<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=50241.msg2357190#msg2357190">Quote from: Haibane on 19-10-2009, 20:49:59</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><br/>What about Musco? His pre-existing transformation happened where? How? Why? Why did he come here? Lots of loopholes there. And why would a cat wear armour? Forgive me for worrying over this a lot, Shihong and I know the image is a great one for inspiration but the armour is a bit weird.<br/><br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Originally I had thought that the setting was one in which there were multiple such facilities around the world, hidden or otherwise.  Now this is all just a suggestion, and beyond Musco's backstory it would not have any huge implications for the rest of the plot.  If we are to assume that the technology in this setting is a near-future one it may stand to reason that illegal tampering of genetics is just beginning to become a problem in the world.  It's not a very high profile occurrence due to the necessary precautions being taken to maintain secrecy, as we see with the Farm and its security precautions.  Perhaps Musco was caught in one of these other facilities and transmogrified over the course of several years, then conditioned to act as a sort of "exotic courtesan".  The armor would have been simply decorative, like a fancy collar on a dog.<br/><br/>Perhaps this other facility eventually began experimenting on him again, and he fled to avoid becoming a throwaway test subject.  Obviously the world has no place for a mutant with little to no understanding of human society, so it stands to reason that he would flee to other facilities until he found one that would accept his presence without attempting to stick him full of needles.<br/><br/>I know I'm taking some liberties by suggesting that the Farm not be the only lab of that nature, but I rather enjoy the idea of Musco having already been transformed and conditioned elsewhere.  That way he could get at least somewhat comfortable (read: "affectionate") with the staff instead of getting constantly panicked about what they might try and do to him.  Perhaps the Farm is simply the first state of the art facility that specializes in these unethical procedures?