Body-bepple

The body-bepple was the trade name for a type of genetic alteration popular throughout the Earth Empire during the 30th century. Beppling could change a human's physical body in a variety of ways, ranging from minor to extreme, such as granting anthropomorphic animal or extraterrestrial forms. Since replacing the cells in a body took several months, the customer was generally placed inside a time tank to accelerate the process. One completed, a bepple was lasting, though it could also be reversed or overridden by later bepples.

Chris Cwej, one of the Seventh Doctor's companions, had undergone a body-bepple to make him look like a teddy bear. It also gave him sharper teeth and nails than a human.

Adjudicator Secular Genial Rashid had herself eppled to resemble the famous singer Elvis Presley.

Although icaron particles caused paranoia in humans, those who underwent a body-bepple were particularly at risk. (PROSE: Original Sin)

When encountering such fantastical creatures as elves and mermaids on Avalon, Vincent Monadno recalled how body-beppling had been in-fashion fifty years hence, before it was largely abandoned following the city riots, owing to its unexpected side effects. According to Ivanov, a minimum of a level six culture was required for body-beppling, while Avalon was level three at best. (PROSE: The Sorcerer's Apprentice)