Carrots the Catgirl isn't typical. Yes, she has all the usual catgirl abilities, but, she has a few non-standard quirks. First her required drink isn't carbonated, it's carrot juice, as fresh as possible, though recently defrosted frozen carrot juice does. Second, she has an irrational fear of rabbit people, which, with some therapy, she could probably be desensitised from.
Her story is a little strange. Her father, James Buggs, joined Boskone, just to get access to unethical technology that he could use to save his daughter, who'd been made permanently comatose by a car accident. All the advice he'd found suggested conventional biomodding wouldn't help her. As a brilliant medical researcher he was welcome, though they were (rightly) suspicious about his motives. He did join the CGM research effort, and was partly responsible for one of their early successes. Which he then stole.
James fled to Kandor City, where he knew several doctors who'd been students trained by him. He also kidnapped his daughter in a daring daytime raid on the British hospital where she was being cared for, using a flying waved-up JCB 'borrowed' from a construction site near Kandor, and doing considerable damage to at least one hospital ward wall.
Back near, but not actually in, Kandor City, he and his two best students put Jane Buggs, in a carefully pain-blocked state, through the CGM. It failed, and the generated catgirl quickly died, from brain damage. About then, Boskone raiders broke in, and in the battle (James had a few Supers friends there, for 'insurance') the CGM was smashed-up. The raiders left, taking their injured with them.
James committed suicide via a massive overdose of anaesthetics (or was he murdered? evidence points to suicide). About a year later one of his students did their best, after OD-ing on Klatchian Coffee to repair the CGM. Just for research purposes, of course. In the process they discovered a one-use "brain tape" in the wreckage, and wanted to study how this worked. Fifty kilograms of carrots (and a plastic skeleton) and 'Carrots the Catgirl' was born, remembering everything that had happened to Jane Buggs up to the accident, age 18.
The brain-tape burned-out, as it appeared to be designed to do, and took critical parts of the lashed-together CGM with it. While they knew a bit more about the CGM (even though some of the paper notes caught fire), it wasn't repairable. Jane decided she wasn't Jane any more, and took the ironic name "Carrots". She then went to find some other catgirls with a hope of figuring-out what to do with her life.
META: So, credible? [grin]
Edit: I'm assuming a 'brain tape', one-use or otherwise, isn't a part of the 'standard' Boskonian CGM. But, that the design, from a certain point of view, makes having one quite feasible. Think "pattern buffer" in Star Trek transporters, but just for the mind.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
Her story is a little strange. Her father, James Buggs, joined Boskone, just to get access to unethical technology that he could use to save his daughter, who'd been made permanently comatose by a car accident. All the advice he'd found suggested conventional biomodding wouldn't help her. As a brilliant medical researcher he was welcome, though they were (rightly) suspicious about his motives. He did join the CGM research effort, and was partly responsible for one of their early successes. Which he then stole.
James fled to Kandor City, where he knew several doctors who'd been students trained by him. He also kidnapped his daughter in a daring daytime raid on the British hospital where she was being cared for, using a flying waved-up JCB 'borrowed' from a construction site near Kandor, and doing considerable damage to at least one hospital ward wall.
Back near, but not actually in, Kandor City, he and his two best students put Jane Buggs, in a carefully pain-blocked state, through the CGM. It failed, and the generated catgirl quickly died, from brain damage. About then, Boskone raiders broke in, and in the battle (James had a few Supers friends there, for 'insurance') the CGM was smashed-up. The raiders left, taking their injured with them.
James committed suicide via a massive overdose of anaesthetics (or was he murdered? evidence points to suicide). About a year later one of his students did their best, after OD-ing on Klatchian Coffee to repair the CGM. Just for research purposes, of course. In the process they discovered a one-use "brain tape" in the wreckage, and wanted to study how this worked. Fifty kilograms of carrots (and a plastic skeleton) and 'Carrots the Catgirl' was born, remembering everything that had happened to Jane Buggs up to the accident, age 18.
The brain-tape burned-out, as it appeared to be designed to do, and took critical parts of the lashed-together CGM with it. While they knew a bit more about the CGM (even though some of the paper notes caught fire), it wasn't repairable. Jane decided she wasn't Jane any more, and took the ironic name "Carrots". She then went to find some other catgirls with a hope of figuring-out what to do with her life.
META: So, credible? [grin]
Edit: I'm assuming a 'brain tape', one-use or otherwise, isn't a part of the 'standard' Boskonian CGM. But, that the design, from a certain point of view, makes having one quite feasible. Think "pattern buffer" in Star Trek transporters, but just for the mind.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind