Welcome to Gaia! ::

I don't know if you've read these books. If not, they're amazing, but this is the world your characters enter into.

You see, this is post Specials, so I guess the world of Extras. On your 16th birthday you get the option of undergoing an operation that lets you look however you want. You can change whenever, it's called 'surge' since it's so common... but you must remain humanoid. You can have whatever clothes you want. You can use technology to do whatever you want. You live like that until you're 30, where you get a more standard operation to make you look older and more... respectable. Then much later at 70 or soemthing you get a 3rd operation to look older... not all wrinkles but you do look older. It's like a sign of retirement.

Anywho, common phrases are bogus (bad), bubbly(cool, or showing cunning or style), icy(show extra perception, highened adrenilin etc), and _____- making (ie. That pout isn't very pretty-making, that shirt is so bubbly-making!)

Common equiptment are hovercars, hoverboards (flying skateboards, use magnets so must be over metal to work, and no holding metal beneath board, doesn't work. Used mostly by 'new pretties' [16-30]), and bungee jackets are used for safety and fun.

In the past, the pretty operation put lesions in your brain to make you unable to concentrate and made you trust people based entirely on how they looked, and everyone looked more or less the same, no choice. Also, a secret organization of people in whom lesions had trouble workng were given razor teeth and claws and heightened speed, stregnth, senses and abilites (fyi, surge cannot be dangerous to others), and they kept the pretties and uglies [pre-16] in line. Then Tally Youngblood was yanked around by Specials too long, and finally destroyed them all, and is the last special in the woods with a for-life ugly by choice named David. They protect nature when the cities spill into it.

Uglies live in huge dorms togetehr with strict rules, new pretties live in dorms with no rules basically, middle pretties [30-70] live in suburbia basically, and late-pretties [70-on] live in retirement home basically.

Now, everyone's face is ranked for importance. Just speak a name and your eye-computer screen tells you their face-rank. Someone very important doesnt speak to unimportant people... extras...

That's the world you all live in. Now go be creative in it.