the Feral Prodigy script: the gorilla arm
Here is how to carry a tennis ball around in your stick-hand, squeezing it over and over for long stretches of time [...] Squeeze the tennis ball rhythmically month after year until you feel it no more than your heart squeezing blood and your right forearm is three times the size of your left and your arm looks from across a court like a gorilla’s arm or a stevedore’s arm pasted on the body of a child.
Context
The academy-mandated ball-squeeze rendered as deformity: squeeze "month after year" until the reflex is no more felt "than your heart squeezing blood" and the racquet-arm grows "three times the size" of the other — "a gorilla's arm or a stevedore's arm pasted on the body of a child." It is 034's asymmetrical, "hastily assembled" body traced back to its cause, one drill at a time. The regimen doesn't just tire the body; it lopsides it permanently along the sport's own vectors, building an adult laborer's forearm onto a child.