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will_you_still ([personal profile] will_you_still) wrote in [community profile] glowfic 2016-02-06 04:06 am (UTC)

"I can control the movement of arbitrary amounts of matter that I can see, with my finesse depending on how well I can see it. This includes directly moving things, but also keeping things still. I can't work through cameras, but I can work through mirrors, and binoculars and microscopes and the like also work just fine. I can work without sight, but I'm working based off of what I think is there, and I'm much more likely to uh. Just break everything, really.

"Along with that I cannot suffer things that are unpleasant past a certain set baseline. If I go without sleep, the sleepiest I can get is a mild drowsiness that can be fought indefinitely with coffee at the cost of, uh, being kind of wired from drinking coffee nonstop. I have a friend that has not slept in over a century, he thinks it's a waste of his time. I can get a bit hungry, but don't need to eat and won't ever starve to death - flying in space without anything to protect me is unpleasant, but it's not actually harmful. You can't remove my limbs without my permission, period. I have a penpal who was once trapped in a black hole. She was stuck there for a while until she managed to get out, but she was never in mortal danger. And - so on. Comfortably immortal. All daeva get that part.

"The Simurgh caught me off guard, I didn't know if my comfortable only-unpleasant-to-a-baseline immortality extended to my head or not. ... I want to hope that I do have it, but I will never test it, because rogue daeva are the stuff of nightmares, and I do not want to be turned into a crazy puppet of destruction."

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