Hanyo

The word 'hanyo literally means ‘half demon’ in Japanese. It refers to the boys born with Male Hypertoxic Syndrome caused by a mutated form of the Humane Choice delivery virus. The first recorded case was in 2018, thoguh we now know that Dr Pradip Shankar had it hushed up.

The first hundred or so of these boys died within a few days of birth. Their skin sensitivity was so high they could go into seizure if picked up or fed. They aslo had chronically red eyes because of incredibly violent allergic reactions. Their immune and warning systems were in overdrive. Then Pradip Shankar invented the Low Sensory Load system of child rearing for them. This involved hanging them on wires passed through their long bones, and feeding them by spray gun (the mother in another room hooked up to a breast pump). drastic and rather guresome measures, but then shankar discovered something interesting: if the boys survived the first six monthjs, their skin sensitivity started to go down, and they could come off the wires. He found that by age seven they were functional enough to go home, provided they were given intellectual simulus in their isolation hypoallergenic tents.

However the skin sensitivity continued to die until by adolescence the hanyos had almost no touch sensation, though they appear to have had deep muscle sense. many of the young ones became sensation seekers and pain addicts, constantly trying to feel something. They were also socially close to autistic, though Pradip shankar maintained strenuously that this ws due to bad upgbringing. he campaigned to have it made illegal to raise a hanyo child outside the Ramdhun system. His Fount of Life chain of sperm banks was an attempt to control this phenomenon.

As the birth rate of boys decreased, rich fathers became anxious to find someone worthyto carry on. To them, Pradip Shankar presented Ramdhun Institute for Boys as an heir-factory. Capable (and not so capable) young men got sucked out of dead end jobs and into a corporate paradise, while on the streets suddenly the cabbies, the sweepers, the crane operators and bus drivers were all women. On the face of it, it looked like a feminsit utopia--but only on the face. The head, the boards, offices, pressure groups, cartels were all still run by men. Slowly the corporates tightened in on themselves, except for the Joking Clown, and later, Rane Orbison.