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[feathersfly]

so i've got a question for those of you who are from a different world than this one. which is everyone who uses this network, from what I've been told, so I guess that's superfluous.

long story short: we lose our powers here. everyone knows that. we lose anything obviously inhuman here. everyone knows that, too.

has that involved losing limbs for anyone else? how do you deal with that? i feel like i need some kind of amputee support group, only since i'm not actually missing any expected human body parts i suspect they'd kick me out.

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[hatedthemost]

so I don't really know anything about any of THAT
and honestly it is NEWS TO ME that some people here were not human
but I lost my arm like a year or so ago now
back home, it didn't have anything to do with any of this

don't have a support group or anything, especially here, but it sucks, man

[feathersfly]

hey, i'm new here, so everything's news to me right now. so i get it.

i'm personally not one of the non-human people, ftr. but some people in the world i come from have mutations that aren't exactly human-standard, and i'm one of them. i had wings when i got here, and they lasted the weekend, and now they're just...gone. like i never had them.

i don't even have a word for how weird it is.

[hatedthemost]

Oh man.
That's

like at least when I lost the arm, people knew I lost it, you know?
I can't imagine if everyone just acted like nothing happened

[feathersfly]

mm, i guess that's a point. when you've lost a limb people expect you to have, they're sympathetic. when you lose something other people don't have in the first place, they can't even understand, can they?

that said, sympathy from other people isn't really a big concern for me right now. just, y'know, trying to deal with the weird feelings of them not being there.

like, i'm lying on my back right now. i haven't laid on my back in my entire life.

[islandshore]

Depends.

If you've got more than the basic pair of arms and legs, then yeah. Those are gone. Any nonhuman traits get scrubbed away, other than maybe pointed ears and sharp teeth or a strange eye color.

I'd say nonhumans get hit the hardest with this. Had a few friends who were talking ponies a while back.

[feathersfly]

oh, i don't need to be told they're gone. i'm aware.

i'm mostly asking how people deal with that. i'm guessing it's really weird for those who aren't human or have completely different bodies to essentially get stuffed into human suits, but i'm practically having phantom limb syndrome over here. so i was looking for people who've totally lost parts of their body they're accustomed to having in particular.

[islandshore]

I think it's a lot of adaptation, to be honest.

If Twilight or Applejack were here still, I bet they'd have all kinds of stories. Still, I wonder if making some kinda prosthetics would help? Even if it's just cosmetic, it might bring at least some familiarity.

Maybe. I'm no doctor. Definitely not a psychologist, either.

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[floatsaway]

[Yeah, guess who saw 'losing limbs' and stopped reading and immediately started to panic because NANI THE FUCK.]

OH MY GOSH, ARE YOU OKAY?!
DO YOU NEED HELP??
Where are you? I can try to get there
Or arrange for someone to get you right away...

[feathersfly]

hey, calm down! i'm not talking dismemberment here. i just mean that when my powers got taken away, my wings went with them. there's no blood or anything.

but wings do count as limbs if they're yours, right?

idk if you want their 4th wall to count as "fuzzy memories" or no??

[floatsaway]

Oh gosh...that's good.
I got really worried...

But I guess you're right. Are you like a bird, then?
Apparently there are a few people there that were animals before coming here.
I got a cute egg from a really nice girl who used to be a bird!!

[And after a moment, Ochako will realize how that sounds.]

A **POKEMON** EGG!!!

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[neverfinishanyth]

You might not remember me! We spoke over the weekend, I believe? But I have drawings I made of your wings and feathers from when you were here, and so I could make you a replica of them, if that is something you might want.

[feathersfly]

that's a generous offer, but i'd need to think about it.

[Which is to say that Hawks is having all kinds of feelings he doesn't know what to do with at the thought of prosthetic wings. It obviously wouldn't be the same - not by a long shot. The question is, could such prosthetics offer him anything worth having?]

they'd be purely aesthetic, i'm assuming. [Back home, he supposes something very loosely like his wings could be made as a support item; it might even have working wings, or launchable feathers. Neither would be remotely up to par with what his quirk could do, but it'd be better than nothing. But that would be if a premiere support item company were to make something top of the line, and it'd be a tough order even then. He doubts one friendly artist could even come close to that.]

