Salome's Beefy Boys

Dimitrios and Tanacchios Pietro ( Boy one and Boy Two)

Big and hairy with brown eyes and long lashes as big and soft as the brownbullies they resemble.

Salome assumes they are twins until she gets them home and realizes they are much stronger and faster than they should be for humans--normal humans anyway.

They're not cloned from a legally registered line, and their modifications were obviously botched. They have the physical mods: strength, speed, resilience, toughness. The cognitive mods, however, aren't right. They aren't especially bright (at all), but they still have long-term memory and enough initiative to wander off from their "owner."

I don't know who the owner is yet. Don't care right now. Whoever it is has to be wealthy enough to own a cloning tank (or two) and powerful enough to get away with something that's illegal and morally repugnant on most worlds. Could be a subplot down the road.

Salome will figure that their owner won't dare look too hard for the boys because it was a serious crime to create them, so she takes them along. Plus, they're slaves. It's immoral. And they're sweet. Their owner, however, has reason to desperately want them back. Not only could tissue samples be traced to the tanks and solution that grew them, but they were created for some nefarious purpose like...I dunno...blackmail of someone also hugely rich and powerful (who is possibly after the boys as well to get them away from the blackmailer or something). Salome and company will have to watch to make sure nobody sees them acting like clones. It's not a registered line, so people will assume they're normal twins unless they do something obviously "cloney" in front of someone.

After a night of revelations in Salome's bed, the boys get attached to Salome and show up at the ship with all their meager belongings, ready to join the crew. They don't know anything about being paid and don't care where they sleep. They eat a lot, but they're happy to do whatever Salome tells them to do.

They'll follow the cat, too, if Salome isn't around, and they might go along with Skyler if he coaxes them and tells them Salome needs them to do something. Anyone else, they stare at with gentle, bovine expressions. If threatened, they'll efficiently pound the threat, and somebody might need to teach them to fight properly. Not sure I would ever really trust them with a gun. They're really just big sweet boys.