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Ethics
Despite changing fads and trends, there are some standards of beauty that remain consistent no matter what culture or generation. That is—clear skin, generous hair, healthy figure, and so on.
All of these combine to create the appearance of someone healthy and young and, well, fertile, because it's all a millenia-old biological response. For example, while the modern idea of long lashes is something of a fashionable appeal, biologically they say that the person is healthy enough to spare nutrition for frivolous things like hair and such. And on the same note, even though people today are generally under the impression that someone of a size two or lower is "beautiful", let me tell you, as soon as anyone sees someone's skin stretched tight over a ribcage they immediately and unconsciously recoil! Ah, no offense to anyone who actually has their bones sticking out. All I'm saying is, people naturally prefer a healthy mean or average.
But here you see a complication! If you created an average from everyone in a single country, let alone the entire globe, you'd have a face and body that's technically "pretty" but one that's wholly generic and uninteresting. It's like if you took all the landmarks in the globe—deserts and tundras, and forests and jungles and cities and everything in between—and created a single, average landscape from that. You'd have no variation in terrain, nor in the wildlife and flora, or...well, anywhere! Boooring. So you're probably asking how all this blabbing about biology and genetics relates to my cosmetic surgery! Well, it all boils down to a delicate balance between science and art. When I work with a client I can't just slap a cookie-cutter face on them. So, rather than show the client a prepared selection of noses or eye shapes or whatever, I instead prefer to get permission for a detailed scan and then work from scratch, consulting with the client before we both agree on the final outcome. Sometimes I'll even reference family members if they want something more like their "better side"! As for the operations themselves, I never let anyone else do my work for me. At most I just have a trusted assistant or two, well, assisting with anesthetic and handing me tools and taking care of paperwork. Anyway, I don't like feeling crowded while I'm working, ugh. I don't usually mention little details like nanos, however. As much as I love my work there'd be something of an uproar if certain people heard that I've managed to make fully-functional and programmable nano robots! Besides, people seem more comfortable with the idea of chemicals than tiny machines that are just eliminated once their job is done. Funny, right?
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External
★ Iris Color: Since my first experiments involving eye colors I've come a long way in cosmetic alterations! This procedure is very simple and consists of two separate injections. The first sends nano robots into the bloodstream to remove the pigment in the iris, which gives the effect of albinism in both the color of the eyes and their photosensitivity. The next injection uses nanos again, this time to replace the removed pigment and arrive at the color of choice. Now, this can vary depending on both the initial eye color and the desired outcome—in cases where pigment can simply be added to achieve a darker color, the removal step isn't necessary. However, when moving from dark to light, or transitioning to an extreme color like icy blue or bright yellow, the iris must first be blanked to achieve a vivid hue. Please note that his procedure is tricky to reverse to the exact color and pattern of the eyes before the procedure, so I recommend you think carefully before deciding to change them permanently.
★ Skin: Changing the color of one's skin works very similarly to the above process, except the doses and number of applications are larger to compensate for the big surface area presented by the skin. As with the eyes I might require some of the skin's natural pigments to be removed, depending on the exact tone of the final color. For an additional charge I can even program the nanos to perform artistic dyes! That is, you can request additions to your base skin color such as a permanent blush or tattoo. The catch with this operation? It might be a little tricky for you to get permission to do switches beyond a shade or two. See, there's an ethical question in changing your skin color, especially if the outcome has racial implications, and then there's also just common sense questions, like how livable your life's going to be as a real, blue-skinned Na'vi. I have a reputation in my business to uphold, so I tend to refuse requests for more extreme alterations. Sorry!
★ Hair/Fur/Feathers: The procedure for changing the color of one's hair, fur, feathers, etc. is very similar to the above two procedures, in that they, again, use nano robots via injection to remove and replace pigments. As with the skin, larger doses and more applications are required to cover the larger surface area. But because the colors and patterns of a hair strand are much easier to replicate than that of an iris, a change in hair color is pretty easy to reverse. And, if the client also wants something a little more bold, I can program the nanos to create patterns and more specific color swatches—spots, stripes, highlights, streaks, you name it! And the best part is that the hair, or, fur, or whatever continues to grow into the new color. No more trouble with bleaching your roots and making your hair fall out with repeated application of chemicals, haha!
Weaponized Nails: I did this one on myself! This operation involves replacing the body's natural keratin fingernails with something that has a little more bite—usually a lightweight metallic alloy with a smooth finish and sharpened tips. There's also a follow-up procedure to shut off the body's impulse to continue growing new fingernails under the metal. Ultimately, the result is easier for girls to pull off, since the metal can easily look like a shiny silver polish. As with regular nails, some maintenance is required to keep the metal from wearing down over time, and it takes a little practice to keep from accidentally nicking yourself or someone else with your fingertips. In the end, though, it's totally worth it if you want a ready defense in bad situations, or if you really just like slicing through envelopes and tape with no hassle!
