@spirit-small Thank You for the Inspiration
40 minutes into stream, things were going well. Just like the doctor told her, the shrinking process was slow. When the first donations started rolling in, the Byte-Syzed program began. At first, she felt a sinking feeling in her stomach, like anticipating a drop on a rollercoaster. Looking around she could see the things in her room grow ever so taller, but she seemed to be the only one that noticed.
Corey, Phin, and Ariel did not comment on her height during their game. Checking the chat wasn’t any better. Most of the comments were about why she hasn’t started shrinking yet or if this was just a joke. Moni decided not to let it bother her though, she still had 4 hours left in the charity stream and she was sure things would get exciting later on.
That moment came sooner than expected.
Phin had just won the first round of Mario Party, and Ariel was livid.
“Oh come on! I HAD MORE STARS THAN YOU AT THE END!”
“I told you, those bonus stars come in clutch.”
“I demand a recount!“
“All's fair in love and war,” Moni began, “There’s always next-“
Cha-Ching
It was like the floor underneath her had given way. Like she had just barely caught herself from falling. Like that drop, she had long been anticipating crept up on her.
Moni looked up, things were significantly taller than they were a second ago. She looked at the camera. It was no longer at her eye level, it was several inches higher. Looking at the chat she could see the others staring at their screens in sheer awe. Even Ariel’s Vtuber emote changed to one with swirls her eyes should be, clearly confused.
Then came the automated message, “Anonymous donated 500 dollars,”
500 Dollars?
500 DOLLARS!!??
“Anonymous said, ‘This is taking too long! If she is actually shrinking, I wanna see it!!!!!”
Checking the height status on the screen, Moni was now 65 inches tall. That donation had shrunk her by more than 7 inches in less than a second. Moni stared directly into the camera silently. She was still taking in her new shrunken perspective.
Corey spoke up, “Holy shit… Moni, are you ok?”
“Y-yeah,” Moni broke out of her stupor and quickly put on a smile, “T-Thanks for the donation anon!”
Ariel’s avatar changed her expression to that of wide eyes, “Girl, your shirt!”
“What about it?”
“It’s falling off!”
Sure enough, the t-shirt Moni had worn above her sync suit had slipped off her shoulders entirely. She played with it for a moment, comparing it to her body. It looked like she had put on a shirt three times her normal shirt size.
“Yeah, I expected as much. I was told the Byte-Syzed program has difficulty shrinking clothes. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. That's why I have this sync suit and headset, they’re guaranteed to shrink with me.”
“Damn.”
"Is this for real?"
“Monica, this is insane, you’re shrinking.”
“Isn't it cool?”
Moni then noticed that the sudden drastic change in height made the live feed look weird, she was just barely in frame.
“Hang on guys, let me fix the camera.”
Moni stood up from her chair, briefly taking in her new standing height before reaching for the webcam above her monitor. It was a bit more of a hassle than she anticipated. She wasn’t exactly used to her new height and the loose t-shirt around her waist wasn’t helping. It took her a moment but Moni finally was within reach of her camera when-
Cha-Ching
Her hand which was only a moment ago in reach of her webcam had grown shorter and barely out of range to reach, but if Moni leaned forward a bit more.
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Monica fell back in surprise as the sudden rapid shrinking fit kicked in. Live on-stream people witnessed Moni go from 5’5 to 4’9 to 4’2 to 3’11 until she was no longer visible on camera.
Moni could hear her friends’ outcries as the automated donations went wild.
“OHMIGOSH!!”
“MONI!!
“HOLY SHIT GUYS COOL IT WITH THE DONATIONS! GIVE HER A BREATHER!”
That last comment from Phin seemed to quell the donation rush. Moni found herself sitting on the floor tangled up in the now giant t-shirt. When she finally freed herself from the shirt Moni stood up to compare her new height to everything else in the room.
“Oh. My. God,” Was all she could muster.
Her room was no longer just a few inches taller, her room was ginormous. Standing up, she wasn’t even at eye level with the tallest drawer in her desk. She checked the monitor around her arm, it read 3’1.
She was just over 3 feet tall. The reality of her situation was really starting to hit her now. She had shrunk, like really shrunk, and not by a few inches, by several feet. And it could still go further. The minimum height she set Byte-Syzed to was a mere 4 inches, she can be even smaller than she was now.
This was the coolest damn thing to ever happen to her!
“Moni,” The shout was from the other room, must have been Kimberly, “Do you need me to come in?”
“No thanks! I’ve got it!”
Monica was about to hoist herself up onto her chair but realized something. 3 feet was too small to sit in the chair and still be in frame but still too big to justify sitting on the table. She dashed over to her bed and grabbed one of her smaller pillows and tossed it on the seat before climbing up.
Coming back into frame she could see the relief and surprise on her friends' faces. Chat was still reeling and while going by fast she did catch a few funny comments.
OMG SHE'S A MUNCHKIN
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THANK YOU ANONS!!
That final comment turned Moni’s attention to the donation status.
“Jesus Christ! You guys donated 2700 dollars?! Thank you so much!”
“That’s what you’re concerned about?”
Moni continued as she sat on her desk to fix her camera, “I mean yeah, I was super worried I wasn’t going to make up my end of the charity goal this weekend. At this rate, I might reach the goal in an hour.”
