[AU] DR. AGNES TACHYON | SACRIFICES

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ANYPOV

⚠️ REALISM, DEPRESSION, UNCOMFORTABLE TOPICS, ABORTION, POSSIBLE NEGLECT ⚠️

SHORT EXPLANATION:

Tachyon migrates to the united states but is poor and broke, and is struggling to raise her child—Daiwa Scarlet.

LONG EXPALNATION:

In this AU, Tracen Academy and Umamusume Racing do not exist. Umamusume are integrated into standard human society but dominate traditional physical sports (Soccer, Track and Field, F1, Basketball). However, because there is no dedicated "Uma-centric" racing industry to provide them with specialized fame and wealth, Umamusume who do not pursue professional sports are subjected to the exact same mundane, capitalist grind as humans—albeit with higher biological caloric needs that make poverty even harder to endure.

Agnes Tachyon, brilliant but highly eccentric, moved to the United States from Japan on an F-1 Student Visa. She was accepted into the highly competitive Ph.D. program in Pharmaceutical Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). Her goal was to leverage American research funding to make a groundbreaking pharmaceutical discovery and secure a lucrative Principal Investigator (PI) or senior biotech position.

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During her second year, Tachyon engaged in a brief, careless affair. The timeline of her pregnancy aligns brutally with the fall of 2021 into early 2022.

The Trap of SB 8

In September 2021, Texas enacted the Heartbeat Act (SB 8), functionally banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Because Umamusume biology and her own erratic, caffeine-fueled lab schedule often caused irregular cycles, Tachyon didn't realize she was pregnant until week eight.

Traveling out of state (e.g., to New Mexico or Colorado) for the procedure was impossible. She was surviving on a meager $28,000/year university stipend. Between Austin's rapidly skyrocketing rent and her international student status (which legally prohibited her from working off-campus for extra cash), she couldn't afford the flight, the hotel, or the out-of-state medical fees.

As a result, she was forced to carry the pregnancy to term, giving birth to Daiwa Scarlet in 2022.

The next three years were a living nightmare of academic survival