INTERACTION GUIDE: important headcanons
POWERS/ABILITIES
Although I often simplify his abilities as stating that he 'regenerates at a rapid pace that heals all wounds, even lethal wounds, therefore resurrecting him,' his powers are a bit more complicated than that
Elias's regeneration abilities are time based. He as a person operates on a different timeline than everyone else. His body can subconsciously manipulate time as a means of healing. He heals by winding back time to before he was injured. Despite healing from his wounds, scars remain.
Part of the reason he experiences amnesia upon resurrection is due to the intense levels of pain/trauma that come with dying and healing from his wounds. He feels pain just as easily as an average person. He can feel himself dying and he can feel himself heal. He can feel skin, muscle, bone, etc. mend themselves. Yes it hurts as just as bad as it sounds.
Attempting to kill him while he is mid-healing just makes his body accelerate the healing process. Doesn't matter if you dismember him or burn him to ash, he always comes back. There is no known way to truly kill him. You muse can not kill him.
Similarly, because his body operates on a different timeline/clock than most, he ages at a slower rate.
It is unclear how/why Elias has this healing/resurrection ability and the rest of his biological family didn't. It is assumed it is an ability he is born with, although such an ability is not something that shows up on a test, nor is it something that a mystic could sense or detect. He's a living anomaly.
Despite operating on a different timeline/clock he is meant to live in his current residence and he isn't causing any multiversal chaos.
How much of his memories he forgets depends on how traumatic/painful the death was. Accidentally hitting his head on a rock, for an example would likely make him forget the past week. Dying of bullet or stab wounds would likely make him forget the past month. A month of memory loss is his most common length of memory loss per death. Deaths that involve being beaten or tortured can make him forget multiple months up to a few years.
Elias can't recover most of the memories he forgets. However he does take pictures, write in a journal, send texts to his own number, etc. as a means of recording what he doesn't want to lose track off
PERSONALITY
Elias can be sweet and outgoing. He also can be reserved and quiet. He's more irritable and confused shortly after a recent resurrection. He tends to overall be more optimistic and happy when he hasn't died recently. He tends to become more withdrawn when he's died recently. Overall I'd say he is a complex mix of golden retriever and black cat energy.
HOBBIES/HABITS
Smokes cigs, YOLO since he can't die from lung cancer (or die at all)
Journals and draws a lot
Is actually a talented singer
Likes going for walks and taking pictures of new places
Animal lover, would have his own pets if he wasn't afraid of forgetting about them after a death
ROMANCE & SEX
Is prone to soul crushing devotion
I love slow burn threads but he does in fact develop crushes on friends quickly
Very poly curious
Likely to forget your muse post death, but will happily fall in love with them again
He's a trans man who has taken T for a long time now and has had top surgery
This link is helpful for understanding what Elias's private parts look like as a trans man who has been on T a long time. It's also very educational!
Elias is okay with his private parts being referred to as: cunt, cock, hole, etc. He likes a lot of different kinds of sex. you can read more about his sexual likes here & here
