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I’m wondering, is anyone still using the Praxis setting? It looks like someone noticed that the “good guys” in Monster Girl Encyclopedia are rapists, noticed that the author of MGE sends you a cease and desist if you describe his characters as rapists, and decided to write a setting where neither the monsters nor the humans are necessarily wrong, right, evil, or tautological Mary Sue good. (One of the monster types is a Madoka Magica reference that sometimes sides with humans, which MGE would never allow.) The whole setting seems pretty dead now, though.

The thing about shit like The Conversion Bureau or later-era Monster Girl Encyclopedia is that they want to portray all the transformed as freely choosing to join up with the faction that transformed them, but they also want to portray all the transformed as joining up. It’s tempting to write a “realistic” fic where the MC refuses to side with the folks who violated her bodily autonomy. But realistically, the transformed faction wouldn’t expect transformed people to all side with them unless they knew it worked that way, which pretty much has to involve mind control.

(I think Chatoyance squared this circle by saying humans don’t have souls and get souls when they become ponies. Chatoyance is creepy.)

Come to think of it, I only lasted through a chapter or so of Chakona Space. How did it handle characters who turned into chakats?