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1A furry cyberpunk comic by Christopher Sandusky.
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3In a world where biomods reflect one's status in society, a rat scavenger discovers a mysterious feline girl in a bio-tube in the middle of a junkyard. Things get more complicated from there.
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5Can be found on [[https://www.deviantart.com/theclockworkcoyote/gallery/ deviantArt]], [[https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/donquixotewolf/ FurAffinity]], and [[https://twitter.com/NWIW_Comic Twitter]].
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8* BackAlleyDoctor: Doc, of the "competent but shady" variety.
9* BioAugmentation: Very common, particularly due to subsidies for humanimal genomes originally developed as {{Super Soldier}}s and made public for the immune system boosts.
10* {{Cyberspace}}: Doc meets with an old contact in virtual, who suggests that his [[https://twitter.com/NWIW_Comic/status/1214772497578639363?s=20 Anubis]] avatar might not be appropriate anymore.
11* FantasticCasteSystem: [[https://twitter.com/NWIW_Comic/status/1241440686030848003?s=20 Subsidies]] for biomodding resulted in a de facto caste system of "species", illustrated [[https://www.deviantart.com/theclockworkcoyote/art/Not-What-I-Was-Twitter-Comic-Raffle-Chapter-1-822577595 here]] with rats (the first genome available) at the bottom and the remaining "baseline" humans and minimally modded humanoids whose wealth insulated them from the need for mods to keep their jobs at the top.
12* IdentityAmnesia: The cat girl, going by "Rose" as of [[https://twitter.com/NWIW_Comic/status/1285789291809996800 pg. 52]] can't remember most of her life, such as her name. But she does remember she lost her arm a year ago, how real coffee tastes, and that she wasn't a housecat [[spoiler: but a human.]]
13* NeuralImplanting: Chipslots allow people to stick chips with different skillsets into the back of their neck, though some unscrupulous surgeons have been known to add SexSlave chips. Fortunately for Rose that chip broke when her pod fell off the back of a transport.

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