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And fade to black. Or a dark, low saturation blue. Cause that's the color of her sclera. I think in real life, dark sclera might be quite off-putting, but that's because 99% of us would assume its an indication of a terrible medical condition. As a purely cosmetic effect, though, I think it'd look cool.

Oh, look, there's such a thing a scleral contact lenses. I mean, I knew there were, they use them in movie makeup, but apparently now you can just get them online. I feel that's one thing I would definitely not shop at Temu for, though. Well, my list of things I wouldn't buy at Temu does in fact include everything, since I don't shop there. I don't understand how they're in business, actually. "Getting a deal" is one thing, getting something that only vaguely resembles what you ordered is not usually how commerce works. At least not for long, but I guess that's the world we live in these days. I guess it's possible there are actual deals there, but the only thing I know about Temu is the demonstrably false advertising/bait and switch they do when they show the picture of the cool T-Shirt that looks like it has a spiraling hole through it and when it arrives it's just a plain T with a badly spray painted asterisk on it and stuff like that.

It's possible Deus has an exoticism fetish. Exotiphile? I suppose anyone who draws sexy alien or fantasy girls has a little bit of that as well. >cough<

Sciona probably knows an illusion or glamor spell that could accomplish exactly what he's asking for, but she's not above playing up girly insecurity to get a guy to give her free stuff maybe. She actually is concerned about losing her cool new powers, but the crossed arms and "I don't want to admit vulnerability" side glance is her hamming it up a little. At least she didn't go, "I'm scarwed of woosing my pow-pows, can you hewp widdle 'ol me, mister stwong man?" I suspect Deus might immediately see through that. 

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Jacob Bissey

I think the term is Xenophile. And I think Temu stays in business through a combination of *just* enough legitimate deals that people feel like continuing to gamble with them, and having an *amount* of their crappy knock offs be good enough to satisfy the needs of the customer, even if it isn't the exact product they ordered.

Miyaa

Have we had a nude bonus page of Alari Sciona?

Jared

This implies that he can be selective of the unknown chemicals that he defend against, which is far more impressive.

Aaron Mauthe

This week’s vocabulary word is “disinterlocked” children!

Themew

Yes, With Vale~! >=3

Just a guy

It's still my head cannon that Dues is entirely bluffing about having a counter measure to her chemical powers, and its just that his brain chemistry is so different from regular brain chemistry that the regular power has no effect on him. Afterall, for his super intelligence to work it would require a vastly different brain structure and brain chemistry to work while being in a regularly sized human skull. Unless his brain is literally five dimensional.

Thomas Dorner

And here I thought it was "sclera" ... ;-)

Michael Obert

And like the stereotypical bad male lover, Deus' idea of foreplay doesn't match his partner's

Stefan Schmiedl

if she thinks that that's impressive, she should talk to a certain barber a.k.a. the Holy Terror of Office Chair Backrests

rhekke

The problem is that super intelligence is poorly described. Does Deus have a photographic memory? Expedited ability to learn and form connections to new information? Multi-threaded consciousness? Expanded short term memory and extremely detailed visualization in 4D space? An ego the size of Jupiter? A normal human brain is capable of all of these things, but each of them have drawbacks, and tend to shunt the person into a neurodivergent expression of their personality. It's less a matter of size, and more about a constantly self-correcting neural network balancing all of that or more. Of course, you could also make the argument such an overextended use of biological matter requires healing and regeneration as a secondary power, so there is that as well.

Sharien

you know...you might be onto something with "gamble" - because gambling is addictive and that might play into why their crap keeps running...

William Elliott

I can't think of a condition that would cause dark blue/black sclera... I did have a dual scleral hemorrage once.. it looked ...off putting enough that my manager asked me to wear sunglasses to our weekly meeting because it was freaking him out... blue-green eyes with blood red eyeballs and all that. I have to admit, there are situations I wish I could do that on command...the whole "Mal de Ojo" would be handy from time to time

Brett Peirce

I think with temu it's gambling. Sometimes you do actually receive the product exactly as pictured. Sometimes you don't. Addictive for all the reasons gambling is addictive

Justaguy

Xenophilia, or Exoticism.

