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moonliched · 3 months

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I just got around to reading the newest chapter and as I’m giddy as always about the celestial fish <3. I am also fighting for my life over here with the Eclipse crumbs :’)

I have a few questions, though, and a lot of thoughts (and feel free to just not answer them if it’s lore or gonna be revealed sometime).

1: Sun is using distinctly British English terms.... why? (Not a bad thing!! Just weird for me bc I hear it so much irl but have never actually seen someone write with it so it stood out more and I’m curious)

2: Is Y/N actually infected with something?? The weird glowing dust on their bed reminded me of like,, spores and the like. And follow up:

2.5: Chica scanning them “secretly”. Freddy and Chica seem to know a bit more than they’re letting on, and there’s been a lot of talk about sickness and infections (I think. If my terrible memory isn’t making stuff up again). Was Chica actually telling the truth about looking for a temperature and the lie was actually by omission (because she’s also looking for something more than that, but a temperature is just a symptom)?

3: Does Y/N have the same body temperature as a human, and if not, would Chica know that?

!!Rambling incoming!!

Related to the potential spores and possible illness, there are lots of things that need a higher temperature to start growing, and the base has been at Y/N’s preferred cooler temperatures for a while until the Glamrocks showed up. Also if their recent behaviour (poor sleep, anxiety, shorter temper(?)) can be attributed to some kind of infection, Vanessa seems to be suffering from that kind of stuff too. Maybe she has it??? Also also, something had to wipe out all the mers, and a dangerous illness that spread through them fast and was able to grow quicker in warmer waters, leaving only a few with a built up immunity, would’ve definitely been enough to reduce a population.

Sorry. I’m just loving this fic so much. It’s a lot of fun, and I really appreciate you taking the time to read this, and, if possible, respond :)

:))))))) i'm happy you're enjoying💗💗💗 [offers you a handful of celestial fish arranged like a bouquet]

1: i live in the UK lol so i guess that'll come across in my writing😋 i can't say much without getting into spoilers territory, but the main factors of Sun and Moon speaking 'ancient English' is that it's English from our time period-ish give or take several decades, and they have American accents. though i haven't stated either explicitly. so why not a little British vocab sprinkled in there?

2: Y/N is infected😣

2.5: yes, exactly! Chica likely would have tried to get more in-depth data on Y/N's health if she wasn't avoiding catching their attention at the time. she was trying to be sneaky... which didn't work

3: spoilers :3

ahskdjshjsdhjss kicks my feet☺️💕 LOVING the rambling and theorising, thank you for the thoughtful ask! i hope you enjoy everything else to come💕

#ask #There Are Many Benefits

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emcscared-whumps · 2 years

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Character Profile: PETE SPENCER

Shifting Phases Masterpost

Last updated: 19 Dec, 2023

Name: Peadar 'Pete' Ealar Spencer

Name Meaning: Stone/rock | cheerful | servant/butler

Age: 18

Height: 173cm/5'8"

Weight: ~122kg (severely underweight)

Birthday: 27 May

Star Sign: Gemini

MBPT: ISFJ

Pronouns: he/him

Sexuality: bisexual

Species: Belunae Shifter-- trigger

Abilities:

Standard shifter abilities: Can shift between a human passing form, and a mer form.

To trigger the shift, Pete must inhale water through his gills, which are activated by contact with water. When his gills open, his lungs close to avoid drowning, this is something he cannot control. To reset his breathing, he's gotta get air moving in his lungs again, which involves a lot of gasping and trouble ^-^ Often, he passes out, which also resets it.

To shift from mer to human-passing form, he needs to dry off and reset his breathing. He can use his lungs while in mer form by resetting his breathing (provided there's air).

His skin also has a thin but dense layer of fat beneath it to retain body heat, meaning his skin is cool to the touch. This also means he overheats easily.

((Shifting burns a lot of energy, so a shifter's intake is quite large. Their total mass doesn't change between forms. For Pete, this means he's twice as heavy as he looks, the physical limit to his species' capabilities)).

Personality:

Pete, despite his meekness, is sweet, kind, and warm-hearted, loved by his friends and mother*, and regarded well by most other people. He has remarkable attention to detail, especially for those he cares about.

