Unlike many Kalons, this one was not born naturally like so many others. There’s a lab that was opened for the purpose of studying and identifying these creators; labeling them in many different ways. Their mother had a rare thing at birth, two beautiful horns rested between her ears and scientists were stunned by this. Later, a male Kalon was born with two tails; yet another anomaly they came to take interests in and began to research. The DNA testing, experiments and so forth began towards their study but these two had still risen some deep interests.
In an attempt to breed a kit with both deformities, they bred the two and watched the embryo grow and change. It was blatant to the office that their desired traits would not be shown; these were not dominate traits after all or it would be of no interest… Months were put into changing the kit’s form, adding and taking DNA, genes, until he was born. Evelyne they called it, confident a monster born with two heads had slim chances of survival. It was baffling, they’d been trying to change the kit to have tails but something had gone horribly wrong.
His mother was kind, loving and didn’t care what he looked like or what he’d become. She learned from another experiment that life was more important than being what others expected of you… Fresco, a glass Kalon had shown her that. Months passed, he kept on living, fighting for a real life outside of a white room. When his mother passed away due to a kind of cancer from these tests, he knew he had to escape with others like him. Fresco would roam freely, he posed little threat and was kind, Evelyne was sure he’d help. The plan was made and he made is escape into the forest, falling in love with the stars and moon he’d never seen before.
Two brains, one body… They took on a new set of names Esau for the right head and Tasmine for the left. Born genetically male, Tasmine considers herself more of a female mind than male but doesn’t argue against her gender. She’s always been quiet, strong, confident… Esau was always mistrusting, aggressive but very smart. Well really they’re both very intelligent; each one respects the other and offers some comfort against their struggle. Their names mean Twin, they knew they’d have no other meaning of existence expect for being monsters, twin monsters. Still, they make friends and continue to live in this world; anything is better than the lab.
“What do we do now Tasmine? Mother is gone, we’ve never seen father, it’s like starting off a newborn all over again. Just a blank slate.”
“Calm yourself brother, we both know we’re strong, fit and ready for this world. We are the twins the humans admired so highly, let’s not disappoint them.”
Nodding in agreement, they set off into the night after that escape and never looked back even once.
499 words, Fresco used with permission from fūi. Art More Art