Pennywise specifications additions

Because Negative is justifiably sick of repeating himself, we might as well add the stuff to it's profile, right?


Madness Manip:

• It shows you the deadlights if you see it's eyes. As in, not on eye contact (looking into one another's eye, not one guy looking into someone else).
• You go insane till you die from it.

Weaknesses

• Cycles: Putting down the avatar doesn't force it unless you damage it's real form with the ritual of chud. Otherwise it just eats until satisfied and then goes to sleep for a little. This means that in an active fight it has no reason to just go to sleep, and the set number in the weakness section should be removed.
• Psychic stuff: It was only permanently put down by it after the losers were amped by a 1-A, otherwise it's not an incapacitating level of a weakness.
• New weakness: Incapacitating in a likely non-fatal way could possibly work, and there isn't enough proof to assume it can manifest itself back into reality after being thrown in an alternate dimension.

Illusions: Not limited to sight but work on all senses.

Telepathy: Can feel what someone thinks before they realize it, and has 33,000+ people of potency.

Transformation: The shapes it takes are not only susceptible to "normal" biology, but a werewolf form would be hurt by silver too. It takes different shapes for each people, even if they are observing at once, and the different shapes can take differing actions at once.

Resistance

• To mind reading/telepathy: The losers couldn't do it till they were amped by a 1-A.

What I'd like to ask is what Reality Warping consists of, is it the illusions having real world effects, something else, or both?

Reality Warping is pretty much the source of everything non-telepathic that Pennywise can do, and also more or less the only way you can really explain some of the really weird stuff like the whole "illusions having real-life effects" and "two people perceiving it allows it to be in two places at once and do two separate actions" things. It's also been there on the page since before I was on the wiki, although I've never seen fit to remove it.

Regarding the hibernation, there's actually an explicit timeline of instances where It awakes from its sleep, and most of these instances tend to be spaced 20 to 30 years apart. (Except for one, where It apparently stays asleep from sometime in the 1770s to the year 1851) So there is something of a timeframe for hibernation, but it isn't set in stone.

As for the madness hax (the thing everyone seems to love talking about this week), another important thing to note is that the Losers' empowerment during both Rituals of Chud apparently served to protect them from the madness-inducing shit, since A) they quite literally had to look Pennywise in the eyes in order to start the Ritual to begin with, and B) they're the only characters in the entire book who see its...well, true anything, and live. I assume that's why people are shouting about "1-A madness hax" now. (Although it could just be the fact that the character is being forced to see and perceive an endless, formless 1-A or something. I don't pay that much attention to the labels people stick on things, much less the reasoning behind why they do so.)

In fact, I went back into the book just to make sure I had everything correct, and yes. Both Bill's wife and another character look at Penny's true self once and die, very much in contrast to the Losers during the Ritual. The one guy looks at It once and dies of pure shock right on the spot, and Bill's wife looks at It long enough to process a single thought before she dies as well.

Also (and I'll be more than capable of providing quotes for this as well), if you die from seeing its true self, its true form takes your mind and soul afterwards and assimilates it into itself, bringing you out past the edge of the Macroverse and making you a part of it.

By the way, it's also implied very strongly that if It were to successfully pull Bill's consciousness far enough out of creation that he would actually see Its true form directly during the Ritual, he still would have gone mad and would "either be mercifully annihilated or live on forever, insane yet conscious in its endless formless hungry being".

Just something else to make a note of.

So... could it just not hybernate if it was fighting for over a decade or two? Or would it lose interest and go sleep regardless?

I think you misread what I said. "Two decades or so" is the amount of consecutive years it usually spends sleeping.

Although you'd still be correct in the end. There's really nothing that suggests it would just leave and go to sleep in the middle of a fight, not unless the opponent somehow replicates how badly the Losers injured its true form.

Thanks then.

Bill's wife didn't die, she went into a sort of catatonic state. There's even a little chapter at the end where she awakens from her coma after Bill rides with her on a bicycle.

Hmm, you're right. Although the text said "her mind was now with It" during the passage where she saw Its true form, so that may have had something to do with her waking up again after its avatar died.

MrKingOfNegativity said:

Hmm, you're right. Although the text said "her mind was now with It" during the passage where she saw Its true form, so that may have had something to do with her waking up again after its avatar died.

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True. Seems like destroying the avatar set her soul free.