Home 203

Home 203 is located in Linshau, Tennessee. Linshau is a city that didn't exist prior to Virus U-025, and rose up as a research facility when the virus was at its peak. It became a city of cultural affluence, but also a city of specific morals.

The Home Itself
Home 203 itself was a multi-tiered home in Tennessee that largely catered to upper-middle class families, especially business tycoons and scientists. Like in Home 934, 100s level children in Home 203 were kept in a basement.

Attitude Towards Breeders
In the town of Linshau, a clear distinction was made between “Birthers” and “Breeders.” Birthers were women who were seen as giving birth to children for altruistic purposes: Because they wanted children themselves, or because they knew someone who wanted children, or because they understood the importance of having children for the future. Breeders, on the other hand, were women who were seen as giving birth specifically to have money—women who didn’t keep regular jobs or contribute to society in any way except by giving birth to children. In Linshau, the term “breeder” was on par with the word “whore”: both were seen as selling their bodies for easy money. The stigma was so great that, in Linshau, children of breeders were automatically placed in the 100s-point rooms without tests being taken. The head of the Linshau Home, Home 203, said that the children of breeders had inferior DNA and were clearly undesirable children for that reason.

Media Criticism
In 2209, a radical magazine post harshed criticism of the way that Home 203 priced breeder children. As a result of the criticism, the Home changed hands. The new head of Home 203 repriced breeder children, but because those stigmas were so entrenched in society, most breeder children ended up being outsourced to other homes.