Here are some additional notes concerning Sinderi's anatomy.
Pain:
I feel it is necessary to mention that Sinderi has built up an incredible pain threshold. Extensive torture, breaking her own bones and tearing muscles in combat, the inability to fully heal, and simply her kindred not caring enough to heal her, has left her with a plethora of damaged nerves. Her back in particular is incredibly sensitive to the touch. Her run-ins with her superiors led to harsh physical punishment, causing deep welts in her flesh. Bone fragments chipped off in this process and captured in her flesh are another hard to discover culprit. Because of this, sadly, Sinderi is in near constant pain.
To cope with this Sinderi has been given a concoction of painkillers through her long life. First the selection was random, but as the need grew specialized medication was made. As to be expected she has built up a decent addiction to them. Needing larger and larger doses of it to be able to achieve the same result, and always looking for new means to cope.
Organ Shut-Down, cell stasis:
A fair amount of Sinderi’s organs no longer function the way they should or are completely shut down. Her lifestyle was too straining to keep up all these functions. If, for example, her heart were still functional, it would quite likely beat itself to smithereens in an effort to supply her muscles with blood and oxygen. With the strain she puts on her body during combat her heart would have to beat so fast the muscle would tear itself apart in the process. With Huír handling her circulation it flows continuously, and as such she has no heartbeat.
Sinderi can survive with all these disabilities because of the Xiumbar her body is constantly supplied with. Due to its magical properties it can replace a lot of important nutrients, and supplies the body with energy her cells normally would produce, but can’t. Following the shutdown Huír took over the two most important functions of her body. Blood circulation, and oxygen transportation. With the Xiumbar replacing a good portion of what her body would normally require she also needs less oxygen than a human to function. Meaning it would take longer for her to asphyxiate from say being choked or drowned. As you can imagine this is important with her use of fire in combat, as being at the centre of a bonfire leaves you with very little oxygen to breathe yourself.
As a result of the organ shut down Sinderi can’t eat or drink normal foods as she simply has no way to use it anymore. Ingesting either of those things will trigger an immediate gag reflex, along with severe abdominal cramps.
Reproductive Organs:
This is, without a doubt, one of the most prominent changes to Sinderi’s body. As soon as she was introduced to Hell and it was decided that the succubus matriarch, Sijobu, was going to be the one taking care of Sinderi, action was taken to ensure Sinderi could never fall pregnant. Which with incubi running amok, was a real risk at the time. They feared that if Sinderi were to bear a child the spirit of Huír could pass into it and as such break free from its prison. Though we now know that with her body going into near stasis, growing a child within her would be impossible either way.
As a pre-emptive action Sijobu tore open the woman’s abdomen and removed her ovaries, womb, cervix, and the pleasure stimulating nerves in her groin. Resulting in a horridly scarred lower abdomen and no real way for her to feel arousal. Which was an added perk due to it being far easier to control someone who isn’t bothered by sexual thoughts or frustrations. The result of the ‘surgery’ means Sinderi has nothing in the downstairs department. So even when someone tries to get cocky they’ll be left terribly disappointed.
I feel it is necessary to mention that Sinderi has built up an incredible pain threshold. Extensive torture, breaking her own bones and tearing muscles in combat, the inability to fully heal, and simply her kindred not caring enough to heal her, has left her with a plethora of damaged nerves. Her back in particular is incredibly sensitive to the touch. Her run-ins with her superiors led to harsh physical punishment, causing deep welts in her flesh. Bone fragments chipped off in this process and captured in her flesh are another hard to discover culprit. Because of this, sadly, Sinderi is in near constant pain.
To cope with this Sinderi has been given a concoction of painkillers through her long life. First the selection was random, but as the need grew specialized medication was made. As to be expected she has built up a decent addiction to them. Needing larger and larger doses of it to be able to achieve the same result, and always looking for new means to cope.
Organ Shut-Down, cell stasis:
A fair amount of Sinderi’s organs no longer function the way they should or are completely shut down. Her lifestyle was too straining to keep up all these functions. If, for example, her heart were still functional, it would quite likely beat itself to smithereens in an effort to supply her muscles with blood and oxygen. With the strain she puts on her body during combat her heart would have to beat so fast the muscle would tear itself apart in the process. With Huír handling her circulation it flows continuously, and as such she has no heartbeat.
Sinderi can survive with all these disabilities because of the Xiumbar her body is constantly supplied with. Due to its magical properties it can replace a lot of important nutrients, and supplies the body with energy her cells normally would produce, but can’t. Following the shutdown Huír took over the two most important functions of her body. Blood circulation, and oxygen transportation. With the Xiumbar replacing a good portion of what her body would normally require she also needs less oxygen than a human to function. Meaning it would take longer for her to asphyxiate from say being choked or drowned. As you can imagine this is important with her use of fire in combat, as being at the centre of a bonfire leaves you with very little oxygen to breathe yourself.
As a result of the organ shut down Sinderi can’t eat or drink normal foods as she simply has no way to use it anymore. Ingesting either of those things will trigger an immediate gag reflex, along with severe abdominal cramps.
Reproductive Organs:
This is, without a doubt, one of the most prominent changes to Sinderi’s body. As soon as she was introduced to Hell and it was decided that the succubus matriarch, Sijobu, was going to be the one taking care of Sinderi, action was taken to ensure Sinderi could never fall pregnant. Which with incubi running amok, was a real risk at the time. They feared that if Sinderi were to bear a child the spirit of Huír could pass into it and as such break free from its prison. Though we now know that with her body going into near stasis, growing a child within her would be impossible either way.
As a pre-emptive action Sijobu tore open the woman’s abdomen and removed her ovaries, womb, cervix, and the pleasure stimulating nerves in her groin. Resulting in a horridly scarred lower abdomen and no real way for her to feel arousal. Which was an added perk due to it being far easier to control someone who isn’t bothered by sexual thoughts or frustrations. The result of the ‘surgery’ means Sinderi has nothing in the downstairs department. So even when someone tries to get cocky they’ll be left terribly disappointed.