Player: Joysweeper Character: Julien/Yuuya Reason for Echo: Lights! Type and tier: Physical, Tier 1. What is returned: Class/clade shift! Mammal -> Bird. The features that distinguish Julien as a mammal all change over, so that on a technical level he qualifies as a bird. Nipples lose potential function. Brain structure changes... pretty radically, with the neocortex vanishing and the nidopallidium and dorsal ventricular ridge taking its function. Chromosomes go from XY to ZZ. This will have a profound effect on the game (no it won't)(well okay it means he'll be able to carry the bird uplift virus)
Hair is replaced by primitive hairlike feathers in the same color (white) as Yuuya's. Instead of the schedules human hair keeps, all of the growth and shedding happens during the molts in spring and fall. For the rest of the year if a feather is plucked another will grow in to replace it, but if it's cut, it stays the same length. For now it still looks like hair, though there's two strands per follicle, but in a few months he'll molt and it will be like kiwi feathers.
Instead of the mammalian system of three inner ear bones he gets the avian system, with a single bone and a complex system of tubes lacing the jaw area. The other ear bones are incorporated into the jaw, but the jaw still works as simply as mammal jaws do. External ears and ear canals remain the same. While bird hearing can be damaged by loud noise just like mammal hearing, the relevant cells regenerate and restore peak hearing in about two weeks. Julien's hearing will improve mildly since he's managed to damage his ears in concerts and so on. He doesn't get avian temporal resolution for his ears or sensitivity to infrasound yet.
Reason for Echo: Tower! Type and tier: Physical? Item? Tier 1. What is returned: His whole body becomes host to Carneades, the bird uplift virus. Many birds exposed to it will die. Of those who live some just pass it on to their offspring, which are not sickened. Other survivors gradually become more human-style intelligent and larger and gain speaking ability, their children even moreso. Generations in the future, they'll be different in other ways too.
This is a less adaptable or virulent version. It might infect other species, but the species which reaps the most casualties and has survivors who are changed are rock pigeons and their domestic descendents. It would also take quite a while for the survivors to start acting oddly enough for non-bird-obsessed people to notice. Say, six months? When the second generation starts to emerge.
Reason for Echo:Action! Canon recurrence - Julien's taken inside a building/buildings in the Dead District. He's used to shabby exteriors, but he's never been in these here, and the abandoned junk and general decay is practically postapocalyptic. As it happens, there are ruins of human cities in HB. Type and tier: Memory and mental, tier 2 What is returned: A brief memory of flying through ruins of human civilization in Japan, seeing some humans he was supposed to meet, and telling them his Dove code phrase so they don't attack him. This isn't something he was ever said to have done in canon, but the ruins are there, he's with the party that deals with humans extensively, and he's been on a lot of missions that are never detailed.
The flight aspect to the memory leads to, well, a gradual growing longing for flight, slowly becoming a sense that without wings he's bereft, injured, crippled. Heights and the edges of roofs and stairwells and so on kind of call out, there's the insidious thought that maybe if he flung himself out like part of him wants to do, he'll get wings on the way down.
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Character: Julien/Yuuya
Reason for Echo: Lights!
Type and tier: Physical, Tier 1.
What is returned: Class/clade shift! Mammal -> Bird. The features that distinguish Julien as a mammal all change over, so that on a technical level he qualifies as a bird. Nipples lose potential function. Brain structure changes... pretty radically, with the neocortex vanishing and the nidopallidium and dorsal ventricular ridge taking its function. Chromosomes go from XY to ZZ. This will have a profound effect on the game (no it won't)(well okay it means he'll be able to carry the bird uplift virus)
Hair is replaced by primitive hairlike feathers in the same color (white) as Yuuya's. Instead of the schedules human hair keeps, all of the growth and shedding happens during the molts in spring and fall. For the rest of the year if a feather is plucked another will grow in to replace it, but if it's cut, it stays the same length. For now it still looks like hair, though there's two strands per follicle, but in a few months he'll molt and it will be like kiwi feathers.
Instead of the mammalian system of three inner ear bones he gets the avian system, with a single bone and a complex system of tubes lacing the jaw area. The other ear bones are incorporated into the jaw, but the jaw still works as simply as mammal jaws do. External ears and ear canals remain the same. While bird hearing can be damaged by loud noise just like mammal hearing, the relevant cells regenerate and restore peak hearing in about two weeks. Julien's hearing will improve mildly since he's managed to damage his ears in concerts and so on. He doesn't get avian temporal resolution for his ears or sensitivity to infrasound yet.
Reason for Echo: Tower!
Type and tier: Physical? Item? Tier 1.
What is returned: His whole body becomes host to Carneades, the bird uplift virus. Many birds exposed to it will die. Of those who live some just pass it on to their offspring, which are not sickened. Other survivors gradually become more human-style intelligent and larger and gain speaking ability, their children even moreso. Generations in the future, they'll be different in other ways too.
This is a less adaptable or virulent version. It might infect other species, but the species which reaps the most casualties and has survivors who are changed are rock pigeons and their domestic descendents. It would also take quite a while for the survivors to start acting oddly enough for non-bird-obsessed people to notice. Say, six months? When the second generation starts to emerge.
Reason for Echo:
Action!Canon recurrence - Julien's taken inside a building/buildings in the Dead District. He's used to shabby exteriors, but he's never been in these here, and the abandoned junk and general decay is practically postapocalyptic. As it happens, there are ruins of human cities in HB.Type and tier: Memory and mental, tier 2
What is returned:
A brief memory of flying through ruins of human civilization in Japan, seeing some humans he was supposed to meet, and telling them his Dove code phrase so they don't attack him.
This isn't something he was ever said to have done in canon, but the ruins are there, he's with the party that deals with humans extensively, and he's been on a lot of missions that are never detailed.
The flight aspect to the memory leads to, well, a gradual growing longing for flight, slowly becoming a sense that without wings he's bereft, injured, crippled. Heights and the edges of roofs and stairwells and so on kind of call out, there's the insidious thought that maybe if he flung himself out like part of him wants to do, he'll get wings on the way down.