Parasite Girl

   You haven't heard of the parasite girl universe yet, have you? Well, mostly we've talked about it in real life, and haven't done any correspondence on it that you've seen yet. So there's a girl, and she happens to have parasites for organs. Like, a leech acts as her kidney as it filters her blood, stuff like that. Here, let Cailin explain it, I asked her about her once and it's her character.

   "Well, she gets in an accident, and... something something, no insurance, most likely fatal, mysterious foundation offering new experimental surgery, and... Parasites for organs, each specialized for an organ purpose. The liver is replaced with a parasite that, in essence, filters and consumes toxins from blood, and excretes the remaining blood, along with its waste, which actually happens to be a rich nutrient. And so on and so forth.

   "I think I put her in a catholic school."

   So there you go. In this world, (and hereafter is my contribution to the story,) there is a seemingly random deadly outbreak. It turns out that they're all dying of mad human disease, basically human spongiform encepalopathy. They all ate what amounted to be human neurons, from genetically modified wheat- wheat that was modified with human DNA. It's a big bio-engineered future this takes place in. The word "Crichtonesque" was bandied about.

   This outbreak represents an earlier outbreak of a human-to-human-spread strain of avian influenza that was caused by eating food with tainted chicken feathers in it. It's called Cysteine, which is (was) also sometimes extracted from human hair and is used as a flavoring agent, mostly to make stuff taste like meat. Now, Cysteine sounds exactly like Sistine, which refers not only to the famous chapel but also to any pope named Sixtus. (A tie-in to Catholicism.)

   Here, the article I cited when coming up with that development. This is one link that I found that tells you a little about it; I found a bunch of other websites, too, if you want to do your own research. http://www.foodnavigator.com/Science-Nutrition/New-technology-for-cysteine-food-ingredient

   Meanwhile, the Supreme Court had legalized the existence of Silver Bullet, who's what amounts to a gritty '90s superhero, acting as police, judge, jury, and executioner (yeaah, like Judge Dredd, but less silly and in-your-face (which you know Judge Dredd totally is.)) He gathers up evidence on criminals, and assassinates them when he determines that they would otherwise receive the death penalty for their actions. Of course, this means that he can only kill after it's too late for the criminals' previous victims, so he develops an alter-ego: Black Arrow, who preempts criminal activity while the future serial killer is still in animal-cruelty stage. While Silver Bullet fires a one-shot kill between the eyes (using a silver bullet, of course, encoded into which is holographic documentation and evidence of crimes worthy of capital punishment,) Black Arrow kills by sending his black arrow into the back of the neck, with no such documentation. For all the FBI knows, it's a serial killer with a copycat M.O.