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astra_auroraIn this post, we're going to talk about side effects and manifestation.
When a paranormal manifests, their body goes into a state of overload in which everything works at a very intense speed. This state can last for any amount of time up to about thirty seconds. Manifesting isn't fatal, but depending on what the paranormal is doing when they manifest, it can end badly. In Gears' case, her manifestation was nearly fatal because the body can't keep working at that pace for that long. If her abductor hadn't been a healer, she would be dead.
Side effects are a result of manifestation. Sometimes they are random and sometimes intentional, but what they are is in essence a change in the person. It could be a personality change, or an appearance change, or something else entirely. I'll give you one example.
Florence Cantia is the youngest of six children. All of her siblings are either tall, lean, attractive, expressive, charismatic and talented or short, plump, attractive, expressive, charismatic and talented. Florence was a child of medium height and weight, quite plain, very shy, untalented and not charismatic in the least. While her family adored her anyway, she had a strong wish to be just like her siblings. And then she manifested and turned from a plain, untalented girl of medium height into a tall, stunning, statuesque girl who, due to her being a siren (voice manipulator) now possessed talent by the bucketload. Unfortunately for Florence, she got shipped off to paranormal boarding school, where she had to learn how to deal with being a big fish in a relatively small pond, how to speak English rather than French or Italian, and how to deal with all the people. It worked out for her, but that's another story.
When a paranormal manifests, their body goes into a state of overload in which everything works at a very intense speed. This state can last for any amount of time up to about thirty seconds. Manifesting isn't fatal, but depending on what the paranormal is doing when they manifest, it can end badly. In Gears' case, her manifestation was nearly fatal because the body can't keep working at that pace for that long. If her abductor hadn't been a healer, she would be dead.
Side effects are a result of manifestation. Sometimes they are random and sometimes intentional, but what they are is in essence a change in the person. It could be a personality change, or an appearance change, or something else entirely. I'll give you one example.
Florence Cantia is the youngest of six children. All of her siblings are either tall, lean, attractive, expressive, charismatic and talented or short, plump, attractive, expressive, charismatic and talented. Florence was a child of medium height and weight, quite plain, very shy, untalented and not charismatic in the least. While her family adored her anyway, she had a strong wish to be just like her siblings. And then she manifested and turned from a plain, untalented girl of medium height into a tall, stunning, statuesque girl who, due to her being a siren (voice manipulator) now possessed talent by the bucketload. Unfortunately for Florence, she got shipped off to paranormal boarding school, where she had to learn how to deal with being a big fish in a relatively small pond, how to speak English rather than French or Italian, and how to deal with all the people. It worked out for her, but that's another story.
