you know, to be honest, somewhere in the past i must have had a draft compiled of headcanons exploring martel’s chimaera anatomy. i can’t seem to find it anywhere but i’m just gonna throw some out on the ringer here for fun, until i come up with a more detailed, in-depth essay:
she is venomous, her canines are laced with a neurotoxin that -- depending on how she holds her bite down on someone, or just where she bites -- can deliver a series of effects ranging from temporary paralysis to straight up painful, seizing, frothing-induced death. it’s not pretty, she does not like being asked to do this.
said canines are very fang-like in resemblance; they’re thinner than a normal human’s and have a very translucent-like look to them. when martel smiles, she doesn’t like to smile with her teeth for this reason if she can’t help it.
she’s somewhat an ectotherm. she can draw out energy from an external source of warmth such as sunlight, and likes to bask in the sunlight. during the seasons of autumn and winter, however, when there’s less sunlight, it isn’t that she has no energy to do anything whatsoever. but she’s noticeably moodier, fatigued, prone to sleeping in, etc.
it is entirely possible that prior to experimentation, she may have had undiagnosed seasonal affective disorder, but now that’s intensified thanks to snake biology.
we’ve seen in canon, especially in fma 03, her inhuman flexibility and the ability to extend her limbs to an abnormal length. keep in mind though, she’s not elastigirl, there is a limit to the latter. if she were to overextend herself, the price to pay later on is extreme pain which renders said limb useless for a solid few hours.
if she lives to an old age (skeptical as she is about that), martel suspects she’s in for chronic pain later in life due to the exertion of said limbs. on the plus side, it doesn’t seem like arthritis is much of a worry since the state of her bones is ???
she can go a solid three months without eating before realizing something is amiss. it’s an honest-to-god genuine thing she’s forgotten to do once or twice, because during those times she was still going about completely fine before realizing ‘oh. my body might start digesting itself soon. better fix that.’
she doesn’t shed skin. or slough, or whatever proper term. there was one instance where, after escaping and when they first arrived in dublith, a scorching summer followed. because she spent so much time outside, her skin started to peel and she started crying, thinking this was something chimera-related. as it turns out, it was merely sunburn. she’s still capable of getting that despite being an ectotherm.
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