I Also Think You Can Interpret The "no Healing Powers" In The Same Way You're Supposed To Read The Prt

i also think you can interpret the "no healing powers" in the same way you're supposed to read the prt power scale and classifications in worm, which is human beings trying to categorize and make sense of a cosmic horror alien virus that they do not understand and that does not play by their rules. like when doctor mother says there's no healing powers, i don't think we're supposed to accept what she says as unquestionably true. doctor mother sucks and she's wrong all the time! the entities have a healing function and cauldron has stripped it for parts. in fact, part of the way cauldron recruits (see, e.g., eidolon and alexandria) is to promise healing.

thematically i actually think there's an interesting reading of noelle's power as a "healing" power, or as noelle receiving one of eden's healing functions. when noelle drinks the vial, she's both grievously physically injured and being re-traumatized by the simurgh into hating her body. the shard in the vial responds to this by trying to "fix" her - it straightforwardly heals her injuries, and then it gives noelle what is, by the shard's standards, a perfect body. it's eden's body! the horror for noelle is that this is deeply coercive and violating. pre-simurgh, noelle wants to "get better," but she also wants to do that on her own terms and at her own pace.

i think it all links up well to themes of coercive treatment/ableism that we see throughout noelle's story and so into my own little personal headcanon it goes <3

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