Reviewer: foxfun Signed
Date: January 07 2024
Title: Chapter 1: Intro - Alice's Move In
I really love this story because it's very rare to see a size fetish story where the protagonist is willingly being shrunken down, yet the protagonist doesn't have a size fetish himself. Not only so, no one in the story actually had a size fetish at all (maybe except Alice and Nikki who are developing one lol).
As a result, the story really "normalizes" the idea of a person being shrunken down. As in, the main premise isn't that the characters involves are trying to do some kinky play or fantasy fulfilling. Everyone treats being shrunken down so calmly, as if it's just like "I'm gonna give my room to my cousin and sleep on the living room sofa". I think this is what makes this story so unique and fresh. Since most size fetish stories will follow the pattern of either "protagonist is unwillingly shrunken" or "protagonist is willingly shrunken because he is horny".
This also means everyone in the story treats the protagonist Remy as a "normal person", instead of a "tiny" or something sub-human. Remy is also continuing living his everyday life, unshrinking everyday to go to school and outside, and also having some same sized interactions with Alice and Lori. I really like this sense of feeling of "equal yet also unequal" in the power dynamic. As in, between Alice and Remy, Remy actually have more of the "soft social power" because it is Alice who got a place to live for free, placing the burden on Remy. Meanwhile, physical power wise, Remy is so powerless compared to Alice when he is shrunken. Mixing them together, this creates a really peculiar power balance, where Remy should "be in charge", but his "being in charge" depends on the whimsical mood and excitedness of Alice. To add on to this, no one in the story actually treats Remy as "sub-human" intentionally. Alice can sometimes get excited and become pushy when playing with Remy, but I don't think she have any malicious intents to bully Remy into submission.
All in all, I really wish this series continues on for longer.