Symbiotic Transcendental Immortality

## Overview

**'Symbiotic Transcendental Immortality',** or Dimensioskimming.

**Symbiotic**, as in relying on an external source, power or individual.

**Transcendental**, the use and subject of multiple dimensions, the lack of boundaries in a physical plane.

**Immortality**, Life without death. In this case, immortality of the conscious mind & soul.

It allows it's user, in the event of death, to transfer their consciousness to another body that is biologically compatible, this is not possible without the unique symbiotic relationship of JT's species and a human host. Compatibility also includes available living bodies in parallel universes, since it is near impossible for someone to have a naturally occurring clone in one given reality, you will almost always end up in a new realities' version of you.

Strictly speaking, transfer to someone's body that isn't *yours* is impossible, as it is not how this specific system works. These parallel hosts will be either be a similar match to your previous self, or a distant relation as not every universe is the same. - This can cause discrepancies in background, name and appearance, but also date of birth.

The user is unable trigger this ability on command and a subjects body or brain would have to be destroyed in order for for them to pass over. - It is therefor triggered subconsciously in the event of death. There are many phenomena experienced when passing over, and the process is never the same. For instance, the user does not often start their next life as an infant or a baby, but could take command of a fully adult version of themselves whom had been living their own separate life beforehand.

Sometimes, the user could remember everything they knew from their previous life, contrarily, they can experience full amnesia and lose large portions of memories. On the other hand, they can retain the memories of the body and mind taken command of, and sometimes will not, or a mix between the two. Nevertheless, it is always a different outcome.

## Mechanics

JT's species exist on a higher dimensional plane, whatever bodies they might have do not exist in our physical reality. Once a symbiote has linked with it's host, it's brain and the host's brain will form a metaphysical link. This metaphysical symbiosis is essentially an upgrade to the host's consciousness, memories and mind-related limits. It also increases the host's ability to withstand stress and emotional trauma.

It is a very slow binding of every single neuron in both brains, but it is naturally harder for the host's brain to make an equal amount of pathways in comparison, basically, the symbiote's brain is *always* going to be more powerful and dominant, the symbiote has tenfold neural pathways.

To elaborate on '*very slow binding*', the process of the symbiote and host brain's binding metaphysically can take awhile on each iteration because it is a new brain, in an entirely new parallel universe. In any given host's *first contact* with JT's species, the process will not take any longer than a year, but will be extremely taxing on the host's mental health. In subsequent iterations, this process will be less and less taxing and might even take shorter amounts of time.

In the case of prolonged symbiosis, this metaphysical duality of brains becomes intrinsic and essential for the host's continual mental agency, this is because so much of who the host is, is stored in the symbiote's metaphysical brain - Disconnecting the symbiote from the host would leave the host mentally impaired, but only to a degree.

To understand this '*degree*', it is important to understand that any given host's memories in their *current* iteration are almost entirely stored in the host's physical brain, and only a small portion in the symbiote's metaphysical brain. This goes both ways, as in the event of a symbiotic disconnect, only a small portion of the metaphysical memories will stay in the physical brain, this is also down to how well-formed the metaphysical pathways are in that given iteration. Essentially, less disturbed the host's brain is in the event of symbiotic disconnect is directly correlated with the level of mental impairment.

#### A symbiote does not, and cannot have copies\*

JT's species are exempt from the multiversal standard of parallel selves, this is because they do not exist on the universal plane but instead a higher dimension in relation to the multiverse itself. However, there *can* be a copy of a symbiote on the wider omniversal standard, because of the vast nature of complete infinite possibilities, but for all intensive purposes, it *is* impossible. See *The Standard*.

#### Symbiotic Disconnect

As the name suggests, symbiotic disconnect is wherein a host and the symbiote split without the event of the host's death, this is only possible by the intervention of a higher force, or the means of manipulating time.

## Hosts or Users

The origin of Symbiotic Transcendental Immortality is currently under shadow, but it is something grantable by JT's higher-dimensional species

Chloe Hill, who's host to the ability, is currently adept and used to the process.

Other known users include:

* Nikolai Kalinov
* Glenn Hughes