Friday, February 28, 2025

Closest Living Relative

“Could you run that all by me again?” Alvin asked with his head still foggy and being far too distracted by his new body.

“From your perspective,” The man said, “It’s the future, 500 or so years to be more specific. We found your mind uploaded on a computer, and we downloaded it into that body -- a clone of your closest living relative.”

“But I didn’t upload my brain onto a computer anywhere.”

“Well, someone did at some point.”

“And why am I a chick?”

“As I stated, that is a clone of your closest living relative. It reduces the chances of something going wrong. The gender of the body is seen as rather irrelevant these days.”

“Well, if it’s so irrelevant, could I be transferred into a male body.”

“Quite impossible at this stage. The request should have been made when you were first uploaded to ensure sure a thing.”

“Right, it should have been made at the time I didn’t know any of this would ever be happening. Sure...”

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