KY321B | voice | day 012

[backsassin]

Just want to clarify something I said when I first got here:

Whatever brought me to this place didn’t just get me stuck in human form. It actually made me human.

Case in point: sweat glands. Clawdites don’t have them. Humans do.

On a related note: how do you all deal with being so wet all the time? I know it’s how you thermoregulate, but it feels so gross. I feel like I need to be carrying around a towel…

[ It’s one of many, many complaints Zam has about her new human physiology, but in the interest of not offending her majority-human fellow islanders, she’ll keep them to herself. For now. ]

Anyone else get their species swapped upon waking up here? And more importantly: what are the chances we'll be able to be turned back?

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Re: BT612L; voice

[backsassin]

Not to this extent. I can move around what’s already there, but I can’t create new organs.

Assuming this is a question of technology, then we’re already dealing with something or someone that can potentially teleport people across universes. I don’t see why altering someone’s biology would be too far of a stretch for them either.

[ Hell, it might even be easier. Physiology has always been something with a degree of fluidity to it for Zam. The laws of physics, on the other hand, have always seemed much less flexible.

She adds, wryly: ]

And if it is—the afterlife theory’s still on the table.

BT612L; voice

[ichoosefight]

It's not that, exactly.

I've heard of other universes, and I know that there are people in my world that have tried to find ways between them. And depending on how a power works, that's something that could be blocked in several ways.

But those are things that can be done instantly, by an outside force. I can't think of any way to add or remove whole internal systems that wouldn't take time, assuming it was even possible. Magic, maybe, but I don't have a frame of reference for how much power that kind of thing would take.

It's not really that one is more feasible than the other, they're just sort of... categorically different. You know?

And no offense, but an afterlife that makes everyone human seems dumb. Not that you're dumb for suggesting it, but whoever is in charge of it is seriously weird.

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[backsassin]

Why shouldn't an afterlife be dumb? Everything I heard about it while I was alive sounded dumb. [ She says it half-laughing, but there's a sourness there that's unusual for her. It's been in the back of her mind since she arrived now—that, if the Mabari were right and her changing her face really was a sin, then trapping her in the false form she most often took would be an all-too-fitting cosmic punishment. Honestly, the only thing stopping that idea from truly taking root is that there are other natural-born humans here with her—not other damned Clawdites. ]

But fine. I'm not really attached to the afterlife theory, anyway. Fact of the matter is, something changed me from Clawdite to human, and whether it was tech or magic, it seems like a hell of a lot of trouble to go through without reason.

[ She blows out a breath. ]

Not that we've got enough to work with to figure out what that reason is yet, but it's something to keep in mind.

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[ichoosefight]

[ Give her a second with that, she never really formed any particular feelings about religion. ]

...Yeah, fair.

It's a piece of the puzzle. I just wish we had more than, like, 5.

It'd be nice if any other not-baseline-humans spoke up now, see if "human" really is the standard here, but it's reasonable for everyone to be suspicious.