Power Exploration: Regeneration/Healing Factor
No one needs to look after Hero when he’s injured. His survival is guaranteed, but he sometimes envies the care and concern given to others.
Due to his regenerative powers, Hero has been raised as a human shield. He spends most of every battle flinging himself in front of his teammates and taking blows. Bonus: Villain is horrified seeing this take place. Or Villain refuses to have Hero do the same thing for him.
No one else would survive the injuries that Hero does. No else has to see videos or pictures of the multiple ways they’ve been gruesomely injured throughout their career (because anyone else would be dead). Furthermore, it’s hard to connect with a public who has seen you in such horrific states. Hero is viewed as more of a boogeyman than a savior.
Hero is instructed to go into battle or through possible traps first, even if whatever lies on the other side is incredibly painful, because he can take it. He’ll always survive.
Hero loses his healing power. His tolerance for long term pain is low, but he’s ashamed to speak up about it because his teammates have dealt with so much worse. *
Hero is sick of being the only survivor.
Hero’s blood has regenerative properties. The Organization takes his blood daily. They never tell him where it goes.
Hero would be a good organ reservoir, but they quickly discover that his organs are toxic when transplanted.
Hero donates his organs regularly. He has a small connection to each organ he gives away. Supervillain disappears for a while and when he returns, Hero can feel one of his hearts thumping in the man’s chest. *
Hero’s blood is constantly replenished. Vampire Villain takes advantage of this.
Hero’s healing factor doesn’t prioritize injuries correctly. It’s entirely focused on mending superficial wounds. He grabs his open stomach with a perfectly healed hand and waits and waits for the healing to reach somewhere vital.
Hero is pinned down. His arms and legs keep regenerating into the rubble, even though the weight holding him is preventing his flesh from regrowing in the correct places. He will have to correct the growth later.
Hero’s healing goes into overdrive. He starts creating too much skin, too much bone. His body creates extra, unnecessary organs.
Or Hero’s immune system becomes overreactive. The initial response obliterates most fatal diseases and toxins but the strength of it wipes him out. His body may develop an autoimmune response (attacking itself). He could also develop allergies to harmless substances.
Note: I am applying the common understanding that healing factor requires a lot of energy, so Hero deals with higher metabolism.
Increased metabolism makes it easier for the Hero to develop vitamin deficiencies.
Hero struggles with the guilt of needing to eat more than his teammates. Food stores are running low.
Higher metabolism means higher body heat. Hero has to keep his body cool enough so that his body can continue to function normally.
Hero struggles to eat enough to meet his body’s metabolic demands. He often relies on intravenous nutrition and other technologies to ensure his body doesn’t cannibalize itself in its attempts to constantly regrow. This makes him entirely dependent on the Organization’s care.
Hero needs a scaffold to heal. For example: nutrient matrix, a special healing water, plants/mushrooms.
Hero goes catatonic when they have to heal/conserve energy, but healing won’t start until the body recognizes it’s safe.
Safety is associated with more animalistic behaviors, such as burrowing, cramming themselves into tight spaces.
Some animals also isolate when ill or stressed so Hero has to deal with being irritated by the presence of other people when injured.
When they are extremely injured, they instinctually run off to recuperate alone. Their teammates find them passed out in dangerous places. Bonus: Villain finds them either passed out somewhere unsafe or passed out in their lair (where Hero instinctively deems it safe).
Hero needs someone else to wake themselves up from a regenerative state. Bonus: they entrust Villain with this task.
Hero has a scheduled regeneration period. Maybe it’s every month, so when he gets critically injured, his teammates just have to keep him alive long enough to make it to the next cycle.
Phoenix Hero that turns to ash when critically injured.
Hero has a debilitating chronic condition. The Organization has given him healing powers to manage his condition in exchange of a lifetime of servitude.
Hero will heal as long as he’s in a certain area. For example, this range may be restricted to the city he protects, so that he is forced to remain in the city and protect it.
Hero’s self-healing has slight regenerative effects for the people and environment around him. People use this to their advantage. He’s stowed away in hospital wings, constantly injured so that he heals the people around him. Or he’s made to bleed over barren fields so that they will become lush once more. *
Hero can control whether he heals or not. Sometimes he wants to bleed. For example, he’s caught while in his civilian identity, so he has to fight back his urge to heal so he can keep suspicions at bay.
Hero has a new power. It doesn’t seem like much. His wounds heal a little faster. His colds never take him down for more than a day. In the end, his little healing quirk does nothing to save him. He dies. Months later, he awakes six feet under ground.
Hero has tried to get tattoos. He regenerates so quickly that they never last for more than a week. However, when Villain marks something upon his skin, months pass, and the mark is still dark and defined, fresh as the day it was made. *
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