[OOC//PROFILES] Biology notes
Sep. 27th, 2010 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psychicstormI know, I know. I'm crazy, right? However, after viewing this, I got myself thinking about it. Not everything here is based on Light-Schizophrenic's ideas, but I did adopt a few of them.
✧ Physical Strength: Very little muscle tone, and physically very weak and vulnerable. Mewtwo was developed as an overwhelmingly powerful psychic; the scientists spent most of their time developing and enhancing his nervous system. Light-Schizophrenic also thought that being bred in a tube had an influence on the lack of muscle tone either. This is actually one of the reasons he doesn't speak verbally in his true form; it's simply much easier and less strenuous to speak telepathically.
✧ Insanely advanced nervous system: Capacity probably at least double of the human mind, possibly triple or even quadruple. In addition to his brain (located in his skull, like all other living things), has several other large nerve bundles on the tip of his tail, tips of his fingers and feet, and in the horn-like appendages on his head (which also serve as his ears), all of which, combined, give him much more neural capacity than humans. This piece was also ganked from Light-Schizophrenic.
✧ Bifurcated spine: Mewtwo's spine splits at the base of his skull and rejoins at shoulder blades. The section that arches back behind his neck houses his spinal cord, which is actually longer than a human spinal cord. (And, naturally, very well-protected.) This piece was also ganked from Light-Schizophrenic.
✧ Feline attributes: There are definite feline aspects to Mewtwo's design, so his eyes are cat-pupiled and he has excellent night vision. Excellent vision all around, actually.
✧ Lifespan: Effectively immortal, which is true of most Legendaries. He Does Not Age. (Neither does Mew.) Can still be killed if injured badly enough.
✧ Alternate Forms: Mewtwo is able to use his abilities to shapeshift (see Egoists in Dungeons and Dragons, who are able to use psychic powers to manipulate their own bodies and those of others), but it's initially a long and painful process, and his powers are inevitably reduced in the new form. Thus far, he's only known to adopt a human form, which he uses mostly to blend in when in human cities. In his human form, he's tall and extremely scrawny (very little muscle tone in his natural form, remember? This has to translate to his human form), and not very quick on his feet. He's not used to having to do things physically, after all. While capable of verbal speech in this form, he initially found it very awkward. As he grows more used to a new form, it becomes much less strenuous for him to move back and forth between the new form and his natural form. At this point, he's been around for a little under a thousand years and has been periodically taking human form for most of that. He's so used to it, at this point, that he can shift back and forth between human and natural form almost effortlessly.
✧ Nervous System Strength: Because his nervous system is so much more powerful than that of a human's, Mewtwo risks psychically "overloading" most people he attempts to establish a direct, mind-to-mind connection with while in his true form. This will manifest as an intense, incredibly painful migraine at first contact (for the other party, not for Mewtwo), eventually leading to light-headedness and unconsciousness, then probable death, though Mewtwo will usually cut off the connection when the other party falls unconscious.
His former student (and still his friend), Erin, is a notable exception, as they have unwittingly established something akin to a Force Bond in Star Wars with one another. The potential for harming other people is lessened in his human disguise, but at the same time, the connection will be somewhat "fogged" and unclear, since he is, after all, in disguise.
This applies to a Wizard's Soulgaze for characters from the Dresden Files as well, as demonstrated in DBFS Installment Take Back the Night when Harry Dresden Soulgazes Mewtwo. The Soulgaze is, after all, partially a psychic phenomenon, a direct connection between two minds. Luckily, the Soulgaze between Dresden and Mewtwo did not last long enough for Mewtwo to do any lasting harm to him.
✧ Psychic Bond Experience: Mewtwo's mind will be utterly alien to anyone who touches it. He does not think the same way humans do. (For this reason, Mun may have difficulty describing what it's like to touch minds with him, so bear with her while she works that out.) He may not interperate imagery the same way as a human does, nor does he understand the way human minds work; they are equally as alien to him as his mind would be to a human's.
