For authors who wrote stories featuring MC in constant bodily harm, how soon did you gave your MC Regenerative Healing Factor?

[NotaNuffian]

For authors who wrote stories featuring MC in constant bodily harm, how soon did you gave your MC Regenerative Healing Factor?

Regenerative Healing Factor here also means granting the access to healing spells, healing potions and anything that allows them to be peak health in a short span of time.

Over here I would also like to specify if the MC somehow always exits a fight unscathed, I would consider this as another form of Regenerative Healing Factor known as Plot Armor or Author Favourism. It isn't bad per se, but oftentimes I seen it in CNs and thought "wow, really?"

Here is an example from myself, I gave my MC James in the hiatus work super regen in C12 because the plot demands it. It was poorly executed.

Similarly, I seen JP LitRPGs like Spider and Slime with their MCs gaining forms of super regen rather early because of the forshadowed bodily harm that is on the way.

So for authors and non-authors, have you ever had a work that gave its MC super regen from the early of the work?

 

[Hoshino]

No... But actually kinda yes, for torture purposes. It was Chapter 8 I think.

 

[Valmond]

Nah, that’s usually late story. Though, it is more passively restoring them. Which at times, there are enemies that can cutoff the restorative ability. However, this is also to their detriment.

Since character’s requirement for their strongest ability requires them to be in fatal condition more often than not.

So, I guess. Choose your poison.

 

[NotaNuffian]

No... But actually kinda yes, for torture purposes. It was Chapter 8 I think.

Yeah I understand that.

Once the MC is a memory foam, it is harder to not torment because if too weak, readers will go "well, dude is not going to die"

Nah, that’s usually late story. Though, it is more passively restoring them. Which at times, there are enemies that can cutoff the restorative ability. However, this is also to their detriment.

Since character’s requirement for their strongest ability requires them to be in fatal condition more often than not.

So, I guess. Choose your poison.

Oo.

Yours is special.

 

[Forcalor]

One of my characters is a shapeshifting creature that is capable to take another form if they suffer a grave injury. Others do not have the same or equivalent ability

 

[Valmond]

Yeah I understand that.

Once the MC is a memory foam, it is harder to not torment because if too weak, readers will go "well, dude is not going to die"

Oo.

Yours is special.

The lead of the series, version I and III.

The series ends on version III.

Both require the main to be in Death’s Embrace. To cut it short, the will endure a fatal hit once and nullify all attacks and the follow up once.

Their power tremendously rises, but at the expense of the next hit they take will kill them.

Version III requires that amongst many other conditions.

The main for Book 5, the expense for using their strongest ability means their death. However, they have the power of Phoenix. So, at some point they’d return.

Book 6.

The main’s own for this book is unstable, out of the whole series. It only worked as intended twice. In short, the risk is insanely high.

Book 7

The use of the main’s own for this book, it requires them to be in critical condition. However, because of the critical condition. The odds of dying from it is very high.

So, as you can guess. These haven’t been used much. The main only used their own twice in the series for version I, and once for version II and III.

The one for Book 5 twice. Once in their section of the story, once to conclude their section in the finale.

Book 6, same deal. Once in their story, once for their section of the finale.

And the same thing for Book 7.

Either the conditions are high, the cost is brutal, or both.

 

[Deleted member 206441]

early of the work

No... but I remember in A Certain Magical Index, the MC just gets shipped to the hospital at the every arc and get clean bill of health by super doctors.

Is that in a way always unscaved?

 

[LuoirM]

Me Love Interest had 2nd degree burns with her guts hanging........................

They just rest in the infirmary of the school for like a week

 

[Schwarzpilled]

If they're not going to suffer permanent damage or scarring what's the point of writing their bodily harm in detail?

 

[NotaNuffian]

No... but I remember in A Certain Magical Index, the MC just gets shipped to the hospital at the every arc and get clean bill of health by super doctors.

Is that in a way always unscaved?

No.

That is considered after battle care.

But dude is definitely made of iron and heals faster than one too.

If they're not going to suffer permanent damage or scarring what's the point of writing their bodily harm in detail?

Good point.

 

[TASTYLEADPAINT]

No... But actually kinda yes, for torture purposes. It was Chapter 8 I think.

I gave my mc healing powers so she could torture people does that count?

 

[ThisAdamGuy]

Henry Rider starts the story with inhalers filled with laughter that recharge her powers, one of which is accelerated healing.

 

[Hoshino]

I gave my mc healing powers so she could torture people does that count?

Yes-nya.

 

[NotaNuffian]

I gave my mc healing powers so she could torture people does that count?

 

[Representing_Tromba]

It took me around 90k words to get to that point. The MC was tortured and gained it through that.

 

[Jerynboe]

I specifically made my first MC a healer/support guy with minimal/inefficient offensive abilities to force myself to make sure he relied on his allies, so he was on the healing factor train asap.

My second MC had a healer sign on pretty quickly because in a ttrpg setting what kind of deranged psychopath would NOT try to drag along the sassy redhead that can heal you by praying to the god of piracy? Any time he does not have access to her, his life is noticeably worse because injuries have actual consequences. Also because fun loving pirate wenches make your life 20% better by default if they like you, according to science.

My third MC (in my most self indulgent side project trash fanfic to date) can travel between worlds and thus far the ONLY world my readers have demanded he return to more than once in polls was the one from an old obscure JRPG because going to the corner store and buying tea leaves that give you a wolverine-esque healing factor is incredibly useful. He’s had to advance the plot there just because the starting town’s shop cut him off since they were running low on medical supplies.

 

[NotaNuffian]

It took me around 90k words to get to that point. The MC was tortured and gained it through that.

So counting every chapter as 2k...

For 45 chapters, your main character only gets natural healing? No getting healed by some other supernaturals? Pure healing normally over time?

 

[Representing_Tromba]

So counting every chapter as 2k...

For 45 chapters, your main character only gets natural healing? No getting healed by some other supernaturals? Pure healing normally over time?

They have a witch with a few healing potions on hand. Though they are really difficult to make so very limited and they only heal non-bone injuries so bones have to heal naturally. At one point the MC has to heal up for a few weeks. Though it was noticed that he heals slightly faster than some people as a bit of foreshadowing. The more he gets hurt, the faster his healing factor works.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

She is a vampire and has regeneration from chapter 1.

She is a vampire and has regeneration from chapter 1.

There is a price to it though. It consumes her magic power and makes her thirsty for blood. If she's gone a while without blood, the regeneration would be incredibly slow.

 

[l8rose]

Well, mine are kind of spoilerly for the stories as they haven't reached the point that the healing is a thing even though it's existed since the beginning of the stories. Mostly through hints.

Except for Ara, she's basically an overpowered demigod at the start of SfAL. She has regeneration, healing magic and the knowledge of making healing potions. Outside of her natural regeneration, she doesn't use the others often as she's not in her original world. Her magic doesn't quite work right and the ingredients needed for the potions don't exist.

For the others ones with healing or pseudo-healing...

Ava regenerates in the sun, which is mildly hinted at around chapter 15ish? (I'd have to go check, as I never remember my numbers very well but I'm too lazy to do so right now) She just doesn't realize she does. She just thinks she feels better when the skies are sunny. That being said, her human bestie has atomic-level regeneration while her not-human bestie has enhanced healing but they have to eat matter to speed it up.

Rachel doesn't have healing abilities, but she cannot die. She gained this undying ability about 5 or so chapters in after she had sex with a vampire. It only comes into play towards the end of the story though.

Rest of my main characters get to suffer like normal people.