SYBT: Replacement Clause
It was cool to the touch and the smooth green stone had no defects that she could see. no chips, no dents, no cracks. it was perfectly preserved. seemingly untouched by the march of time and manipulation of man.
Pale Blue Dot - volume 5 - The Pale Blue Dot 5.2
"the simplest strategy to reverse the curses flowing in their blood is to 'reconnect' with their ancestors—the gray wolves—restoring the defective parts to their original design."
Prologue-Southwater University
His fur was silver-gray all along his back and sides, and discolored blonde hairs---a birth defect--- gave the appearance of golden shimmers in the dusk of night.
The Island Guardian 6 - The Dying Battery Zone
**"hmph...wretched traitorous defect."** "if you call me a defect," said dronin with sword raised to him, "what do you call one whose programming is outdated by the defect?"
Rising Power - Chapter 3,
[me] "it's a birth defect..." "oh. we have people like that. we call them urgk, for holy. we believe that they're birth is due to the alignment of divine stars." [nrasky] "that sounds like a bunch of hoopla." [sebastion] "urgk means holy?"
A mewtwo Story Chapter 7
Didn't you defect from the cause of team rocket?" "it seems to me that you have as well. i was only wondering what you were going to do now that you were no longer with team rocket." molly looked away from mewtwo.
The Overlooked
Is everyone being polite about my appearance and not mentioning some horrendous defect i've been missing out for the last twenty years?
Vessel and Control
He stared at his paws as if they were defective then hung his head. he had failed to become a control. "come, we need to see the headmistress.
Hejira 22
The sahvorai only live longer because of a genetic defect in their creation, which i could not resolve. they are not even my own beasts. i reformed them with animals that he had made and left on earth for man to oversee.”
The Last Stop Staryard
These were the very same men that had made up the team that whisked away angela after her defection, intel and all, without so much as a trace of their passing.
All in the family.txt
He had defected to his true family, having killed one of father's men, he fled tot he city of proteus to find his birth family. this feline.. a cougaress named kit, told me everything about where id find him and off i went to proteus.
Nightmare: Chapter 1
It can be something mundane like fear of the unknown and ignorance causing people to mistake mental illness for demonic possession, or some poor soul with a birth defect for a monster.