Lanaya Hugo

Lanaya Hugo (ラナヤ・ウーゴ, Ranaya Ūgo) was a notorious pet manufacturer who currently operates only underground.

## **Wares**

   While it was still open it was the one place that gave people the creeps. Too dark a name to answer the simple satiation of personal desires, it was a shop of horrors arousing visceral disgust even in the most permissive of pleasure-seekers. The girls and boys Lanaya Hugo sold for sex by the hour were so beautiful that they drew stares of astonishment. But none of them were totally sound in body. They were created deliberately through genetic engineering.

   They were all blind, not so much in order to placate consumer tastes, but rather so that the customer should be less self-conscious about his own deviancies. By eliminating the need to see, the remaining senses could also be correspondingly sharpened.

In order to prevent the customer from suffering an accidental bite, in order to ensure risk-free oral sex, at a certain age the teeth were removed. After such a manner they were instructed from a young age solely in the skills of the bedroom and never stepped one foot out of the room they were furnished with for life.

Their ageless beauty possessed a cherubic quality, and they were usually dressed in equally ageless and sumptuous clothing. They were considered the highest class of pet.

Eventually, a massive, interplanetary scandal engulfed both Lanaya Hugo and Midas, which resulted in the shop closing. Officially it is still so, but on the Black Market, fanatics who could afford it made orders under the table and kept the brand alive.

## Known Pets

The only two known pets are the pair of boys of indistinct age that were being sold through the Black Market. As instructed by Katze, Riki and Alec were tasked with transporting them to Laocoon, On board, they were taken care of by Androids who sewed as full-time guardians and nursemaids.

### Description

The kids were not so cute as they were handsome.

Both of them were swaddled down to their ankles in luxurious robes from a long ago, bygone era.

The one wearing blood-red ruby earrings had a head of unpretentiously arrayed blonde hair that even from a distance looked soft to the touch.

The other child's lustrous black hair flowed over his shoulders, neatly squared at the ends.

Perhaps to draw more attention to their sculpted features, a large sapphire was embedded in their foreheads.

## **Downfall**

Eventually, a massive, interplanetary scandal engulfed both Lanaya Hugo and Midas, which resulted in the shop closing. Officially it is still so, but on the Black Market, fanatics who could afford it made orders under the table and kept the brand alive.

A successful businessman, the scion of an aristocratic family fabled among the Commonwealth star systems, grew so attached to one of these mutilated sex dolls that, suffering greatly in body and soul, he finally blew the two of themselves up in a suicide bombing.

Because of the high profile and reputation of the nobleman, the news of Lanaya Hugo reached even the furthest star systems, and Midas, fearing that the fallout would damage the risk-free image of the Pleasure Quarters, set to work on the cover-up.

His relatives were at first convinced it was only an accident, or that he'd gotten swept up in some conspiracy, or that he was the victim of an act of terrorism, so they demanded that the authorities conduct a thorough investigation.

   They finally got fed up with the spin and indecision of the Commonwealth officials serving as their intermediaries and relocated to Midas. Denouncing a Midas that had wrapped all details of the incidents in a veil of secrecy, they took the unprecedented step of suing Tanagura, making exorbitant, unheard-of demands for compensation.

Midas, which had up to that point been earnestly maintaining its silence, tired of the family's outcries, and divulged all the details of the incident. Caught unawares, the family was shocked into silence, and their reputation sank irreparably.