As I log in to my laptop and get ready to start my work day, I'm surprised to find that I hardly get a minute of work before Kuru already calls me. He's usually not so quick, so whatever he has to say must be quite important. Indeed, I can't even get a word in edgewise before he already starts talking. "Alright, Aini, we got work to do. AetherRoom made a big move, and we need to respond," he says.
OK, so I know that AetherRoom is one of our competitors in the AI business, but I'm certainly not aware of any big move they've made. So I first take a long sip of coffee and then answer, "Calm down, Kuru. What did they do?"
Looking down at the little window displaying Kuru's webcam feed, I can see him gesticulating wildly as he yells, "It's huge! They had a stream where their community manager showed up in a tiny cow-print bikini and started writing schoolgirl gangbang porn, and it just got crazier from there! AetherRoom is all over the Internet now, and we need to make a big response! I have a plan, though..."
That doesn't quite sound promising. If that's true, that must have been a crazy stream, and if Kuru has a plan to top that, I'm not sure if I want to be a part of that. There's a bit of trepidation in my voice as I ask, "Um... what is that plan, Kuru?"
He's got a big smile on his face, which, again, isn't encouraging. "Oh, it's gonna be great. We're gonna do a stream with you, and you're gonna be writing. But we're putting a twist on this whole thing. AetherRoom has just established itself as dirty and perverted. Now we're gonna turn that on its head, we're gonna establish NovelAI as the classy alternative, for the refined pervert, all while we're pitching it at a new audience: Women. You're gonna be writing gay romance," he explains feverishly.
What? This idea is completely crazy, but I know well enough that when Kuru gets one of those ideas, he's not going to be dissuaded from it, so I simply ask for more details, "Alright, so a stream where I write gay romance with NovelAI. Anything else?"
With that big grin still plastered across his face, he nods. "Yeah, yeah. I've got something else planned for that stream, but, uh, it'll be a surprise. Just get ready to do the stream tomorrow, everything else will just fit into place. I got to go and talk with the web devs, so if you got anything else, just drop me a line on chat, but you should be good. See ya!"
And with that, he's gone, leaving me to figure this out, but over the entire work day, I can't really make heads nor tails of this plan. I think there's something there about trying to appeal to the female smut enthusiast, which apparently prefers good looking guys in their smut, so gay romance has two of them at the same time, making it perfect or something? In the end, I figure it's something I just have to get through tomorrow, and before long, I'm off work and decide to go to bed early. Might as well get some sleep in to get ready for an extended streaming day.
The next morning does not start as I expected. Not even in the slightest. As I wake, I'm struck with two strange feelings, namely that my chest feels lighter... and my panties seem tighter. Bewildered, I stumble into the bedroom and strip down in front of the mirror, which reveals the bizarre truth: I'm a guy now. My breasts are gone, and I've now got a penis. This... is suboptimal, and I can't shake the feeling that Kuru is behind this. Sure enough, after logging into work and a short chat with him, it turns out that yes, this was his work. Apparently, there are people on the Internet which sell long-range gender change spells, which seems excessively niche to me, but I can't argue with the results, given what my body looks like now. Thankfully, this gender change is temporary and is only supposed to last about a week. It seems that Kuru's plan here is that since our target audience for this stream is women that are into cute guys, he figured changing me into a cute guy as well would help that goal. And after pressing him on this being a massive workplace policy violation, he points me to a subsection of a subsection that reads something along the lines of "possible gender changes are part of the employee's tasks while working with NovelAI". Has he been planning something like this?
Before I even get an opportunity to process that, he again just hangs up on me after telling me the stream is supposed to start in fifteen minutes and to get ready. At this point, I don't really have a lot of room to argue, I need to get ready. Digging through my closet, filled with frilly dresses, I quickly come to realize I don't really have anything that fits my new body well. No matter what, I can't shake the feeling it's going to be tight around the crotch region. Still, I dig out some clothes and put them on, rush to get myself presentable and set up the stream. While I'm not exactly sure how this is going to go, I'm the cutest damn community manager this world has ever seen, and I can be just as cute as a boy, damn it!
As the viewers roll in to the chatroom for the stream, I greet them with a smile. "Hey everybody, I'm Aini, and I'm here to show you some of the great things you can do with NovelAI! Now, we've listened to your feedback, and you told us that you wanted to get romantic with us, so that's what we're going to be doing! Today's stream is all about the most romantic of things: Love between two cute guys!" So far, Kuru's gambit seems to be paying off, as the chat seems really into this idea, and are quite eager to see me get started. I boot up the NovelAI interface and create a new story to begin writing for my audience in, then address them again, "Alright, we're all set up, but now we need some ideas. Does anybody have a cute, gay, romantic story idea I could write?"
And so, the viewers start giving their suggestions in the chatroom, and all the while, I'm all too aware of just how tight my panties are. In fact, for some reason, the prospect of writing fluffy gay smut is turning me on... my new penis is actually getting hard. Pushing that to the back of my mind, I see one suggestion in the chatroom that interests me. "Ah, I see something here, user 'twinkyluv' wants to see