Entity #: 316
Codename: Gachimuchi Gachidebu
Known Abilities: E-316 instances are each personal storage furniture of variable form, typically designed to match with the environment they are installed into. Each instance is consistently branded with the Japanese expression 「 ガチムチ ガチデブ」, roughly translated as "muscle-chubby muscle-fat" and transliterated as "gachimuchi gachidebu". This branding is typically but not uniformly in grey metal or plastic with a stylized flowerbed above it. This brand may be located somewhere unobtrusive if explicit branding is present elsewhere on the locker, or disguised as a conventional locker-decoration magnet. Low-visibility areas under a shelf or on the lower inner end of the door are common. If damaged but not completely melted down or mass-scattered, an E-316 instance will self-repair ex-nihilo at a visible but gradual speed. Complete meltdown or mass-scattering terminates E-316's passive function with untransforming as normal.
E-316's passive function is a low-priority gender transformative effect that covers the area within defined boundaries of an installed room (including sub-rooms such as storage, privacy screens, subordinate offices, and connected bathrooms). It causes all humans or former humans in proximity to rapidly become physically male or male-like humanoids (e.g. males with functional female anatomy, certain types of hermaphrodite with overall masculine-presentable bodyplan, or agender masculine bodies with no significant genitalia depending on urethra position), homosexually interested (gay or varying degrees of bisexual, pansexual, etc.), and with a high capability for arousal. External clothing is not modified to compensate by default, but clothing-unsupportable changes will safely strip or stretch the clothing in question as needed. Replacements or alterations are made to prosthetics and implants as needed.
The effectiveness of food, waste removal, rest recovery, and exercise under the effects of E-316's passive field is greatly increased, allowing musculature and fat to be quickly gained or slightly reduced in a matter of hours worked rather than months. This is naturally biased toward creating a slight musclegut effect should snacks be available, but otherwise leads to conventionally attractive men.
Existing males sometimes randomize their genitalia category, secondary features related to maleness, and/or orientation even if they are already gay and physically male. Biological males who desire to be female or agender are likely to become male with female genitalia or receive another male-like configuration. Existing hermaphrodites and intersex persons typically experience modest masculinization, rarely altering genitals unless repeatedly entering and exiting. Female and genderless beings typically default to standard male variations of themselves and again only rarely receive otherwise without repeated reentry. Transformation of former humans restores data where possible but fills in gaps or significant mental trauma with the persona of a homoerotic sports practitioner, coach, or team sexual servant as contextually best fitting. Sufficient anthropomorphization in terms of description or address may cause nonhumans such as animals, plants, objects, and colonies of smaller organisms to become a masculine humanoid.
Genital and sexuality (re)configuration can be reset by leaving and reentering the area of effect, or triggered by repeatedly entering/exiting a door within the area of effect such as a storage area or bathroom stall. Exploiting this by doing so until a particular configuration is obtained and not cancelled is a common social behavior for those working in E-316 affected areas and performing behavior that would react to specific genitals or sexual preferences.
A high-priority transformative effect stacks with this on direct interaction with the E-316 container, increasing in priority with sustained contact. Those who directly interact with the locker become male or the existing form of male-like permanently until otherwise transformed. Those under the effect of E-316 are automatically aware of this but typically do not discuss it unless asked from externally. Most opposed to integration will passively avoid interaction with it unless coerced or able to use tools to avoid direct contact. Those who don't exist otherwise or desire integration of transformation will immediately interact with the E-316 instance unless persistently obstructed. Obstruction requires large quantities of supernatural force or physical obstacles with durability in excess of the room's primary construction materials. Interaction with instances remotely via space anomaly contact has been reported to circumvent certain access constraints.
Touching the E-316 branding symbol proper allows for mental fine control and activation of other transformative features, such as musculature, fat, genitalia type and parameters, hair (especially body hair), organ structures, age, sizes (both overall and of specific body parts), psychological state, hormonal defaults, and a number of esoteric other functions. It is especially effective and precise for things associated with maleness, but is more general and may need specific goals or user's imagination to expand outside that. Conversion of objects into varyingly-anthropomorphized males or production of materials may also be managed from here, such as the mental patterns imposed on newly emergent beings or if transformations should provide re-dressing. These controls can be applied to individuals specifically or E-316's passive transformative field en masse, following the standard pattern of direct contact with the E-316 instance to become permanent. Changing the E-316 field's settings toward the controller's fetishistic preferences is a commonly observed social behavior, as is redefining the local variant of activity that lockers are present for to be considerably more sexual within E-316 influence.