Even though he also loves and cares about his friends and his mother, he does not reciprocate many of their feelings on a genuine level due to a deep mistrust and fear of discovery that he harbours, which eclipses the other aspects of his personality. In order to protect his secret, he becomes mild-mannered and reserved, a bit of a doormat, and will endure almost anything, no matter how unfair.

Often, and due to other difficulties arising from his species and abilities, he is exhausted and can get irritable and snappy, and rarely gives more than a small, shy smile.

He is a textbook example of the belunae stereotypes taught in belunae awareness classes-- quiet, distrustful, few close friends and/or family, reticent.

*There's gonna be fun had here :)

Appearance:

Pete has sky blue eyes and a naturally slim build, but is severely underweight. His auburn hair is short, shaggy and has an unpleasant texture. It is wiry and slightly greasy from the salty bluster of Devonhurst, and overuse of dry shampoo. His skin is pale with a knife scar at his left jaw.

He appears completely human except for the three pinkish, scar-like marks on either side of his neck, which are his closed gills, and his nails which grow thicker and faster than a humans and to small, clawed points.

In mer form, pearlescent white scales cover his tail, broken by large, splotches of gleaming orange across the back. Those same white scales cover his hands and forearms. They lose their colour over the course of several months when he's ill, and darken around injuries. In extreme cases, they will turn completely black.

He has fins the same orange as his scales at his hips in place of legs, a dorsal at the small of his back, on his forearms, and small ones just above his tail fin.

He also has expressive pointed ears (which can move up, down, and back), and webbed hands! His ears are very cute and expressive :))))

[Ref Sheet]

Clothing:

Pete prefers light clothing. Pete usually wears sweater vests, pale jeans, and favours a tan trench coat and tall hiking boots for their water-resistant/proof qualities, given Devonhurst's miserable weather.

He is known for consistently wearing his red, diamond textured scarf to hide his gills.

Brief Background:

Pete's birth parents Eric and Judith are deceased, and he has no known siblings. Kate Spencer found him hidden at the scene of their bloody murder behind a dumpster and trash bags and adopted him. Pete was 6 years old, and as a result of the trauma, he no longer remembers his life before Kate, and developed a mild stutter. Kate raised him as her own, and didn't have the heart to tell him. He doesn't find out for a long time, but does not resent her for that.

When Pete's abilities first manifested (~14 years old), he became riddled with anxiety, and injured himself when he collapsed from being totally unable to breathe.

His first shift, which blindsided and terrified him, resulted from a schoolyard swirly that would have otherwise drowned him because his head got left in the bowl when his assailants ran because his legs started going slack. Fortunately, the bathroom was empty and they ran before his shift was noticeable. Wracked by guilt, one (Guy 'Burton' Matthews) returned to see if Pete had survived, and instead found him silencing his panic and clawing at his tail in the stall. In a major switch, Burton blackmailed Pete into being his personal punching bag.

Pete was adopted by Timmy and Liz later that day (after making the shift back to human-passing form) after Timmy picked up on his intense stress.

Relatives:

Kate Spencer (human, adoptive mum, 55)

Judith Allaway (???, birth mother, deceased, was 30)

Eric Allaway (mer shifter, birth father, deceased, was 31)

Trivia:

Feels vulnerable without his scarf, or something to cover his neck.

Really honestly can’t sing, his voice was ruined by when he was young, but he learns a bit of guitar.

Interestingly, he likes ice skating and is proficient at it. Has fond memories of Kate teaching him. With the consistent cold of Devonhurst, rinks are common and last longer. There are a few indoor rinks open year-round in Candimor City.

Pete's name is actually short for Peadar (pronounced p-eh-tar), however, when he was adopted by Kate (age 6) he only remembered his fond nickname 'Pete', and also his middle name (he was often called by both his names fondly), but not his surname, as that was not really part of him so to speak (idk brains are weird). This means Kate had no way of working out that his name was in fact Peadar so his name is officially 'Pete'

Knows how to use makeup, uses it to hide bruises from Kate so she doesn't worry and take him to a doctor.

His voice is light, not particularly deep, and slightly raspy. He speaks in a soff fictional Scottish accent common on Devonhurst and in Candimor City.

His scarf belonged to his dad, who left it with him before he was murdered.

