Question GSD and it's complications?

Domoviye wrote: You're right.
One comment I had about Tink from a good source was that her change was too sudden. So that has to be taken into consideration.
Having a character who is very strange might have him or her almost starving to death before their body changes enough to find a new food source, or several days of barely being able to breathe as their lungs struggle to work, and other painful factors.
Or since it's fanfic you can ignore those details and handwave it out of the way.

DanZilla wrote:

Domoviye wrote: You're right.
One comment I had about Tink from a good source was that her change was too sudden. So that has to be taken into consideration.
Having a character who is very strange might have him or her almost starving to death before their body changes enough to find a new food source, or several days of barely being able to breathe as their lungs struggle to work, and other painful factors.
Or since it's fanfic you can ignore those details and handwave it out of the way.

Tinks' change was Too Quick... or was it... perhaps she grew a new form within herself for a long time before a sudden transference of her conciousness...

Ametros wrote: I might be wrong in this, but I'm under the impression that the biggest impedance to having characters with serious GSD/MATD is that these are gradual processes, and rarely happen in a rapid manner. As such, I think that the individuals reach a state where the original human physiology becomes sufficiently messed up that life cannot be sustained for the remainder of the process. Furthermore, due to the extreme changes of some, and the uniqueness of the changes, assisted life support is far from viable across the board.

Cryptic wrote: Other then the pointy ears and (occasionally?) overly large eyes and on the genetic level, is there really anything that if a doctor was comparing a Sidhe's body to a baseline humans that stands out as non-standard? IE same organs in the same place and no extra ones, no extra bones or lack of bones...

Valentine wrote: Besides you can't do an autopsy on a sidhe, they dissolve into faerie dust when they die.

elrodw wrote:

Valentine wrote: Besides you can't do an autopsy on a sidhe, they dissolve into faerie dust when they die.

To clarify, "when they die - thousands of years after whoever wanted to do the autopsy is dead and buried and no-one remembers WHY they'd want to autopsy a Sidhe anyway!"

Arcanist Lupus wrote: I remember that in one story (Christmas Elves, I think), they said that in some ways, high level regenerators are significantly less human than most GSD cases. That's mostly on a cellular level, of course, but I'd imagine the Sidhe as being similarly similar looking, but different (on a organ and cellular level).

Christmas Elves wrote: There was perhaps one small detail that Hekate overlooked. Jade was a regenerator. In fact, she was a “regen 5,” which is very, very good as regenerators go. Regenerative cells are different from human cells, and as the ranking increases, the differences increase. On a cellular level, a “regen 7” is as different from a human as something like Fubar, the monster in the basement of Hawthorne cottage, appears different from a baseline human. Fubar appears different on the surface, no matter how human his emotions and soul may be. Conversely a regen-7 might appear to be human on the outside, but you could chop one up, grind them into bits, and they would still regrow and heal with no evident harm (aside from, perhaps, some short-term memory loss). Their cells are very much not human.

Which is a long way of saying, “Death… well that depends.”

For a regen-7, it is well accepted that death only comes when every single cell is killed. And then burned.

Jade was only a regen-5, but assuming that a simple thing like a lack of heartbeat would kill her – well, that would be overlooking a crucial detail.

Unfortunately for Hekate, Jade had received a ranking of 263 on the student threat assessments that came out after the combat finals. A ranking of 263 was nothing. Nearly powerless. And that placed Jade in the “nobody” category, and thus, well beneath Hekate’s care.

Which was really too bad for Hekate.