Designer Heart

"Everyone is a moon and has a darkside he never shows to anybody." -- Mark Twain


A baby girl was born in the year 2032, a few days short of being exactly two years after the epidemic of organ failures changed the face of the world. When the baby's parents failed to pay their debts and had their organs possessed, the child was chosen and place into the Gentern Project to be raised and trained to be a skilled Gentern employee.

Rotti Largo, then younger and less bitter, placed the girl in the care of Maria who was his current mistress and mother to his youngest child - Amber Sweet. Maria nursed the girls together, raising them as sisters despite making it clear that they were not and that the orphaned child was indebted to them. Despite Maria's obvious favoritism the two girls got along well and saw each other as equals, relying upon each other and playing with each other when Pavi or Luigi would decide that they were not going to play 'silly girl games.'

In 2056 Amber Largo has changed her last name to Sweet, GeneCo has long since cemented its place in the world as its savior, and the orphan girl is now a twenty-four year old woman and a Gentern of superior skill.

What most people failed to realize in GeneCity was that Genterns were more than pretty faces. They were nurses and surgeons who had to specialize in multiple fields of medicine. Why pay six different doctors when you could have one woman do it all and look good doing it? More than that, there was also a hierarchy and different classes of Genterns.

Desiree Jenkins, or Dizzy Sweet as her foster sister Amber liked to call her, was one of the few Genterns with the honor to wear one of the black uniforms. Despite being highly skilled and well-trained, her rise to this position was influenced by both Amber and Pavi who had eventually taken a liking towards his 'otha-sista'.

Desiree's uniform was similar to the typical Genterns with a few minor adjustments. She wore black to indicate that she was a Head-Gentern, similar to the doctor at the head of a team. She wore black sheer tights to show that she had permission to issue out punishments as she saw fit to the Genterns below her that disobeyed her. A simple black and white lace garter was worn on her left thigh, showing that she was favored by the Largo children and a silver and gold braided choker around her neck showed that she was favored by Rotti himself.

The most important item of her uniform was the garter and choker, because it gave her one of the highest positions a Gentern could hold without becoming someone's mistress. The accessories made Desiree a Maggiore Gentern which was one step below a Dea Gentern. It simply meant that unless the person trying to order her around was a Largo, or in Amber's case a Sweet, or a Dea Gentern, then Desiree had the power and authority to laugh in their face.

Now, most would automatically assume that she gained this position simply because she was Amber's favorite and a whore for Pavi. The fact of the matter was that while skilled, Desiree knew she did not deserve the position although she did try her best to live up to it. She let people assume what they wanted although she did always tell people that Pavi Largo only saw her as a sister.

The truth was that Amber and Pavi made sure she was a Maggiore for their own gain. The two, despite appearing extremely shallow and self-absorbed, were actually quite devious. They joined together to create a submarket that grew quickly in power, causing their father problems and stress. Desiree was promoted to help them in their sub-market, the position giving her free time, access to materials that they would need, and no one that cared to question her.

No one ever thought to realize that Genterns know GeneCity better than the man who owned it. No one ever thought to ask a Gentern what was really going on because no one realized how much they knew.