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"...Huh, what's that?"

Dominic looked around. He thought he smelled something weird. It smelled a little like a skunk, but it wasn't a piercing odor. Then he noticed that there was somebody nearby him, holding out some kind of a purple sucker. A skunk with various shades of black (Pastel black?) and green making up his fur. Though he didn't look completely skunkish, he had a rather leonine looking head.

"Oh, Bullen, you scared me. You got fluffy." He said to the anthro skunk.

"I'm not Bullen - I'm Stinkbrain you silly. By the way, want a sucker?"

"Uhm... no thanks." Dominic looked away from the sucker. "I know better than to trust anything with a spiral on it from you. You have a bigger spiral fetish than the people of Uzumaki do."

"Noooo no I don't." Stinkbrain put the spiral sucker away.

"By the way, I thought you were Bullen."

"I simply swapped my identities out. See, lemme show you."

The leonine-skunk led him over to his 'office', where he ran a hypno-clinic. Dominic was still rather wary. He knew not to trust anything from Bullen that might have had a spiral on it. It was just like in that manga by Junji Ito where the spirals would lead to certain kinds of events.

Dominic still made sure that there wasn't anything like a medallion hanging around inside Bullen's hypnosis office. He did find one thing hanging around, but it didn't look like a medallion. It looked like a marionette of some kind, some kind of donkey looking marionette.

"Like it?" the lunk said as he walked over to the human.

"Uhm... why do you have something like this hanging in your office?"

"Because I do like to have fun sometimes! Sides, these puppets make a nice decoration, don't they?"

"Uhm... I guess?" Dominic said.

"Say, take a look over at this." The lunk said, guiding Dominic over to some kind of a picture. He closed his eyes as soon as the spotted spirals. Why on earth was Bullen or Stinkbrain or whatever so obsessed with spiral patterns.

"Spirals, no thanks."

"Hey I drew it myself." Stinkbrain said.

"Hence all the spirals... it looks like you-"

Dominic was interrupted when he felt something on his back. Something hard. As he looked around, he noticed Stinkbrain had poked something that looked like a vacuum tube to his body. Before Dominic could say anything, he turned on the vacuum. It started to suck Dominic's shirt away.

"Hey! Be careful with that!" Dominic shouted, as the vacuum started to suck his shirt in. For some reason, it felt like more was getting sucked away than just his shirt. Stinkbrain guided it down to his feet, keeping the vacuum on his skin. It felt surprisingly painless, as the lunk seemed to suck away all the skin on his right leg, pulling off the left leg.

Rather than some kind of gory scene, underneath Dominic seemed to have toe-less mits with only a few plush seams, "skin" looking kind of like cloth.

"What the hell-STINKBRAIN! What are you doing?!?" Dominic shouted.

"Juuuust showing you how 'Blanking' works!" Stinkbrain said as he continued to suck away Dominic's identity.

He eventually reached to Dominic's chest, while the human tried in vain to push the vacuum wand away. It did not seem to work, as it started to suck up everything. Surprisingly, Dominic felt a strange sensation of cloth, with nothing but stuffing underneath. Almost like a blank doll.

Stinkbrain continued to grin as he moved the vacuum wand up to the human's neck, the last of his identity being pulled away into the vacuum, leaving nothing but a blank. Dominic just groped around, only making muffled noises. Stinkbrain smirked and turned the vacuum off - he better make sure not to lose that one. First time he had ever actually blanked a human before.

"Hehehe, you look just like a blank suit." Stinkbrain smirked as he grabbed the blank, squeezing his featureless face in just a little bit. "Oh, I know what I should do. Wait there for me, will you?"

The blank couldn't exactly respond, only with muffled protests that could have been "Put my identity back on." The lunk wandered off to his desk and pulled out a fabric marker. Still grinning, he walked over and started to write on the blank's chest.

"I like Beards - Master Stinkbrain"

"Now hold on there."

The lunk pulled the vacuum bag out of the device, and placed it on his desk. He walked into his closet and came back with a different bag, one that was a little heavier. After placing it in the vacuum, he took the vacuum and put it to the blank human. It kept trying to push the wand away, before Stinkbrain turned the vacuum back on. Except he made sure to set it to reverse.

Stinkbrain continued to sergal grin as he watched brown fur emerge out of the vacuum wand. It started to completely cover the human, even covering up the 'I like Beards - Master Stinkbrain' message he wrote on the blank's chest. Details finally started to form on the blank.

