EXPERIMENTS. Team Flare.
HEIGHTENED SENSES.
baseline. silva, at a baseline, has heightened senses over a normal human but it isn't so much that she is immediately superhuman. the biggest sense that would lean into this is her vision. silva has highly adjusted vision that allows her to see in the dark--although it makes her eyes extremely light sensitive. in addition, her ability to talk to pokemon is sensitive on it's own; with pokemon voices sounding the same as a human's, and their hearts even louder.
beginning stages. at the start of the experiments, they almost seemed to deafen her senses. silva's vision got actively worse at the start of the duplicative experiments. these did gradually stabilize, but at first she was struggling with seeing and her sense of touch seemed unpredictable. the only thing that got actively more sensitive--and would continue to--in these starting stages was her ability to talk to pokemon. she would begin to hear the voices of pokemon at a much further distance, and their voices would sometimes be louder. in addition, she started to be able to feel the hearts of pokemon, rather than just hear them. beyond just knowing how a pokemon was feeling, she would begin to feel those feelings in herself as well.
late stages. although most of these senses have balanced out, silva's vision is far more defined and her sense of hearing is overwhelming even now. that being said, she's been able to adjust over time, making it tolerable so long as she paces herself and knows when to step away. she can sometimes hear pokemon from miles away, but those incidents are rather rare. the only sense that's actively declined, especially in these late stages is her sense of touch. silva can barely feel anything when she touches it, and she lacks any sense of temperature. she feels almost numb to everything.
AURA / ENERGY.
baseline. by far one of the already most anomalous parts of silva was her aura. silva had an oddly bright and alien sort of energy that vaguely resembled mega evolution energy--or more accurate, the small spurts of radiation that came off of the sundial. or at least something very similar to it. she also had a lot of it; energy practically wafting off of her like a psychic or fairy type. a power just within her, waiting to be released. it was warm; if not burning at times.
beginning stages. these energies would remain the same, simply be added onto as the experiments progressed. with each incident, each exposure to yveltal, to the ultimate weapon, to geosenge, to other parts of the region. like a magnet, her own aura would attach and seem to merge with it. an amalgam of overwhelming fire, now mixed with the destruction of yveltal.
late stages. after the accident, after continuously setting off throughout her time running away from kalos, after the weapon's firing...silva is a bit of a mess when it comes to her energy. not only did the energies seem to stack, but she reactions terribly to most types of energies as well. silva has an outwardly negative reaction to active mega evolution; despite the origins of her energies seeming to be in the sundial--in the same originator as the mega energy itself. she will often get overwhelmed, lightheaded, and even pass out--in the past set off--when exposed to too much mega energy. this, without getting into too much detail, causes her to be very sick when somewhere like ... lumiose city; given the whole ange thing. on top of it all, she is sometimes just emitting a little bit of life energy, due to herself containing an excess after setting off so many times in the span of her runaway, and then a few times after the events of xy. the only energy that she seems to react very well to, is terastallization.
FATIGUE.
baseline. silva has narcolepsy, making her energy at any given moment a coin toss. at the start, silva was very active and didn't display any signs of fatigue. silva would go hours of being active, out and about, and then have hourly intervals--usually in 3-4 hours--passing out, and then waking up again as if she was always fully rested.
beginning stages. things were the same for the first few procedures, and then the shift was drastic. silva was in complete fatigue; exhausted all of the time and barely able to keep herself awake. for once, she had weakness and an unsteady body; constantly shaking. her body--at first--did not react well at all to the duplicative experiments. over the course of a few months, she would go from being awake a majority of the day, to being barely able to stay awake for more than six hours, sometimes even less.
late stages. the fatigue would cease--for the most part--after the accident. it seemed her body was in desperate need of life energy, as so long as she's processing life energy, her energy level returns to where it was before the experiments, even better at times. shortly after setting off, silva will have an extreme euphoric reaction, barely able to sleep, and having her mind move far faster than what her body is able to do. this is followed by an extreme--but short--period of time wherein she is utterly exhausted and can barely move. this tired phase only lasts for about an hour, after which she reverts back to normal. generally the euphoric stage lasts for about thirty minutes, longer depending on how much life she absorbed.
BODY TEMPERATURE.
baseline. silva had a higher than average body temperature at first, but it wasn't so bad that it would be seen as dangerous for a normal person. silva had an average body temperature of 37°C / 98.6°F before the experiments started. at this stage, silva seemed to already have a growing immunity to any sort of cold or hypothermia. she had no sensitivity to heat at this point, and was very okay in general in every environment.
beginning stages. throughout the beginning stages of the experiments, her average body temperature didn't exactly change. it remained constant, up until the accident. after the accident, her body temperature began to steadily increase. after setting off for the first time, her body temperature peaked at 45°C / 113°F, then would decrease back to her baseline. silva's sensitivity to heat would begin to start after the first set off and would gradually get worse over time.
late stages. silva's body temperature is by far one of the most unstable parts of her. as it is now, after setting off; silva's temperature can get as high as 60°C/140°F and averages out currently at about 48.8°C/120°F. silva, at these later stages, is extremely sensitive to heat and can very quickly get too hot and need to go somewhere cooler. she's able to tolerate hot days, but is constantly needing to drink water to stay hydrated and cool.
NIGHTMARES / NIGHT TERRORS.
baseline. silva did not originally dream, she never had nightmares, nor night terrors. she simply slept, and then awoke.
beginning stages. after the neural link with yveltal was made, silva began to have nightmares and night terrors connected to it's memories. these would be the first "dreams" she would ever have, and they never really feel like she's in her own body, as if she's in another person's body, living memories that aren't her own. she would also begin to have night terrors that carried a similar feeling.
late stages. these nightmares and night terrors have lessened in frequency, but have grown in intensity. silva tries her best not to sleep much, although due to being narcoleptic; she doesn't really have a choice.
COCOON / ORGANS.
baseline. silva had normal organs, really just about the same as any person's. the only thing that was a little off was that silva struggled with eating too much--often said to have the appetite of a fletchling. her stomach seemed to be just too small or she just got full rather quickly. it wasn't anything too concerning, however.
beginning stages. silva's organs had begun to change at a slow but steady pace. at first there seemed to be no difference, but as time passed, it appeared that some of her insides had started to almost shrivel. even so, she functioned as if they were normal all the same. it was after the accident that the innards seemed to grow dire. the shriveling becoming worse, and in some cases whole parts simply liquidating in the same way a caterpillar turned to sludge inside of a cocoon. replacing the normal, however, new 'organs' seemed to grow in their place. with the only purpose of storing life energy. it started with one, and then as she set off more and more, more of these sacs began to grow inside of her. as it stands now, on the inside, she is a cocoon full of capsules of life energy; more growing as her body is made to adapt to the growing need of storage with ever set off.
late stages. in the late stages, she remains in this liquidated state, turning into a sort of cocoon herself. silva really doesn't need to eat anymore, but she's capable of eating and drinking in very small quantities; which is about the same as before the experiments. silva's fatigue from the initial start of the experiments was likely due to her body not being made to contain life energy--it lacked the central part to hold it's energy. now? she is bursting with it. these capsules inside her also seem to be the way she is able to use some pokemon moves--even if it expels a certain amount of life energy every time she does.
BLOOD.
baseline. silva's blood was normal prior to the experiments. the only thing that was possibly to note is that she had a slightly higher number of white blood cells; but it really wasn't too much to note.
beginning stages. silva's blood took quite a bit to change, it wasn't until the accident where it started to be embedded with life energy. silva's blood, would go onto then infuse with the life energy. it has life-like properties, but in the same way that if something were to grow so fast and so much that it would sooner become mold than it would become a beautiful flower. silva's blood would become partially transparent with an iridescent sheen to it.
late stages. presently, silva's blood is basically just liquid life energy. it's fully transparent with the only exception being the iridescence. sometimes, it has the same bright red as the yveltal red streaks, but generally it remains fully transparent. it is not recommended to touch silva's blood with your bare hands, as stated before--it will cause a rapid aging to the point of causing anything to shrivel, mold, and die.
PHYSICAL / TAIL / HORNS.
baseline. silva did not have any horns or tail. she was normal, for the most part!! physically, she was actually at first smaller than average, even if that would change about when she hit eleven years old.
beginning stages. surprisingly, the experiments would actually halt or slow silva's growth heavily--silva would have likely been taller if not for the experiments. that being said, she's still quite tall, especially for her age. in addition, after the accident she would start to grow nubby horns and not too long after, a tail; both resembling the legendary yveltal's own. the texture of the horns is similar to keratin, if not tougher. the texture of the tail resembles something like downy feathers or very short fur. it's extremely soft.
late stages. although she is not as tall as she would be, girl is tall. the horns and tail have also grown over the course of time and likely will continue to. she can no longer really hide either, nor does she really try to anymore.
SCARRING / BRUISING.
baseline. silva was, when flare picked her up, covered in scarring and bruises. especially around her hands, feet, face, and back. that being said, she never really had any large injuries and despite the scars, was pretty healthy all things considered. she had coarse, tough skin.
beginning stages. silva would not have any changes in her scarring until the accident. after which, any injury had after setting off would be covered in a grey feathery-like substance and streaked with red veins. even when she didn't set off, silva's bruises would begin to gain that grey colour, and after enough injury, the streaking would also form there.
late stages. at present, silva is practically covered head to toe in these grey and red scars. silva no longer needs to even get injured or set off to gain them as they've started to spread from the previously made scars. silva's eye scar is most prominent in this--the grey that was once covered completely behind her bangs now spreading down her chin and connecting with the scars that paint her neck. some parts of her are completely red from the streaking--her right hand is fully red, from continued scarring and storage of life energy.
