Random peculiarities downsides! Book version!!
She often overheats so much she collapses. Yes she's fire proof, not temperature proof. It almost always feels like she has a small fever brewing, and pressure behind the eyes and nosebleeds torment her if she uses her peculiarity too much.
On a bad day, people can't stand to be around her. Not that they don't absolutely love her to bits, it's just that they physically find it to be uncomfortable standing within a certain distance with the heat she's emmiting from her skin. As someone with abandonment issues, this hurts her very much.
She also cannot lay on flammable materials, so she either has to sit on the wooden floor or stand most of the day.
When miss p suggested a metal bed she cried so hard she threw up.
Most times she's not even aware of the heat, though. So one time she came up behind Claire and hugged her suddenly, only for the little girl to let out the most terrible scream. Emma had burnt the shape of her hands faintly onto Claires skin, and still hasn't forgiven herself.
Claire loves her though, and drew her pictures for when she was sad about it.
Hes not very good at figuring out what's a normal stomach ache and what's a "hollow" ache. He frequently panics over this.
Always on edge. Due to the rest of peculiardom relying on his powers, he believes the only way to keep his friends safe is to keep constant vigilance.
Some days he's so snappy and protective he has to be removed from the household until he calms down. Not in a cruel way, but once when Enoch tried to leave the house Jacob yanked him back and told him to sit down and stay still, they were still out there.
He ended up scaring most of the young ones, and even Enoch turned wary of him for a while after.
Panics at the sight of shadows. Every time. He sees a shadow of branches moving and thinks that he lost his peculiarity, and that all his friends are about to die because of him. Nothing ever happens, but then he feels stupid and restless.
It goes without saying that this girl can pick up huge boulders without breaking a sweat. So when it comes to ordinary objects or people, she almost always forgets her own strength.
She always tries to be mindful of others, but unfortunately, due to having her ability most of her life, she's unable to gauge the amount of strength it would take to not hurt each person.
She gets confused alot. A touch that wouldn't hurt Jacob would be harmful to Claire, and a soft punch that wouldn't make Enoch laugh would have Horace flinching away with a bruised arm. For someone who hates hurting her friends, this causes her to break away every so often.
Waking up in the morning she actually has to get used to the feeling of her strength, so she wakes up an hour before everyone else at 5am. She doesn't like being alone, but she would rather be alone than snap her door handle again.
Regularly forgets that people don't like being picked up. She did it to Victor all the time just because she could. She tried it with Horace and nearly launched him straight up into the air because she couldn't FEEL him. Its a good thing he held onto her hand, or he would have gotten hurt.
Doesn't actually like his peculiarity that much, because people think he's creepy and gross. Always covered in blood and preservation fluid and mud, but how else is he meant to practise? Emma can practise setting things on fire, Fiona can practise growing huge hedges based on people, yet he's shamed on for practising something he can't control?
It takes a lot out of him to raise the dead. He's constantly lending his own living energy and doing a cycle from his own body to the dead. This means their energy mixes, and leaves him feeling lethargic and brittle. Like a corpse.
Hates dead things. He's just used to them. People assume he kills most of the animals he has in his basement, but he actually goes through the forest near their house and collects the ones who have died naturally. After every reset, the corpses are back, and he does it all again.
He interanlly panics whenever someone refers to him as cruel or disgusting. He can't help it. Same as Horace can't control his nightmares, or olive her levitation. Yes, his peculiarity isn't pretty. That's not his fault. Immediate dislike for Jacob when he saw the look of morbid disgust on his face when he saw his clay soldiers fighting.
Sometimes feels intense guilt when reanimating someone. His belief is that when they're dead, they should be left dead. May that be in heaven, hell, or somewhere else. It is not his place to interfere with the next life.
It's why he refuses to summon Victor. He likes it where he is. No matter how much Bron cries about it.
His whole peculiarity is a downside to be honest.
Every so often though, he'll have this huge massive fits that can last for days. He doesn't see his family coming towards him, he sees his old family. Wights. Hollows. Monsters. Strangers. Garbling words and fires and pain. It's better to leave him alone until he's a tad calmer before getting him water.
He'll think everyone's a threat, will mutter and jump up and flinch if someone reaches for something near him, will bang the back of his head against the wall without feeling it, and will call people by the names of the strangers he sees in his head.
Will hurt himself by scratching and headbanging, but sometimes he screams and screams and screams because to him? His dreams are real.
That means the fire that is burning up the room is actually burning his skin, too. Everyone knows Horace dies in these dreams a couple times an episode, and it breaks their hearts to hear him praying to anyone out there he'll end up somewhere nice.
He Sees hallucinations, mostly dead people, and can and will have lengthy calm conversations with them of how they died. He can't see his family through the horrific things his mind is showing him, so he believes he is alone. He's not, though.
Claire and olive aren't allowed near him in these episodes, after bursting into tears after he was having a conversation with a woman who was burnt to death and had her skin melted away by her husband who then killed himself after.
