Nebula had been modified by Thanos all her life. While gaining strength, she had become half-organic, half-mechanical. Bodily modifications were common throughout the galaxy. Take the Ravagers under Yondu, for example—who among them did not have a few mechanical parts?
But everyone loved beauty, and Nebula had not willingly undergone those modifications. Compared to machinery, she still preferred her original body.
The body Hayato had created based on Karen was beautiful: 178 centimeters tall, just a tiny bit taller than Hayato himself, with the figure of a top model. But at first glance, she did not look like Nebula?
Why?
Nebula was a blue-skinned girl, while Karen was dazzlingly pale.
Nebula was bald and had mechanical parts on her face, while Karen had a head of gorgeous hair.
Hayato reached out and brushed his hand over her, and Karen's beautiful hair vanished.
He froze.
Even without hair, Karen still looked nice. A beauty was a beauty—she could pull off being bald.
With another brush of his hand.
Her skin turned from white to blue, from top to bottom.
Now, Karen and Nebula were already eighty percent alike. The remaining twenty percent came partly from the mechanical parts and partly from their temperament. Although Nebula was a prisoner who was not confined, her face still bore an unyielding expression, while Karen was as serene as Sleeping Beauty.
Nebula could not help staring, somewhat entranced. She muttered, "Is that me?"
Her bodily modifications had not happened overnight. They had begun when she was young, bit by bit, every time she lost to Gamora. She had thought the mechanical modifications were punishment for losing to Gamora, but she had never considered that they were punishment for provoking Gamora. Even when Gamora went easy on her again and again, she still lost.
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