Elle Arvey is the central character in Going Off The Rails, my short story submission to Transform Fiction, which you can go read now! It's about identity, it's about gender, and it's about trains!
www.furaffinity.net/view/64544386/
Make sure to check out the work of the other contributors too!
I tried to evoke snakes in her design. Her headlights are positioned where snake nostrils would be, her mouth has the :3 shape a snake's does, her head is flat and sloped, and her tail is thick, and longer than she is tall. Train dragon? Nah. What is a train but a big metal snake, anyway?
A ref sheet for a robotic anthro character named Elle Arvey. She is standing with one hand raised in greeting and the other tucked behind her back. Her mouth is open in a cheerful smile, revealing a yellow interior. A tail longer than she is tall curls behind her back. Her body is made of metallic plates separated by dark grey accordion diaphragms. She is painted predominantly white with blue accents. Wavy lines of teal, green, and blue run laterally down her neck, torso, and tail. Her head features a dark, reflective visor, with a windscreen in the center, and amber dot-matrix eyes to each side. The windscreen features a pull-down sun shield, a blue tint, and a windshield wiper. Above the windscreen she sports a destination headboard, which reads "REF SHEET" in amber dot-matrix text. She has headlights on the tip of her snout. Her head is topped by a pantograph current collector. Her tail is divided into articulated segments of equal length, alternating between featuring two wide windows, and two narrow windows framing a double door. The tail is further decorated with an assortment of small, colorful stickers. 103A is printed on her neck, and 103B on her tail. A second headshot sits beside the fullbody, featuring open eyes with flourishes evocative of eyeliner or lashes, and a yellow forked tongue sticking from her mouth. The headboard reads "I'M ELLE!!" The ref sheet features color palettes and two inset panels. One shows a Sound Transit Series 1 LRV, labeled "pre-tramsition". The other shows the articulated joint that connects Elle's tail to her body. Text on the ref reads "Elle Arvey. she/it Denshamorph (train, synth, snake). 6'0"." A transgender and pansexual pride flag are featured. A bulleted list contains further details: "runs on electricity. torso full of batteries. 400 lbs. limbs can bend steel. loves stickers. tail has seating for passengers. side doors operational. lighter windscreen in center of visor." The piece is signed "Travertine '26"
I can finally present a character design which took me several weeks of work to get right. Meet Elle Arvey, my tramsgender LRV! She might be my favorite character I've ever made.
Quite fitting that I get to reveal her the same week Link Light Rail's Crosslake Connection opened here in Seattle!
And it's out! I encourage everyone to check out the pilot issue of Transform Fiction! Shoutouts to everyone whose work made this possible!
As a change of pace, my story (Going Off The Rails) is fully SFW. It also takes place in my Bolycule continuity, so I encourage fans of that to give it a read!
I can highly recommend my friend @yana.quest's story, which among other things paints a picture of how confusing euphoria can be when you feel it for the first time. Their New Helvetia setting is wonderful for this in general!
It's also just a whole therian mood.
I'm honored to be a part of this project! I wrote a little piece that flips the script on tf a bit, and also ended up far more personal than I knew at the time. I'm quite proud of it!
I hope you check out my work, and that of the other talented contributors, when this drops later this week!
What happens in this story was not my plan when I sat down to write either the last part, or this one; It just kinda happened. I hope it doesn't seem too abrupt, but I can say from experience that it kinda does just hit all at once, and you only figure out how long it was cooking in retrospect.
"Though once the suit comes off and her body returns to normal, Tiko finds what she felt in that body refuses to fade, and is left with much to think about. Fortunately, her partners are there to help her through any fears and doubts she might have."
"In this episode, Tika is the body of an anthropomorphic chocobo woman, and her boyfriend Murali wears her like a suit. She is made party to an act of lovemaking, a date, and a trading of hands, while being named and gendered as befits her present shape all the while."
Greetings all, and welcome back to #bolycule Thursday! Today chapter's is Episode 62, Part 2!
~14,000 words
content: transformation, tg/tf, inanimate tf (bodysuit), suiting/body borrowing, aftercare
www.furaffinity.net/view/64459267/
New stories are also posted to my Neocities!
Chrrrr... I always love it when a body part knows its place~
And it is true. Rhogar makes a very good foot >:3
we have turned him into a decorative fountain
Also, as of this chapter, the Bolycule has officially broken one million words long! Thank you all for coming on this journey with me! And what an episode to hit a million on, too!
The long-time man wants to avoid seeing any deeper meaning in his unconscious spell, but his boyfriend Murali has other ideas. He'll make Tiko confront how this body makes her feel, even if he has to step into the driver's seat to do it!"
This is a pretty personal episode for me, and I put a fair bit of myself into it. Apologies for the cliffhanger >.>
"In this episode, Tiko wakes up to find himself in unexpectedly female form... and this time he apparently has no one to blame but himself.
Greetings all, and welcome back to #bolycule Thursday! Today chapter's is Episode 62, Part 1!
~10,000 words
kinks: transformation, tg/tf, inanimate tf (bodysuit), suiting/body borrowing, pronoun play
www.furaffinity.net/view/64306409/
New stories are also posted to my Neocities!
Aw, thanks for being so supportive, foot!
(Ref sheet/design for the next new Bolycule character. Knowers know)
Created an interesting problem for myself where I've spent over a week on a new design, and will likely need another week to finish it... and I can't even share it until I publish a finished draft I have no ETA on posting. If it seems like my art fell off the face of the earth...well, that's why ^^;
In this episode, the micro Redd finds they'd been abducted by Murali - a man with a fixation on very small things.
Redd's in for a whirlwind of activity as Murali runs through weeks of ideas for them in a day. And amidst it all, the two of them find they want to be more than metamours...
Hello everyone, and welcome back to #bolycule Thursday! Today's is Episode 61!
~12,000 words
kinks: micro/shrinking, mawplay, endosoma, foodplay, clothing entrapment, petplay
www.furaffinity.net/view/64145746
New stories are also posted to my Neocities!
You look so happy now that you've found your real size!
This is the beauty of a reformation setting to me. Bol is Kothysax's safe haven, his ward, and his snack, depending on the time of day. To be willing to ignore someone's plans and treat them as calories, while still holding them as one of the most important people in your life? What a dynamic!
Kothysax will also, at a rate of nearly once a week, snatch and swallow the small, pink raptor as if they were pastry left unattended on the counter. He feels utterly entitled to treat them as a snack, regardless of their willingness... though Bol never seems to protest!
Though rarely depicted, Kothysax can frequently be found in a foot-long quad form, typically snoozing on, cuddling with, or receiving pets from Bol. He is embarrassed for most to see him like this, but it also brings him great comfort. Around them, he's willing to let down his guard.
#bolycule
There's a fun casual-ness to it. Backgrounding it makes it seem like something that happens so often its not even worth the focus
tysm!!
All good choices... but honestly, they recently got plenty of new pairs of socks.
Instead, I think we can let a certain lion disappear between two toes, and wake up to the feeling of a sock being pulled up and over his talons and scaly skin.
Ooo, she's comfortable admitting it!
Well, you already know they'll be embarrassed out of their mind if they find out someone's down there... but that's no reason you can't go! In fact, that's why Hugo will be happy to stick you amidst the soft cream-colored feathers at the base of their tail >::3
I'm so glad to hear I captured them effectively! Everyone who says they want to snuggle with or pet Bol makes me so happy!
...Of course, everyone who says they want to belong to them makes me want to ask "Oh? As what?"