So I’ve started drafting up some non-sexual scenes for Cameron since the emotional/psychological effects of the treatment backfire were something I was curious about but found weren’t really explored in the game. It seems like a sad situation he’s in, off to the side all lonely and tasked with a job (by a family member who knows him) he is physically incapable of completing independently. Maybe I’m reading too much into a simple “kill/capture X for me” quest, but I think it’s worth exploring.
Specifically, I’m thinking of a short scene where he’s kind of moody and distant, but doesn’t open up (hehe) followed by a scene where Steele has to go look for him in the fields because he decided that he wasn’t going to sit around helplessly anymore and then takes another crack at the job he’s been assigned. Steele rescues and comforts him, rescues and yells at him, or doesn’t go looking for him, and after some amount of time has passed, Cameron will be found back at his designated spot a little worse for wear, depending on character personality or player choice. Maybe end with him still having mixed feelings about the transformation into faux-cow, and he can still be an enthusiastic bottom while saddened he can’t do some of the things he had expected to be able to do at this point in his life.
Is this character-breaking? He seems sunny enough past the first encounter, but he’s kicking a fence post when he’s introduced, and subsequently mumbling to himself about the varmints before being approached. I haven’t found much in the codex or wiki about the faux-cow treatment backfire, either, so I’m kind of just assuming he’s going to be mad/depressed about it for a little while before acceptance since his childhood dreams of being a muscle-bound bull have been shattered. Big T says that “most folk turn out to like what the Treatment does to ‘em,” specifically mentioning Cameron and “what he thinks of bulls these days,” which suggests that Cameron’s penchant for getting pounded by bulls is a pretty recent development, so I assume he hasn’t had a really long time to get used to his situation.
Lore-wise, are there enough children in New Texas that I can write something about Cameron mentioning growing up with other people his age with the expectation that all of them would be getting the treatment and turning out to be muscle-bound bulls/busty cows? Are faux-cows/cowmazons shunned at all? Why does Cameron’s dad task him with clearing a varmint infestation when he obviously is unable to do it? Denial of his son’s limitations? That could feed into Cameron denying his own limitations and deciding to go out by himself again.
Questions for @Savin, maybe. Also permissions, since he's not my character.
Specifically, I’m thinking of a short scene where he’s kind of moody and distant, but doesn’t open up (hehe) followed by a scene where Steele has to go look for him in the fields because he decided that he wasn’t going to sit around helplessly anymore and then takes another crack at the job he’s been assigned. Steele rescues and comforts him, rescues and yells at him, or doesn’t go looking for him, and after some amount of time has passed, Cameron will be found back at his designated spot a little worse for wear, depending on character personality or player choice. Maybe end with him still having mixed feelings about the transformation into faux-cow, and he can still be an enthusiastic bottom while saddened he can’t do some of the things he had expected to be able to do at this point in his life.
Is this character-breaking? He seems sunny enough past the first encounter, but he’s kicking a fence post when he’s introduced, and subsequently mumbling to himself about the varmints before being approached. I haven’t found much in the codex or wiki about the faux-cow treatment backfire, either, so I’m kind of just assuming he’s going to be mad/depressed about it for a little while before acceptance since his childhood dreams of being a muscle-bound bull have been shattered. Big T says that “most folk turn out to like what the Treatment does to ‘em,” specifically mentioning Cameron and “what he thinks of bulls these days,” which suggests that Cameron’s penchant for getting pounded by bulls is a pretty recent development, so I assume he hasn’t had a really long time to get used to his situation.
Lore-wise, are there enough children in New Texas that I can write something about Cameron mentioning growing up with other people his age with the expectation that all of them would be getting the treatment and turning out to be muscle-bound bulls/busty cows? Are faux-cows/cowmazons shunned at all? Why does Cameron’s dad task him with clearing a varmint infestation when he obviously is unable to do it? Denial of his son’s limitations? That could feed into Cameron denying his own limitations and deciding to go out by himself again.
Questions for @Savin, maybe. Also permissions, since he's not my character.
