June Pinup #1 Poll

Poll time! Time again to exercise your democratic rights!

This poll will be up from May 19th 10am CET to May 22nd 10pm CET.

And the suggestions are as follows:

1. Ruling From Behind The Stage Curtains - An ambitious minister of South Galria, tired of serving the nation's decadent king, who keeps neglecting the affairs of state in favor always watching the melodrama and titillation of the royal opera, purchases a set of cursed poisons which on ingestion change the primary victim into the ideal partner of whoever drinks the secondary poison. Unfortunately for him, the minister mixes up his and the king's teas, leaving their fates reversed. The would-be usurper changes to resemble a villain directly from one of the king's operas - a calculating, alluring witch queen who uses her literal and figurative charms in equal measure to get her way.  

As it happens, this turn of events actually ends up well for all parties involved. The king is delighted to get a consort directly from his favorite operas. The new queen finds herself in charge of the country all the same (the king isn't going to become any less delinquent after all) - her newfound magical and political powers more than a fair trade for shifts to her form and opinions of the king. Even South Galria at large enjoys the benefits, as despite her dramatic posturing and habit of cackling after enacting new laws the new queen is substantially better at actually running the kingdom than her absentee husband.  

(Seventh Realm, male human minister to not-actually-so-wicked human sorceress/queen)

2. Second Chance In A Brave New World - As technology and social acceptance have progressed, an older human couple in Empire Bay wish that they were young again and could live the life they always wished for but were too timid to pursue. A certain bratty horned kitten hears their wish and grants it, in their own special little way.

With some zaps from their horns, the husband shrinks to a young Goblin girl with fiery red hair and green eyes. While the wife grows into a tall Orc woman, built like an amazon with pink-streaked black hair and purple eyes. The change opens their hearts more than they had ever felt and they vow to live life to the fullest.

(Empire Bay, human male and female couple to Orc and Goblin couple)

3. Vampirus - Rachel, a young person from Empire Bay, contracts a strange nano-plague while traveling in southern France. Contracting it via bite from a mysterious stranger, Rachel begins to develop odd vampiric symptoms - and with them, feels compelled to express his closeted gender identity and suave gothic aesthetic to go along with them.   

Scared of what his potentially dangerous newfound instincts might do to friends and family who no longer even recognize them and finding it impossible to return to a normal life, Rachel - now Raphael - is inducted into a secretive rehab center supposedly run by Sandoval Innovations by to aid victims of unregulated knockoff nanotechnology. There Raphael can receive both treatments to temporarily curtail the weaknesses of these "faux-vampires" as well as all the safely donated blood he needs to quench his thirst until Sandoval Innovations can devise a cure for his condition.  

(Empire Bay, Vampire Female-to-Male TF)

4. True-Soul Chronicles Part Three: Tempest Silverthorn - Following the egg cracking of Elia, he and Tysandre discover yet another egg in among the nobles of the City of Vigil. They're the eldest child of a noble family and are expected to assume their assigned gender to marry into the royal Crowley family as a means to secure wealth and prestige to their family for generations to come. But this young noble dreams of breaking free from the rigid expectations of Vigil's upper class. Their heart belongs among the people and they wish dearly to help the less fortunate of West Galria with a more hands-on approach. But first they really need to get out of that stuffy suit their mother forced them to wear!

Tysandre and Elia overhears this wish at a fancy gala and with a few slashes of her sacred blade, Tysandre helps the young noble shed all their assigned traits, and now they break out into a glorious and proud non-binary form that is how they always saw themselves!

(Seventh Realm, male-presenting human to non-binary human)