Flesh Rust

While the concept of rust was known before when talking about metal tools or vehicles, its meaning changed in the recent years.

With the cybernetic implanting gaining popularity, most of the populace had some work done on them and with the advancements in technology the metals used in grafting became more resistant to corroding.

However, not everyone is rich enough to afford the cream of the crop and peer pressure is at all time high.

Many young individuals want to have the improvements, so with limited funds they need to choose low quality inserts to stay relevant among their peers.

Cons mostly outweigh the pros of cheap implants, the only thing going for them is the price.

It is quite common for the operations to take place in rather shady places with the insufficient emphasis on health care.

Those happily surviving the procedure can go on and live their life until the implant starts rusting and infecting fleshy parts of the body.

It is extremely painful to suffer from this infection and it resembles the rotting flesh, skin becomes yellow-brownish with darker spots that turns brittle and in the later phases fall off.

The only real way to heal it is to replace the body part with a cybernetic implant.

If you cheap out on this one too then you risk infecting another one of your fleshy body parts with a flesh rust.

This is a vicious circle if you do not fix it immediately, unless you really want to become more and more of a cybernetic construct.

Young individuals need to think about their future sooner than later, there definitely should be some regulations to protect the young from bad decisions until they are perfectly fine with the consequences.

Not all metal is the same.