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Categories:Fictional Worlds and Universes
Created by: Blot (AKA: dis_guise)
First Appeared:
Description
The Costume Gun
The Costume Gun is a gun that is designed to turn a targeted person
into a wearable, living body-suit. Once another person steps inside
the body-suit costume, they will be resized and reshaped to fit.
The target's memories will be available to the wearer once the
costuming is complete.
To return the target person back to normal, the wearer would remove
the costume, and shoot it with the Costume Gun again.
Permissions
Open for new stories: Not Officially
Permission required:
Permissions contact: None
Questions contact: N/A
Rules
Collected from reviews on remaining Costume Gun stories on
FictionMania
Reviewed by Blot on 08/31/2011
Nice quickie, but the "zipper pull" on the costumes is supposed to
be harder to reveal -- otherwise people would accidentally be
dismasked too easily. Also, I would hope that the Gun would be
sturdier than that... maybe there are several manufacturers and
some are made shoddily?
Reviewed by Blot on 08/26/2011
Wow, you do work hard to come up with relatively benign uses of the
Gun. Only quibble: the Gun does nothing to the clothes the target
is wearing when zapped. Should have made it clear that that's so:
girl strips before zap or boy separates her clothes from the
her-suit.
Reviewed by Blot on 06/02/2011
@Heather: maybe that would help. It's not that important, so I
wouldn't alter and re-submit the story if I were you, unless there
are some more serious changes you also need to make.
You do seem to be going to some lengths to find ways in which use
of the Gun wouldn't be entirely evil. I suppose that there are more
situations in which a woman would want to be made into a costume
and worn by someone else: have her husband or boyfriend understand
her completely by spending a while as her, cheat on a test or ace a
job interview with the right person wearing her, freely or under
some coercion become a disguise for a spy or an undercover cop. Of
course, there's always the risk that the wearer won't take her off
or wears another people-suit over her and gets stuck, on purpose or
not.
Reviewed by Blot on 06/02/2011
Oh, and one doesn't age while wearing someone else: taking the
Sophia suit off would restore the exact same body that put it on,
apart from the extra memories in its head.
Sorry for doing this piecemeal, but I read the story initially on
my phone, and I can't get the line lengths provided by the FM site
to fit the width of the browser window: they're always too long,
and so my tendency to skim a bit gets reinforced, making me miss
details of any story I read that way. I need to find a workaround
or simply not read stories that way.
I need to read a story thoroughly before I comment. Also, looking
at the zap and what he does right afterwards -- again -- it
actually should be okay as it is. He took a risk, yes, but what he
did was unexpected enough that it could have worked just as you had
it work.
Reviewed by Blot on 05/26/2011
Not bad. Full marks for finding a non-evil way to use the Gun,
although if someone offered to make a sacrifice like that for me
I'd likely turn it down. Also, the new woman has the old one's
memories: presumably she knows she can dismask and restore the
costume to the woman it was made from -- but she also knows that
her original really wanted this. It's... difficult.
I read this on my phone (great having an Android phone and adequate
3G net access) and I'll probably re-read it and find some things to
quibble over. I really need to finish that "official rules of the
Costume Gun universe" story: the one I'm working on has me (okay,
an Author Avatar version of me) zap a beautiful young heiress, put
her on, and as her explain (and sometimes demonstrate!) the rules
for the universe -- and get stuck in her on purpose, of course.
("Hey, I created her, I can steal her life...")
Reviewed by Blot on 05/26/2011
Okay, one quibble. Tom, on being restored after Joan uses the Gun
on him and wears him briefly, believes rightly that the Gun worked.
Why? He should have no memories of anything that happened between a
minute or two before he was zapped and being restored. For all he
knows, he could have just passed out for another reason. Apart from
that, I think you've gotten everything right.
Reviewed by Blot on 05/28/2011
Oh, and an obvious sequel would be for her to zap some young,
attractive, but downright evil person, male or female, and put on
the resulting costume right over the one she's already wearing. I
just suspect that there isn't anyone bad enough to treat this way,
or if there is, who'd want to assume that person's identity? I
suppose there'd also be the influence of having the baddie's
memories and a copy of his or her brain as well: it might be
unpleasant, or lead to "becoming the mask."
Reviewed by Blot on 05/23/2011
Not bad. It's not in my style -- no surprise, and it shouldn't be
anyway -- and I'm starting to see some of the weaknesses of the
first-person recollection that is usual for my own Costume Gun
stories (notably, too much telling and not enough showing, the
obvious problem for me as well). A good effort, a good yarn, and I
can't really fault it.
One quibble: the memory gap caused by a zap should maybe be just
slightly longer. Perhaps it varies with the model of Gun and the
individual zapped, though.
Reviewed by Blot on 05/23/2011
On a re-reading, the memory gaps seem about right. Some of the
details about the Gun probably were superfluous here and don't
advance the story (such as the three 9-volt batteries), but I can
see that you were doing your best to keep things canon.
Interesting that any one Gun doesn't get used a lot: most people
who get one use it once or twice, then hide it or discard it, apart
from that modeling agency. I really should write a story that's a
bit like the novel Happy Anniversary Cosmic Sponge: A Memoir, by
Gregory Erickson, in which someone with the ability to take over
bodies (the former bodies end up gibbering and insane, or dead)
goes from one to another to another over the course of a long and
far-from-usual life. In this case it wouldn't be an innate talent
allowing a series of new stolen lives, but merely zapping someone
new and putting the costume on (over the last one, or after taking
off the last one).
Reviewed by Heather St. Claire on 05/23/2011
@Blot...appreciate your thoughts. I would like to try out a very
different idea for a CG story that came to me today. Question: if a
chronically ill person puts on a costume created from a healthy
person, their illness will be "cured" as long as they keep the
costume on, correct?
Reviewed by Blot on 05/23/2011
Yeah, you essentially become who you wear, physically, and as much
in mind and self as you like. So a sick old man could wear a
healthy young woman and be healthy, with or without putting another
costume on over the her-costume. He could be the woman for fifty
years, then take her off and even restore her (fifty years older,
with that long a memory gap) -- almost nastier than killing her,
really.
originally posted by cj on 2015-08-02, 3 edits, entryid=9280
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