Without any conscious typing from the hypnotized being that once called itself Benjamin, the message was sent.
FanOfChange: I want to become a lizard person.
The hypnotized being stared blankly at the screen, awaiting a response.
Spiral_Mistress: Excellent. Now, bring out the memory and feeling of your old self. It’s time to change it.
Benjamin was suddenly aware of his body again, if just barely. The words of his mistress remained paramount.
Spiral_Mistress: Picture your body, slowly shifting, taking the appearance of your ideal, lizard-man self. Imagine the feeling of scales growing, of your stance shifting. And find that each change actually happens, as you imagine it.
As his Mistress went into deeper and deeper detail, Benjamin’s body shifted to match.
With a tingling feeling that started in his feet, bright yellow scales began to poke through his skin, replacing any body hair. They grew in by the hundreds, locking together in a near-perfect seal over his skin as they traveled further upwards. His toes grew longer, spreading out further, the bone at the end stretching out into claws as the nails disappeared. While his sitting position made it hard to notice, his ankles bent to take a digitigrade stance.
The scales traveled steadily up his legs, eventually reaching his hips, where intense pressure began to form in his backside. New bones and muscle formed near the end of his spine, stretching slowly out into a long, gradually tapering tail, covered in more yellow scales. It stretched and grew, pressing out against his pants before dramatically tearing through them.
The scales continued upward, his body fat slimming slightly as they traveled (she had been saying his ‘ideal’ self, after all). When they came down his arms, his fingertips ached, claws pressing through them, as well, fingernails vanishing.
Finally, it reached his head. His hair receded completely, while his jaws stretched out into a triangular shape. His teeth sharpened, but remained tiny, while his ears shrank back into little holes in his head. Finally, two large flaps of skin grew out the sides of his head, and trailed down past his shoulders, becoming the renowned frill that gave the frilled lizard its name.
Spiral_Mistress: From now on, you will experience this change again whenever you or I say the phrase “Frilled to meet you.” You will become human again if you or I say “return to normal.” And now, it’s time for you to wake up. Feel your mind, memories, and will coming back to you, and your body filling with energy as I count up from one to ten.
Benjamin yawned and stretched when the countdown ended, feeling completely refreshed. Then he looked down at his hands. He wiggled his fingers experimentally.
He was completely at a loss for words. He got up, hoping to go look at himself in the mirror, and felt his tail brushing against the back of his chair. He quickly turned around and grabbed it in his claws, looking over it with a huge grin. He wiggled it, and felt it move in his hands, the feeling of scale on scale so real it seemed unreal.
He darted to his mirror, and gasped when he saw his reflection.
He could barely believe it. Even with the few hypnotists who had brought him deep enough to make him vividly visualize his changes, to see hints of scales or claws on his hands, they were never reflected in the mirror.
He felt over his face, rubbed down the scales on his arms, and wagged his tail. Lastly, he flexed the muscles in his neck, spreading his frill wide with a hissing sound. With an ecstatic laugh, he bounded back to his computer.
FanOfChange: IT WORKS!
It works better than any other hypnosis I’ve tried!
You are the best hypnotist in the world! I can’t thank you enough!
It all looks and feels completely real! I’ve never felt anything like this before!
***
Martha smiled, enjoying seeing a subject so happy, and impressed at how real it all was feeling for him. She’d have to schedule some more sessions with him in the future; this could be incredibly fun.