Another great chapter! Thanks for keeping this up, and for keeping up an amazing pace with the updates. Probably shouldn't be finding Diamond as hot as I do - but love the character and the descriptions. Can't wait to see what he's gonna do from here.

A nice change of pace to have something written as a full story. And now readers are even more on edge waiting for the next/final chapter!

I get what others are saying, and sometimes depending on the story it can get to me, but mostly I like to focus on the changes themselves, the problem is when the only change from hero to corrupted hero is straight to gay. Would be nice to see a story like this where the hero is already gay but shy and semi-closeted and "nice" and turns into a bad boy or a slut. That said I liked this story! Would love to see a continuation where Parker bleaches his hair blond like Eddie, frequents leather bars shirtless under the symbiote leather jacket and has public sex in the bathrooms, is a bottom boy for petty criminals, becomes a lazy stoner, uses his power for selfish reasons

wow what a heavy plot chapter. Solid narrative even without the sex. Still, looking forward to the sex next chapter ;)

Can't you corrupt him without breaking or stealing antiques?

Thanks for reading everyone! @longtimefan - it seems like they’d be annoyed when someone asks them to do something that they could do for themselves.

Great addition! Not many stories show the conflict in the controller and their desire to fix things Most of the time they are just overcome by the power and darkness and IT makes them unfeeling almighty

What a great continuation of the story! Having read lots of tales of complete surrender to power, it’s interesting to see a character realizing the ramifications of his errors and trying to amend them...while still getting joy out of mind control. Can’t wait to see more. Great job! :)

Hi, all! HypnoCigarBoy: Great story. :D I want to add my two cents to the debate, but I'll start by prefacing with comments other people have made: that everyone has a different type of story they like, the authors are freely sharing their work, and if something makes you uncomfortable, you don't have to read it. That being said, I agree, to a point, with the original commenter's observation about a trend on this site. It's not so much the corruption aspect--like Edlam said, seeing "good" guys act evil or generally unlike their normal selves was a huge part of my erotic awakening. For me personally, it's the "straight to gay" trope that rubs me the wrong way (tee hee). I know that sexuality is hugely mutable and on a wide spectrum (bisexuality, pansexuality, hetero/homoflexibility, etc.), but I do believe that some people are either heterosexual or homosexual (I fall into the latter category), and reading stories about 100% straight people becoming totally, completely gay leaves me a little uncomfortable, especially because, as the original commenter mentions, being made gay is some kind of undesirable punishment or curse. That's not exactly fun to read. In addition to the negative aspect of "gay=something problematic that you don't want," the straight-to-gay stories suggests that sexuality can be CHANGED, and as a gay man, I've heard that argument before in a much scarier context ("straight education camps," for example--"you can change being gay"). I'm all for fluid sexuality, but the notion of having one's sexuality completely altered creeps me out, especially because sexuality can be an important part of a person's being (as it is with mine). As others have said, though, these are works of fantasy, and there's usually some magic/impossible technology (the Re-Educator, Edlam? :p)/comic book alien symbiote doing the altering. But it does raise those thoughts in my head, and they can kind of kill the mood... Those are my thoughts, such as they are. Would love to hear more! (Maybe I'll sign up for the forums and start a discussion there...)

I loved this story and the concept of the cuteification ray. Turning it on a hot, cocky muscle boy or a tough, muscular policeman (or, um, both please?) would be hot. I can just imagine their tight, built bodies inflating and getting cartoonishly muscular (almost balloon like) while the rest of them got younger and cuter and bubblier. All as they’re trying to maintain their serious, masculine personas.