Night fairies are only affected by bacteria to a limited extent, are immune to most viruses, are resistant to many harmful substances, heal injuries quickly and also have increased resistance to radiation in some parts of their bodies. The skin of the tentacles and the purple pigments in this skin absorb radiation. Broken cells are regularly shed. The cell cycle of a night fairy lasts 12 hours on average and only 10 hours for tentacles. This is another reason why night fairies grow and heal faster than many other high beings.
Night fairies even heal injuries that are fatal to other living beings. Although the loss of an arm is the loss of an arm for a night fairy, the loss of a tentacle is only a temporary impairment. The tentacles grow back, so night fairies use them to protect their upper body. Like all pure demons, night fairies can only bleed to death as a result of very severe injuries, as their blood is thicker and they may be able to actively stop bleeding by controlling the mana in their blood.
Night fairies should age quickly. Defects can occur when cells divide. Radiation and pollutants can also damage cells. These cells cannot always be repaired or replaced and can permanently cause further damage to surrounding cells, causing more irreparable cells to accumulate, which in turn will damage even more surrounding cells. If cells have to divide more often, more irreparable cells accumulate more quickly. Night fairies have a high rate of cell wear.
As already mentioned, a night fairy will never look older than a girl in puberty. Unfortunately, this suggests that her alternative cells generally produce fewer errors when dividing. This means that the maximum age that a night fairy can reach could actually be very high under ideal conditions.
The slowed to non-existent ageing could be due to the ANA, the structure of the cells themselves and/or the behavior of the cells. It appears that the ANA contains more genes that help a cell to independently recognize errors in its ANA. This means that irreparable cells and unwanted mutations occur less frequently because irreparable cells sort themselves out in time or are sorted out by immune cells. If a cell is irreparably damaged and causes damage to surrounding cells, these cells also decide to kill themselves more quickly or are killed by immune cells. The high rate of cell replecement prevents ageing.
Night fairies should die young. Even if all irreparable cells were always replaced, a living being cannot live forever, because cells cannot divide indefinitely, as the chromosome ends shorten with each cell division. However, this point is highly controversial. There are scientists who claim that it is theoretically possible to live forever, because the chromosome ends can also lengthen again and they do this particularly in stem cells, germ cells and cancer cells.
The maximum age that a night fairy can reach is not known. The age of a night fairy can hardly be determined medically due to a lack of comparative values.
Living beings develop what they need. The soft-bodied beings with ANA now live in a polar marine area with very high natural radiation. The radiation is not so high that you die immediately, but it is high enough that people cannot dive in these waters without suffering serious damage to their health.
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One theory is that many living beings in such an area underwent many mutations until some of the species had adapted enough to survive in the area, and some enough to survive outside the area, and one of these species went on to become a night fairy. The assumption is that the human upper body of the night fairies only comes from the fact that humans have long been their mates of choice. In ancient drawings, their form is even more archaic and appears like a winged octopus.
A different theory is that night fairies have a human-like upper body simply because it is a useful body shape. It would be like Bemudi and other half-humans that look similar to humans, even though they are not directly related to humans. Early night fairies may have had to regularly cross shallow water with acidic, radiant or otherwise harmful substances in their daily lives. Their bodies are well adapted to such a environment. The octopus in the drawing would therefore not be an octopus, but was misperceived. The wings may not have been wings, but fins that later became arms. It would not be completely absurd. A cave painting of a Bemudi shows a jellyfish. According to this theory, the incorporation of DNA segments into the ANA does not serve the adoption of characteristics, but a different unknown purpose, or even no purpose at all.
The relationship of living beings with ANA can be proven. There are overlaps in cell structure, cell behavior and many other characteristics. Cell division takes place in all of them via the same mechanisms. But there is no overlap with the night fairy. The ancestry of night fairies cannot be proven. As a species, they are isolated.
If an adult night fairy offers its body to you, you should flee. Night fairies may beg first, but if it doesn't work, they use other means. Whether or not sexual intercourse takes place is irrelevant for a night fairy. Their vaginal secretions replace seminal fluid. They only need the contents of the testicles, not the rest.
If you run away in this situation, the night fairy will probably change its tactics. It will chase you. It will threaten you loudly. It will rise higher into the air to appear more threatening. It will attack when the opportunity arises. Giving her what she wants out of fear is not recommended either.
Night fairies castrate their sexual partners. They often kill them in the process or afterwards. In any case, they leave them to find even better partners or to return to take care of their offspring. During the sexual act, they usually hold the limbs of their partners with their tentacles. If necessary, they use this method to prevent their victim from putting up any last resistance. They have various options for castration. Their vagina has barb-like fangs near the opening. A night fairy reaches its climax quickly, causing the muscles in its abdomen to tense up and the teeth to bite. Afterwards, it may also crush the testicles with its tentacles.
The biological purpose behind the castration is presumably that this individual, which a night fairy has found to be 'good', is removed from the other species' gene pool while being absorbed into their own. Presumably, night fairies work their way up the food chain and, if possible, push the rest down in the process.
A night fairy can be socially integrated, but for them it is purely a community of convenience. There are clear signs that they are fundamentally unable to feel empathy. Neurologists suspect that this is related to their rapid growth. All night fairies want is to reproduce. If a social structure loses its advantages, they will leave it without further ado, just as they leave their mother as soon as she loses her value to them.
Night fairies copy other living beings in behavior and scent and presumably also in appearance and genetics. That is their nature.
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