If someone has been made immortal with the Op Op No Mi and they fall into the sea, will they no longer be immortal whilst in the water?
And if so and they are obscenely old, would they just wither and die whilst In the water due to lack of immortality?
Posted Apr 1, 2021, 6:33 PM UTC
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Op Op grants eternal youth not hard immortality. And the sea doesn't stop df powers, just makes the user too tired to use them.
Eternal youth is immortality. Just means that they live forever. Immortality doesn't equate to invulnerability.
And eternal youth doesn't equate to immortality. If someone can't die, they cannot die. If someone has eternal youth, the only way of dying they gained immunity from is literal death by aging.
Hard immortality like I said means you absolutely cannot die under any circumstance. That means either invulnerability or retarded regeneration. Op Op was not said to provide either. It's also called 'Eternsl Youth' surgery.
Yeah, but immortal has been used so often for “unable to be ended” that it hard to differentiate it from “soft” immortality.
A solution I’ve come to like is to refer to the Tolkien Elves style immortality as amortals or agmortals.
The im-prefix makes the new word mean the opposite of. So concede immortal is essentially the inverse of mortal. Death is impossible.
A/ag - is more without/not-thing. Making an amortal or agmortal meaning “not mortal”. That leaves room between “opposite/inverse of mortal” and “mortal” for a spectrum of things that can die but not as easily as mortals.