[Contains a multilimb girl with 21 heads, 12 arms, 24 legs, and 8 breasts]

Gabriel considers herself a fairly normal high school student, and on all levels except physical, she is. She works hard in class, she has her hobbies and interests, she eats and sleeps, everything. The only thing that sets her apart is her body, which is where things get interesting.

See, Gabriel happens to have more body parts than the average human. This isn’t necessarily uncommon, as there are many others, even at her school, who have extra limbs, though circumstances vary. Some have an extra leg or pair of arms, some just have an extra eye or an extra finger on each hand, and some have wild combinations of extra parts. Some have been like this since they were born, while others obtained their limbs later in life. Gabriel, however, is an extreme case and has been the way she is since birth.

For starters, her most noticeable extra features are her heads. Many consider even two or three heads to be a lot, yet Gabriel has three rows of seven heads, making for twenty-one in total. Keep in mind these are all fully functional heads with eyes, noses, mouths, ears, brains, and everything else. Being able to handle all of that information at once is an impressive feat in of itself, but her many brains means she’s able to manage. Other notable features include 6 pairs of arms, 12 pairs of legs (in three rows of eight), 8 breasts, and an expanded body to accommodate all of those extra limbs.

Besides her assortment of limbs, most of her other traits are more or less normal. Smooth pale skin, medium-length brown hair, blue eyes, a cute yet confident face, or rather, faces. Even her clothes, which are custom-made to fit her enormous body, look similar to the ones around her. In fact, she was wearing a red t-shirt with a gray sweater and black sweatpants as she made her way to class. Thankfully, the hallways were designed with larger-than-average students in mind. Otherwise, she would probably block the entire hallway. Even still, she takes up a good 3/4 of the hall, and students have to move to the far end of the hall just to pass by. Of course, with a body like hers, she’s well known among the other students, for better or for worse. Most just stare as she walks by, either in shock, fear, or amazement. One male student stares at her a bit longer than most, a passing two-headed girl gives her a jealous glance. Gabriel doesn’t pay much attention to all this. She scans the room numbers with her three rightmost heads while looking ahead with her six other front-row heads until she arrives at her classroom.

Gabriel walks sideways through the door so that she’s actually able to fit, and squeezes her way past desks to reach the back corner of the class where her specially made desk, which was custom-built for her large body, awaits her. Sitting down on her chair, which looks like four chairs stuck together, she takes her normal sized yet comparatively small backpack off her back-most right shoulder and hangs it on the corner of her chair. Her two back heads on the right turn behind her as she grabs her binder with her back-right hands. After passing the binder to her front-right hands and setting it on her desk, she lays her front two pairs of arms on her desk, reaches her third-from-the-front right arm into her pocket for her phone, and pulls it out and browses through it with her rightmost middle head. Most of her teachers say that phones are a distraction, but not to her, as it only uses up less than 5% of her total brain power. In fact, her only teacher that agrees with her has four heads.

Eventually, the bell rang to start class, so she put her phone away and focused on the teacher with all 42 eyes. The teacher announced that there was a quiz today, and told everyone to clear their desks. Gabriel put her binder back in her backpack, took out a pencil, and began working as soon as she got the quiz. Despite the fact she was taking one of the most challenging math classes in her school, she made it through most questions with little to no struggle. Having multiple brains doesn’t necessarily make you smarter, but it does make you process things faster, which makes you learn quicker, which makes you smarter. Having multiple brains doesn’t necessarily mean each head has a different personality either, but that’s a much more complicated topic. The questions she does struggle with are the ones that require her to show her work, as explaining her thought process, especially to someone with only one head, is a major challenge. Even still, she eventually finishes the quiz and is the first to pass it in.

Later in the day, lunchtime rolls around, and Gabriel sits in her usual spot at the cafeteria by herself. She has a few friends she occasionally talks to, but she spends most of her time by herself, not that she minds. She often jokes that she talks to herself when she’s lonely. As you could imagine, having such a massive body takes a lot of energy, so she has to eat quite a bit. Her lunch bag is always full with as many snacks and foodstuffs as it can carry. But even still, it’s always just barely enough. Gabriel’s body also has plenty of extra organs to keep her functioning. Extra stomachs to digest all of her food, extra lungs to get as much oxygen as possible, extra hearts so her blood can get through her body quickly, etc. Doctors don’t yet know her exact number of organs, since her body configuration is so unique and new.

Gabriel often tries to give each head an equal taste of food, especially with smaller foods like chips or fries. Reaching the back middle heads can be a hassle though, since she has to get through two other rows of heads first. It’s not uncommon for her to get hair in her food this way. Gabriel also needs to drink plenty of water as well. She takes a sip with each mouth so that none of them get dry, and usually drinks the whole bottle while doing so. Sometimes she forgets a mouth while doing this and it bothers her all day.

While scrolling through her phone after finishing her lunch, she sees a post that makes her laugh. When one head laughs, the others often follow, resulting in a crowd of laughter, or a laugh track as Gabriel often describes it. One of the things about her body that intrigues her the most is that each head has a fully functioning set of vocal cords. She’s tried practicing singing to see if she could emulate an entire choir, but it turns out she’s bad at harmonizing. Plus, singing with 21 voices at once is a great way to get out of breath really quickly, so she’s kind of given up on that. Thankfully, she has a friend with 3 heads who’s a really good singer, so at least someone can do the idea justice.

Eventually, school ends and she heads home, has a hearty supper, and before she knows it, it’s time for bed, her least favourite part of the day. Not that she doesn’t want to sleep, but her body makes it almost impossible. First of all, her body is too wide for her to sleep on her sides. And thanks to her breasts, she can only sleep on her back. She tends to get twitchy later in the night, and it doesn’t help when all of her heads and arms and legs are all piled up on top of one another. Physical uncomfort aside, her thoughts are a whole other issue. Having 21 brains means having 21 thought processes, and while her thoughts are quite uniform during the day, at night they stray apart, drifting and contorting until her entire mind becomes a mess. Her dreams are rarely even cohesive, just abstract colours and vague feelings. This intrusive, incomprehensible noise on top of her aforementioned physical problems makes sleeping quite a challenge before. She’s often tried to stay up, but her body simply cannot afford to waste any energy, so she has no choice but to put up with it. As her 12 arms fidget beside her, her 24 legs cross and uncross eachother, and her 21 heads all twist around in search of comfort, she extracts a single train of thought from the mass of noise to think about the nature of her being. Having so many limbs is both a blessing and a curse, but either way you look at it, it still makes her unique.