The Cyborg Meme

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The Cyborg Meme

 

Isn't technology great?

For one reason or another, you're now part organic, part robotic. Roll a number, pick your favorites, or choose your own robotic adventure!

 

Write which role(s) you want to play, if you're up for being the one cyborged, feel free to describe what your character's new modified body is like.

Roles:

1. Cyborg - For whatever reason, you're a cyborg. Maybe you were turned into one because of the scenarios below, maybe you've been one for as long as you can remember. Are you a cyborg helping out a brand new one get used to their new body?

2. The One Doing the Cyborging - Are you a doctor who uses robotic parts to help save lives? Or maybe you're a mad scientist sticking electronic bits to people to see what happens. Perhaps you're a cyborg yourself and wanted to make someone like you. There's a lot of reasons to cyborg someone, everybody has their own thoughts towards the matter.

3. Bystander - You're just passing by, another doctor checking up on a patient, a jailer set to make sure that the experiment didn't escape. You're not a cyborg, nor are you the one who made them that way, but now you've got to deal with the results one way or another.

4. Other - Is there somehow else your character would be involved? Have fun with it!

Scenarios

1. Forced Cyborgification - You've been captured, maybe by a group of aliens or perhaps by a mad scientist, and now they've outfitted you with new limbs and maybe even a brand new processor. Perhaps you're fresh out of surgery or your time in the machine, or someone's broken you free and the operation is only partially done.

2. Willing Cyborgification - Robots are just plain cool! Maybe you want to be stronger or jump higher or maybe you just want to be the first to have robotic parts attached to you.

3. Cyborgified to Save Your Life - Something happened to put you on death's doorway and the only way to live is to be robotically enhanced. You have a choice in the matter, unless you're unconscious or otherwise out of it, but if you want to live, you've got to be modified.

4. Reverse Cyborgification - You're a robot and you've always been a robot, but for some reason, you've now got organic parts attached to you. Maybe you were part of an experiment or maybe you just wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Don't worry, they're 100% lab-grown! (Unless you don't want them to be, of course.)

5. Other - Got a different idea for how your cyborgification went? Go for it!

Comments

[unfortunatemodification]

Incredibly so--hopefully the modifications are to your liking. I believe once you have a bit of time to accustom yourself to them, however, you should have little problem operating in whichever way you see fit. You were quite an interesting subject, Miss Drevis! I am honored to have had the pleasure.

[ Creepily enough, it's being sincere, there. It'll just continue sitting here, swinging its legs that dangle off the gigantic table, too short to reach the floor. ]

[similarhabits]

Aya.

[The fact that they were covered in various things didn't seem to bother her at all.]

...Miss Drevis sounds so old.

[playsoperation]

... Aya, then.

[ Flopping sleeves. Flop flop. ]

You seem to be feeling a bit better already!

[similarhabits]

It doesn't hurt anymore.

[She's sore but it doesn't hurt.]

[exchanging]

You should never feel any kind of pain like that again, if I am correct. No person will be able to harm you in any way. Not to say you cannot feel pain, but, ah, rather... no one will be capable.

[ They're quite proud of their handiwork. ]

You are most definitely an interesting patient, you know. I can teach you much. And... thanks to your assistance, I should finally be able to leave this infernal world.

[shallnotharm]

How long have you been captive here?

[She's intrigued by this whole thing, now that she's no longer afraid. This could be interesting

[exchanging]

Far longer than I would like to be, in all honesty. I enjoy my lab, but being constricted to this world is a nuisance.

[ If they're honest, it's also really, really lonely. ]

[shallnotharm]

You can come to Germany with me.

[It's almost a natural thought, now. The Shadow within her didn't exactly want to be alone...and maybe this operation could be performed on Maria, as well.]

[playsoperation]

...! Germany? Truly...?

[ They're entirely unable to hide their childish delight at the thought. Congratulations, Aya, they are unable to act cool around you now. ]

[shallnotharm]

I am a foreigner and I eventually wish to go back home.

[She remembers now, the memories settling eventually into the right order. The house in the woods. The clinic. The large basement.]

You...did a great favor for me, it's the least I can do.

[playsoperation]

[ An honest smile, almost childlike in its sincerity, and they'll approach her quickly, ecstatic. ]

Please... please... PLEASE take me with you! ... Ah, I have to see if the solution is going to function, first, but--!

[shallnotharm]

[She giggles, a childish laugh but it's obvious the answer.]

Of course!

[exchanging]

... Wonderful. I will return momentarily!

[ ... They'll slowly move back, then, and run into another nearby adjacent room. They have preparations to make... a lot of them.

They must make sure this body, too, is ready. The injection won't take long... although, certainly, for a Shadow to take on human DNA... is not unpainful. And for a little while, they collapse onto the ground, but it's all right.

This is necessary... this will be fine... ]

[shallnotharm]

[She waits and waits. Eventually, she finds the shape shifting feature. Ah. Even better! She gets down from the table--her joints are stiff from inaction. It takes a few times of circling the operating table to get back a full range of motion but...

What was taking so long? She hadn't heard anything. Maybe she should go check...? She walks voer to the door.]

[unfortunatemodification]

[ After all of it, it's fine. Just fine... at the door there is an obvious trail of some kind of black gunk--blood, perhaps, and a robotic-looking creature, a building up of energy as their body slowly overcomes all of it, but the Shadow will look back to Aya, mechanical, obviously less-human side facing her. ]

Excuse me. The reaction is taking longer than I would have thought, it seems.

[shallnotharm]

[That doesn't exactly frighten her. Not directly, anyway. Was everything going to plan...?]

Is the process working?

[unfortunatemodification]

Well, the real test, I suppose, will be seeing whether or not I can leave.

[ There is a very loud mechanical whirring noise as the Shadow slowly stands, flexing various parts of its body. Accepting human DNA into it with this mutagen was--tricky. But if they're right, they should be allowed to leave, they think. ]

At the very least, I can get you out of here quickly enough. Are you prepared?

[shallnotharm]

Maybe we should find out.

[She nods.]

Yes.

[exchanging]

[ They are going to offer her two very mechanical arms, in this case. It's a simple gesture: hold on. ]

Please do not let go.

[shallnotharm]

[She does hold on, almost too tightly.]

I won't.