[neverfinishanyth]

I could make wings that glide, at the very least. It would take some experimentation to make wings that truly fly, but it is experimentation I am willing to do, if you are willing to assist.

And of course, if you are not willing to entertain this notion in the first place, I will accept that without question. I understand how it is difficult to make such a choice.

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[songstressedout]

One of the first people I met here had powers that got taken away when they arrived here... is it something like that with you?

[ Because loss of limbs sounds... morbid, but she's assuming they're fine if they're texting here. ]

[feathersfly]

pretty much, yeah. but my 'powers' were wings. i don't have them anymore, and it's all kinds of unsettling.

[songstressedout]

Wings? Wow...

[ Yeah, those would count as limbs, wouldn't they? ]

I can't imagine how that must feel... my friend was shaken enough that they didn't have their own power, and it didn't involve any extra limbs...

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[pidge_out]

"expected human body parts"? what do you mean by that?

[feathersfly]

you know. arms, legs, everything you'd expect to find on your bog standard human body.

the thing is, i used to have more than that. i had wings. and now i don't.

[pidge_out]

whoa

i've always just been a regular boring human, but you're definitely not alone here so you're reaching out in the right digital space. i'd be surprised if someone hasn't formed some kind of support group for people who got altered upon arriving here

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[ferraio]

[ Risotto was definitely very convinced he wasn't going to chime in on this. Yes, it's sad, and no, he isn't so devoid of humanity that there isn't a twinge of sympathy at the idea. But really, he should just keep pretending he was totally normal back home and move on, except--

Looks like he's opening up that text field anyway, oops. ]

I see no one answered with a similar experience, and mine is not quite the same as yours. But I also appear human, and was considered human back home, but had an extra...I suppose you could call it a 'mutation' as you described yours above to someone else.

Mine gave me an extra sense. I knew I relied on it before I arrived here, but to no longer have access to it is more disorienting than I anticipated. [ He'd definitely gotten used to effectively seeing through walls and sensing people coming close to him for the past...seven years. ]

No missing non-human limbs, though. Just the powers that the being I used to house granted. [ If he's inadvertently making it sound like he used to be possessed, that's...not horribly far from the truth? ]

[feathersfly]

a literal sixth sense, huh? convenient. and definitely jarring to lose on what's probably a similar level to my experiences. so what can i say? brother, i've been there.

[Other people might at least bat an eye at Risotto's mention of 'housing a being', but Hawks doesn't. After all, hadn't he taken on Tokoyami as an intern? His situation wasn't that dissimilar to what this guy is describing...in fact, this guy talks a bit like Tokoyami does.]

[ferraio]

Very convenient. It was something between proprioception and another form of sight.

[ He is way, way less sure what to do with the compassionate part of the response. He spends way too much time trying to figure out how to respond to it himself and settles on the driest thing possible that still is not remotely a lie.] Thank you. I don't envy you needing to also learn how to exist without yours. [ At least Risotto looks the same to himself in a mirror, here...

But this person...definitely takes all this in stride. It occurs to Risotto as to whether or not-- well, maybe he'll actually ask. ] Where I come from, these senses and abilities varied from person to person. Was it that way for you, as well?

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[apshot]

So start one. Plenty of assholes here have went through that crap. Doubt you'd be kicked out because you lost some horns, tentacles, or what the hell ever it was.

[feathersfly]

wings.

anyway, no point in starting one before asking if one already exists. but if one doesn't, and it's starting to look like that's the case, that's not a bad idea. not sure i'm the guy to run it, though.

your username seems familiar. [Hawks hasn't paid a lot of attention to individual students, but your name has been in the news a lot for various reasons, Bakugou. Kamino primary among them. Hawks is trying to place it, but give him a second.]

[apshot]

Only furthering the point.

Organizing shit doesn't mean leading shit either. For all you know you could put it together and then a more qualified person to lead comes along.

[ Your username seems familiar. Well THAT isn't suspect at all now is it? Gee. It's not like he's made headlines or anything, right? For primarily being kidnapped but hey. But unlike Round Face, Bakugou isn't going to be using his selected hero name. Not until a certain person hears it first. ]

There's probably some reason it looks familiar. It is a name.