Realistic or Modern Inconsistency [Lore]

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INTEREST CHECK STORY!
It's there, in the sky. For the last two hundred years, that big, amorphous figure of a several-thousand-meters-tall woman floated in the upper atmosphere, invisible to all but those within the city boundaries. Most know that the figure is not a woman. In fact, the figure isn't gendered. It just happened to take the shape of a human being when first arriving on Earth. While most expected there to be mass panic, and chaos, and eventually an apocalypse, none of that happened. Going by various names, such as Unit or Article, the figure soon became an accepted part of their reality. After all, it wasn't doing anything to the human race.

That was where everyone was mistaken. Some of the ones to witness the Article's arrival bore children with several physical characteristics that baffled doctors at the time. Increased heart rate, a high body temperature, and bones with almost one and a half times the density of an average human's. On top of that, they could speak and comprehend a strange language that none from the previous generation could understand. These children, collectively known as Fraction, mingled with each other, communicating frequently in both English and their strange language. Parents feared that their children would become the outcasts. This couldn't be farther from the truth, as the Fraction were the children that pushed the normal children aside.

Something strange occurred when the majority of the Fraction turned 14. Diverse body changes, the development of a superhuman ability, and the intuitive capability to use their abilities all swept through the Fraction. The age of 14 is a pivotal point in a teenager's life, where they begin to take their independence. The part of the Fraction that grew unruly and wild abused their abilities to get their way. Superhuman advantages over normal humans, ranging from superhuman strength to the ability to generate fire to the ability to displace their eyeballs, quickly allowed the unruly portion of Fraction to plunge their families into chaos. With these scuffles going on, research took place. Children of the Fraction were selected at random to be studied, and a conclusion came out of it.

The Article was the cause, and behind all this.

The portion of the Fraction that behaved were allowed to roam free, mate, and continue on with their normal lives, away from government watch. The reason behind the government's design to remove their involvement with the Fraction is still unknown to this day. The unruly ones were executed.

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PRESENT DAY
Folded Conduit, or simply Conduit or Folded, is a term used to describe the descendants of the Fraction. There are at least 20,000 Folded out of the 1.2 million citizens in the relatively isolated, North American seaside city of Vrayelle. Between Vrayelle's streamlined skyscrapers were alleyways, alleyways where Folded frequently hang out, and express their destructive sides. The idea of being a "superhero" rarely crosses the minds of the Folded Conduits, as their abilities became a part of their life rather than a gift sent to protect the world. These abilities didn't give Conduits a purpose, they just made them different. The closest thing to being a hero that crossed the Conduits' minds would be defending their own property and their own body.

A week ago, mass power outages shrouded Vrayelle in darkness and temporarily shorted out all Folded abilities for close to twenty seconds. When the power came back, the Article began to move. Its massive hand covered a section of the fields several miles from the outskirts, and remained in that position for the last week. While there were a few that noticed the shorting out of abilities, more noticed the sudden increase of power over seven days. Most Folded abilities doubled - the weakest tripled.

Now, Folded in several wards are taking matters into their own hands, and organizing meetings to interpret the meaning of their abilities gaining this drastic increase. Something is happening under the noses of normal humans, and it's something that would require the effort of most of the Folded to investigate this anomaly, and possibly venture toward the Article itself...

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1) Folded Physiology
2) Vrayelle
3) The Article
4) Extradimensional Entities
4.5) Projections​

 

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Folded Physiology
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What is a "Folded Conduit"?
A Folded Conduit, or simply Folded, is a reference to anyone within Vrayelle with a Folded ability. Folded are distinguished by a body temperature of 110ºF (43ºC), being 10-15 lbs (4.5 - 6 kg) over their "human" weight (their weight without Folded physiology) due to bone density yet being perfectly healthy, and a resting heart rate of 90-150 beats per minute. The reason for them being called Folded is because the source of their ability is speculated to be a spatial, nearly undetectable "fold" in their spinal cord around the base of the neck. Their bone density has no effect on their physical durability (outside of Folded powers), and only allows them to withstand the recoil of their abilities.

50% of all Folded are ambidextrous and have no preference to right or left hands.

Folded also develop an ability at around the age of 14, or around the time they can soundly make decisions (can be as early as 9 or as late as 18). The ability developed is randomly dependent on environmental factors, such as outside temperature, oxygen in the air, and hormone levels. Folded abilities can be strengthened through use similar to muscles. Folded abilities are typically consciously activated, however they may kick in reflexively to protect the Conduit from immediate danger.

Folded conduits nowadays can still understand "the language" (which has been dubbed as Script), but they cannot distinguish it from English, nor can they speak it without learning it first.

The "Fold"
The Fold refers to two microscopic structures on a Folded's body that isn't present on humans, and is the source of the Folded's ability. One is located on the spinal chord around the nape of the neck and completes one full counter-clockwise rotation every twelve hours. The second Fold is located directly above the liver, and completes one full clockwise rotation every thirty seconds. Neither of these microscopic structures consume any energy to exist, unless the Folded's ability is in use.

While a direct blow to the structure is nearly impossible to time or get, a direct blow, depending on its strength, can knock out a Folded Conduit's ability for anywhere from thirty seconds to twelve full hours. These structures absorb electrical pulses like a sponge, so the blow must be physical or as the result of a power. Because of this, Folded may be shaken by a "liver shot" more than a normal person.

The Fold is speculated to be a single organ that manifests in two parts of the human body due to its extradimensional nature, and was granted to the Fraction (the first set of Folded born to parents after the Article appeared). The Fold is hereditary, but the ability granted by the Fold is not. The ability is environmental.

Resistance to Extradimensional Phenomena
Folded are fully susceptible to other Folded abilities, and are offered no resistance to other types of abilities. However, Folded are inherently resistant to dimensional phenomena that Entities and Projections would normally use to kill humans, such as teleporting air into someone's blood-brain barrier, or teleporting all fluids out of their bodies. Folded cannot be ripped, mutilated, or have their bodies destroyed by an Entity's abilities. This doesn't mean that Folded can resist an Entity's attacks, from punches to throwing physical projectiles at them.