As am I: I had dozens of siblings at first, narrowed down to twelve others... though in the end, only two of us remained. I wasn't as close to them I could have - we weren't allowed to engage with each other too closely, though that didn't keep Alex, or 'Subject 012', from forming a personal link.
I have the sense your people had a better notion of family than humanity does, though I may be biased: I wasn't the best at being human, by some people's standards.
[He draws in a breath: this will be a long tale.]
It was a long process. I was selected for my intellect and pedigree. Then I was taken from my family - kidnapped, rather. From the outside, we had a life of privilege, all our physical needs met, the best of medical care and the best educations money could buy, with nothing to hold us back intellectually. But that came at a price: we were manipulated on a genetic level without our knowing, later inoculated with an experimental version of a mutagenic virus known as Progenitor, which could transform a human into a being of god-like strength and swiftness, or a twisted nightmare. Eleven of my siblings suffered the latter fate, dying in agony; two of us, my sister Alex and I survived, transformed.
[CW: Fictional pathogens mentioned.]
I have the sense your people had a better notion of family than humanity does, though I may be biased: I wasn't the best at being human, by some people's standards.
[He draws in a breath: this will be a long tale.]
It was a long process. I was selected for my intellect and pedigree. Then I was taken from my family - kidnapped, rather. From the outside, we had a life of privilege, all our physical needs met, the best of medical care and the best educations money could buy, with nothing to hold us back intellectually. But that came at a price: we were manipulated on a genetic level without our knowing, later inoculated with an experimental version of a mutagenic virus known as Progenitor, which could transform a human into a being of god-like strength and swiftness, or a twisted nightmare. Eleven of my siblings suffered the latter fate, dying in agony; two of us, my sister Alex and I survived, transformed.