Mei

Mei has a strange hobby. Being part of the Body Magic Sorority was already considered pretty weird, but Mei really took it to another level. Or, maybe she gave it to another level.

Mei was obsessed with scattering herself apart. In her short time since joining the Sorority, she had managed to concoct some sort of bizarre and permanent enchantment on herself. An enchantment that allowed her to take herself apart. This in itself isn’t too unusual for the Sorority, but Mei had also discovered a way to transfer her body parts to any other surface.

Ever since, the other members of the Sorority had to get used to randomly finding bits of Mei wherever they went. It was all too common to pick up an otherwise innocuous object, like a textbook, and find Mei’s face on the cover. Or to reach for a door handle, and jump in surprise when you grab ahold of Mei’s hand instead. Or to pick up the phone, and hear Mei’s lips whispering directly into your ear.

What was stranger still, however, was finding parts of Mei suddenly attached to you. She is able to instantaneously move a piece of herself onto anything she could see, so you could never be too sure where Mei was hiding somewhere for an ambush. You might be walking along, minding your own business, when suddenly, you have three legs. It didn’t help matters that Mei could retain full control of her body parts, so those new arms you’re suddenly sporting might get a little handsy. If you think that’s distracting, try having Mei’s head appear next to your own, to start up a conversation you literally cannot escape from.

On the plus side, if Mei’s feeling generous, she can give you control over her donated limbs instead. If you find yourself in need of an extra hand or two, Mei is usually willing to lend you her own. In fact, Mei is surprisingly eager to give away her body parts. Just last weekend, she literally lent away all of herself. Every bit of her body was attached to someone else, who had full control. Oh, I know because I borrowed her mouth. It was karaoke night at a bar somewhere, and I wanted to try singing a duet. Someone even borrowed her featureless head, though I have no clue what for. You would think that not having any control over your scattered body parts would be maddening, but Mei insists it was fun. She claims it’s like getting to live a dozen or so different lives all at once. I hear she’s planning another ‘Mei Giveaway Weekend’ sometime in the near future.

Speaking of Mei’s hands, if you ever catch them glowing a faint red, you may want to keep your distance. That is, unless you want to be taken apart yourself. Naturally, Mei has also mastered a spell that functions similarly to her enchantment. Should you let Mei touch her magicked hand to you, you may suddenly find yourself missing a few parts. If you’re not particularly keen on having your head attached to a table across the hall from your body, you may want to stay away from Mei’s hands.

Another one of Mei’s constant pranks include sudden rearranging. Since she can transfer body parts to different locations, she can also swap them at will. Don’t be too surprised when you find your left and right hands have suddenly been switched, or your head is backwards on your body. Maybe she’ll swap your arms and legs. If you’re lucky, she’ll leave your face alone, but more than likely, you might end up with your eyes replacing your nipples. Or your face will be on your belly.

What makes this even worse is that she can, of course, swap parts between different people as well. But, since everyone retains control of their own parts, this can cause a lot of confusion. Having your face on someone else’s head can be quite frustrating. Then there was the time Mei swapped 5 people around so that each of them had one limb from all the others, but none of their own. A lot of falling down was involved as they tried to coordinate, but luckily for Mei, they saw it as a fun challenge. Besides, she made it up to them later by lending herself out to them.

Avoiding Mei is an arduous task. Since her magic works on any part of her body, no matter how small, it is very easy for her to setup an ambush. Despite the previous warning, what you really want to be aware of are her eyes. She can only work her magic across her line of sight. So if she can’t see you, she can’t accost you. Remember, she only has two eyes, so there are limits to her abilities. Of course, those eyes are small, and could literally be anywhere, even in two different locations, so always be on the lookout.

Of course, at the end of the day, no one in the Sorority minds Mei’s eccentricities. She’s a beloved member, after all. She’s cheerful and friendly, and talking to her is always pleasant, assuming you can find her head. And if you really do feel like Mei’s shenanigans are out of control, you can always ask her nicely to stop, and she will.

I suppose the biggest challenge in doing that would be actually finding one of Mei’s ears so you can speak to her. She spends almost all of her time literally spread across the Sorority house, in as many pieces as she seems to be able to muster. Some Sorority members even consider her a permanent fixture. It would be strange to walk around the house and not see a part of Mei lying about. Even when she’s out for classes, she’s liable to leave something of hers behind.

Despite Mei being literally everywhere, however, trying to find Mei to talk to her is a challenge. You would think finding her head would be the easiest thing to do, but her facial features are rarely, if ever, attached to her head. More often than not, her head is devoid of her eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.  You might have better luck searching a room where people like to hang out, so as to find an errant ear listening in on any conversation. And even then, you’d have to work together with her to find her mouth after, so you might actually have a conversation.

And god help you if you need Mei to be whole for some reason. Getting her reassembled is a monumental task in its’ own right. She also hates being in one piece, so you can definitely expect to be the victim of some pranks. You had better hope she’s not feeling too devious, or you might find yourself just as scattered across the halls as Mei herself.

Of course, if you actually want that, Mei is only too happy to oblige. You might be surprised at how often members of our Sorority come to Mei specifically to parcel their bodies around the house. Mei’s not the only one who occasionally has body parts littered across the premises. We have lots of girls that are only too eager to be taken to pieces, it’s just that Mei’s the most… enthusiastic. Heck, even I’ve spent some time with my head as a decoration above the front door. But while most of the rest of us tend to spend most of our time in one piece, Mei hardly ever does. I guess that’s what separates her from the rest of us… and herself.

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Brittney

Brittney likes to think of herself as a living water balloon. After joining the Body Magic Sorority, she researched and developed an enchantment that would permanently liquefy her body, and contain her liquid self within a thin, protective ‘skin’.

Her ‘skin’ is in itself a strange thing. If you were to squeeze Brittney’s hand in your own, you would find it squishes easily, like squeezing a pouch full of warm water. Which is essentially what Brittney is. If you squeeze enough, you could even force Brittney’s liquid hand to travel back up into her arm, effectively collapsing her hand into itself. In fact, that works on any of Brittney’s extremities. Watching Brittney push her head into her body is a surreal experience.

Something else to expect when you’re meeting Brittney, is that you might find her features occasionally drifting across her surface. Almost all of Brittney is essentially a homogeneous liquid, except for her features, like her eyes. Because of that, her features sort of just float on top of her surface, and they never really stay put. So don’t be scared when you see her eyes slowly floating apart, or her nose skewed slightly off center.

She does have some degree of control over where her parts float off to, and with some effort, she could move parts of herself across her body. If you spot a hand with an eye attached to it peeking around a corner, chances are, it’s Brittney. Or maybe it’s one of the other girls who likes rearranging themselves. If you can’t tell, look to see if the eye is drifting around. Then it’s definitely Brittney.

Brittney’s ‘body’ might be squishy, but her ‘skin’ holding her together is also incredibly flimsy. All it takes is one quick poke, and Brittney will pop, covering the surrounding area in a thick layer of liquid Brittney. Of course, she can still move around like that. She has control over her liquid body, even if she’s been splattered all over the place. In fact, more often than not, she’s the one who’s popping herself.

She also found a way to regenerate her ‘skin’ at will, probably some time after the first time she popped and left herself as a puddle of flesh. She used to take hours to pull herself back together after popping, but lately, she can do it in less than a minute. It’s really quite something to see, like an explosion in reverse.

Brittney is infamous for what she likes to call her “Explosive Tackle Hug”. If you ever hear her yelling that out, you may want to take cover. If you don’t, she’ll leap at you and pop all over you, practically coating you in herself. Don’t worry, she doesn’t stain your clothes. They might get soaked in Brittney, but when she collects herself, they’ll be left clean and dry. Unless they were wet to begin with.

Lately, she’s been experimenting with combining her enchantment with a detachability spell, which lets her split herself up into ‘separate skins’. It seems to be have inspired by someone calling her breasts water balloons unto themselves. She can only do her breasts, so far, but it’s rather effective. So, she can pop off her breasts and lob them at people as water balloons. By the end of the semester, I fully expect to see her using her head as a projectile.

Speaking of Brittney’s pranks, you should probably never accept any drinks from her. If you ever drink even the tiniest bit of her liquid body, the safety protocol of her enchantment will kick in. It’s her way of making sure she never loses any part of herself, and she does it by turning you into a living water balloon as well. That way, she can just pop you and get back whatever bit of her you swallowed. Don’t worry, it’s only temporary. After you’re popped, the magic will eventually put you back together.

Unless, that is, someone ingests part of you. Then the safety protocol will kick in on them, and they’ll turn into a water balloon too. You won’t get turned back to normal then, until they get popped. The chain reaction can go on for quite awhile, sometimes, especially since some of the Sorority members will intentionally partake whenever they see it happening. We once spent an entire evening with the Sorority house basement quite literally flooded with popping girls, courtesy of Brittney spiking the punch bowl with herself. By the end of the night, they were starting to leak up the stairs to the main lobby.

I wonder if Brittney can combine her ‘separate skin’ spell with the version of her enchantment the safety protocol provides… maybe we can host a Sorority water balloon fight, where we’re all the water balloons. I bet the girls will love that.

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Carol

Carol’s our resident painter/painting. Yes, you heard me right. She’s made a permanent enchantment on herself that turned her into a living painting. I’m not sure what all the details are, but the gist of it is that she can now be painted on, and the paint becomes a part of her.

For example, she doesn’t actually have or wear any clothes. Those are all paint. She paints a new outfit onto herself every day. She’s usually quite fashionable, she’s a great artist after all. But, since the paint is her, the clothes are her, too. She can’t just take off her shirt and give it to someone to wear, because it’s basically her skin. But, if she’s feeling generous, she might let you paint a new outfit onto her, or just paint her in general.

