Louis and his friends were going to a local convention. While normally he and his friends would transform into anime characters for conventions, this one was more popular culture focused. So they all came together and decided on a theme they were all interested in becoming that would fit a more pop culture-centric convention.
They eventually landed on Poppy Playtime as that was keeping their attention lately. Once they were set in one of the convention’s changing rooms, Louis decided to change first as he would take up less space that way.
His hair started changing colors, starting bright blonde before setting into an orange color which melted into a red reminiscent of blood. It started growing out while also becoming noticeably synthetic. He watched as all his friends started getting taller and taller as pure white splotches covered his skin. In actuality, he was shrinking in height as his skin turned to porcelain, the only thing that seemed to stay the same size was his eyes which turned a brilliant blue.
He made a small noise of discomfort as his hair was suddenly pulled into two pigtails, and tied off with blue bows. The hair in the pigtails suddenly curled up as Louis’s body started locking up. The porcelain had reached his joints making it harder, though not impossible, for him to move. His casual clothes, which had shrunk with him, became tighter and turned blue with a bow smack dab in the center of his small chest. Frills began ruffling up on Louis’s clothes while his pants turned into a big poofy dress skirt that was adorned with more blue bows.
Louis’s final changes marked her face with porcelain, the tinkling of glass noting her face being molded into the perfect shape. Its pure white landscape was dotted with freckles and rosy cheeks. The final touch was a red lipstick coating her smile. At a perfect two-foot height, Louis tucked herself away into the corner as the mascot Poppy Playtime herself. “Claire, can I trust you to carry me around? I know you’re not gonna be Kissy Missy but you’ll be the best one who can help.”
Claire nodded as her eyes seemed to dull over and expand. “Yeah I can do that,” she said, revealing her teeth sharpening to points, and a second row popping up behind them. Her lips turned bright red as they contorted into a wicked smile, which was made more unsettling thanks to her eyes. Her smile kept growing along with her head, her whole body getting lankier as tufts of blue fur covered her skin. Her hands and feet turned yellow and hardened into plastic as she had to bend over to avoid the ceiling. The final touches to her change came with a blue ribbon around his neck as he reached his full height of eighteen feet. Claire sat down and pulled his legs close to his body to not take up so much space as Huggy Wuggy.
“Man, I’m glad we got one of the bigger rooms, it’s gonna be a tight fit in here with all of us,” Matt said as his changes began. They seemed to start with his feet, his shoes turning pink as blue tube socks crawled up his legs. His legs turned a brighter pink than his shoes, thinning out and extending as the bubblegum color crawled up. They started shaking as they turned to rubber, causing Matt to flail about as he wasn’t used to his legs. “Woah, woah, woah!” He shouted as he fell forward, using his hands to prop himself up. It gave everyone a perfect view of his torso now that the pink infection had finally made it there.
His butt and crotch started swelling into a perfect ball, his torso thinning away into the small rubbery noodle at the top of the ball. A seam formed down the sides of the ball near Matt’s torso as it formed into a hard plastic shell for his rubbery limbs to be tied off to. His shell and torso turned the same color as his shoes as his chest and shoulders were molded into a heart shape. A blue-collar formed around Matt's neck while his shoulders turned pink, the two pinks clashing together to form a top with a slight bit of fake cleavage for her. Matt’s arms spahgettied out while her hand became big and bulky like she just put on big pink gloves.
Matt’s neck stretched out like her other limbs, but instead of losing control of her head, she was able to hold up her head which was changing next. Her eyes turned green as her head grew in size, a smile crossed her face as her hair turned into a big pink plastic swirl. A ponytail made of three rubber strings popped out of her head as Matt’s eyes got uncomfortably big.
Matt couldn’t help but laugh sinisterly as she stretched her limbs to the ceiling, hanging upside down but twisting her head to still be right-side up. “This will be so much fun!” Matt said in her signature Mommy Long Legs voice.
Melissa was up next when a thought popped into her head. “Will I be able-“ she began to say when purple smoke escaped her mouth. “Alright, asked and answered,” she said while arching her back. Her first change was very obvious as her spine became very visible. It looked like her skin was tightening against her body. Her chest shrank into her body as her rib cage started to press against its confinement. A series of cracks were heard as Melissa’s body shifted to a quadrupedal stance.
Melissa watched her hands tighten around the bones while sharp black claws erupted from her fingertips. From her hands and newly clawed feet, purple fur began to spread over her body as a tail grew out from her backside. A zipper crawled up her torso while her tail lowered to the ground and extended out quite a ways.
Melissa finally stopped growing as a collar with a moon wrapped itself around her neck. Fur began to encroach on her head as her ears shifted to the top of her head, pointed like a cat’s. Her eyes sunk inwards, growing darker until two white pupils were the only feature the others could make out. Unlike her friends Melissa tried to fight the mandatory smile being forced upon her, it was a losing battle as her face stretched out to reveal the dark void in her mouth. With a smile that took up most of her face, Melissa looked like a perfect copy of Cat Nap.
Kyle stared into the face of his girlfriend, the beady dots of light being the only thing staring back at him. His heart was racing, but it sounded different, like notes on a music box being played. His torso started growing into a cube as it expanded into shape. His limbs began to coil as they centered themselves on his cubed body. A crank jutted out from the side of his torso and began turning in time with his music box.
His hands became boxy as they were covered with red fuzz, claws topping each boxy finger. His feet went through a similar change, looking as if he put them in tissue boxes with claws on the ends. By now his box body was complete, it had a lid attached and everything.
The final changes began with his neck becoming a coil as well. His mouth split across his whole head as a big bolt popped up at the seam. Like the rest of his limbs, Kyle’s head became a big fuzzy red box. Sharp teeth lined the top and bottom halves of his head as his pupils dilated and glossed over like Claire’s. The music box started fading out as Kyle packed himself away in Boxy Boo’s signature box.
Mika giggled at Kyle tucking himself away, feeling a bunch of energy suddenly surge through her body. She dropped to all fours naturally as her hands and feet shifted into paws with claws. She started growing fast as if her excitement was spurring the transformation. Everyone tried to get a good look at her body changing but it was obscured by long strands of rainbow yarn covering her body. A lion-like mane sprouted around Mika’s head as it started changing as well.
His head swelled into a perfect sphere like the rest of the toys, his eyes dilating and glossing over into fake ones as well. His skin turned an orange color that matched the rest of his non-yarn-covered body. His lips were forced into a smile as well but this one was noticeably sealed shut, with three fake fangs poking out from the top. Mika suddenly lifted his head to the surprise of everyone, it was like he lifted something that didn’t weigh as much as it should have.
Mika knew why it suddenly felt different. His head had hollowed itself out as a large white seam formed down the middle of his plastic face. He opened her head to reveal sharp fangs lining the halves of his head, and an even smaller maw waiting at the back of his mouth. Mika happily closed his mouth as his transformation into Yarnaby was completed.
“Alright everyone, looks like we’re all ready! Melis- I mean, Huggy could you pick me up?” Louis asked. Melissa nodded and extended one of his hands, grabbing Louis and placing him on his shoulder. One by one, the monsters squeezed out of the changing room and began to walk the con floor.