Internal
Vision Overlays: These are some of the more useful operations for the eyes. There are several variations on these, but all of them require some level of computerization in the brain to function. And if you're a little squeamish about me poking around in your head, a much less invasive alternative is goggles! My goggles, as well as the ones I made for Mokhee, can seamlessly integrate specialized views with one's normal vision. I use my inter-net to send commands to the system in my goggles, but Mo's are completely independent and are adjusted with buttons hidden in the rims.
Many if not all of these are restricted, except in special circumstances.
Infrared: This lets you see the world in terms of heat—hot things glow bright yellow and white, while colder areas appear in red and dark indigo. For example, where most people would be averaged to red, I look orange in infrared because my temperature is higher. It's a simple display I adapted from army designs, but my version is better, of course, and is adjustable down to very fine details.
Night Vision: This allows the viewer to see shapes and forms clearly in the dark, by enhancing spectral range past visible light. Again, it's a basic military principle that I tweaked a little bit—rather than having everything in green or grey, the view can achieve a limited color palette as long as there is some visible light to work with. In a pitch-black area, the vison overlay can only show grey.
Targeting: Everything that it sounds like—at the most basic level this simply consists of a crosshair over your vision, but at its most advanced this setting actively seeks out and locks onto the target. This requires the user to program the software with something to latch onto—like an image, or an accurate description, or even a sample of whatever the object of person is, such as DNA.
Camera: This is a little more complicated, especially if it's installed internally. Basically, this creates a recording interface that supplements naturally formed memories. Rather than simply being an accessory for normal vision, it runs constantly beside it (unless you want to stop recording), as an artificial, photographic memory, one that can be played back with perfect accuracy. 
Bio-mechanics: Prosthetics, cybernetics, bionics, call them whatever you like; body parts made with a combination of organic and inorganic components are my specialty! I based my underground career on making arm and leg replacements—a lot of my first customers were war veterans who couldn't get the government funds to replace their lost limbs, and if anything my services are far better than anything the government could offer. The basic design is a meshing of wires and nerve endings to restore what we call the "phantom limb", a metal skeleton, a mix of synthetic and natural muscle fibers and vessels, and finally a cloned skin covering. In the end the limb looks just like normal, and is simply a little stronger and harder to damage. I also know how to integrate concealable weapons into biomechanical limbs, but let me tell you, you'd better have some good arguments ready if you think I'm going to give you an arm with machine-gun capabilities!
Internal Internet: Or inter-inter net if you want to call it that, haha! I did this one on myself too. This operation has several variations depending on how many functions you want. You can call people, send emails, or even navigate the internet—all without touching a cell phone or laptop! Still don't get it? I'll give you an example. If you see this thing I have on my ear—looks like a chunky earring, doesn't it?—it's actually a transmitter that boosts signals enough for me to call people anywhere in New York City, if it's operating without any help from a cellular network. Meanwhile, I have chips in my jaw to carry sound. It's like having a Bluetooth and everything, only it's all in my head, so to speak! Ahaha...it probably really looks that way when I'm calling Rue and all anyone else sees is this weirdzo talking to herself. But seriously, you look just as bogus talking into a headset. I also have the rest of the inter-net in me, but I like to use my goggles to view emails and whatnot.
Augmentation: This is my most special and restricted of operations. It employs many of the above procedures, along with some others, to enhance the body and mind to superhuman proportions. It's...well, it's very intense! Nervous impulses are tuned up for lightning reflexes and thought, creating greater balance and almost predatory alertness. The muscles are strengthened with no grotesque bulking up, for greater mobility as well as strength, and the bones in turn are both reinforced and lightened to take more stress without breaking. When combined with vision overlays, an internal computer system, and increased brain capacity, you pretty much get a superhuman with unlimited resources and the superior intelligence to use them.
I've only ever performed the complete operation on one individual. Her full name was Annette Nox Lear, and she had previously undergone some military alterations. I was...foolish, and too eager to study her own unique capabilities to refuse her convincing case. But after the operation she started to show strange changes in her personality. She went from forceful and arrogant to downright megalomaniacal, and suffered from delusions of grandeur. There was an ugly period where she threatened me for further operations, believing that I had saved the best enhancements for myself, and it's only by virtue of her being caught and presumably killed by the government, or perhaps her former military, that I was saved. You could say that was my first lesson in meddling with stuff I didn't know about—since then I'm a lot more careful with who I perform my operations on and what I let people know.
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Shukumei is, to say the least, different. The place has three moons hanging in the sky for crying out loud—three! I'm still not convinced it isn't some kind of atmospheric illusion. Really though, Shukumei is magical. The lands have the freshest air, the softest grasses, the tallest trees and some of the most delicious fruits you could ever hope to find. And everyone there is so nice, even to strangers! I love going there as a break from the city smells and noises, but at the same time I can't imagine how some people choose to live there, like, for ever and always! It's such a missing way of life—no internet, no sushi restaurants, no Chinatown. I like Shukumei a lot as a second home and respite from New York, but I'm a city girl at heart and you won't catch me there for for than a day or two at a time.
