My general attitude is that separation slows regeneration, and a knife inside your body slows things down, the whole "body pushes the thing out" doesn't work for me. I have a character in a story who is a werewolf, she was born male, and is an adult, but due to complications of how she was turned, and deeper realities of who she is, she ended up a 12 or so girl in appearance. She was turned to save her life after a terrible car crash being only one of the complications.
Healing factor makes death by injury nearly impossible, silver doesn't work, most of the tropes of lycanthropy are misremembered treatments for "hydrophobia", better known today as rabies. To quote. "No, bullets can't kill me, they do however really fucking hurt, you can't leave them in because they keep hurting and make you sick, I don't like getting shot because digging them out is a fucking nuisance."
At a point, she demonstrates her healing factor to her brother who doesn't believe she is who she says she is by cutting off one of her hands, allowing the blood to flow from her wrist it seeks out the hand, tethers to it, and pulls them back together, rejoining them without a scar. She explains if that somehow the rules of what she is can identify if it can heal itself by re-establishing connection, and seeks to do so if possible, if it cannot heal by reconnection, it will simply grow a new one, which takes longer.
"Didn't that hurt?" Shrugging the character responds "It doesn't ever stop hurting when you get injured, just, once your mind internalizes that injury is a brief inconvenience, not an existential threat, it changes your relationship with it. It's more like being caught in a sudden rainstorm or jumping into ice cold water. A sudden shock, and then it becomes a fleeting annoyance."
My general attitude is that separation slows regeneration, and a knife inside your body slows things
Meanwhile Tobias when he hears the news: 'I can't believe it didn't work! I saved 200 cereal box toppers and mailed them in along with a money order for $59.99. The cereal advertisement wouldn't have lied to me... would it?'
Let's just hope the event janitor or a random street walker doesn't find that knife and shawl, or worse yet, a mad scientist that could use the blood to make an army of evil Rin clones. .... although the image of Tobias passing by Rin, turning a corner to see Rin, running and turning another corner to see Rin, eventually breaking down as he's confronted by like 20 Rins, would be a funny sight.
Meanwhile Tobias when he hears the news: 'I can't believe it didn't work! I saved 200 cereal box to
