real/unreal idea

[powaqqatsi]

I guess it can be explained rather simply: getting impossibly big through possible (if not extreme) means.

What I'm picturing is someone taking on (ie, a benefactor) a young natural bodybuilder with great genetic potential and fully realizing said potential through extreme training, diet, steroid use, and other means that are currently possible but that perhaps nobody in their right minds would carry out. Even better if the "subject" develops some extreme narcissism and muscle obsession as well.

Hopefully this speaks to someone. I know it's probably not terribly original but there you go.

[V.R.Goh]

I think I just might pick up this gauntlet. This is a story that has a lot of potential.

[wolfotehmoon]

ArpeeJay and Xythan-Shadow regularly do stuff like that. Don't be fooled by the beginnings; their characters generally end up inhumanly large! If you can find some older stories by myophile, same thing.

[FuzzyKB]

Originally Posted by powaqqatsi

I guess it can be explained rather simply
getting impossibly big through possible (if not extreme) means.

What I'm picturing is someone taking on (ie, a benefactor) a young natural bodybuilder with great genetic potential and fully realizing said potential through extreme training, diet, steroid use, and other means that are currently possible but that perhaps nobody in their right minds would carry out. Even better if the "subject" develops some extreme narcissism and muscle obsession as well.

Hopefully this speaks to someone. I know it's probably not terribly original but there you go.

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This is something I would look forward to reading. All too often the transformations we engineer go so far into the realm of fantasy that they lose their potential for realism.

The best scenario here would allow our benefactor to have a few of the negative experiences that this might offer as well as the positive ones. It make the whole thing more real.

Good luck in writing it, as an advocate of and writer of at least attempts at realistic transformations, I will look forward to reading your efforts! [/COLOR]

[nypup2train]

Owww! Ohhh, man, FuzzyKB -- if it's possible, please try and avoid posting with custom settings for the font and color of your text... or, failing that, DEFINITELY refrain from posting with settings that hideous! If you leave the settings at their default, then the site will follow each user's preferences when displaying your post, which allows us all the most comfortable experience visiting the site. ...Quoting your original here just so I can read it without going blind...

Originally Posted by FuzzyKB

This is something I would look forward to reading. All too often the transformations we engineer go so far into the realm of fantasy that they lose their potential for realism.

The best scenario here would allow our benefactor to have a few of the negative experiences that this might offer as well as the positive ones. It make the whole thing more real.

Good luck in writing it, as an advocate of and writer of at least attempts at realistic transformations, I will look forward to reading your efforts!

*nod* I can definitely see the appeal in that. I've never been secretive about the fact that I'm very into monstrous, inhuman, unrealistic muscle growth, and don't really have a threshhold for "too big". But that doesn't mean I can't appreciate a really intense, well-written story involving realistic growth, too. Not to mention, there are a lot of different ways something can be "extreme". A story where the guy(s) grow muscle in realistic proportions can still be wildly intense and extreme in other aspects, and just as hot.

(MagusX's classic story "The Risk", from the archive, is one good example of that. Other than the fact that it occurs over an impossibly short time period, the growth of the main characters isn't described as going beyond the size we've seen some real-life superheavyweights achieve. Nevertheless, it's a very extreme story, and an incredibly hot one as well! )