Did you know that I'm a minor background character in Boku no Hero Academia? I have a relatively specific ability. I can cure the genetic defect that causes taillessness in Manx cats, and cause them to grow the tail they otherwise would have had.
At least the cats seemed happy to finally have tails. There is nothing about that single-gene mutation that adapts or conditions them to not want a tail. But maybe we could do something more? I started training intensively, trying to develop it into a more general healing or gene therapy ability. Instead, I started growing cat tails on humans.
I thought, maybe the mysteriously twitching tails could serve as quantum manipulators, capable of subtle but profound effects. Maybe I could grow massive tails with super-strength out of random objects. So far, all that's occurred is cat-tailizations with an increasing area of effect, and they can't be reversed. I'm sure I can do something more; I'll keep trying.
You start studying genetics and medicine. You work with a patient at the local hospital who has cystic fibrosis. They trust you. They believe in you. You visualize yourself projecting your "ki" into their body, patching the damaged gene. One day you both realize that they still have cystic fibrosis, but now they have a tail.
You try again with a patient with sickle cell anemia. You take up meditation and yoga. You know the sequence of the gene and the three-dimensional structure of the aberrant protein by heart. You WILL yourself to change it. Tail.
At least now you have a steady stream of clients. They come to you from all over the world. You charge on a sliding scale, depending on what they can afford. Owing to some deep-pockets celebrities, you now have quite a bit put away in investments. You start paying transportation expenses for cats who've suffered tail-amputation accidents.
Then, one day, they rush you to the local hospital. There's a patient who's been in a car wreck, and they're beyond medical help. All the people with healing quirks are elsewhere; there's never enough to go around. You try again, like you've never tried before. Something was different this time. You could feel it. The patient dies. Everybody in the operating room now has a tail.
Maybe it's time to become a hermit?
But there are still scientists who are willing to work with you. You shave your head and wear a customized helmet with electrodes to monitor your brain function in real time. Maybe with biofeedback you can change it. You take experimental drugs to unleash your psychic abilities. The drugs are making you feel very strange. You've got to stop taking them. Tomorrow. You'll stop tomorrow.
There is a blinding flash of light. A dome of light appears above the city, racing outwards, swallowing everything up. When the searing radiance finally fades... absolutely nothing has changed. Except that everyone in Tokyo now has a tail.
Catkira. Hermit time. But now it's too late. The tail eruptions continue. You pushed too far, you broke something, and now you can no longer control them.
And that is why I live in this cave in the Japanese alps, eating bugs. And that is why you now have tail.
This post has been edited by Necromusume: Feb 13 2022, 14:56
Usually even if the instruction manual come with a french version, I look for an english version for more accuracy, especially when it's about safety, because silliness and syntax errors of the bad french translation could really be dangerous. On the manual of my new air cooler, there are only 2 languages, and I would bet it was translated from German to English. Guess the details (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)
I really wish they all fall ill from inhaling smoke made by the neighbors, maybe then they know I AM right. If that changes nothing however, they're better off dead.
What was the last thing you thought?, general edition
Feb 12 2022, 12:05
