tallyyoungblood

"In my world, everyone gets an operation to look this beautiful when they turn sixteen." Tally gestures at her face. "I grew up thinking the pretty operation was good, and they told us it was the reason we never had wars any more. If everyone's equally beautiful, everyone gets along." She sighs. "But it turns out they were damaging our brains at the same time. You remember how I was when I was drunk. The brain damage makes it like everyone's drunk all the time--pretty-minded, my friend Zane calls it. There are no wars because no one thinks for themselves. Special-Tally had another operation, to be strong and cruelly beautiful, and to be basically the opposite of pretty-minded. The Specials run the cities and keep all the pretties in line."