Land of Spoilers

Fortress constantly generates an aura of safety, which keeps the people within a certain radius from getting hurt. Like, survive a nuclear strike level protection. It covers miles, so she can easily protect an entire community just by being there. She has some degree of ability to manipulate it, and has been known to shrink the radius to just cover herself if you try to force her to be somewhere, so people “court” (read: lavishly bribe) her to keep her around.

Damsel is in the complete opposite situation, because her power grants anyone trying to rescue her from a dangerous situation with whatever powers they need to succeed. You can win a whole war that way if you can get the right people to keep her prisoner. Just like Fortress, she’s a hot commodity, but instead of obscene social influence, she’s in hell.

For the two of them, it’s a romance between two people who have been treated like objects in very different ways! Damsel is having a grand old time being spiteful and flaunting her new situation while Fortress lavishly indulges her.

For everyone else, this is the nightmare scenario. Fortress isn’t a superhero, she’s a free agent that can shut down everything from police raids to intercontinental bombings, and she takes bribes! Damsel has the only known superpower that could beat her, because if Fortress was threatening her in some way, reality would shift so she could be rescued.

you can’t get surgery within her radius, which is to be expected, but you also can’t get tattoos or piercings because that’s still damage to the body

alcohol and a number of drugs do not get absorbed into the body within the radius. not all of those drugs are recreational.

you can’t take x-rays, get radiation treatment, or get a sunburn within the radius

you can cut your hair or shave because hair isn’t living tissue, but you can’t pluck hairs or wax because it’s technically damaging the hair follicle

there’s a whole variety of kinks that just do not work in there

viruses and bacteria stop being able to impact the body and thus can easily be cleaned up by the immune system. spending a few weeks in the radius clears things like antibiotic-resistant bacteria permanently.

the rate of miscarriages goes way up within the radius, because many viable pregnancies do enough bodily harm to the pregnant person to trigger it

Hexbug (they/no english pronouns)

An unusually shaped Eridian. Their tiny legs make them quite clumsy and slow. They WERE the coolest science teacher on the planet until this LEAKY SPACE BLOB showed up!! They have "accidentally" stumbled into Grace's legs and knocked him over several times.

Meanwhile, Grace loves Hexbug and thinks they're amazing. He asks them a lot of questions about best teaching practices on Erid. He is oblivious to their rivalry.

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