IT IS truly amazing the lengths people will go to personalize their bodies. Frea-Kreations™ and copy-cat companies could grow or surgically attach all sorts of appendages and animalia. The Japanese company’s bizarre augmentation studios created an avenue, for those so wanting, to be ‘fantasticized,’ as I believe it translates.
Far beyond the transfiguration and dysmorphia of centuries past, a significant portion of an entire generation became fixated on becoming living avatars, at least symbolically. Freaking has remained the most popular form of ‘self-art’ for over a century.
Plate 27: Ms. Franjipani Cat, one of our lovelier tour guides, and reason for much passing trade. Formerly the poster girl for Frea-Kreations™ and star of many sensuals*. As expected she aged like plastic, with scratches rather than wrinkles. Nevertheless she was still rather lovely and after the museum was destroyed made her way to the Fringe, where she remains popular.
Plate 28: Heshe, the girlboy who was illegally freaked by his parents**. Heshe was of course too early in physical development and outgrew some of the living augments to the detriment of the implants and the host. There are tougher restrictions now, but you can always go off-world for that sort of thing.
I would show more examples, but such body alteration is common-place and can be found out and about on the streets today as the change-culture persists in more and more glorious forms.
* Like cinema but visual, audial, tastible, smellable and tactile – the genre of such sensuals is akin to the literal meaning of the word.
* We are legally obliged to make clear that the practitioners who operated upon Heshe were in no-way affi liated with Frea-Kreations™.
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