Other Art:

By @willowtreewhump [Here] (thankyou sososososo much you did an incredible job ^-^ Go check them out their art is incredible) drawn before i decided to give him funky ears and scales and fins on his forearms in mer form

By @mostly-comfort [Here] (god he came out so nice tyyyyy ;A;)

Ref Sheet [Here]

Pride 2023 [Here]

#Shifting Phases #Pete Spencer #whump oc #character profile #mer whumpee #nonhuman whumpee #mer #rip to you guys but there's a lot happening with the boi lmao #pete's name never used to be short for anything till i found out there was a scottish variant of peter #and then i immediately made up lore to make it fit #emc's art #the art is gonna get updated so i'm not adding alt text yet sorry ^-^'

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billion-heartbeats · 4 years

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The world has gone viral Corona virus overview. Be cautious.there is nothing to panic.

The world has gone viral

Coronavirus Overview

Types of Viruses in the world- 1,670,000

631,000 to 827,000 can infect Humans----Nature Journal

The frequency of crossing over from animals to Humans has increased 2to 3 times in the last 40 yrs. on a cycle of about three yrs.

SARS- 2002

Bird flu- 2005

Swine flu- 2009

MERS- 2012

Ebola- 2014

SARS n COV- 2019

There have been 6 new epidemics in the last 18 yrs.

The corona virus is about 120 metronomes across, and looks like a ball with spikes coming out of it. The spikes, seen on an electron microscope, look a little like the sun’s corona, seen during an eclipse, which why the family was called corona viruses. The genome size of corona viruses ranges from approximately 26 to 32 kilobases, one of the largest among RNA viruses. Approximately, 20,000,000viruses can fit on the head of a pin. Trust me just about a gram of this virus has probably caused the pandemic!

Corona virus disease -COVID-19- a cousin of the SARS virus is an infectious disease caused by the newly discovered corona virus. Corona viruses are a large family of viruses that are common in people and many different species of animals, including camels, cattle, cats, and bats.

COVID-19 was first reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in November 2019. Over the next few months, the illness spread to almost every country. COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the WHO on March 11, 2020.

Corona viruses have been causing problems for humanity for a long time. Several versions are known to trigger common colds and more recently two types have set off outbreaks of deadly illnesses- severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). But by and large their impact has been mild.

The corona virus that is causing the Covid-19 pandemic has caused havoc globally and has spread to nearly 200 countries! That is an extraordinary performance for a spiky ball of genetic material coated in fatty chemicals called lipids, and which measures 80 billionths of a metre in diameter. Humanity has been brought on its knees by what looks a very humble assailant.

Patho-physiology

This was an organism unknown to science five months ago. Today it is the subject of study on an unprecedented scale. Vaccine projects proliferate, antiviral drug trials have been launched and new diagnostic tests are appearing.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus almost certainly originated in Bats. These are known to replicate faster. the bat is transformed into a reservoir of rapidly reproducing and highly transmissible viruses. when these bat viruses move into humans who lack a fast-response immune system, the viruses quickly spread into their new hosts. As to the transmission of Sars-CoV-2, that occurs when droplets of water containing the virus are expelled by an infected person in a fit of cough or sneeze.

Virus-ridden particles are inhaled by others and come into contact with cells lining the throat and larynx. These cells have large numbers of receptors – known as Ace-2 receptors – on their surfaces. This virus has a surface protein that is primed to lock on that receptor and slip its RNA into the cell.

Once inside, that RNA inserts itself into the cell’s own replication machinery and makes multiple copies of the virus. These burst out of the cell, and the infection spreads. Antibodies generated by the body’s immune system eventually target the virus and, in most cases, halt its progress.

A Covid-19 infection is generally mild, and that really is the secret of the virus’s success. Many people don’t even notice they have got an infection and so go around their work, homes and supermarkets infecting others.

Symptoms

The viruses can make people sick, usually with a mild to moderate upper respiratory tract illness, similar to a common cold. Coronavirus symptoms include a runny nose, cough, sore throat, possibly a headache and maybe a fever, which can last for a couple of days.

For those with a weak immune system, the elderly and the very young, there's a chance the virus could cause a lower, and much more serious, respiratory tract illness like a pneumonia or bronchitis.

The Wuhan coronavirus is currently thought to be milder than SARS and MERS and takes longer to develop symptoms. Patients to date have typically experienced a mild cough for a week followed by shortness of breath, causing them to visit the hospital. Around 15% to 20% of cases have become severe requiring treatment in ICU. 5% are critical requiring, ventilatory support and treatment in ICU.

