After a decade of hard work, 29 year old Julianna Hicks had finally been able to open her own clothing store. Normally, starting a small business in this day and age would be a terrible investment, especially in Amazing Corp's home city of Neo Boston, but Juli had dreamt of this for her whole life. Even if this small store was devoured by Amazing Corp, just the achievement of opening it up for the first time was enough to satisfy her for the rest of her life.
The store would be opening in a couple hours. All that was left now was to set up the window display mannequins. Obviously, there were ethical concerns over buying Amazing Mannequins, since they were almost certainly people who the corporation wanted to collect their debts on, but on the other hand, these were the cheapest she could find available. In a monopolized economy, she had to make these kinds of compromises. At the very least, she could treat them like people instead of objects.
"Alright ladies, let's set you up," Juli said to no one in particular. She opened up the first box. "What the?" She noticed a very large difference between the mannequin and the picture on the website. "More like TWO big differences." The woman in question had easily the largest breasts Juli had ever seen. Wait, no, not the biggest. She seen women with bigger pairs on AmazingTV. And a few in real life. Still though, this mannequin's were way bigger than expected. As large as her own head. She planned to put the first one on the window, but what would people thing if she put up a mannequin this gaudy? For one, she planned on this store selling to regular people, those who couldn't afford to mod themselves this big. Her selection of clothes her size was limited. Secondly, by displaying a mannequin like this, customers might get the wrong impression...Although maybe that would attract a few easy patrons. "Mm...maybe I'll put you by the entrance to compromise."
Whatever. Opening the next one. "Oh, come on!!" Instead of an abnormally large chest, this one had an abnormally large ass. Her hips pressed against the sides of the box, and from the scratches on the side it was clear that whoever packed her had trouble fitting her inside correctly, even with the whole body disassembled. This one had all the problems of the first mannequin but on a lowered part of her body. This one may not make it on the window display either.
Okay, not the end of the world. There's still a couple more. She opened the third box. And this one's... "Kind of normal. Wait a minute-" Where's its arms and legs? Oh there's a leg, under the torso. But where's the other one? This one was missing three of its limbs. God damn it, Amazing Corp, can't even keep your debt slaves in one piece? Well at least this one had a normal looking body. She might put the leg in storage and put the body on display.
Okay, last one. Fourth time's the charm right? She opened the last one. "Aaaand there's no head." Well, at least this one could go on the window display. It's not like headless mannequins are uncommon. And while her body had very generous curves, they were no where near as outrageous as the first two.
"Well, this is what happens when you cheap out, Juli." She said that even though they were her only option with how her budget was running the store. She had already paid to use them for one month, might as well use them in that time. If her store turned a profit, she could keep them. If not, she could just cancel next month's payment. Either way, she needed to put them together.
But as she was doing so, _____ would come back to life
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