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Garon Whited:
Are we ever going to get to see Eric really step up his physical daytime abilities to something like what we saw in the Luke Cage Netflix show? Since Cage was human and was established to not be using magic but his actual physical human body to pull of his feats should't Eric be capable of evolving to do the same in the future.
Garon Whited
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(view spoiler)[One of the things Eric is discovering (and with which he is coming to grips) is the nature of his vampirism. There are many "species" of vampire, most of which have their origins in different sources. His particular brand is a chaos infestation.
Eric lives in an ordered universe (whichever universe he's in), which suppresses the chaos in his blood. At night, it expresses itself more strongly, but it is still mostly in check--his powers are drawn from that chaos, but he is capable of controlling them.
However, the order in his system is still the major force. As a result, whenever he undergoes a transformation (morning or evening), the merging of the order and chaos causes a rapid fluctuation in his physical form. The chaos makes him malleable, but his biology tries to inflict a specific shape on him. As a result, it's like pouring formless water into a glass. His flesh takes on the shape it knows.
True, there have been some alterations over time, but they're usually in conjunction with either exposure to intense levels of power for a protracted period (between Sunset and Shadows, for example) or during periods of starvation--or both! The theory he has so far is he drinks blood and souls to impose fresh doses of order on the chaos in his blood.
Can he magically alter himself? Possibly. But he doesn't care enough about how he looks to bother. "I have bigger problems than whether or not chicks dig me--and the already do, which messes with my head enough as it is!" (hide spoiler)]
Eric lives in an ordered universe (whichever universe he's in), which suppresses the chaos in his blood. At night, it expresses itself more strongly, but it is still mostly in check--his powers are drawn from that chaos, but he is capable of controlling them.
However, the order in his system is still the major force. As a result, whenever he undergoes a transformation (morning or evening), the merging of the order and chaos causes a rapid fluctuation in his physical form. The chaos makes him malleable, but his biology tries to inflict a specific shape on him. As a result, it's like pouring formless water into a glass. His flesh takes on the shape it knows.
True, there have been some alterations over time, but they're usually in conjunction with either exposure to intense levels of power for a protracted period (between Sunset and Shadows, for example) or during periods of starvation--or both! The theory he has so far is he drinks blood and souls to impose fresh doses of order on the chaos in his blood.
Can he magically alter himself? Possibly. But he doesn't care enough about how he looks to bother. "I have bigger problems than whether or not chicks dig me--and the already do, which messes with my head enough as it is!" (hide spoiler)]
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