Wanted (Patreon)

This is probably my most popular story, and the inspiration for this is very much from a different story. It's not always apparent when you read a story that it will have an impact later on, so I didn't bookmark or save it in any way, and of course am unable to find it now. Partly because I remember so little of it, but I remember that someone stumbled upon an apartment with a sought after terrorist in it, and experience a body swap. I can't remember much more than that, but the main point that I used in my story was to use someone else as a getaway vehicle.

The beats of the story are quite simple. The pizza boy is called to the apartment, outside of his normal area of delivery. He is forced to participate under the threat of violence. The criminal then self sabotage himself as much as possible, and performs the body swap while the boy is unconscious. Finally the boy wakes up not knowing exactly what has happened, how or why.

I have of course speculated why this one is so popular. When I've asked people I get responses like it's "dirty" and he is "trapped". I think some part has to do with the body swap happening so at random, that it could have happened to anyone.

" Please do a Wanted 2 at some point. It’s the hottest story. "
" I loved the story "Wanted" Any chance for an addition "
" you got to do a follow up on wanted "
" Just read Wanted. Was hoping for a follow up. "
" Please continue 'Wanted' "
" A follow up story, about what the protagonist did after realizing his was stuck in his new body, would be really cool. Could he somehow get back at the body swapper and keep his new body? "

As you can see from all this anonymous fan mail there is a demand for a continuation, but very little guidance on what that should be. I have a theory about sequels, why people tend to not like them. A squeal isn't the same story as the original, the story you liked, but a different story that just shares the same universe as the first one. That's fine if you like the universe or the characters, but most of the time what you want is the same story with different environment and characters.

This was another one of those stories I wrote first and then went looking for photos. I wanted the criminal to be obviously muscled, not really photogenic and in a shitty interior environment. I couldn't really find what I was after, so I started to look for the delivery boy instead and got this one.

This is where my tumblr contacts help out a ton, finding the non-watermarked photo I ended up using. He also gave me a lot of good villain photos to chose from, including the one I settled on. I did have him with naked upper body in the first story version, to make it more of a shock to out protagonist, but decided to bring the text more in line with the photo. The following was also a great photo, but in a too nice setting.

Some other rejected options: