Can we talk Paras and immortality?
Over time I've developed a like...multi tier system of immortality cause wanting to keep a core group of paras around but also needing time to pass and consequences to happen and eventually you start to sit there like: "Shouldn't you all be creaky old and/or dead by now?"
But also having them never face eternal destruction is also boring so like...
"Fake" Immortality: That's people that artificially have their natural lifespan enhanced. Either out of their own volition or just cause there is someone around them that just....REALLY wants them to keep sticking around.
But this only affects aging, so you can very much still get a gun and poof and dead :|
Ex: Wolf had to actively ask to die of old age cause otherwise Shal would have not let him go.
Colloquial Immortality: That's just species that, for whatever reason, stick around for a very long time, but are generally easy to kill via conventional means.
Ex: Kuzan is a Bio Ice Elemental. Aging is not a thing for him. But also you put the heating into overdrive and he's just gonna melt eventually.
Technically Immortal aka "Killable, but it's so annoying to do": Don't die of age, can sustain most kinds of damage no problem but can still be killed if you're determined enough and the stars align.
Ex: Chris once had his body violently spread through an entire fast food joint and recovered (physically) no problem, but if he as much touches a dimensional portal he will poof
Technically Immortal subsection B aka "Gods": Same as above, but if you do manage to kill them you take parts of your (or others) universe with you.
Ex: Sheo, Shal, Ava, the physical incarnation of Death, you know...gods and makers and such
"True" Immortality: Sometimes you fuck up so hard Death gives up on taking you. You'll just exist forever now. Watching your friends and family come and go again and again and again...
Also you get haunted by the ghost of other true immortals who want you to come to the "perfect existence" dimension.
Ex: Meth, Mascot and It are the only ones currently around and they are doing great (they are not doing great)
Anyway, talk to me about immortal paras and why they are that way. I find the topic fascinating o.o