So, You’re Inhuman Now
It’s hard to be teen on Attilan. Living on a city on the moon means that cell reception is poor, there’s no good pizza delivery, and required exposure to the Terrigen Mist means that your body could instantly transform into a hideous monstrosity! Fortunately, this pamphlet, excerpted below, can help a transformed Inhuman get in touch with their inhumanity.
Congratulations! You’ve been through the Terrigen Mists and it has not killed you outright! This may be a strange time for you, as your body is changing in ways you never expected. But don’t worry! This is all part of you growing into a powerful, productive member of society, a god among mortals…or a hideously deformed genetic dead-end that no one wants to look at. There’s no way to tell until it happens!
Check It Out
You may have noticed the following changes in your body (check all that apply)
My height has:
o Increased
o Decreased
o Fluctuates
My feet have been replaced with
o Hooves
o Paws
o Talons
o Tentacles
I’m starting to develop
o Horns
o A tail
o Wings
o A hunger for human flesh
I have lost the ability to
o Speak
o See
o Hear
o Taste
o Smell
I have gained the ability to
o See the flaw in any object, plan or person
o Taste music
o Hear the symphonies of the cosmos
o Teleport
My skin
o Is covered in scales
o Is all furry
o Is studded with quills
o No longer exists
I’ve noticed an energy discharge out of my:
o Hands
o Eyes
o Mouth
o Rather not say
Describe other changes in the space below:
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Wow! That’s a a lot of changes! No wonder you’re feeling a little uncertain of who you are now. Fortunately, the strictly-applied and harshly separated society on striated Attilan will take care of that for you!
Caste Party
As you know, Inhuman society is a genocracy, where we are ruled by the genetically fittest! Its possible that your mutation through the Terrigen Mists has given in you amazing abilities that will elevate you to the level of the Royal Family, with Black Bolt, Medusa, Karnak, Crystal and the rest. Yours will be a life of power and privilege, and all will look upon your beauty and ability with awe.
It is also possible that you ended up with a useless mutation, like eye stalks or your feet are now on backwards. That will put you in the lowest caste, where you really shouldn’t interact with anyone. Your existence is an embarrassment enough! Try to find some rags and cover your shame!
You may find that your friends and even your own family are no longer in the same caste as you. It’s important that you not let that bother you. Think of your caste as your new family, and imagine all the new friends you’re going to make!
Claim Your Inhumanity
Whether you turned into a muscular ideal of everything our society hopes for, or a shriveled monstrosity that should lurk in the shadows if it knows what’s good for it, you are important to Inhuman society. We can’t have a city on the moon without everyone doing their part, can we?
So whether you can fly between dimensions or taste with your feet, you have a place in Attilan, where we all have a shared inhumanity!
Jadzia Axelrod
Jadzia Axelrod is an author, an illustrator, and a world changer. Throughout her eventful life she has also been a circus performer, a puppeteer, a graphic designer, a sculptor, a costume designer, a podcaster and quite a few other things that she’s lost track of but will no doubt remember when the situation calls for it.She is the writer and producer of “The Voice Of Free Planet X” podcast, were she interviews stranded time-travelers, low-rent superheroes, unrepentant monsters and other such creature of sci-fi and fantasy, as well as the podcasts “Aliens You Will Meet” and “Fables Of The Flying City.” The story started in “Fables Of The Flying City” is concluded in The Battle Of Blood & Ink, a graphic novel published by Tor.She is not domestic, she is a luxury, and in that sense, necessary.