Since she’s literally paint, she can be edited just like a picture would be. She can erase parts of herself, or paint over them, transforming herself with nothing but a brush. I’ve watched her paint her legs into arms, and erase her arms, and paint new limbs onto herself. She’s taken a towel to her face and scrubbed it clean, until nothing was left but a smooth surface of skin, and painted herself a brand new face. She loves modern art, and she often has a Picasso-styled face.

She likes being a canvas for other aspiring artists too, and as far as I can tell, she loves being painted. I’m not a great artist myself, so I’ve never tried, and I don’t exactly know how painting in three dimensions works, but she’s let herself be turned into many a literal work of art. She loves showing off other people’s work on her, too, and will happily walk around as a living showcase. Or even sometimes, get herself framed for display.

That’s the other thing she can do. She can press herself onto a canvas, and she’ll sink into it, and become nothing but a painting upon it. Then she gets someone else to put her in a nice frame, and she’ll be hung up for a few days before she decides it’s time for a new paint job. It doesn’t even need to be a canvas, nearly any blank surface will do. She’s painted herself into walls, ceilings, floors, pillars… and even been a tattoo a few times.

Despite being made of paint, Carol doesn’t seem to be liquid. Of course, that doesn’t stop her from painting other people. Though not part of her enchantment, she loves a particular spell that lets her do to others what she does to herself on a daily basis. If she starts tickling your skin with that brush of hers, you’ve probably already been turned into a living painting, too. Then, you’ll find yourself being edited, painted and erased, as Carol works her artistic vision onto you. If you’re lucky, she won’t be on one of her modern art kicks, and you’ll have a recognizable face. A word of advice though, if Carol does see fit to paint you, for the love of god, don’t say anything bad about her work, unless you want to be trapped as graffiti for a few days while she calms down.

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Taylor

Taylor’s just an empty suit. No, like, actually. She’s permanently enchanted herself to become a living skinsuit. If you want to put her on, you just need to ask. She may not appear to have a zipper, but if you run your finger in a straight line anywhere on her body, her skin will unzip itself, revealing her hollow interior. Then, you can just slip her on, easy as pie. Another run of the finger will zip her skin back up, and, presto, you’re now Taylor! You won’t feel like you’re wearing a suit at all, she’ll feel like your own skin. It doesn’t matter if you’re too big for her, or too small, the enchantment takes care of that.

Wearing Taylor can be interesting, depending on her mood. While she’s normally content to sit back and let you control her body, she can seize control rather easily. It is her body, after all. But the best part about wearing Taylor is being able to use her skinsuit magic.

Not only is Taylor herself a skinsuit, but she can turn other people into skinsuits as well. All she has to do is trace a line on their body, and they’ll become a hollow shell of their former selves. And if you’re wearing her, you can do it too! You know, since you’re Taylor, and everything.

Oddly enough, there doesn’t seem to be a limit to the people Taylor turns into skin. If you’re wearing Taylor, and you turn someone else into a skin, you can then put them on. So you’ll be wearing Taylor, wearing the other person. This can seemingly go on forever, thanks to the enchantment.

And, just like with wearing Taylor, wearing someone else’s skin means you have full access to their magic too. It can get rather chaotic, at times, as people borrow Taylor just to get into someone else’s skin for their magic. You can never know who’s who in this Sorority, because they may just be wearing someone else’s skin.

It’s all in good fun, of course. Just like with Taylor, anyone turned into a skin can simply take control back if they so wish, including forcing the other person out of them. Most of the Sorority girls love a good prank though, so they’ll likely play along.

As far as pranks go, though, people don’t often wear all of Taylor just for the sake of a joke. Usually, they just ask to borrow a hand. Tracing a line in a complete circle around Taylor’s wrist will unzip her hand from her arm, resulting in a Taylor glove that can be put on to use her magic. In fact, any part of Taylor can be unzipped apart like that. A circle around Taylor’s foot will take it off like a sock, or around her neck to remove her head to be worn like a sort of hood.

With liberal enough unzipping, you could even turn Taylor into a complete set of clothes. Which has been done, many times. Sorority members have been seen wearing Taylor’s legs as pants, or her torso unzipped down the front as a jacket. According to Taylor, the enchantment doesn’t let her get cold, so she’s actually a great source of protection from the winter chill. You could walk out into the snow wearing a naked Taylor, and be totally fine. Though, she might not appreciate you wearing her while she’s naked.

Another prank Taylor loves doing is to flip skinsuited people inside-out, and zip them back up before they can stop her. The result is bizarre. Their outer skin is suddenly devoid of features, and they just become a blank slate of a body, since all their features are now lining their insides. Being an inside-out skinsuit is strange, as you’re now staring at the back of your head, and moving around is all backwards, too.