Don't drink that!
During your senior year of college you make a particularly wild visit to New Orleans at Carnival where you are transformed into a TNMT-sized mutant alligator person by Generic Antagonist #38 for reasons which are not important to this question. For similar reasons you have provisionally given up on getting changed back.
Experimental evidence indicates that a human's response to seeing you almost always is one or more of {run screaming, (run to) get their gun, throw things (rocks, tables, punches), call for the police}. A calm response is unexpectedly rare.
Your voice sounds rather different than it used to (among other things you can't pronounce P, B, or M anymore) and your driver's license picture no longer matches reality (though that really doesn't matter since you lost your wallet anyway).
What do you do and how do you survive? This is not a multiple-choice question, more like brainstorming. The setting is modern but you can disregard real physics (which would prohibit the transforming bit anyway). Possibilities I've come up with:
- Go live in the swamp with #38's other transformations (if they exist). Presumably the lifestyle here consists of foraging, fishing, hunting, repairing, scavenging, unreliable internet, and occasional trips into town by those members who can pass for human. Though maybe they've got a farm going or something.
- Go live in the swamp on your own. Embrace your inner (outer?) alligator and spend some time submerged in pools waiting to snap up rabbits. Find/build a shelter of some sort and try not to be discovered, all the while becoming progressively more emo.
- Join the circus and smile disconcertingly at patrons through glass. Learn computer programming in your spare time and write a killer iPhone app.
- Join the Mafia and/or other criminal organization. Possibly as a beat-em-up type, since you are both frightening and (literally) thick-skinned. Though maybe you're a skilled accountant instead. Possibly a recruiter paid a visit to the village of #38's transformees.
- Stay in the city. Find and indenture yourself to one of #38's enemies. Attempt to learn enough tech/juju/ninjutsu/whatever to take down #38 and possibly transform yourself back.
- Stay in the city. Find one of the few people not afflicted with extreme antipathy to you, and get them to rent someplace cheap. Make money by wandering around at night and playing vigilante. (Except that you also rob your victims.) (This option only works in superhero-themed worlds.)
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Experimental evidence indicates that a human's response to seeing you almost always is one or more of {run screaming, (run to) get their gun, throw things (rocks, tables, punches), call for the police}. A calm response is unexpectedly rare.
Your voice sounds rather different than it used to (among other things you can't pronounce P, B, or M anymore) and your driver's license picture no longer matches reality (though that really doesn't matter since you lost your wallet anyway).
What do you do and how do you survive? This is not a multiple-choice question, more like brainstorming. The setting is modern but you can disregard real physics (which would prohibit the transforming bit anyway). Possibilities I've come up with:
- Go live in the swamp with #38's other transformations (if they exist). Presumably the lifestyle here consists of foraging, fishing, hunting, repairing, scavenging, unreliable internet, and occasional trips into town by those members who can pass for human. Though maybe they've got a farm going or something.
- Go live in the swamp on your own. Embrace your inner (outer?) alligator and spend some time submerged in pools waiting to snap up rabbits. Find/build a shelter of some sort and try not to be discovered, all the while becoming progressively more emo.
- Join the circus and smile disconcertingly at patrons through glass. Learn computer programming in your spare time and write a killer iPhone app.
- Join the Mafia and/or other criminal organization. Possibly as a beat-em-up type, since you are both frightening and (literally) thick-skinned. Though maybe you're a skilled accountant instead. Possibly a recruiter paid a visit to the village of #38's transformees.
- Stay in the city. Find and indenture yourself to one of #38's enemies. Attempt to learn enough tech/juju/ninjutsu/whatever to take down #38 and possibly transform yourself back.
- Stay in the city. Find one of the few people not afflicted with extreme antipathy to you, and get them to rent someplace cheap. Make money by wandering around at night and playing vigilante. (Except that you also rob your victims.) (This option only works in superhero-themed worlds.)
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