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I have a weird question.
Once again, I am most familiar with this from the Fallen London verse, but this also applies to many others, such as Hyperion Cantos. There are certain moments that the characters are put in certain situations that, for example, severely warp time and space, and while they get really screwed up by it, such as getting terribly nauseous and feeling the distortion of space and having their perception of time utterly destroyed for the moment, they do not actually die from it, nor receive any real injury. There are other moments that are similar to those, and show that even random people in the verse that by no mean show any unusual resistance otherwise, once again, get really screwed up by these effects but not actually get physically hurt. Heck, sometimes it seems that the ability should absolutely destroy them, with descriptions and/or images of the characters being torn apart - but they are either reformed, mostly unharmed, by the end of it.
So, my question is if getting severely inconvenienced by these events, but not actually physically wounded, actually upgrade said characters to having a resistance to those abilities? After all, it could just be that said space-time distortions, as in the example, are not lethal. (as they don't necessarily need to be)
But at the same time, it is jarring to see characters that get crushed by paradoxes, experience multiple moments in time at the same time and even manage to get into situations that utterly disrespects the laws of reality (such as two things occupying the same space at the same time) and not get erased by it.
This question might be actually twofold; there's the one I originally asked, and a new one: If getting severely inconvenienced, but not actually dying from something that absolutely should kill you in 95% other fictional universes or by logic (such as, again, getting screwed up by paradoxes) actually grants resistance to something?
Once again, I am most familiar with this from the Fallen London verse, but this also applies to many others, such as Hyperion Cantos. There are certain moments that the characters are put in certain situations that, for example, severely warp time and space, and while they get really screwed up by it, such as getting terribly nauseous and feeling the distortion of space and having their perception of time utterly destroyed for the moment, they do not actually die from it, nor receive any real injury. There are other moments that are similar to those, and show that even random people in the verse that by no mean show any unusual resistance otherwise, once again, get really screwed up by these effects but not actually get physically hurt. Heck, sometimes it seems that the ability should absolutely destroy them, with descriptions and/or images of the characters being torn apart - but they are either reformed, mostly unharmed, by the end of it.
So, my question is if getting severely inconvenienced by these events, but not actually physically wounded, actually upgrade said characters to having a resistance to those abilities? After all, it could just be that said space-time distortions, as in the example, are not lethal. (as they don't necessarily need to be)
But at the same time, it is jarring to see characters that get crushed by paradoxes, experience multiple moments in time at the same time and even manage to get into situations that utterly disrespects the laws of reality (such as two things occupying the same space at the same time) and not get erased by it.
This question might be actually twofold; there's the one I originally asked, and a new one: If getting severely inconvenienced, but not actually dying from something that absolutely should kill you in 95% other fictional universes or by logic (such as, again, getting screwed up by paradoxes) actually grants resistance to something?
