Opus1

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So I was going to eat a pear

And then in some weird sneeze, I accidentally discharged some chimera magic into the pear

Which created that... uh... thing...

It quickly jumped out of my hand and back into the fruit bowl.

It somehow grabbed the rest of the fruit and ran away with it before I could react...

I don’t know where it went- I couldn’t find it again.

When a new body is produced their brain is taken out of their body and attached to a computer with internet access. For the first eighteen years of someone's life, they have no physical form or sensations. Their entire existence is online, never touching, never tasting, never moving. It's said to be safer this way.

When someone turns eighteen they're allowed to pick out a body. This is considered an important step in someone's life. Technically someone has a right to choose whatever body they want, but your parents will probably have a lot of opinions on what they want you to look like. And even if later in life you choose to move to a different body, people will always judge you based on what body you choose to have.

Since bodies are all lab grown there are a lot of options. It's still generally impossible to have certain features like wings or a tail without the body ceasing to function, but things like strange eye or hair colors, horns, fangs, or other "inhuman" features are still possible. However, they'll stick with you if you pick them, people might treat you differently, they might consider you unprofessional, they'll make judgments about you for picking such things about yourself, even if it's what makes you happy. People will also judge you a lot if you pick body types not considered conventionally attractive, or if you pick a sex other then male. And they say it's ok to make life harder for people who have certain features now, because they picked it. Because you could always have chosen a body that makes you less happy.

Your parents won't want you to pick anything other then a light skinned, attractive, male. They'll blame the world, not themselves. They'll say that they didn't decide that the world doesn't like the body that would make you the happiest, but that there's nothing they can do about it. So they'll pressure you while you still don't have a body. They'll tell you they wished they didn't make the mistakes you want to make. And they'll be as mean as possible, under the guises of disappointment, when you don't become exactly who they wanted you to become. And they'll say it's not up to them or you, and that it's up to society.