The blank's stomach expanded and widened. Another set of darker brown fur formed running down the centre, all the way through his chest. As the fur started to spread to his arms and legs, they too seemed to inflate. The light brown fur turned a darker shade, not like the reddish-brown fur across some of his front. His feet gained small details, toes, paw pads, and claws. A small tail emerged from his rump.

The blank's arms soon inflated as they too covered in brown fur and black paw pads. Small ursine claws erupted from his fingertips. Finally, the blank's face inflated, looking perfectly proportioned for his large body. Ears poked out of his head, in between them a reddish brown mohawk. An ursine muzzle poked out of his face. Finally, the details finished on the former blank as a thick beard covered his muzzle, connecting to the thick layer of fur on his neck and chest, and the "ribbon" of similar fur that ran all the way down his frontside down the middle.

"Well, that's better-GAGGH!" Dominic noticed his muzzle in front of him and immediately put his hand over it. His paw pad smacked right into his muzzle over the fuzzy beard.

"What in the hell did you do Master Stinkbrain?" He asked.

"Hey, I wasn't using my old Bullen identity. I figured you could have it." Stinkbrain said.

"Look, Master Stinkbrain. I didn't want to 'BECOME' Bullen. And why in the hell am I calling you 'MASTER' Stinkbrain?"

"Juuuuust wanted to see if you'd be open to suggestion while you were a blank." Stinkbrain said, "Wait a minute. There's something missing."

"How about my old human identity?" Dominic said.

"Wait riiiiight there."

"Well given how heavy I am I'm sure I won't be going anywhere." Dominic said.

Stinkbrain immediately pulled out an old article of clothing that was normally the only thing he wore when he was Bullen bear. He smirked and tossed it to Dominic-Bear. The leather strips landed right on his muzzle, dangling from there.

"Smooth." Dominic grumbled as he pulled the leather off and looked over it. "...Are you flippin serious? It's a harness."

"It fits your bod!" Stinkbrain said, "Slip it on."

"What choice do I have? If I don't you'll probably hypnotize me into putting it on or put one of those suckers in there. By the way, did I mention that you have a lot of musk, Master Stinkbrain?"

"Duh." Stinkbrain said as Dominic-Bear slipped on the harness, and glared at him. "I'm a Lunk. Of course I smell like that. Say, want a sucker?"

"Uhm. no. I heard what those do."

"Aww come on, how else do you think your belly got so big?"

"Listen Master Stinkbrain - can you please just turn me back to normal?"

"Nope! I lost your old identity. You seemed to be interested in me when I was Bullen Bear. So why not try that out?"

"Hm I know why." Dominic-bear said as he lunged or the vacuum that Stinkbrain used. He pulled the wand out and held it to the lunk, turning the vacuum on. He touched it to the Lunk's stomach. Stinkbrain's eyes widened as he started to feel the suction.

"Hey! What are you doing?"

"The same thing you did to me, Master Stinkbrain." Dominic-Bear said.

Within a few minutes, the lunk couldn't see or hear. The blank groped around with its mitten like hands. Dominic-Bear got out of the way. He ambled over to the desk to look for something. A smile spread across his ursine muzzle as he spotted a fabric marker of some kind. He walked over to the blank with a sergal grin.

The blank wasn't able to put up any resistance as the bear put him into the hypnotist chair and restrained him. He might have just been relieved to have been feeling something. At least, it, blanks didn't have any gender. Dominic-Bear smirked as he doodled a cartoony beard over the remnants of the blank's muzzle.

A smiley face was drawn in the only section a fake beard wasn't covered. His eyes were replaced with spirals, making him look like he had a derpface. Somehow, Dominic-Bear had an idea. He wrote a message on the blank's chest.

"I like TF and marionettes"

"Hehehe, maybe he'll TF himself into a marionette like that." Dominic-Bear said. Of course the blank couldn't hear what he said.

After playing a game of tick-tack-toe on what was left of his skunkish tail, a lightbulb appeared above Dominic-Bear's head. He smirked and walked over to a closet, looking around for any other identities that the lunk had probably stolen before his own. He grabbed the first bag he saw, then swapped it out for the bag.

"Let's see how much Master Stinkbrain likes this now." Dominic-Bear said as he held the vacuum wand to the blank's abdomen and turned it on.