Corona virus treatment

There is no specific treatment, but research is underway. Most of the time, symptoms will go away on their own and experts advise seeking care early. If symptoms feel worse than a standard cold, see your doctor.

Doctors can relieve symptoms by prescribing a pain or fever medication, a hot shower, a warm drink with some herbs, can help ones with a sore throat or cough. Don’t panic! Remain calm.

Drink plenty of fluids, get rest and sleep as much as possible.

Prognosis

A large study found that about 80% of confirmed cases had fairly mild symptoms -defined as no significant infection in the lungs. About 15% have had moderately severe symptoms that caused significant shortness of breath, low blood oxygen or other lung problems that needs institutional treatment. 5% of cases are critical, featuring respiratory failure, septic shock or multiple organ problems.

Mortality

The Wuhan coronavirus fatality rate is lower than for SARS and MERS. In India statistical analysis shows that it is 2.8%. The World Health Organization gave out a figure of, 3.4%.

Why does the virus sometimes cause death?

Occasionally, however, the virus can cause severe problems. This happens when it moves down the respiratory tract and infects the lungs, which are even richer in cells with Ace-2 receptors. Many of these cells are destroyed, and lungs become congested with bits of broken cells. In these cases, patients will require treatment in intensive care. This is known as a cytokine storm.

In the body, immune responses are being mounted against Covid-19 in infected people. And the antibodies created by that response will provide protection against future infections – but we should note that it is unlikely this protection will be for life. The protection will not be there for mutated strains but slows down the virulence. The virus will be with us for some time.

When will we get a vaccine?

The journal - Nature reported that 78 vaccine projects had been launched round the globe – with a further 37 in development. Among them is a vaccine programme that is now in phase-one trials at Oxford University, two others at US biotechnology corporations and three more at Chinese scientific groups. Many other vaccine developers say they plan to start human testing this year.

This raises hopes that a Covid-19 vaccine could be developed in a fairly short time. However, vaccines require large-scale safety and efficacy studies.

What are we doing?

Mere lock down cannot hide you from the virus!

While many of us watched the corona virus spread across the globe with disinterest for months. Now many have finally realized that it will disrupt our way of life. We can make things better; it’s not too late. But we have to be willing to act.

Of course, we are doing something. We’re closing schools and businesses and committing to social and physical distancing. This isn’t enough. Even after we do these things, it is predicted that a significant number of infections will occur, that more people will need care than we can possibly provide in our hospitals.

We in India are engaged in suppression and not in mitigation. The Suppression refers to a campaign to reduce the infectivity of a pandemic, what experts call R-0 should be less than one! Unchecked, the R- 0 of COVID-19 is between 2 and 3, meaning that every infected person infects, on average, two to three others. An R- 0 less than 1 indicates that each infected person results in fewer than one new infection. When this happens, the outbreak will slowly grind to a halt.

Be cautious. Don’t panic!

The mood of the country has shifted in the last few weeks, from dismissal to one of fear and concern. That’s appropriate. This is a serious pandemic, and it’s still very likely that the rate of infection will overwhelm the surge capacity in our country. We have seen this happen in Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmadabad and Chennai!

If we commit to social distancing, however, at some point in the next few months the rate of spread will slow. We’ll be able to catch our breath. We’ll be able to ease restrictions, as some early hit countries are doing. We can move toward some semblance of normalcy.

Hope for the best. Be prepared for the worst.

The worst is yet to be!

The temptation then will be to think we have made it past the worst. We cannot give in to that temptation. This is the time to redouble our efforts. We will need to prepare for the coming storm. We’ll need to build up our stockpiles, create strategies, and get ready.

We will need to massively strengthen our medical infrastructure. We will need to build ventilators and add hospital beds. We will need to train and redistribute physicians, nurses, and respiratory therapists to where they are most needed. We will need to focus our factories on turning out the protective equipment—masks, gloves, gowns, and so forth—to ensure we keep our health-care workforce safe.

Some are in denial, and others are in despair. Both are understandable. We all have a choice to make. we can work together to get through it with as little damage as possible. This country has faced massive threats before and risen to the challenge; we can do it again. We just need to decide to make it happen.

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