Elliot was about as far from a alpha male high school jock as you could get.
Short, stocky and always ever so slightly sweaty and smelly because of the extra weight he carried around with him, Elliot was quietly
ostracized at his school which was otherwise full of the usual meat-head jocks and airhead cheerleaders.
But he was a bright and conscientious boy who had long ago realized you can only make the best of a bad situation and so had become
firmly accepting of the fact he was ugly, overweight and uncool. Instead, he diverted his attentions elsewhere and built around him a small
group of similarly socially challenged pals which made school a lot more bearable. He was also fairly academic and destined to do pretty
well for himself as he grew older if he put his mind to it.
So all in all it was a bit of a mystery why Elliot Spellman ended up at The Project on a rainy Saturday morning, his greasy hair slightly
damper than usual thanks to the recent downfall. It was his biology teacher who had in passing mentioned that this project was going on
which first caught Elliot's interest. And perhaps within him it stirred a deeply hidden underlying feeling that he wasn't so happy with himself
as he sometimes pretended and if there actually was a way to change himself physically that went far further than any surgery possibly
could, well then, it was worth a try. This was combined with the fact that Elliot was a natural scientist and there was something altogether
appealing about being the living breathing guinea pig of an ongoing experiment that could end up having huge ramifications in the
scientific world for years to come.
Soon after registering himself at the center, Elliot was shown to a small, fairly bare room where he was promptly instructed to strip off and
given a new uniform that would replace his current clothes. This uniform consisted of a Ralph Lauren polo and baggy cargo shorts which
were designed to hang just below the knee - items of clothing Elliot would otherwise never have afforded or considered. He was also told
to help himself to a large pile of magazines, watch whatever he wanted to on television, and surf the net using the tablet computer
provided to his heart's content. But when Elliot started going through the magazines, he realized they were only sports titles or soft porn ,
whereas all that was showing on TV was various sports game, crass comedies and mindless action films. Meanwhile a sort of reverse
filter seemed to have places on the Internet, Elliot soon realized, that blocked most websites but curiously let through anything with curse
words or porn present on the page.
Elliot did what he could to stay tuned to a football game on the television, flick through a couple of soft porn mags on the side and amuse
himself with some crass YouTube videos of alpha males performing mindless and dangerous stunts. But combined with his obvious lack
of interest and the fact it had already got dark, he soon finding himself drifting away to sleep, unaware of what awaited him tomorrow.