Will have a huge migrain and smaller visions coming out of this, with regular nosebleeds for a while after.
(Millard and miss p searched for the name he had been talking to, later on. Shocked, they found a singular article deep in the library in devils acre about the murder, a place Horace would never had found it. They don't know what to do with this information).
Olive sometimes has trouble in thinking she's safe. She'll have days where she's bouncing around like a little astronaut on her rope without her shoes and then other days she'll be hiding under her bed with her shoes on, rope, doors and windows locked shut, lest she fly away.
She sometimes forgets to check the state of the rope she's using. She's had some very close calls.
Has trouble playing games like football/soccer, and can never go swimming with the rest of her family. Even on very hot days.
Can't keep up with her family very well, it's why bronywyn carries her everywhere. Her very chunky lead boots drag her down and hurt her ankles and feet, resulting in rolled ankles, burns and sore scrapes.
She used to love the feeling of having her hair curled and braided by her mother, but since developing her mouth she doesn't have that luxury.
She bit the middle finger right off her mothers hand when she was four.
Everywhere she goes smells like rotten meat, thanks to her back mouth. It only likes raw meat, and refuses to be brushed with toothpaste. If it isn't fed, however, it will rip the hair from her head and eat that instead.
Will feel very sick and will be bedridden sometimes from both mouths sharing the same stomach. Raw meat isn't good for a five year old little girl.
Has to be careful when washing or shampooing her hair, as wet hair can get sucked into her back mouth. Nobody is quite sure of the physics here, but if hair goes into her backmouth it feels like it's clogging her front mouth, and will choke her until someone rushes in and bravely rips it out of the sharp toothed beast.
Has a huge metal muzzle that she must wear to sleep "comfortably". It's not comfortable, despite the pillow padding. Her neck cricks, sometimes the metal pinches, and it weighs her whole head down. It's better than her pillow being eaten, though.
Sometimes, maybe once a year, her backmouth will try to speak.
People live in fear of it happening, and when it does happen people are left disgusted and shaken.
The sound of a grown man gurgling through unintelligible words shouldn't come from the body of a little girl.
Gets stung repeatedly by his bees, and even sometimes when he eats. They get angry, living in his stomach, when food comes down into their home. He tries to make sure EVERY SINGLE bee is completely out before he eats, and this can take a while, but every so often a straggler stays behind, and stings the inside of his stomach during dinner.
He'll often jump up from the table as if he had been shot and vomit up both the food and the bee in pain. He'll spend the next day whimpering in bed as his stomach acid works against the sting and the stinger of the bee left inside his body.
Another thing is he could be talking to one of his friends, when a bee will randomly come along and sting them with no prompt. Then he'll catch them avoiding him the next couple of days. It hurts.
He'll be terrified and clamp his mouth shut against his bees for a couple of days afterwards.
Coughs up huge lumps of random honeycomb. It's hard, and cold, and uncomfortable, and it hurts his throat coming up.
Will accidently make poisonous or stinging plants by trying to copy pictures of flowers she sees in books or the acre.
Had a scare when olive came back from playing in the garden struggling to breath with red and yellow spots up her neck, caused by a beautiful pink plant fiona had grown the night before.
Whenever she cries onto the ground, it acts like some sort of crazy fertiliser? And the plants and trees that grow are terrible hard to cut or knock down, crashing through windows and cracking walls, born by her grief. That's what made the greenroom. They couldn't remove the small forest, so they built around it and made something beautiful from her destruction.
Can and will cough up leaves whenever her body feels like it. The less she drinks the more it happens, and the less she drinks the more hard and dead the leaves become, causing small cuts in her throat. The more she drinks, the opposite happens.
Always, ALWAYS needs to be outside. And in the night she has to have her window open. She doesn't know why.
Feels so much pressure in having to be one of the soul sustenance of her family while living in the loop. What if her crops grew rotten? Or she lost her peculiarity? They got bored of her food? It was bland? What if they starved?
(After she fell from the cliff, one of the trees below softened her fall. After being captured by the wights, she wished it hadnt).
Sometimes panics he isn't real. He can walk into a room and not be acknowledged, so he constantly makes noise to see if somebody will refer to him. To make sure he hasn't disappeared completely. Is absolutely terrified of speaking one day and nobody answering.
Will overhear anyone else talking shit or complaining about him. His feelings are always hurt, but doesn't want to be seen as a creep when he tells them he was spying on them.
Misses the way he used to look. His hair, freckles, the way everybody could tell his short legs were gearing up for a massive growthspurt. He wonders how he would look now, and cries silently as he realises he forgot the colour of his eyes.
Mourns the fact he can probably never have a relationship. Nobody- In his experience- wants to be in a relationship with an invisible man, and a relationship between two invisible people who wouldn't know where the other stood would be frustrating and hellish.
It's why he felt euphoric when he met lily. Then fell headfirst back to earth when he realised she was normal, and couldn't tell her family she was in a relationship with somebody they could never meet.
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