In a bit I'll add some of the description from the Soulgaze scene with Harry Dresden to this section. As soon as I've got it written out, that is...
Might add more later, as I think of things.
✧ Physical Strength: Very little muscle tone, and physically very weak and vulnerable. Mewtwo was developed as an overwhelmingly powerful psychic; the scientists spent most of their time developing and enhancing his nervous system. Light-Schizophrenic also thought that being bred in a tube had an influence on the lack of muscle tone either. This is actually one of the reasons he doesn't speak verbally in his true form; it's simply much easier and less strenuous to speak telepathically.
✧ Insanely advanced nervous system: Capacity probably at least double of the human mind, possibly triple or even quadruple. In addition to his brain (located in his skull, like all other living things), has several other large nerve bundles on the tip of his tail, tips of his fingers and feet, and in the horn-like appendages on his head (which also serve as his ears), all of which, combined, give him much more neural capacity than humans. This piece was also ganked from Light-Schizophrenic.
✧ Bifurcated spine: Mewtwo's spine splits at the base of his skull and rejoins at shoulder blades. The section that arches back behind his neck houses his spinal cord, which is actually longer than a human spinal cord. (And, naturally, very well-protected.) This piece was also ganked from Light-Schizophrenic.
✧ Feline attributes: There are definite feline aspects to Mewtwo's design, so his eyes are cat-pupiled and he has excellent night vision. Excellent vision all around, actually.
✧ Lifespan: Effectively immortal, which is true of most Legendaries. He Does Not Age. (Neither does Mew.) Can still be killed if injured badly enough.
✧ Alternate Forms: Mewtwo is able to use his abilities to shapeshift (see Egoists in Dungeons and Dragons, who are able to use psychic powers to manipulate their own bodies and those of others), but it's initially a long and painful process, and his powers are inevitably reduced in the new form. Thus far, he's only known to adopt a human form, which he uses mostly to blend in when in human cities. In his human form, he's tall and extremely scrawny (very little muscle tone in his natural form, remember? This has to translate to his human form), and not very quick on his feet. He's not used to having to do things physically, after all. While capable of verbal speech in this form, he initially found it very awkward. As he grows more used to a new form, it becomes much less strenuous for him to move back and forth between the new form and his natural form. At this point, he's been around for a little under a thousand years and has been periodically taking human form for most of that. He's so used to it, at this point, that he can shift back and forth between human and natural form almost effortlessly.
✧ Nervous System Strength: Because his nervous system is so much more powerful than that of a human's, Mewtwo risks psychically "overloading" most people he attempts to establish a direct, mind-to-mind connection with while in his true form. This will manifest as an intense, incredibly painful migraine at first contact (for the other party, not for Mewtwo), eventually leading to light-headedness and unconsciousness, then probable death, though Mewtwo will usually cut off the connection when the other party falls unconscious.
His former student (and still his friend), Erin, is a notable exception, as they have unwittingly established something akin to a Force Bond in Star Wars with one another. The potential for harming other people is lessened in his human disguise, but at the same time, the connection will be somewhat "fogged" and unclear, since he is, after all, in disguise.
This applies to a Wizard's Soulgaze for characters from the Dresden Files as well, as demonstrated in DBFS Installment Take Back the Night when Harry Dresden Soulgazes Mewtwo. The Soulgaze is, after all, partially a psychic phenomenon, a direct connection between two minds. Luckily, the Soulgaze between Dresden and Mewtwo did not last long enough for Mewtwo to do any lasting harm to him.
✧ Psychic Bond Experience: Mewtwo's mind will be utterly alien to anyone who touches it. He does not think the same way humans do. (For this reason, Mun may have difficulty describing what it's like to touch minds with him, so bear with her while she works that out.) He may not interperate imagery the same way as a human does, nor does he understand the way human minds work; they are equally as alien to him as his mind would be to a human's.
In a bit I'll add some of the description from the Soulgaze scene with Harry Dresden to this section. As soon as I've got it written out, that is...
Might add more later, as I think of things.
