Trying my hand at a text example of how this looks... Ever see those fiber optic Christmas trees? The ones that randomly change color and have those bouncy
'needles' on them? Think of that, only green instead of clear. Thinking about it that would mean Lum's hair is hollow and therefore each strand
is thicker that the human equivalent. So easier to manage... but likely harder to recover from damage than human hair. Granted centries of tech advantage
would likely make that unnoticable, unless she gets cut off from her supply chain and has to try local hair care products. So basically, Lum's hair has
more in common with a polar bear's hair then human hair. I'm also betting the hair is that way to act a an insulator to her own electrical powers.
The lightning comes from the horns on her head... which are strangely easy to snap off... which negates their powers, until the horns recover in two weeks or
so. Basically, the hair deflects the current around it so the shortest route is around the hair to the charge holding, insulating skin... rather than directly
through the liquid cover brain.
Flight probably works through the same method as the amazing antigravity frog trick, which I'm not going to look up at this point in time to explain the
specifics of. That means a Oni horns are some random mineral composition... also I'm guessing that instead of bone marrow as we humans have, Onis have some
sort of electrical producing brain like matter in their bones... this would explain why Ten can be so cognitive and so immature at two years old or partially
explain why Lum had such a grasp of tech earlier than the other members of her class. Though wether this means that all the brain maroow and cranial brain are
linked or marrow brains take over lower brain functions throughout the body I can't say.
I'm also hampered by a small sample size... just Ten, Lum, and Rei (I think) really use there powers. All are different and I can't remember if Rei
can fly as well as shapeshift. I'm a bit off topic anyway so, I've got a theory that the reason a fur bikini is 'tradition' Oni dress is that
the fur share the same properties as her skin and hair. Any other cloths, historically anyway, would damage or burn off when they manifest their powers. So
its entirely practical... Especially on a hot planet. That Lum tends to go airborne when she is serious, I'm guess that its just an extension of applied
resistor and insulator theory.
'needles' on them? Think of that, only green instead of clear. Thinking about it that would mean Lum's hair is hollow and therefore each strand
is thicker that the human equivalent. So easier to manage... but likely harder to recover from damage than human hair. Granted centries of tech advantage
would likely make that unnoticable, unless she gets cut off from her supply chain and has to try local hair care products. So basically, Lum's hair has
more in common with a polar bear's hair then human hair. I'm also betting the hair is that way to act a an insulator to her own electrical powers.
The lightning comes from the horns on her head... which are strangely easy to snap off... which negates their powers, until the horns recover in two weeks or
so. Basically, the hair deflects the current around it so the shortest route is around the hair to the charge holding, insulating skin... rather than directly
through the liquid cover brain.
Flight probably works through the same method as the amazing antigravity frog trick, which I'm not going to look up at this point in time to explain the
specifics of. That means a Oni horns are some random mineral composition... also I'm guessing that instead of bone marrow as we humans have, Onis have some
sort of electrical producing brain like matter in their bones... this would explain why Ten can be so cognitive and so immature at two years old or partially
explain why Lum had such a grasp of tech earlier than the other members of her class. Though wether this means that all the brain maroow and cranial brain are
linked or marrow brains take over lower brain functions throughout the body I can't say.
I'm also hampered by a small sample size... just Ten, Lum, and Rei (I think) really use there powers. All are different and I can't remember if Rei
can fly as well as shapeshift. I'm a bit off topic anyway so, I've got a theory that the reason a fur bikini is 'tradition' Oni dress is that
the fur share the same properties as her skin and hair. Any other cloths, historically anyway, would damage or burn off when they manifest their powers. So
its entirely practical... Especially on a hot planet. That Lum tends to go airborne when she is serious, I'm guess that its just an extension of applied
resistor and insulator theory.