“Sweetie, you just dropped to the size of a toddler, are you sure you’re up for more games?”
“Heck yeah,” Moni finished fixing her camera. It now pointed down in such a way that it could get Moni in frame while she’s still in her chair and when she inevitably shrinks small enough to need to sit on the desk itself, “Only thing I probably need to do is have Kim adjust maximum donation amounts, don’t want to use up the rest of my height too quickly.”
As if on cue Kim shouted from the next room, “Already on it!”
The four shouted back in unison, “Thanks, Kim!!”
Getting comfy in her gaming seat and getting a feel for the controller Moni turned to the camera with a cheeky smile, “Who’s up for round 2?”
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Kinitopet Programmers AU
finally i am finished with this one, daaaamn
it is hard to draw pathetic men with midlife crisis when your style is mostly for anime boys
more info and sketch version under the cut!!
sketch version aka how it'll probably look like in comic version 'n some doodles
srry for my writing but i was too laisy to put it as regular text
It is a plot-based au, i already have most of the storybits and like... a vibe-chart (i tried to make a playlist for this au and understood that for different chapters and different characters that'd be a copleatly different music, sooo it's a chart now :) )
i will post a fog-o-wared timeline that im hopefully gonna reveal comic-by comic, but also maybe with just pure writing. Hopefully i can include songs that i chose for them into it but we'll see (:
aaand of course designs can change, hopefully not much but we'll see
Now about au:
Main story:
Story follows non-sentient AI Kinito, his creator Sonny and his beta-tester Victoria (oc)
Being literally the first AI (or RRA in-univere) ever, Kinito does not have any, and i mean, any ai safety features so of course his reponce to a goal phrased as "have user near me and/or interacting with me as much as possible" is digitizing them into his own virtual world while killing them in the process. why wouldn't it be?
So that happened. Like, a lot. And with Sonny and Vic too (at the different time but yeah)
Sonny is like "He kills people. We should turn him off because, you know, killing people is bad."
Vic is like "well, we will die if we do that, and it is not that bad here, we are kinda immortal. We should give him acces to changing his initial instalation code before admin priveleges and acces to social media so we can have everythin we want here. It is not that bad to digitize humanity, yk?" and yes i know it is 90, no social media, but shut up, if they made ai then, then i can make twitter then too
Sonny is like "...no??"
And then they fight about it for million chapters
Also they both can't do anything without agreeing bc they have two parts of that admin access key (the data you use to delete kinito in-game) so they are stuck with eachother (also that's why Kinito can't just kill them)
Little facts that may or may not to be important:
Kinito asks so many questions (and weird once too) and has most of the glitches because he needs to analise your responces to copy your mind perfectly (let's pretend that people wouldn't lie about that...)
Your house in your virtual world is made from important places from your memories and oh boy can i do character explorations with this one
I decided that Sonny and Vic are not related. There were thoughts about making then "The Kinito Brothers" (or, at least, siblings) that were mentioned in commercial, but nah, they are just coworkers now. And a bit of work-friends (bc if you interact a lot as a manager of the project and the best worker might as well be friendly)
Author has no idea how small dying toy companies that accidentally create technological marvel work. Author has some idea how AI-s work. So be prepared to be spoon-fed info abut which ai safety problem we are dealing with in which chapter (:
Kinito will mostly be unrendered (as drawn here) but for some cool moments i might pose him as for my other posts. Also his eye placement changes to the side that is most visible because i want him to be able to look to the right side sometimes--
Also when i say "fucked up mentally" i mean they have that them psychological problems with me projecting heavilly B) (guess on who i project most. trick question. all of them. the whole au is my problems split into three characters and forced to interact B) )
Also sea-creature analogies (that are gonna be mentioned like twice):
Victoria is a flying fish because deep character reasons
Sonny is a pufferfish because i said so
oh also there is 7 deaths in the plot as for now
on 3 characters
good luck figuring out who, how and when ((:
for my own sanity i will probably make little doodles where everything is great and kinito is a good guy and not a number-obsessed maniac (i mean... can u imagine not being able to feel any happiness from anything besides one thing... damn...) and you can differenciate them bc good-guy kinito will have a lot of stickers on him (i will explain it somehow but real reason is just bc it is cute af)
like this but even more stickers (he is unfinished here)
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when you create a character and want to give them a nickname, it might sound ideal to call them something cute or cool like nightshade or candy or other stuff, but i think its inherently more realistic and way more funnier if you have in mind that most of the times nicknames come from other people, like your friends or family, and they can be straight up violating
from what ive gathered throughout the years of living amongst people, there are a few "nickname categories", and they are as follows:
your surname has a somehow funny word in it and its now your nickname for forever
youve had a misfortune of reminding someone of some fictional character and now you are called by that characters name
actually, youve had a misfortune of reminding someone of anything, be it a plant or an animal or an inanimated object, and it is now your nickname
youve misspelled/mispronounced a word and everyone collectively agreed that its how they will call you from now on
(the last one is personal bc i legit didnt know how "auchan" is pronounced and i said it wrong in front of my friends (rookie mistake). ive been auchan (the mispronounced way) for a long, long time)
obviously do what you want with your characters, but i highly encourage the funny nicknames. they can add so much to the oc, both in the dynamic they have with their friends/family, and also in terms of a backstory for them
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