ExtraOrdinaries

ExtraOrdinaries (EOs) are a category of humans with varying special abilities. An EO is made after a traumatic experience that resulted in their death.

EOs result from the body's physiological and psychological response to a sudden, traumatic death and resurrection. The transformation into an EO requires a huge influx of adrenaline, fear, and willpower to continue living. The ability that the EO gains after they come back to life is tied to their last thoughts before they died.

All EOs are hunted by EON, who seek to protect the world from their destructive powers and lacking morality.

## Physiology

All EOs are people who have died. Most EOs will have a Tell - whether it be a slower heart rate, clammy skin, a higher body temperature, low blood pressure, not aging, and so on. Not all tells are obvious, and an EO fortunate enough to have a hard to detect tell may be able to live quiet a peaceful life provided they are careful with their powers.

Because EOs are effectively "dead" they cannot reproduce. An EO with children either had them prior to becoming one, or adopted. They are still able to engage in sexual activities with no issue, they just simply will never have any biological children.

## Mentality

EOs suffer from a lacking empathy when they revive. Normally despicable acts of violence no longer seem to bother them, and it would seem as though some small part of their morality had died with them--never to come back. Many are able simply to mimic the emotion being there, though all EOs know that it is missing within one another. However, this change is not drastic. A wholly moral character will not suddenly become a heartless killer, and the change varies depending upon who the person was before they died, rather than an overall driving force that corrupts over time.

## Character Quotes and Notes

*“The only commonality I could find in all the cases of EOs that are even close to well-documented is a traumatic event. Bodies react in strange ways under stress. Adrenaline and all that, as you know. I believe that trauma could cause the body to chemically alter. However trauma is too broad a characteristic. I believe this to be more like a blanket, really, and I needed to isolate a thread. Millions of people are traumatized daily. Emotionally, physically, and so on. If even a fraction of them became ExtraOrdinary, they would compose a measurable percentage of the human population. And if that were the case EOs would be more than a hypothesis; they’d be an actuality.There must be something more specific.” --From the Notes of Gina Strauss*

*“Most EOs are the result of accidents, but Eli and Victor were different. They set out to find a way to effect the change. Incidentally, it's remarkably difficult to do. Dying with intent, reviving with control. Finding a way to end a life but keep it in arm's reach, and all without rendering the body unusable. On top of that, you need a method that strips enough control from the subject to make them afraid, because you need the chemical properties induced by fear and adrenaline to trigger a somatic change.” --From the Notes of Gina Strauss*

*"No....when a death is violent, when you have the right chemical composition of fear and adrenaline—do you know what happens? A change. You become someone different. Something different. Do you know what that difference is? It is the devil entering you and granting your darkest wish. Whatever you were once--You are **not** the same anymore. You are something different. Something that came back wrong and against God's image." -- From the Gospel of Eli Ever*

*"Fear. Trauma. Adrenaline. Chemistry. Thas how. There's narry a unique science ta it. They could'na perfect it if they wanted, and narry could do it in a pill form." --Ira Johnson via Telepathy*

*"I think you all come back wrong, missing some slice of humanity that held sympathy and morality intact. Whatever....whatever EOs are, they aren't human anymore." --Elizabeth "Vet" Watson's Diary*