Time: Before the present
Location: Council of the Veil Medical Facility
Project <Redacted> Medical Files
Subjects: Biological External Control Components for new Super Robot
Subject 1
Name: Nina Wärter
Age: 18
Affliction: Malabsorption of fat
Proposed Treatment: Gene therapy to address known genetic causes. If that has no effect, replace muscles with cybernetics, followed by full medical nanomachine regimen to address other bodily causes
Other notes: Subject has expressed extreme dislike of current bodily appearance, especially of own face.
Subject 2
Name: Yukari Tsukiumi
Age: 18
Affliction: Metastasized brain tumor in normally inoperable location, multiple organs damaged due to metastasized cancer
Proposed Treatment: Invasive brain surgery to remove the brain tumor; medical nanomachines will not work quickly enough to save life of the subject in time. Subsequent brain damage can be fixed with cybernetics, although the subject's personality will be irrevocably altered. Replacement of the heart, liver, and pancreas with cybernetic equivalents due to damage by metastasized cancer cells-all other damage can be reversed with medical nanomachines.
Other notes: When presented with a choice between death or the above procedure, subject showed no hesitation in agreeing to the procedure, even with the consequences clearly outlined to them. It was determined that the brain tumor had not affected their ability to make rational decisions.
Subject 3
Name: Lucia Aion
Age: 18
Affliction: Exposure to hazardous nerve agent has resulted in severe damage to numerous parts of the body. Subject's left eye rendered blind due to exposure to aforementioned nerve agent. Subject's right eye blind due to premature cataract, unrelated to exposure to nerve agent. Heart, lungs, liver, stomach, small and large intestines, kidneys, and bladder all severely damaged due to exposure to nerve agent. Scans of the subject's endocrine systems have revealed that subject is infertile. Severe buildup of necrotic tissue in the right arm and left leg. Subject found in an infantile state; subject can barely eat and drink, seems incapable of verbal or nonverbal communication, and does not seem to display any kind of personality.
Proposed Treatment: Cybernetic replacements of all damaged organs, eyes, right arm, and left leg. Subject's brain to be treated with cybernetics so that they may have appropriate mental faculties for their age. Subject's infertility also to be addressed, and subject's stomach to made elastic due to increased caloric needs aforementioned cybernetics will place on the new body.
There are scant few things she remembers before going under the knife.
One is that she could not bear to look herself in the mirror.
The other was that when given some input on what her new body would look like, she cranked bust size as far as it would go.
She considers the loss of all the unpleasantness of her old body a mixed blessing-what good memories, if any, did she lose?
She remembers, very vaguely, a killer pressure in her skull, one that threatened to drive her insane if the tumor behind it didn't kill her first.
She remembers shitting and pissing blood to her horror, and collapsing in the middle of doing nothing.
She remembers stabbing at the checkbox giving consent as fast as her addled brain would allow her.
She remembers little else before going under the knife.
She remembers nothing before going under the knife save the sensation of filthy water dripping into her mouth, drop by drop.
The first thing she clearly remembers is phantom pain in her arm and leg. The contradictory sensations threaten to destroy her mind even more than the nerve gas did.
The next thing she remembers is seeing things clearly again, to be greeted with the sight of a padded cell. At least the phantom pains were gone...
She remembers an overhead conversation.
"Do we really need to fix her infertility? Not like we expect them to have kids..."
"You forget the last time we gave them an infertile test subject!? They damn near bit our heads off about 'hormonal deficiencies' and things like that!"
"Okay, okay, yeesh...don't have to remind me..."
The girls remember little of their time before the Council made them what they are.
Perhaps that is for the best.
A/N: The sidestory, as promised. Update to come later today, my day's a bit busy IRL.