The blank's new identity started to spill out of the vacuum and stuck to the fabric like glue. He spotted the lunk's belly starting to inflate, as black leathery skin seemed to form around it. The former Stinkbrain rubbed over the big belly as it started to inflate.

Dominic-Bear still smirked, as the blank's pectorals filled accordingly. As soon as it reached the sides of the blank's body, brownish amber fur seemed to grow. It grew more and more, as it reached his arms and legs. The blank's arms and legs thickened immensely, legs even shortening a bit. The former blank's arms expanded as soon as the brownish fur reached his elbows.

The creature that was Stinkbrain's feet immediately ballooned out, as that dark leathery skin covered them. Features finally started to develop on the boot-like feet. Five long toes emerged, bending a little bit. Dominic-Bear smirked as he recognized those feet. Pawpy would certainly hate it - but maybe not the former Master Stinkbrain.

The blank's head was left for last, as his leathery hands groped at his featureless head. It looked almost comically out of place on his large body. Finally, Stinkbrain felt his senses return fully. Although he wasn't exactly Stinkbrain at this point. The forming creature felt over the small leathery vestigial muzzle, and the fur covering the rest of his head, as it fully inflated to become in direct proportion to his body. Last but not least, a large brown beard covered the bottom half of his face.

"There, take that." Dominic-Bear said to the former Stinkbrain. "Now you're an ape."

"Ahem." The simian said. "The correct term is 'gorilla'. Also, you have correctly proven the hypothesis of behavioural alteration in the state of Blankness."

The ape pushed the vacuum away.

"By the way, you won't need to refer to me as 'master' Stinkbrain. Instead, you will refer to me as Professor Nova von Rilla."

"Right right right." Dominic-Bear said.

"Hm, this shouldn't do." Professor Nova said as he ambled around the office. "Hold on one second."

The gorilla walked around the office, vanishing behind a door. He knew that he kept clothes for this identity around. Dominic-Bear still waited, although he checked around or the bags. Why on earth didn't he give Stinkbrain time to label these... whichever one had his identity still behind.

"Aha, here we are." The gorilla walked back in with his own professional clothes on. "I thank you so much for not leaving, former Bullen. There is another hypothesis that I would like for you to test out."

"I just want my own identity back. I am not going out like this." He pointed at his harness.

"Oh, you mean this?" Nova reached out and jiggled some of the fat around Dominic-Bear's abdomen. "Given this time of year as well as your ursine build, this is actually a rather healthy build for you." He sank a thick finger into the bulk. "Oh yes, I can feel muscle around there. You better take good care of this identity, you hear? I don't need it anymore."

Dominic-Bear glared at Nova von Rilla.

"Look, turn me back alright?"

"Just after this. " Nova started. "Now, hold still and listen to this lecture, will you? The makeup of a blank is actually that of fabric and anonymous stuffing. We do not have a technical term for it, it is simply known as toon fabric."

Nova started to drone on and on. Strangely, Dominic-Bear started to feel tired. He reached up and rubbed his eyes, thankfully not gouging them with ursine claws.

"When one's identity is sucked away, it is simply stored within a suitable vessel that in this case is a simple vacuum bag but alternative materials have been used."

Dominic-Bear felt more and more tired as Nova von Rilla walked back and forth, continuing to drone on and on about blanks and transformations. He eventually rolled over onto the hypnotist chair, his eyelids feeling rather heavy.

"...Identities are not associated with any particular anthro being, organic or synthetic. Many synthetic identities have been put on. Blah blah blah blah blah blah..."

Dominic-Bear at first closed his eyes for a brief moment to catch some winks. He was snapped back to reality to hear Nova von Rilla still going on and on about blanking.

"...Yap yap yap yap yaaaaap, yap yap blah blah blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda."

Before he knew it, Dominic-Bear was fully asleep. Professor Nova von Rilla continued to drone more and more, to make sure that the ursine was fully unconscious. He knew how deeply bears slept.

A shit-eating grin spread across the simian's wide face as he approached the sleeping ursine. To nobody in particular, he continued to speak.

"And now, as payback for sucking away an identity I happen to be quite fond of here, Dominic-Bear here will be transformed. And I don't think he'll be doing anything different anytime soon. Now, my incredibly boring and droning lectures have a side effect of placing the recipient into a hypnotic trance. Or shall I say, the future slave. I will say that it is quite an interesting hypothesis for having one of my old identities volunteer for this. But it is not like I had a choice. For science!"

