5 Character Creation-1 (1/2)
Looking at Gabriel, Mark steeled his heart before saying.
”You talked about change percentages or something of the sort, can you please elaborate on that? Does changing my eye color also count in those percentages?”
At his barrage of questions, Gabriel pondered for a bit before answering.
”Yes, changing your eye color does count, but not that much. Here, let me explain how the whole thing works.”
Finishing her speech, Gabriel created another avatar in the shape of Mark. On top of that character, a percentage appeared, showing 0%.
”In real life, most of the things pertaining to your body are written on your DNA. I assume you already know how that works, but here is a simulation just in case.”
At her words, a double helix showed up. Multiple colored lines were holding the two helixes together.
”You see, this is a simplified scaled-up representation of your DNA. Those colored lines that change color in the middle are nitrogen bases. But you don't need to bother yourself about these specificities. Just imagine them to be code instructions. There are four of them, with code name A, T, G and C. The order of these instructions is what make your whole genetic code, and decides your characteristics. Now, for example, if I change your eye colors.”
At her signal, Mark's new avatar's eyes changed from brown to green. As she did that, Mark's eyes drifted to the double helix, he could swear that something in it changed. He then looked back at the avatar and noticed that the percentage above him went from 0 to 0.064%. She then changed back the avatar's eye color from green to brown again, and this time he really did see it, lines in the double helix changing color. The percentage, of course, also went back to 0%.
”I see that you've noticed the change in the DNA. The change was small, and that's why the percentage change that I showed to you was also small. If I did something like change how your bone structure looks like or something of the sort, the change would have been more noticeable, and the percentage would have increased similarly.”
”However, there are some things that the DNA doesn't dictate, like your muscle density. For those kinds of change, let me show you by example.”
She then looked at my avatar and made each muscle two to three times bigger.
”Now, let's see how you'll fare with this body.”
Just as she finished uttering those words, my body instantly felt much heavier. My chest also felt suffocated and my arms couldn't budge.
Barely able to hold myself from falling down, I gritted my teeth and looked at her.
”This is what a body different from your own feels like the moment you appropriate it. Not that great, right? That's because not only do your internal organs fail to support such an increase in the weight of your muscle, but your nervous system as well. Your brain keeps giving instruction unconsciously that are tailored to your past body, and this messes up with a whole lot of stuff.”
Mark couldn't help but agree, he already knew of many horror stories of people trying to be funny and create weird characters, only to mess up their whole account and start again from zero.