#she likes crocheting. and making elaborate salads.

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grégoire's physical and personal traits as the experiment, 90173. if you are triggered by mentions of extreme weight loss, vomiting, and (potentially) eating disorders, i recommend you either avert your eyes or read with caution. also @fukounaboy since you were okay with me tagging you in this. here it is!!

90173, more commonly referred to as grégoire and, more rarely, 97390173, is the product of an experiment conducted by the amateur physician louis sanson. the experiment began on the first of march in 1885, a week after grégoire's thirteenth natural birthday. sanson would inflict physical and psychological torture on the boy in various forms (he called this "experimentation") in a pitiable attempt to recreate the actual grégoire sanson, the doctor's firstborn son, whose death he was not able to fully process.

during this time, grégoire's physical form deteriorated greatly. as sanson fed him very poorly - typically with poisoned or perished meals - his weight dropped from 178.8kgs to 153.1kgs in the first twelve months, weighing only 60.2kgs by sanson's arrest. (this caused him to lose consciousness often, and fall ill more easily.) this made him sickly, giving grégoire his current inhuman appearance. presently, his body is tall and emaciated; bruised, scarred, and covered in septic wounds. his hair, which sanson had cut off completely with medical scissors at the beginning of the experiment, now reaches past his shoulders and goes into his eyes. it has also darkened to a sort of black-brown color as the years went by. unfortunately, its thick and wavy texture has degraded to a wispy, straightened look, and the feel of it is dry and artificial. his face is asymmetrical, bloated, and deformed, with his cheekbones smashed in and his nose bent near the top as a result of sanson's surgeries. he also has an unseemly laceration near his right eye and is missing the tip of his left ear. his skin, once being of a warm ivory hue that freckled in the summer, is now poor in quality. it has developed a certain translucency, and grégoire's green veins permeate the surface of his skin in nauseating fashion.

after everything, grégoire has still retained his people-pleasing likeness, though behaves more skittishly in so. he wants to trust other people and seeks to act as though he does, but in his heart, he no longer feels he can. his trust issues manifest themselves mainly in the form of various phobias, such as the extreme fears of touch, being poisoned, and eating anything in general (haphephobia, toxiphobia, and cibophobia respectively). the latter two are due to switching constantly between starvation and eating (or being force-fed) his own vomit, which naturally gave him a poor relationship with food. on one hand, he is almost always insatiably hungry. on the other, the sight of food disgusts him and also often makes him sick. grégoire himself is now heavily emetophobic because of his experiences with it. he is also repulsed by the feeling of food in his body, but fears hunger all at once.

grégoire takes pleasure in silence, music boxes, lying motionlessly on the floor, warm weather, and watching others crochet. he fears hospitals, sharp objects, and anything reminiscent of his time as an experiment. he has essentially forgotten his life as jeannot, but despite how he wants to, he cannot forget being 90173. every time he looks into a mirror, he sees an unrecognizable corpse playing at a person, and is instantly reminded of everything his father did to him. even after all the hell sanson put him through, grégoire still believes that he will come back and love him one day.

and where is grégoire now? well, after being accidentally discovered in the dirt by a curious medical student in 2020 and found completely alive, he lives with them in an apartment located in créteil, val-de-marne, france. unbeknownst to grégoire, however, this student is studying him profoundly to this day, and hopes one day to make of him their new experiment.

here's a bit on grégoire. i wasn't sure what to make of this at first but. well. this is everything. putting under the cut because reasons.

90173, more commonly known as grégoire, is the product of a failed experiment created by the scientist louis sanson in val-de-marne, france. (for simplicity, this page will use the name grégoire and he/him pronouns in reference to the experiment going forth.)

grégoire was previously human, having been born jean-sébastien sanson on the twenty-second of february in 1872, and the oldest son of three. however, in 1885, grégoire was reported missing on his thirteenth birthday. to no-one else's knowledge, he had been abducted by someone claiming to be a family member. (this person was later revealed to be his father, louis-auguste-donatien sanson.) sanson then proceeded to try a number of unethical and illegal experiments on the boy, including the oral administration of various poisons, multiple vivisections, and experimental surgery. sanson's goal in this was to recreate his firstborn son, grégoire sanson, who had died at birth, in an attempt to see what "could have been". when grégoire did not comply, his actions would result in torture methods such as forced starvation and corporal punishment.

these experiments took place between 1885 and 1888. as a result, grégoire's body was severely disfigured; dirty, misshapen, emaciated, and barely holding itself together; translucent skin lavish with septic wounds and infected vivisection scars. thankfully, on the eighth of january of the latter year, sanson's laboratory was discovered inside of an abandoned hospital, leading to his death by guillotine on the next day. grégoire, who was presumed to be some sort of dead animal based on his physiognomy, was buried in the ground outside of the hospital. he stayed so for many years, expecting death, but it never came.

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Favorite Food: if i had to pick, green curry

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