ELLIOT’S HEALING FACTOR.
———AMONG THE MANY ASPECTS OF ELLIOT’S CURSE, his healing factor is one of the more complicated. basically, elliot was frozen at age around age thirty. with this, certain things affecting his body cannot remain permanent or will never change:
1. elliot isn’t able to get body modifications like tattoos and piercings, aside from the ones he had prior to immortalization. this includes procedures to cover tattoos, which has caused elliot to resort to long sleeves and make up when dealing with the serial number he received from aus.chwitz. elliot has both ears pierced because he pierced them as a young girl and they never closed up.
2. elliot can never have top surgery, as his healing factor would lead to complications. instead, he uses a mixture of exercise and binding to give the appearance of a flat chest. he was never large breast-wise, so it doesn’t really give him much gender dysphoria.
3. elliot CAN take hormones. since this is not considered harmful or poisonous to the body, he’s allowed to transition quite smoothly.
4. he looks incredibly young for his age, even though he was technically stopped at age 30. he doesn’t believe this was caused by the curse itself, but rather his genes.
5. finally, elliot’s healing factor is imperfect and completely depends on how much raw energy he’s salvaged through killing wicked people, and how much he’s used his powers to begin with. the more he uses it and the less he kills, the weaker he becomes. its like fuel to him.