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Originally Posted by Xysash

I normally hate personality rewrites, but that's because they usually don't leave anything of the original person behind.

Something where there's genuine continuity of personality, where they recognize the changes as they're happening? That's awesome.

I also support what duckboy43 said about changes to the character's speech patterns. That sort of thing is really fun.

Incidentally, this thread has given me an idea for a story. A guy decides that the girl next door, who he's always had a crush on, has become too outgoing and wild, so he decides to use a mind control device to make her shy and withdrawn. It works at first, but then her old traits start reasserting themselves. It turns out that somebody else is trying to control her as well!

Yes exactly, I hate complete identity/memory rewrites where there's no remainder of the individual, at that point it's indistinguishable from a complete transformation for me.

Like say you have girl character who is quirky, fun loving, talkative but intelligent, level headed and well grounded. And then you have another two, maybe one that's shy and another that's stuck up.

And then they get transformed into vampires or corrupted into demons. Assume there's no mistress or master involved though. Well then how do they act?

Well, you have to take it to a very formulaic manner . What were the original characters personalities? Well assuming you already know that, what are those of a vampire/demon?

Although it's tricky because it's essentially fiction, stereotypically they're dark, brooding, mysterious, sometimes violent or unstable, capricious.

So you just have to find a way to mold the original characters until that ideal without ever achieving a 'complete' or perfect change, assuming such exist.

The quirky girl might explore take her new form to the max, have fun with it and not mind being a little more unpredictable. But still have a good sense of humor and wit all the same, maybe assented with a newfound attitude. (Maybe towards her victims)
The shy girl is more likely to just be a secretive, hiding in the dark and stalking people in the shadows, often hesitant to do so if she decides to act on it at all. She might even be scared at times, maybe apologetic whenever she has to do vampire-stuff, and basically would be really uncomfortable with it.
The stuck-up one would obviously keep her pride and become a vain temptress, perhaps more dominating and cruel, retaining the most of herself because her original personality feels closest to what she's become.

Oh and that's for a stereotype that exist in fiction, since such things don't exist I'm sure I'd be much easier to do it based off of an existing personality one can understand or relate to.

Many transformation and mindcontrol fetishes relish in the loss of identity, but the kink in this for me (And perhaps many others) is the reassertion of it through a different persona or guise. Different kicks, same flicks.