Circus Bacchus

1985, Mainland Japan

Few scientists believe it is possible to grow a human child with a mechanical womb.

1988, Classified Location, Japan

The chamber is constructed underground a hospital on the outskirts of Tokyo near an American military base, and the egg is fertilized and deposited into the chamber.

January 1989, Classified Location, Japan

The embryo dies.  The scientists, flustered and panicked, quickly dispose of the disfigured semi human remains and begin modifications on the project.

December 1989, Classified Location, Japan

A second fertilized egg is deposited into the new mechanical womb.  

July 2nd, 1990; 22:13

The child is removed from the tank, and perfectly resembles a normal human child.

July 2nd, 1990; 23:26

Japanese police raid the underground facility destroying all data of research and arresting the entire scientific team.  One scientist escapes the facility for just long enough to place the baby in the nursery section of a local hospital.  He places the baby in a random crib along with another child, one Anthony David Dargatz. The scientist flees and is soon arrested. 

The baby, codenamed, Unborn, kills the child sharing its crib.  A nurse, having witnessed the event and rightfully horrified, fled to the nearest doctor.  He proceeded to comfort her and covered up the existence of the dead child.  The next day “Unborn” was mistaken for Anthony David Dargatz and was taken by his unsuspecting family.  Raised as a normal child he learned to suppress instinct and faked the understanding and display of emotion to maintain invisibility in daily life.  18 years after his birth he now attends a university in the state of Arizona, United States.  Attracted to the strange, he joins a circus.  He now slowly releases the seal he put on himself through things the circus would call “acts”.  He now entertains the thought of entertaining while engorging himself on the madness of his nature.