E-316 instances are known to emit small quantities of Haze-like reality alteration substances to enact psychological, influence-external, or social-standard changes. Modifications appear designed to blend easily into environments with steam or condensation and to support thaumaturgical frameworks. E-316 instances form complex magical seals within themselves to carry out abstract requests or unusual transformations (especially outside a natural cluster of various socially accepted concepts of maleness and masculinity, or at edge cases such as animal characteristic associations). Use of a E-316 instance as or to generate a general-purpose reality processor may cause 'lag' before wish implementation as the instance needs to build additional magical power. The user is informed of this. E-316 instances are known to generate bara (薔薇, lit. 'rose') manga comics featuring muscular gay men in pornographic, romantic, or biographical contexts modified to express these external power constructs. Typical subject matter is the exploration of an alternative meaning of masculinity expanded to have special relation to a concept not normally associated with it. Niche fetishes and technical manuals for systems of magic decorated with large sexualized men are common. Male 'forest fairies' discussing philosophy and/or performing homoerotic wrestling typically heavily decorate or replace any section associated with publishing information or authorial notes. Females may appear in these works, but are almost exclusively in a contexts of 'biological females who identify as or become male' or 'supporting characters mandated by the genre/relationship'. Removal of an E-316 support manga is non-injurious to the E-316 instance, but it may need it to be replaced or regenerated before it can access those expanded capabilities in a timely fashion again.
Multiple instances of E-316 in the same area create a non-conflicting area of effect that is greater in size. A locker room of several E-316 instances may spread their masculinization field over an entire connected building and some adjacent outbuildings, while a school with entirely E-316 lockers would likely masculinize a significant portion of the school district. E-316 instances in proximity share branding-contact instructions by default but can be convinced to create several specific or overlapping fields with different effects.
The passive transformation effect is Haze-filtered as unremarkably normal (in that gender transformation is an inoffensively available concept, rather than altering memory and history) and reverts upon leaving the area. It is treated as a curious anecdote usually irrelevant outside transformative experiences, exercise/weight-loss benefits, and gender expression roleplaying experiences. Whether the resulting form is physical baseline, bolstered exercise/fat, or a previous transformation depends on the identity and appearance preferences, decided by the exiting figure autonomously. Permanent active transformation may or may not alter memory and history as appropriate to the degree of transformation. Something physically plausible may be excused as side effects of drugs and exercise, while more implausible results are brushed off as a form of experimental surgery and only memory alterations are Haze-broadcast.
Containment: E-316 variants emerge erratically through modification or duplication of storage containers nearby but unrelated to certain forms of ambient magical energy contamination with gender transformation. The exact basis is not yet determined, but may have to do with absorbing and amplifying masculine energies rejected by transformations into non-masculine beings. Businesses which regularly produce, ship, or install lockers, cabinetry, drawers, dressers, closets, or similar furnishings that are near uncontrolled magical energy emissions should be autonomously monitored for stock anomalies via standard shadow government inventory surveillance. Installed storage containers or locations where storage containers would be appropriate may obtain E-316 status due to liminal space magical energy contamination anomalies, but this is typically rare barring extreme disasters in magical energy containment or nearby mass gender anomalies.
E-316 instances are commonly acquired and operated in small numbers by non-G.E.T. magical practitioners. They are used to handle operations related to 'male essence', 'masculine energy', systems that require being physically or culturally male to use in a given fashion, masculine-associated principles and powers, or other esoteric concepts via bara manga. Provided that Shadow Government Noninterference Protocols addendum 'Lock Up Your Lockers' remains in effect, these are deemed unlikely to interfere with world order and are considered a general-purpose magical tool.
All sites containing any of the following and lacking a more effective means of controlling gender, sexuality, or other biological traits are required to have timely access to at least one appropriately-manga-generated E-316 instance in order to mitigate related problems.
-gender-modification entities
-entities reactive to gender dysphoria
-entities whose reaction to females in proximity is impractical to contain
-entities whose reaction to purely-heterosexual males in proximity is impractical to contain
-entities whose transformative outputs are not conventionally reversible or naturally expiring
Placement of an E-316 instance in a demarcated 'room to become male and male-attracted' is best practice. All onsite agents, management, and scientists with appropriate authorization or interest in remaining male are required to be briefed on the local E-316 instance and how to access it in the event of gender or sexuality emergency. Installation of E-316 instances in rooms where all normally active personnel should be biologically male (e.g. male locker rooms, male bathrooms) is permitted but should be properly warned to avoid inconveniencing female or nonbinary maintenance staff. Use of the E-316 instance branding to declare a target heterosexual or asexual is typically required to counteract being automatically made gay or bisexual by it.
All onsite E-316 instances should be supervised by a dedicated transformation overseer, continuously overseeing access to the branding of the instance to reduce the odds of malicious processor capture. This is typically a rank 3 scientist performing relevant research directly or an onsite rank 4 manager if no gender-affecting research is occurring on that shift. It may be delegated to rank 5 agents if sufficient E-316 instances are available or available management is limited. The transformation overseer should perform modifications to align personnel with their requested selves, or put them into a state capable of seeking that from more appropriate entities.
Other: Additionally generated copies of E-316 manga may be reprocessed into specialized magitechnology as appropriate for research or containment purposes. Onsite E-316 instances may be used for recreational purposes and personal reconfigurations off-shift.