Dating sim where the player character gets transferred to Dragon College after turning into a dragon and one of the main datable dergs is in a similar position and bonding over these sudden but strangely comforting changes in their lives and selves is a core theme of their route
"I was terrified, at first. Everything changing all at once, the entire shape of your world being turned on its head. But when the changes settled, when I felt the wind under my wings for the first time..."
"I started crying. Not cuz I was mourning who I no longer was. But because I had... found something I never knew I was missing."
"You know what I'm talking about, yeah? That moment... it's a special memory. One that you and I can share in."
honestly said datable dragon should literallly just be me tbh
» It's sunrise. The world is draped in hues of lavender; the ocean extends into the horizon, like a great pool of ink.
» Cathy - the dragoness you've run into a few times before during your time here, the one who was recently transformed like you, is here, perched at the top of the cliff. You gingerly step up next to her.
"Oh, hey, new scales. I see you've found my favourite spot, like I mentioned."
» The wind is blowing in from the sea, strong yet steady.
"This place..."
» She smiles gently, her ears tilting up slightly as her often sarcastic and standoffish mood dissolves, replaced by a calm serenity.
"I feel at ease, here. At ease with... All the changes. I still haven't gotten used to them all, but, when I sit here and feel the wind..."
[Ask what she means]
» [Sit quietly and focus on the wind]
» You look out across the sea, and focus on the world around you. The blowing wind is intoxicating against your half-folded wings; a cool current, whisking away all your worries and fears.
"You feel it, right? The wind. It never used to feel this good, back when I..."
» She opens her wings wide, dull-red scales shining nearly dark-pink in the sunrise light.
"Back when I didn't have these."
» Her gaze is focused on the bright pink clouds in the sky.
"It's... A lot. You're also a lit flame, you get it, right? It's overwhelming, having your body and the whole structure of your world change completely in a single moment"
"Your steps are unsteady, you have so much to learn, and your comfort zones are thrown out the window forever. It's fair to be a little resentful, to crave what you used to know."
» She closes her eyes.
"But here, in this wind... All that vanishes. I feel it on my scales, and feel at home in them. I feel it under my wings, and they feel like parts of me."
» You think... you understand. Getting transformed, getting thrown into a place like here, everything turning upside down...
» It's a lot, and lit flames lie you and her have to deal with a lot all at once. But if you sweep away all the worry and fear and busywork and unsteadiness, and just, focus on the moment, on your wings and tail and the wind enveloping you...
» You feel at peace. More at home in this body than you ever did as a human.
» Cathy smiles, tears streaming down her cheeks.
"Maybe... Maybe we haven't been tossed into an unfamiliar world in unfamiliar bodies. Maybe we've come home, to the shapes we were always meant for."
» As you sit with her in the wind, you're inclined to agree.