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Cole's older brother Jakob and his friend Danny discover a strange pod in the forest that allows them to switch bodies. They decide to live each other's lives for a day, where Jakob experiences Danny's distraught but freer life while Danny experiences Jakob's richer but more confining one. Danny persuades Jakob to wait another day, but after realizing that he will never have the opportunities that Jakob will, refuses to switch back. Jakob, confused and distraught, tries to switch back into his own body without Danny being present, with disastrous results. When Danny finds his body with no Jakob inside of it, he regretfully takes over Jakob's life while Danny's family take care of their son's empty body. Later that night, a robot visits Jakob's house, and Danny realizes that Jakob's consciousness was transferred into the robot. When approached by Danny, the robot runs away.
21 total · 2 choice · 3 major · 16 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| body swap | choice | The story explored what might happen if two people were able to swap bodies at will. |
| what if I found myself in the body of another person | choice | The story explored Jakob and Danny's respective reactions to finding themselves each in the body of the other. |
| betrayal | major | Danny ultimately betrayed his best friend, Jakob, to secure a prestigious job after graduating high school. |
| falling out of friendship | major | Jakob and Danny were fast friends but their friendship came under strain. |
| friendship vs. personal gain | major | Danny deliberated whether to swap back to his own body but decided he liked Jakob's life so much better that he decided to screw his friend over instead. |
| artificial body part | minor | George was shown handling a fork with his robotic hand, and by extension arm. [arm] |
| brother and brother | minor | Jakob interacted with his kid brother at the dinner table. |
| brother and sister | minor | Jakob in Danny's body shewed Danny's kid sister out from the bathroom. |
| deafness | minor | Danny's deaf kid sister used sign language to communicate. |
| drawing | minor | Jakob made a sketch of his secret crush in his sketchbook. |