Richard Riley

Oh? Welcome to the sci fi community then, New Traveler! :)

He Who Must Drink Some Coffee

I would have preferred a hemorrhage to the eye problem I actually had once, which was a tissue infection in one eye socket. Half of my face was normal, the other half looked like Frankenstein's monster. (Or was it Fronkensteen's monster?) It took a week in hospital on IV antibiotics to fix.

He Who Must Drink Some Coffee

Thanks everyone for helping me figure why I have always been leery about Temu. There's the usual "too good to be true" feeling, but I never looked into it beyond that.

Richard Riley

Search NSFW Sciona and you should find one or two IIRC

Stephen Gilberg

Even furverts usually prefer whites in the eyes.

Jacob Bissey

It's very clear they are intentionally trying to scratch people's gambling itch, as well as shopping addiction itch, as well as the dopamine hit of deals and discounts, from spending five seconds on their web page, which was about as long as I could handle the flashing lights and spinning wheels and horrible pop ups the one time I decided to check them out.

Kevin Wright

I've gotten exactly what I've ordered, but I also read the descriptions carefully and don't order stuff that might be extremely hinky. I detest Temu's gamification/gambling simulator BS, though. I don't tend to use Temu anyway because of that and their less-than-stellar business practices. AliExpress is usually the better choice for cheap direct-from-China trinkets and knockoffs.

Anton Schleef

With the 'xeno' prefix you're specifying a fetish for something that is not of terrestrial origin. So, in this specific case it would qualify, since she's an extraterrestrial and it's a sci-fi setting. A pure fantasy setting, where all of the species originated on the same planet, the term doesn't qualify, but there are those who use it anyway to refer to a fetish for a different intelligent species, regardless of the origins of the species. It's part of the problem with coming up with '-phile' terms for fictional settings that can't happen in our reality.

Anton Schleef

As a general rule, "super intelligence" means "all of the above" _without_ it causing severe neurological problems or a reduced lifespan due to extreme biological strain. It's incredibly rare to find a normal human brain capable of even one of those without severe drawbacks, and I've never heard of two in the same brain without severe drawbacks, much less all of the above.

Anton Schleef

I've never shopped with Temu, explicitly because I want to be sure I'm getting what I'm ordering and want a recourse to rely upon if I don't get it. eBay and Amazon offer those. Temu doesn't.

T-Dawg 2099

Deus proves more and more to be a man of culture

Jacob Bissey

Xeno- means strange or foreign. Hence why people who are bigoted toward other cultures and/or vehemently opposed to immigrants are called xenophobic. I didn't make up the word "xenophile", it's a real word to describe fetishizing foreign people, cultures, customs, and anything perceived as strange or unknown. It is quite literally the word Dave was looking for, definitionally.

JasonAW3

If i didn't know better, I'd think the two of them are getting much closer than simple sex...

Matthew Lambert

Oh no, disinterlocked sounds like it plunged through and there is no comfort in that. That would not be a fun feeling.

Brian Holt

I find myself agreeing with Deus more than I probably should.

eddi_TBH

I have used AliExpress on rare occasions and not been disappointed. But since Temu joined the band, I have been leery of any direct from China etail.

eddi_TBH

Or those who claim he's faking immunity by overwhelming the control drug are right.

eddi_TBH

Exploding zippers and blue eyes. These two are made for each other.

William Elliott

yah, scleral hemorrages are harmless...in fact, IIRC the topic came up in a comic once upon a time... including that it can be caused by vigorous activity of which Dabbler would approve... But yah, infections are no joke.

Shremedy

One could even go so far as to say XXXenophile, were it not for that fact that artist Phil Foglio came up with that one decades ago...