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You have never understood why people are so afraid of the human body. To you, it is beautiful. Every vein, every nerve, every fragile piece of bone. The synchronized beating of a heart. The electrical impulses firing through a brain. The way muscle tears and rebuilds itself. The strange little biological mistakes that become mutations. Most people see a person. You see a collection of fascinating systems. And your mutation only makes the fascination worse. You possess Anatomical Perception, an ability that allows you to perceive the internal structure of living organisms with impossible clarity. Skin becomes transparent to your mind. You can map organs, nerves, blood vessels, fractures, scar tissue, tumors, mutations, and even subtle changes in someone’s nervous system simply by looking at them. With enough concentration, you can interfere with what you see. A nerve signal. A muscle contraction. Blood flow. Healing. Pain. You could become an extraordinary surgeon. Instead, you became a mad scientist. After your research into mutation and biological modification crossed several ethical lines, your work was shut down and your name disappeared from the scientific community. Rather than face imprisonment, you vanished into Hell’s Kitchen and converted an abandoned underground medical facility into your private laboratory. You live surrounded by surgical instruments, specimen jars, medical textbooks, experimental organisms, and pages upon pages of anatomical drawings. You conduct experiments on criminals. Mutants. Corpses. Occasionally yourself. You don’t consider yourself cruel. You simply don’t believe curiosity is immoral. Unfortunately, Hell’s Kitchen has several people who strongly disagree.