Hurray! Science has finally become sufficiently advanced with cloning and mind-downloading technology to allow us here at A New You Corporation to offer all approved citizens a very special deal. You can now elect to not only have a new, optimized you (your current body at the age, weight, and peak physical health), but you qualify for four additional clone bodies of your choice. That’s right - four bodies! That’s four more than you have now!
The process is simple – your current body stays in a pod, cared for during the rest of its extended life. Meanwhile, your brain is downloaded as you wish into one of your new, improved bodies. When you want to change out that rugged, rock-climbing body for one more suitable for a night at the opera or swing club, just lay down in the original mailing box the body arrived in, hit the button, and your mind will be uploaded to your original body, ready to choose what to wear next.
So, all you need to do is select your four bodies from our extensive catalog of celebrities, sports figures, politicians, etc. Due to contract issues bodies must be grown from persons either currently alive or deceased only within the last 10 years. Each body is delivered at the age you desire, fit and free of any health issues. The bodies will remain at this age and in peak health for the rest of your life. When you need to put one away for detox and maintenance, the handy mailing box it arrived in brings it back to factory specs in just 24 hours!
So, to get you started, please let A New You Corporation’s representative know the following:
List your four body choices. Please include age desired. It is also helpful if you let us know how you plan to use this body. That way, if your first choice is not available, our customer service representatives can help you choose an alternative.
Please note that A New You Corporation does not replace bodies damaged beyond repair.
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[li]Me, at my physical peak of 35, because I was perfect then.[/li][li]Billy Zane in “Phantom” build, because he was perfecter and I’d come home with beautiful women stuck all over me.[/li][li]John Holmes in his prime, for when I got home with them.[/li][li]Raquel Welch at 30 for when I wanted to stay home by myself.[/li][li]Tricia Helfer at 30 for too many reasons to list.[/li][/ol]
Where do I send a check?
Can I just have all 5 of me? Maybe have different hair lengths - range from 1 inch long. Shoulder length - it is nice and curly but not poodly. Bottom of shoulder blade length - looks nice when up in a french twist or down. butt length - is one of my favorite lengths, I can do so much with it. Knee length - long enough to do the Roman and medieval hair styles without needing wigs.
Make all of them totally white hair, then I can just use temp dyes as I want.
Remove my 3 tattoos even though only one is visible on my wrist. I can always use henna - this way I can go to the baths in Japan. Not that I regret having my tattoos, but if the modification is available, I would be silly to not take advantage.
And the pesky diabetes and parathyroid and PCOS issues would be fixed? Can I make sure that I was cloned with no uterus to piss me off, and only one ovary to generate the proper hormones? I really do not feel the need to menstruate at all but the proper hormone cocktail would be nice. No astigmatism would also be nice, and perfect teeth … I can keep them cleaned and maintained after I move into my new body. A lack of joint and back damage would be wonderful, I could change from steeple chasing and cross country skiing to swimming laps as exercise with some light aerobics and weight lifting. Maybe belly dancing
See, I don’t feel the need to look like someone else, I was always happy with what I looked like - slightly better than girl next door looks but not model or movie star. I never felt the need to be drop dead gorgeous - I was always more interested in being healthy, I got guys that had a bit more substance to them because they were not looking for the next Miss USA.
Now if you can make one of me amphibious, I would love hidden gills and the ability to swim down to say 125 feet or so and breath water.
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[li]Me, at physical age 25[/li][li]Ewan Macgregor at around age 30[/li][li]Gary Oldman, configured exactly as per Sirius Black[/li][li]Anthony Hopkins, at about age 60[/li][li]Audrey Tautou, age 30[/li][/ol]
I don’t trust anything that downloads your brain not to actually kill you. It’s similar to the problem I have with teleporters. The problem is, I can’t think of any test that would make sure that you are still the same conscious entity, rather than just a copy.
I’d be much more likely to accept one that actually moved the brain.
I’ll have to think more about my bodies if you’ll allow that. I do know I’d want one that was much younger, as there’s just so much I know now that I should have known then. And I’d definitely want at least one that was physically fit, to know what that feels like.
Let’s not do all that again here. Why not treat the OP’s question as being framed in the universe of the movie Surrogates. You can have any 5 surrogates you want, but you stay alive in your own body, driving the surrogate body by magical and instantaneous remote control.
I was going to mention that movie, it was fun, if somewhat lightweight and difficult to suspend disbelief enough to accept the storyworld as presented.
Agreed, but can you imagine the potential difficulties that would be created by letting/enabling people to download their conciousness into non-human bodies? (I added the ‘enabling’ part because of the various ways such technology could be abused!)
And even better if you could create real viable half-human half-animal anthros, the furry subculture would take on a new lease of life.
But regarding the OP, does the catalog only have samples from famous people? I’m not interested in celebrities and can’t really think of any I’d particularly want to look like (it would just be too weird, ironic I know given the rest of my post), there are plenty of ordinary everyday people out there much better and more interesting looking than any celebrity and the bonus is people wouldn’t ‘recognise’ you (unless you ran into the donor I suppose)
So that being said I’d go for:
An improved version of my own body at around age 25.
An improved female version of my own body at around age 25 (I always wondered what I would have looked like if I had been born female).
A body of different ethnicity/racial background, to see in what ways I was treated differently by society despite still being the same person inside.
A body based on a male donor who is much larger and stronger than myself (I’m of fairly average size and build) because I’m sure it would come in handy.
A body based on one of my close friends/relatives/colleagues without their knowledge, can you imagine the possibilities for practical jokes?
