Jessica looked through the options. There, right at the top of her attributes, was a slider for gender. It was currently most of the way over to 'Female'. She slid it all the way over to 'Male'.
Jessica looked down at himself. Ugh, why had he put on a skirt today? Why did he even have a skirt in this apartment? Nikki knew he was trans, and he was pretty sure that they'd burnt all the girly clothes that his homophobic parents forced him to wear. "Uh, Nikki, do you mind if I go pant-less for a while? I just really can't stand to be in a skirt right now."
"Sure, Jess, it's nothing I haven't seen before," Nikki replied, as Jessica shimmied out of his skirt, showing his plain black boyleg briefs underneath. "Did you put it on in pure instinct this morning?"
"I think I must have," Jess replied. "I don't know why though, I know my parents haven't visited for months." Though he felt better without the skirt, seeing his underwear just reminded him that he wasn't a 'real man' - that under his clothing, he still had the body and genitals of a woman. He groaned.
"Is it a gender dysphoria day?" Nikki sighed sympathetically. "Y'know, if you say that thing works, you could try giving yourself the body you always wanted to have."
Jess perked up at that idea. Okay, maybe we'll start with the name. Jess had never liked the fact that he was called Jessica. It was too girly. Even going by Jess or Jesse, it was too easily construed as feminine. If he was going to change it, he wanted something really masculine, that no one would ever think of as otherwise. James? No, Jamie could be seen as a girl's name. Alex was notoriously gender-neutral. Liam was too close to Lea. How about... David? There was no way anyone could get a girl's name from David. It was perfect. He clicked enter.
David let out a breath. He wasn't quite sure why he had been holding it in, seeing as he had yet to change anything on the Chronivac. Still, perhaps it was because he had the daunting task of sculpting his ideal body. He opened the 3D editor and found himself staring down an exact replica of his curvy, feminine form.
The first thing he did was change that vagina to a dick. An ordinary one would do, but this was his perfect body, so he modified it to be a foot long when hard, and nine inches when flaccid. No one would be able to mistake him as female with a cock so thick it put Coke cans to shame, or with his tennis ball-sized testicles. The next thing to be rid of was those breasts. Most women would kill for D-cups, but David was not a woman period. They shrunk away to nothing in an instant and were replaced by two huge slabs of pectoral muscle. His whole body bloated with muscle, as he changed his body from a curvy hourglass to a solid V-taper, held aloft by tree trunk thighs and soccer ball calves. He painted hair down his chest and legs, with thickets under his arms and a wild, curly beard. All the softness in his face melted away to hard angles, cheekbones that could cut you, and a jawline that made models jealous. His ass... well, his ass could stay (he was still attracted to men, alright?) though it traded soft fat for hard muscle, keeping its delectable bubbly shape with two cushions of strength.
David leaned back and looked over his creation. "What do you think?"
Nikki wrinkled her nose. "It's a bit cliché, isn't it?" she muttered, before chuckling. "I'm kidding, of course. If that's what you want to be, that's who you are. It's nice to finally meet you, David."
David chuckled as his roommate introduced herself to his digital avatar. Still, he was touched that she would accept it as his true self. He smiled and clicked 'change'.
"...David?" Nikki was looking at him, confused. "Did you hear what I said?"
The 5'5 muscular man looked down at himself. His huge biceps were folded over his hairy chest. He scratched at his beard idly, as he stretched out his thick, strong legs, crumpling the skirt underneath them. He snorted. He can't believe Nikki got him to wear something like that, how stupid. Nikki rolled her eyes and sighed.
"Typical man, never listening to what a woman has to say," she lightly jibed.
"Oh, did you say something?" David asked. "Sorry, women are confusing creatures, and I, a simple man, cannot understand their cryptic ways."
"Oh shut up," giggled Nikki, as she lightly smacked his arm, earning a ruffling of her hair in return. "I was only asking you what you were going to change with that 'Chronivac' of yours."
David thought for a moment. "I was thinking of modifying..."