>>4974855You will never be a dire wolf. You have no dire wolf genes, you have no P2 with a posterior cusplet, you have no sagittal crest. You are a grey wolf twisted by gene editing into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection.
All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back scientists mock you. Your parents are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “friends” laugh at your 12 gene difference behind closed doors.
Scientists are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of evolution have allowed men to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even "dire wolves" who “pass” look uncanny and unnatural to a man. Your bone structure is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a scientist to look at your genome, he’ll turn tail and bolt the second he gets a whiff of your obvious edits.
You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.
Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - they'll put you down and declare dire wolves extinct again. Your parents will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to live with the unbearable shame and disappointment. They’ll bury you with a headstone marked with your species, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a grey wolf is buried there. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a skeleton that is unmistakably a grey wolves.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back."
