—— I’VE DISCUSSED BEFORE THAT using the masks causes an insatiable, constant hunger, but I don’t think I’ve ever described what that hunger feels like. Because of how cellular absorption works, the digestive system is largely unused and completely vestigial. The idea of hunger as humans know it, mostly stomach pain, isn’t applicable. What is used first is, instead of sugars, amino acids, causing the body to ache and feel like it’s cramping when they begin to feel hunger, worsening as time goes on without food. Instead of weakness, however; adrenaline spikes, causing quicker response times. The body shifts into a hunting state in cases of great hunger, acting more on instinct than on thought, heightening senses while fueling the decaying body. If no food can be found, the muscles slowly begin to absorb surrounding tissue, and the body literally eats itself, causing strange distortions in the flesh and muscle, usually divets and random depressions.
Should poisons be consumed en masse, usually in the form of hamon infected blood, the body begins to eject the offending substance immediately. Often times, this is literally sweating out the toxin, looking less like sweat and more like blood, but in severe cases, the stomach is used to gather toxin before expelling it, vomiting a viscous, rust-brown slime that smells of copper and ammonia and decay.
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