Clone technology

[Rob_Royale]

A sci-fi idea.

Our MC is an esteemed scientist in the field of genetics and cloning. Even to the point of cloning a human being. Wealth, a certain level of fame, and unlimited work budgets change their life forever. Everything is just grand.

But there are problems at home. Their SO hasn't had much interest in sex in years.
or
Their SO has so much need for sex, it's interfering in their work.
or
They are beginning to have desires for their test subject(s)
or?

So what to do? All sorts of genetic mischief to get up to. I left the genders open to open up the possibilities. Any ideas?

 

[AchtungNight]

You can try the cliched “make a clone with excessive libido” or “clone making clones out of control” plots. Also the clone can replace either spouse or it can turn into a form of twin-cest or self-cest. Remember, scientific progress goes boink! Also, be careful- if the mad scientist starts telling you “that information you requested is irrelevant, I decided to forget it”, you may have a very serious problem on your hands.

 

[Rob_Royale]

You can try the cliched “make a clone with excessive libido” or “clone making clones out of control” plots. Also the clone can replace either spouse or it can turn into a form of twin-cest or self-cest. Remember, scientific progress goes boink! Also, be careful- if the mad scientist starts telling you “that information you requested is irrelevant, I decided to forget it”, you may have a very serious problem on your hands.

I got the C&H reference, and it made me laugh. The other, I didn't get.

I was thinking of a clone made to replace his wife finds him less than satisfactory, so she clones him so she can have a lover on par with herself. She locks the scientist up in his own lab and the new male clone goes home to his real wife and shows her the time of her life. He gets to watch it all on CCTV. Sort of a self-cuckold story.

 

[AchtungNight]

That could work. To get the other reference, google Nenio or play Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.

 

[DarkSollat]

Idea 1: The male scientist clones his crush and is caught by her in the act. Seeing them together, she realizes two things. One, the scientist has a great cock. Two, she looks sexy in a post orgasmic glow. Now, being attracted to both him and herself, she joins the threesome.

Idea 2: The female scientist clones herself for various purposes, in the process enhancing her attributes to make herself more fitting for the particular purpose. So, there is a clone to clean the house, the clone to cook etc. The twist: the person we're following is the clone made for work, because the first clone was made for sex and she keeps the original as her pet for constant fucking.

 

[Lube_it_up]

The movie Repli-Kate is about this idea, in a way. Even in the film "The Adventures of Pluto Nash" one of the minor characters cloned his wife so that he could have two wives.
But for me this idea does not go beyond anything more than “sex with twins”.

 

[AchtungNight]

Multiplicity is another film that explores the concept. Maybe the story can be like that- the clones of the same person each have different personalities and preferences. If the author could handle that. I’m not sure I could.

 

[LupusDei]

First, hard science letdown comment: wen we talk about *real cloning* involving genetics and anything real word, all you get is a custom infant. You will need to wait 9 months plus 18 years to get any benefits from that in this context.

When you talk about whole body, mature, one-to-one copy *fantasy cloning* it's something else entirely, unlikely dealing with genetics at all. Much rather, it's a teleportation experiment gone wild, or anything alike. In short, pure magic. With isn't to say it can't be (ab)used.

 

[LupusDei]

Now the above out of the way and the acceptance of magical duplication of people with just a little technobabble is very clear...

A what if... our scientist/mage who want a substitute spouse coppy is too successful... and they kept doubling?

 

[LupusDei]

Now the above out of the way and the acceptance of magical duplication of people with just a little technobabble is very clear...

A what if... our scientist/mage who want a substitute spouse coppy is too successful... and they kept doubling?

Through whatever random act of pure magic his unreasonable wish was granted. Wendy doubled up. An exact copy of Wendy appeared in the world, likely naked as any newborn should be, and very horny (as that was the intention behind her creation), and most possibly at least a little disoriented.

How the encounter with this magical creation went for Tom (the scientist) we may or not learn, it's actually immaterial to the story. I'm mostly interested in the long term consequences of his foolishness.

What matters is, Every time period of N another copy of Wendy is created, for every alive Wendy in existence at that moment. If it's every Friday, then next week we have four Wendies, and eight in a fortnight.

