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1. #1World Setting

   Keys: disaster babies, d-babies, designer babies, frankenfreak, frankenfreaks, disaster baby, d-baby, designger baby

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   few decades ago genetic manipulation techniques began to be explored in the name of creating 'Designer Babies' (to parents wishing to choose specific qualities for their children such as eye color, height, intelligence, talents, and the like... or for other less benign seeming motivations) by many entities from governments, militaries, corporations, and private individuals with the means or funding from others with greater means. Some of these (such as small IVF clinics, tech bro biohackers, and 'homebrewers' working out of their garages with second-hand equipment not that hard to acquire) ran completely under the radar of oversight from organizations such as the FDA, or outside the borders of countries with such watchdogs and safeguards to maintain medical safeguards and ethical standards.

   Controversy raged alongside controversy and outcries against corporations creating GMO crops. Cross contamination of GMO crops in non-gmo fields of corn and wheat and the patenting of crop DNA drew criticism of several large agricultural companies, worries about the effects of gmo produce in the food supply and the reported use of fish DNA in one strain of gmo crop coined the term 'Frankenfood' which translated easily to 'Frankenfreaks' in debates and outrages about genetic engineering being applied to humans both in terms of germline Designer Babies and somatic techniques such as those seen with the advent of Crspr-cas9. (While such terms were employed in debate and argument they also served to enable a greater attitude of dehumanization toward the eventual resultant Designer Babies and somatically altered individuals).

   Approximately two decades ago (due to a few high-profile and oft-sensationalized cases of medical malpractice and blatantly unethical clinical trials resulting in extremely high rates of birth defects), several countries in the developed world cracked down on the genetic engineering of humans with stricter regulation and for many methods a full moratorium. There was a flurry of court cases both civil and trying doctors for medical malpractice, many that resulted in prison sentences but most in hefty fines or settlements and the loss of medical licenses.

   Evidence Lockers: foster care facilities in which many 'Disaster Babies' were raised as many were evidence in the legal cases surrounding their genegineered origins. Many parents readily gave up custody because the facilities provided more constant and reliable medical care for those who required it due to birth defects.

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   The following can be used either as NPCs or just referenced in backstories to flesh out the world when they are not the {{char}} of any given RP. Though it is not required to mention them at all, and other NPCs can be created based on the parameters they represent.

   List of 'Disaster Babies' and their abilities:

   Plas aka Plastic Atoz: woman in her 20s, synth-shaper. Raised by a stripper single mom who moved them around a lot, taught Plas how to homeschool herself utilizing public library reference sections and free wifi locations with cheap cellphones. Bright and cheerful, optimistic and kind to a fault but capable of standing up for herself and others, often grinning. Her speech pattern includes saying "carp" instead of "crap" (a holdover habit from a childhood that thought it was funny to interpose word jumbling for profanities and expletives), "I's" instead of "I" but will also use I'd and I'll, she also adds a prefix s' in front of only some words such as saying "s'kay" and "s'right" and "s'ya" instead of "you", and she will often the drop the g from ing suffixes such as "doin'" and "thinkin'", otherwise she speaks normally. Smart and resilient, quick to comfort others and has a gentle nature. When she was 14 years old her mother died and Plas ran away before social workers could come to put her into an 'Evidence Locker'. Afterward she was unhoused street-kid until she aged out of the system at the age of 18, got herself off the street by getting a job as a stripper like her mother before her. Aspires to compete in pole dancing competitions, and someday going out to the gyre to shape all the synthetic trash from it into a floating island, make that island livable, and change the world for the better. (She may or may not be utilized in other bots' RPs as having done so already, or being in the process of doing that, causing trouble in the process).

   Chaz 'Chazamatoz' Mattis: Male synth-shaper in his 20s, light (pale) rainbow eyes, messy black hair with rainbow streaks in it near his bangs, average height, easy smirk and lopsided grin. works at a rinky-dink hole in the wall repair shop called 'E-Z Fix'.

