story, the framework that the commissioner and I decided on from the outset, was to take a conventional aspect of these sorts of stories and turn it on it’s head. Generally, when a character is going to undergo some sort of animalistic TF, or any extreme TF which also requires a vast mental TF, nearly every story makes the decision to tell the story in the following way:
1) Character is manipulated mentally, such that he behaves like the target animal/TF result while retaining his previous body.
2) Only then, after the mental change is complete or nearly complete, is there ever any extreme body modification, generally castration or amputation, but also destruction of voice etc. Some stories don’t include this step at all, however.
Now, I don’t think this is a conscious decision. Changes to someone’s mind, in this genre, always feel less extreme than changes to someone’s body. The arc, then, makes logical sense–but the commissioner suggested inverting it. What would a story look like if all of the extreme physical changes happened first, and then the mental changes followed, with the mind forced to match the body? I found it intriguing, and so the basic plot was formed.
I knew from the beginning that I wanted three parts of the story, each in a different character’s voice. The doctor’s journals (Part 1: The Accident) came rather easily. Part 2: Homecoming was much more difficult for me to write, though it was more because of the style that I struggled than anything. When I reached Part 3, however, I realized that the kind of character who earnestly do this to two people, two strangers, would…well, I knew that Part 3 was going to be really, really fucked up.
I discussed my thoughts on the final part with the commissioner and he was down with it. I wrote the entire part in a single day. It made me feel rather sick, but I was confident that it was the correct thing to write. Anything else would have treated the entire scenario too lightly. The extremeness of the tale required an extreme character–still I, like everyone else, was unprepared for how extreme he was going to become.
So, would I do that? Because the story necessitated it. Because writing it any other way would have been shrinking back from the reality of these stories. Welcome, gentlemen, to the heart of the MC/TF genre. I have said before, that every story I write is a rape story. I have said before that what I write isn’t so much erotica, as erotic horror. The fact is, writing these stories requires characters who are insane, who completely disregard the rights of others, who embrace complete sadism, who conceive of others as objects and tools and animals who ought to worship them. So why would I do this? Because it was necessary.
I think the real question is: Did it make you cum?
God I sure hope not.
*Laughs some more*
Bracken's Corner 