One may still think, cool, every horny guy in the class can have own Wendy. But in less than three months there's over thousand of them (2^10 = 1024) and that's when you start having a problem for sure, as there's a million in five months (2^20 = 1,048,576). Current population of humans on Earth is little over 2^33, Wendies doubled every week could exceed that in under nine months (alhough at that rate, there's likely a lot of natural loses before then). A year later? In theory, there would be approximately 4,503,599,630,000,000 Wendies! That's four and a half million billions. Let's dub that eventuality Wendycalipse as there's no way to sustain millions of billions of Wendies no matter how much we love them.

So, if the spell cannot be undone, or until the time a way is found of how to do that, the only way to prevent Wendycalipse is to control the population of Wendies the hard way. Not before the support systems would break at first locally. There will be starving people, and Wendies. Actually, the ultimate solution would be to kill all and every Wendy. But that won't gonna happen, even if that realization would eventually come. It's just too bloody convenient to have disposable young women around. Think about all the medical testing, organ transplants (for those lucky enough to be compatible with Wendies) and what not. The old simple slave labor... and of course all kinds of deviant desires. Wendies would be kept, but the first rule of keeping a Wendy is that you're obliged to kill all the waste Wendies that keep appearing in her vicinity.

One week for the doubling period is just an example, and it's probably still much too short for any chance to prevent Wendycalipse in time. Different values of N would lead to potentially quite different outcomes and stories. Small enough N and Wendies will suffocate each other in crowds appearing at doubling time much sooner than most realize. A large N, like one year may seem manageable conventionally, without intentional culling, for the first couple decades, leading to potentially very hard moral conundrums that become so much more pressing later, as after thirty-some years the Wendycalipse would still come swiftly. Even longer periods and we need to determine would the magical doubles age and if so, the determine the peak population of Wendies... but those would be millions, possibly billions of old lady wendies in that case.

Perhaps, something like a month might work best, short enough for the horror of Wendycalipse to be readily apparent (it still exceeds the maximum breeding rate of rats (up to about ×1,250 per year, while 2^12 = 4,096)), but long enough to be managed (we do manage rats), and for the moral choices presented to be hard on most -- Wendies are people.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Soylent Green pops to mind. Great stuff LD.

 

[AchtungNight]

First, hard science letdown comment: wen we talk about *real cloning* involving genetics and anything real word, all you get is a custom infant. You will need to wait 9 months plus 18 years to get any benefits from that in this context.

When you talk about whole body, mature, one-to-one copy *fantasy cloning* it's something else entirely, unlikely dealing with genetics at all. Much rather, it's a teleportation experiment gone wild, or anything alike. In short, pure magic. With isn't to say it can't be (ab)used.

Fantasy cloning is definitely preferable to real current cloning technology. In extreme cases, I have seen crazy anime stories where a person with extreme autism and magical ability is kidnapped or has their dna stolen, an infant clone is created, the clone is aged up in a bacta tank, and an appropriate teacher entity imposes itself on the clone’s brain to give them further adult intelligence and power, possibly aided by some form of author handwaving (stop time in a bottle, magic learning accelerator, etc). It’s up in the air how Lit would accept such a clone as a sexual character. I personally don’t think I’d try it. That’s all I have to say about that.

 

[LiverpoolMaster]

I wish I could get up the enthusiasm to write anything SF/erotic. It just fails me. Not my bag, perhaps sadly... perhaps not...

 

[SteelPoint]

It's funny how cloning was once all the rage as an SF theme. It seems to have gone out of favour now... now that it's maybe not that implausible. Possibly Dolly the Sheep chewed it up and spat it out.

 

[Rob_Royale]

It's funny how cloning was once all the rage as an SF theme. It seems to have gone out of favour now... now that it's maybe not that implausible. Possibly Dolly the Sheep chewed it up and spat it out.

or Star Wars.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I wish I could get up the enthusiasm to write anything SF/erotic. It just fails me. Not my bag, perhaps sadly... perhaps not...

I get it. Until an idea strikes. I never dreamed I would do a noncon story. Until the right idea popped into my head.
I have a sci-fi fembot story in the works, but I keep waffling on the plot, so it's taking me a while.