Dating The Professor REMASTERED

So I decided to remaster/remake one of my oldest image captions, Dating The Professor. Like all of my old captions, it was made entirely with MSPaint and I had yet to really 'get' how messy they looked or how painful horizontal captions were to read. So now it has not only a new image, but conforms to my 'style' that I use for captions. Cor comaprison's sake, I'm including the old caption here as well so you're sort of getting a 'double upload' if you've never seen the original.

I'm gonna ramble about the changes so if you'd like to read all that, skip to the end of the TEXT section. Hope you all enjoy this.

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"Professor...Please, I can't take this anymore!" Came the whiny voice that caused the pretty blonde to roll her eyes in annoyance. She turned slightly to look at the gangly, pale, greasy looking boy that was looking standing behind them on the stairs with a large watery brown eye, the other eye obscured by his greasy and overly long emo-bangs. Even from here the smell of alcohol and cheap weed on his ratty, unwashed clothing was giving them a contact high.

"Go on, I'll catch up with you in a minute" She said to Josie and Rachel, the other two girls she had been walking from the sorority with on their way to class. The trio of Gamma Upsilon Rho Lambda sisters had almost made it to class in the Chemistry Building before HE had spotted them, making a beeline around the corner and ambushing them, a look of desperation on his acne-ridden face. The two other girls shared a look of undisguised look of distrust and disdain before the fit African-American girl and the the busty brunette made their way into the chemistry building where their classes were. Kara, the blonde, watched them go with a look of envy before she turned her withering gaze to the pathetic excuse for a boy that was standing in front of her.

"I told you not to call me that anymore, Lucas! I'm KARA now!" She hissed as she adjusted her purposefully one-size-too-small t-shirt, "And you're not supposed to be on campus anyway! What, do you WANT to get arrested for trespassing again!? Because I will NOT pay your bail this time!"

The gangly twenty year old squirmed in his clothing as his cyclopean gaze scanned the local area before fixing on her once more, "You never LEAVE the campus! How am I supposed to talk to you!?" The boy rubbed a hand up and down his skinny, pale arm, "And it's not Lucas, I'm PETER and YOU'RE the Professor! Please, I CAN'T keep living like this! It's AWFUL!" The stoner burst into tears as he grabbed the tiny, smooth hand that had been, one month ago, larger and far more wrinkled. She jerked it away in disgust.

"I don't care what this reality keeps trying to make us, we BROKE UP! Now leave me alone, you're making me late for class!" She hissed. God, was Peter always such a loser in EVERY reality? Or was she just unlucky enough to end up in the realities where he was?

One month ago, the busty blonde, Kara, had actually been Professor Martin Sinclair, one of the top Quantum Physicists in the world, and the gangly stoner had been Peter Jenkins, his lab assistant. Professor Sinclair had been on the verge of a remarkable breakthrough; a Quantum Displacement Device that would allow travel to any point within the Multiverse. Of course he had been laughed at by his peers and his investors had fled in droves, leading the old man to scrounge together the funding and materials needed to build the ring-shaped portal device...And bringing on Peter to do all the manual labor. Of course, Peter had been nothing but a clumsy idiot, but he was cheap and Martin couldn't turn down the help, even if Pete broke half the things he touched. But finally the portal had been completed and all it took was the precise calculations and settings on the control panel to create a stable portal!

"Whose the failure now, MIT!?"Professor Sinclair had cackled with glee as the ring-shaped aperture began glowing as it was filled with a prismatic, almost liquid-like substance. The skin between universe, all Sinclair had to do was pass through it and...

"Congratulations professor! Here, I bought this to celebrate!" Peter had cheered, pulling out a bottle of champagne and giving it a shake before he went for the cork. Martin's eyes went wide behind the massive glasses as he realized what the moron was about to do.

"WAIT DON-" Sinclair had shouted, but it was too late. With a loud POP! Peter pulled the cork for the bottle and a fountain of champagne spewed forth in a frothy torrent...And flooding the Quantum Displacement Device's control panel, sparks shooting from ruined electrical equipment.

