>>48214601
>I find several paragraphs of story
Sorry, a majority of those are mine.
>Does transformation just DO something to people that makes them a billion times more productive?
On the linguistic side, the prompt lends itself well to serials as the character adapts to a new situation and, unlike a strict self-insertion fic, there's the leftover context from whatever character/creature they become.
From the schizophrenic psychological angle: you could say being able to imagine becoming someone else gives you more autonomy to be another person, because you have to convince yourself on some level that's possible, unironically what >>48218951 is saying. I remember there was some big RPG maker game about the same subject matter(who's name I don't dare mention) where the author said something like:
>When I was young and being bullied I always wished I could just give the reigns of my life over to something else more powerful.
Which I think captures a part of the wish-fulfillment scenario as well. It's dangerous because there's the desire to get entirely lost in a fantasy, but on the other hand, there's an important lesson in these stories about accepting circumstances that won't change and moving forward, which is probably counter to what most people assume readers would want.

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