The gorilla smirked and walked over to his desk. He pulled out two objects. The bear even started to snore a little bit as he slept, possibly dreaming of getting honey all over his nice beards. Nova von Rilla walked over to the sleeping Dominic-Bear.

"Now then." Nova von Rilla said, "For science, you are one of my new slaves. You also will answer to more than just Professor von Rilla. You will also obey Master Stinkbrain or Bullen Lion. Or Beardos the minotaur. Or hell, you'll obey any orders as long as I have anything to say in it!"

The ursine still slept, nodding a little bit in response.

"Now then." Nova von Rilla smirked as he walked behind the hypnotist chair. In both his large hands, he held out the pieces of wood. Strings emerged from them, shining in the light as they shot through, attaching themselves to the unconscious bear in correct places.

"Now then! You will dance for me whenever I want to. Along with my other slave over there. You know who, right?"

The unconscious bear's head was guided over to the donkey marionette hanging from the wall. Nova gently waved the instrument to make the bear nod.

"Now when I pull these strings, your arms will move."

The unconscious Dominic-Bear's arms moved. He flapped them a few times.

"And these strings will make you walk." He moved Dominic-Bear's legs. "This string will also make your mouth open and close." Dominic-Bear's mouth opened and closed with another tug. "And when you are not in use, you are asleep. This is because you are my other favourite marionette. "

Dominic-Bear suddenly ceased breathing. His fur seemed to slim down, suddenly shining in the faint light of the office. He actually looked somewhat blocky... until appropriate creases formed his joints. Dominic-Bear stood up as all his strings guided him into an awkward walk.

Awkwardly, his wooden joints folded, as his feet clanked on the ground. He even seemed to clank against each other as the puppet moved according to Nova von Rilla's motions.

"You understand, correct?" He said to the puppet, turning the bear-puppet around.

"Oh yes, I do Master Professor von Rilla. I will happily perform in your show." The bear's wooden mouth opened and closed, clanking a few times.

"Good good." The gorilla dropped the wooden boards down, sending the burly looking puppet down to the ground with a wooden THUNK.

"I must thank you Dominic-Bear, you gave me an awesome idea for what I should do with this identity... oh wait, you can't, puppets can't talk, silly."

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The curtain parted, showing an empty stage. Only a sign with the words, "The amazing Professor von Rilla" remained. It was pulled off the stage with a small cane. The crowd clapped, waiting for the show to begin.

A donkey marionette drifted down from the ceiling, joints clanking a little bit. Its wooden hooves made a fake clopping noise on the ground.

"Hello, I wonder where Bullen is." The donkey's fake mouth opened and closed.

With a loud thud, the wooden bear puppet was deposited right down onto the ground. The crowd giggled a little bit as the bear was lifted up, puppeteer shaking the bear a few times to untangle his strings. After about half a minute of shaking the puppet around limply, he finally stood on his two feet again.

"I'm sorry," The bear's muzzle opened and closed as his paw was guided into a waving. "I seem to be a little TIED UP!"

"Say, you're quite funny." The fake donkey said.

"Oh yes I know. Say, what is your name?" the Bullen puppet said.

"Punchinello."

Both puppets started to dance as music played.

"What can you do Punchinello funny fellow. What, can you do Punchinello funny too?" The puppets danced.

Several members of the audience chuckled as they watched the performance. Off-stage, Professor Nova Von Rilla controlled both the Bullen and the Punchinello Donkey puppets, both puppet-strings being controlled by all four of his digits. Sometimes, having hand-like feet was indeed very helpful.

After the Punchinello song was finished, both puppets bowed, as they were yanked up off-stage. With a practiced motion, Nova von Rilla tossed his slaves-turned puppets backstage, as they landed with a wooden clang. On cue, the orchestra played a comical "BANG" noise with the percussion instruments.

The curtain fell for a brief intermission. Two minutes later, the lumbering gorilla walked on stage to some applause.

"And now, for my next act, I will unlock hidden memories and demonstrate the power of hypnosis." The gorilla said, "I will need a volunteer.... Hmmmm..."

He scanned the audience.

"How about you there, in the Egyptian Shenti?"

His large finger pointed right at a rather orange and blue looking bird. He hooped nervously as he was chosen.

"M-Me?" He asked.

"Of course!" Nova von Rilla smirked at the avian. "This is in fact an old mystical trick, with its roots in Egypt!"

Mentally, he smirked at himself as the bird stepped up and walked towards the stage, audience members smiling and clapping.