>>57435403That's the right perspective to have about it. It's just a pain that the current meta for transformation artists is to do a one off image. Only telling the beginning of a story feels like I'm constantly getting teased.
I have two ideal endings for transformation scenarios.
The first is that the character with time and self discovery, comes to accept and get the most out of their new form, no longer wanting to change back. What was first shocking and embarrassing to them has become empowering through experience. If they are able to return to humanity, they happy to be able to return to the monstrous form that they hated at first.
The second is that the transformation is finally overcome, and they return to humanity, but the experience has permanently changed them. On the more positive end, imagine Misty getting turned into a bug pokemon. She hates it, but through exposure and having to work with other bug pokemon, she'll have changed her perspective on bug pokemon, overcoming her fear, or even having developed an affinity for them.
While seeing a character grow from a temporary transformation is great, sometimes weird lingering changes are even better. A trainer who returns to being a human after a long time being a pokemon may still move like they have a tail, or never lose an acquired taste for pokeblocks. Clothing might still feel uncomfortable.
If the transformation came with personality changes, they may regain their original personality, but the temporary one will always be accessible. A tomboy like Iris turned into a nurturing and maternal Audino may not be forced to act that way once turned back, but all those skills and mannerisms are still inside her. If she chooses to embrace them, it'd seem like quite the uncanny personality shift, even though she's still in complete control. And just as suddenly, she could put the Audino mindset back into it's box in the back of her head.