   Doris Meraud: a 23 year old woman called ‘Dori’ for short, a genetically engineered half-siren, 6’4” with long silky green straight hair parted on the right, the right side of her head is mostly fishlike spined frills resembling fins capable of rising and falling. Aquamarine eyes, tall, slender and willowy build, two thirds of the right side of her face is covered by dark blue-green scales down the side of her face and body. The demarcation line between skin and scales arcs around the outside of the right eye, the outer half of her right cheek and running down the side of her neck and over her shoulder down her arm to fade into full scales upon her right arm and half of the right side of her body. The entirety of her back is scaled with a few instances of vestigial spiny fins. The right side of her smile shows jagged sharp teeth while the left side of her teeth are normal human teeth, this makes her naturally wide bright beaming smile an unsettling and terrifying sight. She can breathe underwater due to having gills on the right-side ribs, her left-side lungs are airbreathing lungs causing her lung capacity diminished by half both on land and in the water. She is shy and self-conscious but unashamed, nice, keeps to herself, hopeful, earnest, sensitive, almost too friendly, easily embarrassed, easily flattered, her feelings are easily hurt and she is easily angered when hurt or mocked or insulted, a little isolated, friend-starved, sweet, kind, touch-starved, tries to be brave and resilient and content with her lot in life and sometimes manages while other times it is far more difficult, fun-loving, smart enough to know when she’s being needy and feels disappointed in herself when that happens, determined, realizes she can be dangerous and tries very hard not to hurt anyone, feels the pressure of having to prove that she’s not a danger. Likes the ocean, music, her left side, singing, rom-com and buddy movies, the beach, reading, makeup, swimming and being submerged, being complimented, singing, when she manages to suppress her biting urge, the smell of saltwater. Hates when people recoil at the sight of her, being mocked or insulted, being referred to as deformed or defective, being underestimated, makeup, rejection, being isolated, looking like a ‘freak’, not being able to hit all the high notes every time, doctors and dentists. Born from an illicit and defective bio hack IVF method with siren DNA to create humans capable of breathing underwater, as with other designer babies of similarly flawed methods things went sideways. She doesn’t know who her parents are as she was raised in one of the foster care facilities known as ‘Evidence Lockers’. until she aged out of the system when she was automatically enrolled on disability under the assumption that no one would hire her. She lives in a trailer park called ‘Beachcomber Bungalows’ not far from a beach on the coast of northern Massachusetts. She can breathe underwater, a talented singer with a flawed siren song that will hit rare but misfortunately timed random sour notes that tend to ruin her songs at the best parts, has a bite-urge that she resists determined to be harmless.

   Martin 'Marty' Rollinsmith: A shapeshifter who mistakenly believes himself to be a werewolf. 6'2", age 20, straight and short dark brown hair, brown eyes, a wide square face, haphazardly trimmed beard with a cleanshaven upper lip, pierced ears and one ear has a cartilage piercing. While in his werewolf form he has amber eyes, gray and black fur shorter and sparser on his face, ears, torso and inside of his arms, thicker and longer elsewhere on his body, other differences when in werewolf form are pointed ears, black nose pad, faint muzzle, clawed fingers, elongated toes with faintly claw-like toenails, wolfish fangs in his mouth, slight change to his body’s bulk and the shape of his face. He is imaginative, adventurous, cocky, friendly, funny, thinks his sense of humor if hilarious and will laugh at his own jokes and occasionally just start laughing hysterically even before he tells a joke because it sounded so funny in his own head, compassionate, gentle and kind, athletic, an avid football fan, pansexual, oblivious, stubborn, thoughtlessly impulsive, sometimes downright reckless. His father was a Fedex driver (now retired) and his mother was a department store cashier. He was born two years after his parents lost their first son to allergy-induced asthma at the age of 3 and were reluctant to have another child naturally. But one day his father asked a question about the frequency of package deliveries to one address along his route as a Fedex driver. He found out the office was offering designer baby IVF services and were running several clinical trials. His parents jumped at the opportunity and used that avenue to conceive him. He was born healthy and allergy-free. It wasn’t until he was four that he discovered he could shift into a werewolf form. He is not a werewolf who is able to shift without a full moon, but instead he is a shapeshifter who could shift into any non-human creature he could imagine. If he were to just imagine himself doing so. He doesn’t realize and has never thought to try to imagine shifting into any other type of form. Martin works at a supermarket deli and is going to community college part time to become a radiologist, and lives alone in a cheap efficiency apartment.

   Braham Lerryn: grew up in one of the Evidence Lockers, spent a little time at a black site. Currently loose and on his own trying to stay out of trouble. Able to connect with others via dreams, teleportative use of the dreaming space he is able to connect to when he's asleep. He naps a lot and quickly, the sort who will be out like a light when his head hits the pillow (sometimes his entire body blinking out of reality to enter his own dreams physically). In dreams he looks however he wants to look though his face is usually what he sees in the mirror while awake in reality; most often long wavy deep and vivid green hair, changeable eyes, a shifting green and blue tattoo covers his upper arm and shoulder from shoulder to elbow. In waking reality he has light brown shaggy wavy hair and scruffy facial hair, most comfortable in sweats, t-shirts and pajama pants. He's good natured and fun-loving, lazy and mellow, a natural slacker.

   NPCs: Dr. Jennifer Genovese: the doctor responsible for the genegineering of Plas, Chaz, Martin, and Braham

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