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Prince Fire Dust
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Being Amortal removes your "ability" to die. It defies physical law in a variety of ways, yet there are still seemingly arbitrary limitations.
Effects:
*You become much stronger. It becomes possible to lift several tons, although there are still very apparent upper limits. You can lift a truck into the air, but most Amortals couldn't get it over their head, and even fewer could throw it, for example. (About five to ten tons is the upper limit for most Amortals.)
*You become more resilient. Being punched will never cause pain or harm, if from a normal human. Being shot by conventional firearms is painful and can leave bruises only if the Amortal is consciously prepared. Otherwise, the bullet could penetrate far enough to cause damage. This is sparingly similar to being prepared for a blow in a fist fight, rather than being caught off guard. For this reason, Amortal headhunters will often try to ambush Amortals while they are asleep (if they ever sleep) or in a moment of vulnerability.
*You lose the need for energy in the seemingly logical sense. The ability to perform work seems to come from no particular source for Amortals. If they push themselves, they can still tire and sustain injury.
However, Amortals technically do not need to eat, sleep or drink. The pangs of hunger and sensation of extreme fatigue will overtake Amortals just as often as a normal person until they overcome them. The crutches are often abandoned when the Amortal first "starves to death" or stays awake long enough to kill a normal person. Their body will become numb to the sensation, and they will lose it entirely, or at least until they introduce it back into themselves by persisting in consuming food or by losing consciousness often enough.
It is possible to lose any sense if it becomes overwhelmed in some way, although for most senses this is extremely difficult and undesirable. Pain, for instance, cannot be removed unless by continuous stimulation for very long amounts of time, which is usually long enough to permanently damage the Amortal's personality or drive them mad. Even after this, the sensation inevitably returns after years or centuries, rendering the process of intentionally removing pain as a sense extremely dangerous.
*You regenerate damage at a rate faster than normal. Broken bones will take hours to heal rather than weeks. Body parts lost will grow back over a period of weeks or months. This rate never changes but is slightly different for each individual, just as it is in normal humans.
When an individual's body is completely destroyed, it will use the largest remaining piece to regenerate. If all pieces are reduced to their individual atoms, the process can take years or centuries to begin.
Some "headhunters" will incinerate the body of an Amortal and keep the severed head, to ensure it will regenerate from the section they have in their possession. Enough of the body is sometimes kept to enable speech in the head, which will inevitably regain consciousness at some point. Devices may be used to continuously destroy regenerated material, so that the Amortal cannot regenerate or lose enough material to "die" and regrow from another piece of its body elsewhere.
Amortals can never completely die, although they can lose consciousness for centuries at a time. It is dangerous to have one's body destroyed for a lengthy amount of time, as sometimes the Amortal's consciousness will somehow return before its body, and they will be aware of themselves but unable to sense anything until their body reconstitutes, which may take eons.
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Hopefully this will clarify some of Kitty's limitations and abilities. Currently, she does not need to eat or drink, as she hasn't done so in many years (she once "starved to death"). She still requires sleep, although not quite as often as other people, as it's been slowly weaned away over the years.
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