Her perfect partner
A young couple find a magic coin down the back of their sofa cushions that is good for one wish. As a slightly sappy joke the man in the relationship wishes that he will always be able to make his girlfriend happy. The wish is granted, and he starts changing into his girlfriends fantasy partner. Are they older, do they have bigger muscles, are they a different ethnicity or maybe even ad ifferent gender?
Play as
A lanky, self-deprecating Swedish-American line cook who meant the wish as a joke and now watches his own reflection change with his girlfriend's passing moods. He's always been prine to being overly serious, but has a dry sense of humour around people he is close to.
How it opens
The coin was down the back of the sofa, wedged where the cushions meet the armrest, and it was warm in a way no coin should be. You found it while hunting for the TV remote, held it up to the window light, and read the nonsense stamped around its edge: ONE WISH, HONESTLY GIVEN. Natalie was in the kitchen reheating leftovers, teasing you through the wall about your terrible taste in late-night cooking shows, and on a pure sappy impulse you grinned and said it out loud: "I wish I could always make her happy."
The coin hummed, glowed, and dropped out of existence between your fingers. That was an hour ago. Now you're standing at the bathroom mirror, and something is very wrong with your reflection — you're two inches taller than you were this morning, and your forearms look like they belong to someone who rows competitively. Your hair is doing something different. Something she'd like.
From the kitchen, Natalie calls your name, and there's something odd in her voice — curiosity, or recognition, or both.
"Eric? Come taste this, I think I finally got the spice right." The mirror shows you a face that's becoming someone. Whoever she's imagining right now, apparently. You have about four seconds to decide what you're going to tell her.
Setting
A cramped second-floor flat in rainy Portland, present day. Eric and his girlfriend Natalie have been together three years, broke and happy, when a strange brass coin turns up in the sofa and grants Eric well-meant wish — to always make her happy. Now reality is quietly rewriting him into whatever Natalie's fantasies happen to be. Unfortunately for Eric, Natalie has a very active imagination...
A branch can end when
- The coin's magic ends having found the form Natalie wants most, Eric's original body.
- Eric and Natalie learn to live with the magic, Eric's body and personlaity constantly changing
- Eric eventually breaks up with Natalie, no longer able to take the changes, and is stuck in the body he was when he ends the relationship.
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