The portal immediately de-stabilized, the protective layer turning into a swirling vortex of energy that began violently sucking the content of the lab into it at high speed. Martin barely had time to grab Peter by the arm before they too were pulled off their feet and into the portal, their vision going white as they clung as tightly to each other as they could as their bodies were hurled across the Multiverse at random. Martin's mind was terrified at the possibilities of what could happen to them; the Multiverse meant that ANYTHING could happen across infinite timelines. They could wind up as animals, or toddlers, or plants or even as inanimate objects! They could fuse into an entirely new person or an abomination! Or simply end up in space or the middle of a star or even cease to exist entirely! Not to mention, without the proper safety harnesses, their mental states would begin acclimating to whatever universe they ended up in! The scientist and his idiot assistant tumbled for what seemed like eternity before they hit something permeable...and consciousness left them. When they awoke, Martin's first groggy reaction was to make sure that he was, in fact, still human. Which thankfully he was, and he seemed to be in a safe, if dark location. He rose from the cozy mattress he had been laying on...But he had been utterly shocked to discover that he was now a woman! Large breasts hung off his torso as blonde hair dangled in front of his eyes...And once he'd gotten over the large mounds of flesh on his torso he's stared at the neatly trimmed slit between his smooth and flawless legs. Each gentle touch of his new body with tiny, slender and youthful looking manicured fingers set his body alight...But as Martin's eyes became less blearly he realized that they were NOT in the lab and instead looed to be in some girlish bedroom. Presumably his, if his new body was anything to go by. But just as he was beginning to get his bearings, Sinclair felt something move in the bed next to him.

"Ugh, what...what happened?" Came a groggy male voice in the bed next to him, and Martin turned to see the gangly, smelly, and equally naked form of a young adult man in bed next to him! After some panicked questions, it turned out the boy was Peter...And to their mutual horror, they discovered that whoever they were in this new reality, they were dating! Martin, a preppy sorority girl at Whitewood University named Kara who was majoring in Chemistry, and Peter was now Lucas, a drop out who spent his time away from the burger joint getting high and drunk and who wasn't allowed on campus! And the worst part was that the mental acclimation to their new reality hit hard and fast for Martin, who was once determined to rebuild his device and get them back home had quickly found all of his knowledge of quantum physics fading away, replaced by a incomplete knowledge of chemistry...and far too much information about cheerleading! Meanwhile Peter was just as useless in the new reality as the old. Martin, or rather, Kara now, had given up and just accepted her new fate in this new reality, while Peter/Lucas continued to fight it. Despite having publically 'broken up', Kara's 'Ex' was still ambushing her and begging her to fix what could couldn't be fixed!

"No! I couldn't even if I tried! I'm done trying to explain to you how all of this works, Lucas! I don't care or frankly know that much about it anymore!" She stamped her foot in annoyance, "This is all your fault anyway, Lucas! Now get lost before I call campus security on you!" Kara shoved Lucas away and stomped up the steps as she rushed to class, eager to get back to her friends. One day she'd graduate (again) and leave town to hopefully change the world (with chemistry this time, obviously) and leave Lucas behind for good.

"Professor! Please! Come back!" Lucas wailed as the other students nearby scowled at him...And wondered how in the world such a hot chick like Kara had even ended up dating such a loser like him.

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Okay, Director's Commentary time, lol.

So I decided to create a entirely new image and HEAPS of new story content for this caption, practically making it into a new one. The original was mainly just lines of dialogue with tiny bits of exposition tossed in, but now we get a much more detailed view of the characters and how they ended up like that.

I also wanted to try out doing the 'flashback' sequence in a different style of font to visually indicate that all that stuff was taking place in the past. I don't know if it entirely worked, but oh well. And I wanted to give it a new image since this was the first (and only) of my image captions to use the same image, as I wrote another one utilizing the same girl but with a vastly different story.

I've talked about it before, but the idea was that, since I had a rather small collection of images when I first started making captions, was that I would use the same images but utilize the concept of a Multiverse to tell different stories despite having the same picture. I'm glad that's no longer the case and I've been able to tell different stories with better images. And having Midjourney to further create entirely new and custom scenes help.

I may one day redo the other 'Dating The Professor' caption, if for no other reason than to make it conform to my current style. Also I guess this can sort of count as a Whitewood University caption now, lol.