copying james to explain mutations because i donât wanna mess up my tiny bio page by adding more stuff :3
whitney · disappearing
whitney can âdisappearâ things and people. she has very little control over her mutation, wasnât even sure she had one for a long time, and doesnât know what happens to the things that she disappears when they go. as a kid lots of her toys and possessions would go missing when she was upset or angry. sheâs never disappeared a person before, but during a huge blow-up with her husband, involving their young daughter, whitney turned around to leave, and when she looked back, both TJ and shauna were gone. her favourite stuffed animal disappeared in the midst of a temper tantrum when she was little, and she found it in her momâs flower patch almost a year later, so she has hope that the things she disappears arenât just gone forever. sheâs never tried to hone her mutation and doesnât even really consider herself a mutant.
daniel · mindlink/dreamsharing
daniel can establish a mental link between himself and another person, allowing him to explore their thoughts and memories with them. it isnât mindreading per se â itâs a very visual thing, and peopleâs minds often present themselves as landscapes that daniel and his patient can walk through. as far as heâs concerned, either way he needs consent from another person to do this, but when someone is asleep, their natural mental barriers are weaker and itâs easier for him to get in there, but harder to communicate with his patient. his mutation is extremely taxing on him so he doesnât take on a lot of clients. not that literally anybody knows this, but heâs currently being sort of courted by the US military, who would just love to know if heâs able to straight-up erase memories, hypothetically speaking of course.
dougie · bodyswapping
dougie can swap bodies with one other person at one time. when he enters their body, the other person enters his. he knows very little about his mutation â he used to use it a lot as a kid, especially with his sister, but hasnât used it once since joyce shipped out to vietnam, and honestly he isnât even really sure if he can do it any more. he also isnât sure whether the process of bodyswapping itself is what caused joyceâs body to stop ageing, or if it was only her death that caused that.
dougie doesn't often tell people he's actually a 72-year-old in the body of his dead sister, because he's afraid people will find it morally reprehensible. most of the time, if people have known him long enough to wonder why he doesnât age, he just tells them his mutation is eternal youth. if you do know the complete truth, itâs because he trusts you.
gender is weird. it was weird before, but dougie didnât have the right words to explain it even to himself back then. pronouns mean very little to him. he feels bad for trying to engage with modern concepts of genderfluidity and nonbinary gender identity, because he often wonders if he's only programmed himself to think this way because he's been living inside a female-coded body for 50 years.
borya · poison touch
a very standard Cool Edgy Mutation from b-dog! direct skin-to-skin contact causes a cyanide-like death response within a few minutes of the touch with no trace in an autopsy. over the years, heâs been able to experiment a little, and can transfer poison into his spit (ew) which works the same way â so for example, he could spit in a glass of water and poison someone that way. he also has a very fine level of control over his mutation, so for the most part he only poisons people when he means to, and can touch people just fine normally. heâs still quite paranoid all the same after some harrowing accidental deaths in his childhood, so he almost always wears gloves as a precaution.
