Behind the Scenes

How Abilities work, Part 1:

8s: As you know 8s have the ability to heal and see into the past with the more talented and trained 8s as well as C8s can see into the future as well as bring former living things back to life within a few set boundaries/rules.

Those boundaries/rules are 1. They cannot resurrect anything that is fossilized or mummified (no one knows why they can't they just can't), 2. They need the body of the deceased in order to bring them back (meaning they can't just revive someone by thinking about it while 50 miles away/80km they actually have to be there) and 3. The body has to at least be mostly there (meaning if you found a hip bone or tooth or skull fragment it wouldn't work).

As for the future and past aspect, for those who can see into the future it gets complicated. For instance, since they don't know what will happen in the future they can't be like show me 3 days from now when XYZ happens. Instead they have to go 3 days in the future at a certain time and a certain place and just observe what is happening. They also have certain times were they can't control this ability and are shown little flashes of the future which tend to frustrate them because they see a fraction of XYZ happening but don't know when it'll happen or even the full thing that is actually happening.

As for their healing abilities they can heal wounds on other people as well as their selves and some can even regenerate their own limbs and other body parts. Which, in a scenario where someone would try to kill them (a highly unlikely scenario) it would make it very difficult to do so seeing as if you don't oneshot them (in the brain or in the heart) you are left with one very much alive and very much pissed off (for obvious reasons) 8 or C8.

On the downside for those that can regenerate is that despite the regenerative factor, getting stabbed or shot or a limb ripped off still hurts. A lot. And depending on the individual and how angry they are/how much adrenaline is rushing threw their vains the regeneration process can be anywhere from an instance to a couple weeks. Which isn't very fun for the 8s and C8s who have to deal with such a severe injury.

7s: 7s have the ability to kill people with eye contact similar to how Medusa turns people into stone in Greek mythology. However, unlike Medusa, they can turn the ability off once they are trained. Until then they wear bandanas or pieces of cloth over their eyes.

7s cannot kill anyone if they look through a mirror or a picture and a 7 cannot die if their ability is activated and they look at themselves in a mirror or a picture. This has led to the discovery that when a 7 uses their ability, the white part and the irises of their eyes turn black and their pupils turn white which led to the nickname 'the eyes of death'.

If two 7s were to activate their abilities at the same time and stare at each other the stronger 7 would win and kill the weaker one however if they were equal in capabilities they would cancel each other out and nothing would happen.

6s: 6s have the ability to teleport (both themselves and other people/objects/animals), telekinesis (picking up and moving objects and living things) telepathy, altering memories (whether it be erasing them or creating new ones that never actually happened) and Hypnosis (controlling the actions of others).

5s: 5s have the ability of the Earth. Not only does this include all the rocks, jems, dirt and mud the Earth has to offer but also all plant life. They can cause mudslides, earthquakes and all sorts of natural disasters that have to do with the earth and can make plants grow faster than normal.

Alongside that they can also create seeds, plants, jems and different kinds of rocks from thin air. 5s tend to make sure that the Earth is still running smoothly as well as being nobles.

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