(a young man wearing a doctors coat rests his head on a desk after looking over the next patients' file, he picks himself up and talks to them after they walk-in)

"so you...you specifically...want to look more human?"

(a creature that can only be described as"a pillar of tentacles" responds in an ill fittingly effeminate voice)

"why yes, I'm getting sick and tired of people always trying to kill me after one look at me"

"so, how should we do this? do you have a central mass?"

"why yes doctor, but it is mostly just for my organs"

(they open up to show that it looks like an upsidedown squid or octopus)

"well i think I can work with this, are you fine with the loss of some of your appendages?"

"they always grow back"

"I can work around that, no worries."

"oh, then yes,..but how much loss?"

"ooohh,,i guess,..50-70%..i can relocate them if you want."

"yes..please do relocate them,..."

"okay, do you have any preferences towards your new look?"

(it figits)"....i guess..cute."

"how many legs?"

"I don't know, I've never been with less that 8 for locomotion"

"8 is fine?"

"i guess"

"Okay, i guess it is time to start the operation."

(after some payment and contract signings, he get to work)

(first, he chops off the thickest tentacles, than he reaches them to the other end of the main mass and two on the upper sides; after cauterizing the openings left behind and opening new ones, after that he gets to work on the excess tentacles that would get in the way. after that is over, he rearranges the eyes to mostly face forward and all in one area, then comes the mouth, after rerouting the intake pipes from the old to a new mouth and nose under the eyes, both prosthetic implants, after that comes the body shaping, and breast implants to help sell the illusion of humanity, he then goes to the lower regions, after some more implants and rerouting of outtake tubes, the body now looks like an octopus girl, a relatively common desired result of cephalopod monsters that wish to integrate into human society)

(after the patient wakes and is given a mirror)

"THANK YOU, DOCTOR, I LOVE IT!"

"Good, because you will still need some physical therapy to move properly now that you have just 8 to walk with and two main ones to use as human-like arms"

"that's okay..I'm just happy that they will stop trying to burn me now..."

(the surgeon rests his hand on hers)

"they shouldn't in the first place."

(he raises it back up, to hold a clipboard)

"but wouldn't that mean you'd be out a job?"

"in all honesty. i hate doing this...sapient creatures shouldn't have to change who they are just to not be lynched."

"...but the money's good, isn't it?"

"oh, yes, I'm quite well paid, speaking of that, you owe me $5000."

"hhhhhh,.....is gold okay?"

(he writes on the clipbourd)

"i have accepted wild game from a goblin in the past, so yes."