Player: Joysweeper Character: Juliyuuya Reason for Echo: Exploration mission - Mission Control. Type and tier: Tier 2, physical and... power? Birds are weird. What is returned: a) Pigeon hearing, b) Pigeon... emergency time perception.
He's already got pigeon ear inner anatomy and hair cell regeneration. Pigeon hearing isn't particularly sharper than in humans, but they can hear vastly lower frequencies. Low frequency sounds carry far further than higher ones. A pigeon in the center of the continental US can hear the ocean on the East, West, and Gulf Coasts, and the wind against the chains of the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains, extending hundreds of miles. Also audible in this way: auroras, explosions, storms, waterfalls, meteors, earthquakes and volcanoes, tornadoes, some kinds of engine, the various animals that communicate with low frequency sound. Incoming tsunamis, seismic events, and tornadoes can be heard minutes to hours before they can be detected by human senses. It's how many animals can sense these things coming.
Also, avian temporal sensitivity is ten times more acute than in humans. Sounds too fast and complicated for humans to really grasp are heard with much greater fidelity and complexity. With enough practice Julien might become exceptional at vocal analysis and more precise imitations. Temporal sensitivity ties into the next bit:
Birds see faster, hear faster, and can produce sounds faster than humans can. Their reflexes are faster. Bold ones seem to wait until the last possible second to move out of the way, and they can fly swiftly and surely through chaotic tight spaces like underbrush, that require tilting and folding wings out of the way to pass through.
So, this is not quite superspeed, since only his voice and senses can entirely keep pace. And it's not that everything is always in slow motion, either. But if something moves quickly enough to startle him, or he is alarmed, Julien's perceptions speed up briefly, so that the world seems to move at one tenth its normal rate. Humans have a little of this already, when there's a crisis and sometimes the world seems to slow briefly. But like this it's more pronounced, happens more often, and can to some extent be controlled.
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Character: Juliyuuya
Reason for Echo: Exploration mission - Mission Control.
Type and tier: Tier 2, physical and... power? Birds are weird.
What is returned: a) Pigeon hearing, b) Pigeon... emergency time perception.
He's already got pigeon ear inner anatomy and hair cell regeneration. Pigeon hearing isn't particularly sharper than in humans, but they can hear vastly lower frequencies. Low frequency sounds carry far further than higher ones. A pigeon in the center of the continental US can hear the ocean on the East, West, and Gulf Coasts, and the wind against the chains of the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains, extending hundreds of miles. Also audible in this way: auroras, explosions, storms, waterfalls, meteors, earthquakes and volcanoes, tornadoes, some kinds of engine, the various animals that communicate with low frequency sound. Incoming tsunamis, seismic events, and tornadoes can be heard minutes to hours before they can be detected by human senses. It's how many animals can sense these things coming.
Also, avian temporal sensitivity is ten times more acute than in humans. Sounds too fast and complicated for humans to really grasp are heard with much greater fidelity and complexity. With enough practice Julien might become exceptional at vocal analysis and more precise imitations. Temporal sensitivity ties into the next bit:
Birds see faster, hear faster, and can produce sounds faster than humans can. Their reflexes are faster. Bold ones seem to wait until the last possible second to move out of the way, and they can fly swiftly and surely through chaotic tight spaces like underbrush, that require tilting and folding wings out of the way to pass through.
So, this is not quite superspeed, since only his voice and senses can entirely keep pace. And it's not that everything is always in slow motion, either. But if something moves quickly enough to startle him, or he is alarmed, Julien's perceptions speed up briefly, so that the world seems to move at one tenth its normal rate. Humans have a little of this already, when there's a crisis and sometimes the world seems to slow briefly. But like this it's more pronounced, happens more often, and can to some extent be controlled.