Maya's Immortality

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Content Warning: Graphic descriptions of bodily harm, death and murder

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How it works?

Somehow, in some way, Maya's body was saturated with a substance that she has dubbed "the Life Waters"... in every fiber of Maya's being, every part of her body, this 'water' is interwoven. When the sun rises wherever her body lies, Maya's body returns to its state from the day she initially died. Most mornings, this is not a visible change. When wounds happen, it is far more dramatic.

The "Life Waters" in her body will pull together, back into her original form. The waters glow brilliantly, ranging from brilliant blues to gleaming golds, running even more freely than true water yet clearly forming and pulling along threads. Like blood on a microscopic level is a connective tissue, suspended in plasma... the Life Waters are connective threads suspended as liquid and the preferred form is that of the woman that drowned in the atoll so many years ago - baring a few things that can change, such as hair length, coat density or pregnancy.

If her flesh has been cut, her blood pulls back into her body. If something has been cut off, it lifts and reattaches. If skin is burned, it liquefies into the Life Water before reforming as its original state.

Many people of various intentions sought to try and counter this function, finding that over and over the persistence of the magical substance thwarts most attempts at containment. The threads are capable of boring holes through even tough rocks and metals, boring and dissolving until the detached part can reunite with the main body. Madmen in the pursuit of her immortality learned the difficult way that blood consumed would at best come back up the throat and choke, and at worse would bore through unimpeded to return to the body.

For all of her impossible immortality, Maya is not stronger or more durable... she is still flesh and blood, and she still feels pain. It is very much her preference to NOT go through the process of being pulled back together, if she can help it.

How she became immortal

Maya was always pretty much the same person she is now, albeit with far fewer experiences - only 27 years of life under her belt when she joined an adventurer on his quest to discover a mysterious atoll that was unreachable and, according to many people, nonexistent.

(elaborate besides 'lol she got drowned in the water and died Correctly')




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