The Evershade series is a set of Whateley Universe fanfics by Polk Kitsune.
Kyle Yates was a regular teenage boy, with big dreams of going off in the big leagues of baseball. Already enrolled in the school's team along with his best friend, Owen, he was working to be the best he could be.
All that changed though, when back home, he found a new growth on his body. Trying to take care of it, he tries to hide it all from his friends and teammates, and try to save face. Little did he realize how much bigger the consequences would be.
Links: Evershade: Reforming
This series of fanfics provide examples of:
- Attractive Bent-Gender: As with most other Exemplars, Karen is more attractive than an ordinary human, which made things a bit uncomfortable when she met Owen again before going to Whateley.
- Dragged into Drag: The first thing that happens when it is realized that Kyle has gynecomastia is they get him a bra. Apparently binding never occurred to anyone? (To be fair, it probably wouldn't occur to most people, and might not have been a good idea anyway as they didn't know the source of the problem.)
- Dr. Jerk: Dr. Emilly Dane has a bedside manner that makes Gregory House look like sweetness and light.
- Fantastic Racism: Because the antagonists decide to mix some mutophobia in with their homophobia pretty much from the start.
- First Law Of Genderbending: Karen can't return to being male as her regeneration forces her into a female form too fast for any surgical changes.
- Hermaphrodite: While Karen is almost entirely female, her penis and a remnant of her testes remain, leading to a brief panic over the possibility of self-impregnation. The physician even makes a reference to Gender Benders turning out hermaphroditic "about one time in six", which can be read as a Continuity Nod to the original Team Kimba.
- Good Parents: Kyle's father is raising three kids, but he tries his best to provide for them, as hard as he can, even if he can't always be home.
- Innocently Insensitive: Kyle's younger sister might not be hostile or disgusted when she learns her sibling is currently undergoing a sex change, but her sheer enthusiasm about having a new sister causes much distress to Kyle.
- Long Hair Is Feminine: Enforced by Karen's healing, as cut hair will be reattached to the skull and grow a bit, preventing any attempt to trim them a bit.
- Man, I Feel Like a Woman: As with most changelings, Kyle/Karen's transformation was a bit too slow for the classic "shock and awe" form of this trope, but, like with Whisper, she finds that the sensations while showering are quite, ah, distracting.
- Missing Mom: Barely mentioned, but Kyle's mother is absent, and why it's the kids often have to take care of the house.
- Mystical Pregnancy: When Karen's transformation into an hermaphrodite is finalized, the doctors briefly worry about self-impregnation. Mention is also made of regenerators having much shorter pregnancies courtesy of their enhanced cell division.
- Nostalgic Narrator: Kyle looks back on the last baseball practice before his mutation activated in the beginning of Reforming:It's the bottom of the ninth, bases empty, tied score, one out, two strikes, two balls. Pitcher winds up, curve ball-OOH! Batter took the bait, and missed. Strike three, second out. I swung my bat one more time in practice, letting the excitement rise in my veins. Looks like it's up to young Kyle Yates to keep this game going.
That was me, walking up to the plate, a young teenager, not too bad-looking in the school team's uniform, if I said so myself. I could almost hear the crowds cheering as I got myself in the best moment of the the game. Oh yes, it was fun to be out in the field, chasing the fly balls, and getting the catch, but there was always something about holding the bat in your hands, swinging hard, and scoring. This was the spotlight moment, my moment to make a difference, and I was looking forward to it. - Not Growing Up Sucks: Dr. Emilly is stuck at the appearance of a 10-year-old girl, and hates how she gets treated like a child even though she is mentally a 27-year-old.
- Pulling Themselves Together: Karen's healing forces lost bodyparts to return to her and reassemble her body whole again.
- You Can't Go Home Again: In the end, Karen's father decides to move away from their home, to another city, in order to protect not only Karen, but her family from the possible backlash her aggressors might put her through, meaning they had to leave their home city and be unable to return.
