someguy1294 wrote:...Okay, floating solves the horror brought on by the complete lack of mobility, but how the hell does she tell does she communicate when she's blind, mute and deaf? Telepathy is too obvious to me, so I like to think Katawako communicates by releasing a complex chain of pheromones into the air, kind of like an ant-queen.
Katawako communicates by radioactive decay. She has to eat radioisotopes periodically, like birds have to eat gravel to crush their food.
You see, Katawako's parents have a Terrible Secret. They're immortals. They were both mere infants back in 1945, one living on the outskirts of Hiroshima, and the other on the fringes of Nagasaki. They both survived their respective bombings without apparent injury, and grew up realizing they were different. They never get sick, they stopped aging at about eighteen, and both possess superhuman strength. They met by finding each other in the Personals section of a magazine devoted to the movie "Highlander".
Unfortunately, their blessing also comes with a curse. They can only have horribly deformed,
immortal children. (Yes, that means she can't even kill herself.) Katawako was the first, and the last. However, she has also inherited their immunity to all forms of radioactivity, and can communicate by controlling nuclear decay. If you put a Geiger counter in front of her, she can make it approximate speech, despite the fact that she can't hear what she is doing.
The more she talks, the more often she has to eat a smoke detector. She glows in the dark. And if you stand too close, she can
literally talk your ear off.
Now you know.
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I burninated Hanako's house, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.