The Seven Year Retrospective #6 - Bro Simulator 2K18: Coach DLC (Patreon)

Welcome back to the Seven Year Retrospective Top Twenty, folks! We're very close to cracking my top five personal favourite stories of my backcatalogue, but first we're taking a stop at #6! As the title gave away, it's Bro Simulator 2K18: Coach DLC (on tumblr here), which was released back in January 2018.

This was originally the third part in a trilogy of stories about a fictional video game entitled 'Bro Simulator 2K18' that transformed players into a jock, alongside their character in the game. Previous entries in the trilogy featured the base game and then a 'Beta Boy DLC', whereas this one took the route of a fitness trainer or 'Coach'. I quickly settled on Gavin Free of Rooster Teeth / Achievement Hunter / Slow-Mo Guys fame as the subject. Being both British and on the more slender side, he seemed the perfect fit for a transformation into a big burly jock with an alpha attitude. Indeed, it's not the only time Gavin features as a TF subject in this top twenty list, as (spoilers!) he'll be making another appearance in the top five!

I've always been a big fan of transformations triggered by video games, although I sadly can't recall where I first saw it being used. I first dabbled with the idea myself in the 2017 story "Free Game Download" (it also features a gay-to-straight TF, which is probably my favourite 'taboo' transformation type), although I didn't really play around with it in detail until the Bro Simulator series. Of that trilogy though, the 'Coach DLC' was always my favourite of the three, in many parts due to the more extreme transformation between Gavin Free and Coach Gavin. The guy I used to portray Coach Gavin was an Instagrammer by the name of Michael Bourst, although sadly he appears to have deleted his social media since then. A quick google should turn up a delightful amount of pictures though, including many of him in a cop uniform, should that be your thing.

There isn't too much more to say about this, so I'll leave you to (hopefully) reread this little gem from the Cavanaugh Vaults! It's two predecessors will eventually see the light of day once again in edited forms, but until then, you'll just have to enjoy the 'Coach DLC'. Coach Gavin seems to have left the game a glowing review, and your Coach wouldn't lie to you, would he?

On another note, I do sometimes wonder what a Bro Simulator 2K21 story might look like...