Things I'm Wondering About

[ithildin]

Random things I'm wondering about today as my brain leaps from one fic to another.

Would the stays in a corset deflect a knife so that instead of it stabbing where it was intended, it would go in at a different angle, potentially causing a less serious wound?

What was the most popular serious/hardcore recreational drug during the Roaring Twenties? Was opium still being used heavily?

What about the teeth of Immortals anyway? Would they never wear down? Would they grow back if knocked out, or are lots of Immies wearing dentures?

Early nineteenth pistols. Need to know more. Must look through collected websites soonish.

Just what did happen when Charlotte went to Bali with Tony? Will they ever tell me? Do I really want to know?

If Ezra Standish had to choose another name for a new persona, what would it be?

Later: Wow! I wasn't expecting so much random pondering help [g] And some of these aren't even for any specific purpose, just idle curiosity. Like the immie teeth one. Why am I wondering about it? Not a klew! I just am.

Comments

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

I must assume that the teeth of immortals would regenerate if damaged and grow back is lost entirely. (But then, I categorically reject the stupid canon idea that they can't regrow lost limbs. There's no way--no way!--an immortal can be a swordsman for centuries and not lose a few fingers or a hand or an arm. Plus, if you can shoot an immortal in the head and he can recover with no brain damage or lost memories, growing back limbs is child's play.)

Here's another question: do immortal women continue to menstruate for eternity? They remain physically young, after all. Or do they go through menopause despite remaining youthful otherwise? After all, women have a finite number of egss. When they're all gone--then what?

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've always thought the not growing back limbs things was pretty silly. If internal organs grow back, limbs should too. Maybe not quickly, but eventually.

I vote for some sort of immortal menopause.

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

Me too. That's how I write it in my fic (when it comes up).

[dejla.livejournal.com]

I've always figured that if you have an injury before death, you're stuck with it, i.e. Kronos' scar. From there, I postulate that it depends on the injury in inverse order -- for death, the quickening or whatever it is works faster than if it's a limb or sensory injury.

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

biologically speaking, if all Immortals are sterile, does that extend to their eggs?

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

I assume it would have to. Even if we assume all the immortal men are shooting blanks, the women could still possibly get pregnant by mortal men.

And as far as we know, they're all incapable of fathering or bearing children even before they die the first time.

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

my personal canon is that Immortals are marsupials taken to the extreme: the body doesn't recognize the embryo as part of it, so it tries to reabsorb it. (this is why marsupials expell the infants so early into the pouch, and why other mammals have placentas)

...while with male Immortals, their germ cells get killed by the woman's body before they can do anything.