FangPanzer said: Being a youkai just means she'll survive this, she still has to get through the sheer unrelenting PAIN of it all
She'll get used to the pain, no worries. With experience, the threshold of pain rises, so she'll feel less and less... I've done enough crazy things and accumulated enough injuries to barely even feel a thing, especially if I put my mind to it.
FangPanzer said: Huh...I thought that was just a common misconception.
No, the human body is a very adaptable thing - the more stress you put on a bone, the thicker the bone calcifies to become strong enough to resist that stress (as well as gets thicker where a bone is broken). The same goes for pain receptors - your body shuts them down the more you take blows to the same region.
So-called Iron Body Training involves being repeatedly beaten with sticks for the express purpose of becoming tougher and more resilient to pain.
NWSiaCB said: No, the human body is a very adaptable thing - the more stress you put on a bone, the thicker the bone calcifies to become strong enough to resist that stress (as well as gets thicker where a bone is broken). The same goes for pain receptors - your body shuts them down the more you take blows to the same region.
So-called Iron Body Training involves being repeatedly beaten with sticks for the express purpose of becoming tougher and more resilient to pain.
NWSiaCB said: No, the human body is a very adaptable thing - the more stress you put on a bone, the thicker the bone calcifies to become strong enough to resist that stress (as well as gets thicker where a bone is broken). The same goes for pain receptors - your body shuts them down the more you take blows to the same region.
With pain, it's partly (quite heavily) psychological, it takes more abuse to register as the same level of pain, because your mind gets better at tuning it out. You still feel the same thing, so your receptors don't actually get shut down, I think, it's only the trigger limit on the neurons that rises, and more like you get used to feeling it, so it won't be such a big thing. That' why you can "fall out of practice" if you don't get hurt for a time. Your mind judges that you no longer need such a high threshold, and you begin registering smaller stimulus as painful again.
At the same time, the bones do reinforce themselves, although soft tissues are not that likely to follow, simply due to their structure (less stuff to reinforce in the first place). Skin may become thicker, but I think for normal humans, that's pretty much the end of physiological adaptation to abuse.
