okay so SO i am still losing my mind but i had to run in here to ask something... so this bit "if he wasn’t dead, he’d be blushing" (lost my mind), i am so curious over this!! so because of things i know that like not all autonomic responses are just Gone, but are there other things?? like do his pupils dilate? i can't recall if you've ever mentioned like palms getting sweaty knees weak arms are heavy mum's spaghetti? or like heart rate going up? (i think you have but i'm not sure, anyways) i am just soooo curious to know more about like the actual physiological side of jason being dead 👀👀

EHEHEHEE i love this question i have been thinking about it all day. lord forgive me for i am about to never shut up again.

so first of all were it not for the fact that he was Up and Moving the way he is, he would very much appear like he'd been dead for a bit, maybe an hour at most. like a Fresh Corpse. so if someone caught him sleeping, they'd think there was a corpse in the bed, whis is Not ideal. especially bc he's such a heavy sleeper next to nothing would wake him up. which would lead to a very funny scenario that i probably have to write at some point <3 ANYWAY. now to properly answer the question fghfjgh

he is basically a reanimated corpse, a soul possessing a dead body - there's nothing going on in there, his body isn't actually his anymore, he's just the pilot. no breath, no heartbeat, pupil dilation, anything like that. it's like his body is frozen in time, but he's still forcing it to move. that doesn't mean he doesn't get the sensations though, like in his soul, it still feels like his heart is going to burst out of his chest sometimes, when nothing's actually happening, which makes him forget he's dead sometimes. especially when he's around marcus. he always feels alive. figuratively and literally. i need a minute.

he can't bleed or anything, he can still get very badly injured and still feels pain, but he has a much higher pain tolerance, so it would take a significant amount of damage to knock him out of commission. another thing that i will write about one day because i like being evil.

his hair still grows idk how that works but i'm keeping it in there because i want him to have as many different hairstyles as possible. this is my world.

he can drink, he gets thirsty sometimes, but he very rarely if ever gets hungry or needs food. he also very rarely needs sleep, and would much rather go without it anyway, but it does help him heal up a bit faster. the only issue is he is very scared to fall asleep, in case he. dies. or something. yknow. AHAH im so normal about this.

and a very important detail which is making me So insane and i need to talk about, is the ring that he has to wear at all times. you know, the onle ruthie oh so kindly gave to him that one time. it's what binds his soul to his body, and it could very much work on anyone's body, given the opportunity [thats something im gonna think about/write about some more bc. i'm very curious as to how that would work if the wearer was still alive]. so if, for whatever reason, the ring got removed?? his body would pretty much unfreeze, and his gunshot wound would reopen and he'd bleed out and die! which isn;t very fun, and something he'd like to avoid at all costs.