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Yay a update, and good job.đ
Good chapter, please do not let a "small break" turn into a several month long hiatus.
Welp, that's one episode down (or is it, the CMC's could still go wanting to hear it later) ...
Thrilled to see this one update.
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I expected George Takei to comment on the episodes part lol
Heh, Funny thing? I just recovered from the whole hacking till you puke thing less than a week ago
Though, considering Alicorns are pretty much immortal and likely have a Healing factor because of it, how does one get sick?
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By not having an immunity to the local population's strains of viruses and illnesses.
Remember the tourist rule of "only drink water from a bottle"?
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True, but it would be negated by the healing factor! A healing factor doesnât just apply to damage to the body, but also to outside contaminates too. Take for example, Wolverine: he is (if you donât count old man Logan as itâs AU) Immortal and has a healing factor that litterly let him survive near the epicenter of a nuclear detonation and all the consequences that follow. That and he has been alive since 1832 and has fought in every major war up to 2023
Immortality and the healing factor go hand in hand for some odd reason >.>
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I take the view of "immortality" with a bit of salt and see it as a broad spectrum. Saying someone is immortal is a pretty general term, are they the invincible immortal? Ageless immortal? Afflictionally immortal? (meaning not a single illness, plague or otherwise can affect them) As it stands and as I had to establish in the Prologues, I saw Alicorns as an "ageless" type of immortal. That while they are capable of living eternally, they still retain a great deal of mortal weaknesses, either in oversight and overconfidence/arrogance, or in this case capable of still being affected by viruses and illnesses.
As for the case with Rising both as his days in human form and with his new pony skin, while he does have the perks of what comes with serving his literal creator and residing in his kingdom, thats more or less a minor type of invincible immortality that only works in that "afterlife", down on Earth he's about as vulnerable to sickness as everyone else.
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Agreed, sadly fiction has broadened the spectrum of âImmortalityâ over time. If I had to give the Alicorns a Type of âImmortalityâ it wouldnât be ageless, this is mostly due to the cannon showings of just the ridiculous amount of punishment they can take.
I would place the Alicorns in the âAscendent Immortalityâ category, this gives them durability, healing factor, inability to age, better immunity and the ability to die when they do wish.
So maybe cut down the middle? They can get sick just after their Ascension and recover quicker, but develop near immunity to common illnesses because of it?
On a side note, with how long he was among them shouldnât he have gotten sick sooner?
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He did get sick sooner, its how he developed signs with coughing and sneezing. Such as was the case in his sneezing scaring Luna twice in the same room.
As for near immunity to common illnesses, another word for that is the "immune system" that we possess. What ails us once almost never ails us a second time. (unless its something as severe like Covid, cancer, and other incredibly lethal things)
Albeit I have neglected the durability factors with Alicorns, however with one certain episode where Twilight endures injuries that would and should have been lethal while she was still a unicorn, she only comes out of such harm (including a literal piano being dropped upon her, regardless of cartoon physics/logic that could be applied and waved off) in a wheelchair and several casts, and outside of the hospital.
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Sorry I should have been more specific, I meant as a human. I was bringing it up as the Flu has been known to be cross species compatible.
Also Twilight is more an exception than a rule, even as a unicorn Twilight was immensely powerful in magic and it wouldnât surprise me if that power in magic extends to a type of Passive Magical Shielding, then there is what her element gives her passively to add onto that.
Honestly? I always thought the casts were less for her injuries and more to keep her from exasperating the bruising and small cuts that would happen by Twilight being Twilight.
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Technically each flu is alien to human and normally isn't cross-species, the cases of cross-species infection are caused by either mutation (that is theory how flu appeared, it's a pig virus) or immune anomalies: like rare humans not immune to "bird flu" type because they have some malformed protein.
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Not really? Humans are susceptible to pretty much any type of virus, but for us the Immune System gives us a One and Done resistance. What that means is that for every illness we contract be build up a resistance to it and are unlikely to contract it again.
Yes some are more dangerous than other and have a small survival chance (a good example is Rabies, there are only fourteen known survivors leading to a 95% mortality rate) but the more common illnesses can be passed between species and one of those is the Flu.
In fact, Influenza A/H5N1 (more commonly known as the Avian Flu or Bird Flu) was discovered in China in â96 and human infections started popping up less than a year later in â97.
So in all reality, he was likely harboring these illnesses as a human and only started suffering from them when he became a Alicorn and thus was more compatible. People forget that a species can be a carrier without showing or suffering any effects of what they carry.
Just FYI I am not a virologist, I know the basics, common methods of transmission and what not and thatâs pretty much it.
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Compatibility with cell structure is part of passive immune system.
Virus "casing hull" and RNA message sequence should be chemically compatible with human proteins and mRNA sequence, or it would not attach, penetrate and "boot" its code. That makes inter-species jump really hard except between species that have something in common and a change of malforming or encountering a flawed individuum. Active immune system response takes over only if it detect anomaly, that takes learning. There are hundreds of viruses we house and it cannot detect, e.g. papilloviruses.
The A/H5N1 is only semy-compatible thatnks to its panzootic nature, but it still can't be passed from human to human. When virus changes host species, either different part of code get active or it gets interpreted differently, so a copy might not so dangerous, or more dangerous, it's a rulette. Epidemies were caused by infected birds. The discovered cases of passing from human to human now accounted for due to malformed protein in cell membrane. Curiously, CoVID-19 attaches to the same protein, non-malformed version.
Currently another bat virus becomes a threat, which was known for long time to be able jump the gap. Again, it mutates after the jump.
Rising also was contacting with everyone and had chance to get their infections. If his body is "clean slate", it have to learn how to fight and this many infections at once in reality could cause same effect as covid-19: immune storm. But is is fantasy and he had magical help in transition, so its different :P
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Also add in a fine taste of divinity's blessings. Any ordinary human/human-to-pony that would undergo this more than likely could/would/should've died from that entire storm.
Edit: to give some clarity, while being religious involves more about activities revolving around prayer, meditation, rituals and other sorts while holding faith and belief that the work was done. It's a major difference from participating and/or being directly involved with do said work. So I wouldn't really call Rising 'religious'.
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A Human might survive it, people underestimate what the Human body can take. Would they come out sane in the end would be the better question.
Maybe not religious, Asperant maybe? Could also go with adherent?
Someone's played the strike "The Arms Dealer" in the EDZ! I recognised that just by glazing over it! Man. I miss Cayde. Good chapter.
Being sick is blegh. Recovering from great bodily stress/damage/injury is just as bad if not worse in some ways. But I do remember fondly telling a nurse while I was being carted away for examination "Greetings, Program!" And getting a laugh out of her. Made me smile, despite the numbed pain and adrenaline.
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I wondered when someone would catch that reference!