Talk:Roma Hoito/@comment-28672004-20170801223127/@comment-27247962-20170803101142

^ I think it's the cannibalizing of ghouls with which comes a sudden boost in RC cells that prevent ghouls from aging. The excess amount of RC cells is used to heal it's cells constantly so they don't need to be replicated.

When cells have no need to divide in other cells anymore, then the telomere doesn't become smaller either. It's the dividing of cells that eats away at the length of the telomere and once there are no telomeres anymore, you're at the end of your life. Your cells won't divide anymore and the current cells will die out over time.

Look at it like this. Ghouls have the same lifespan as humans, essentially 80-100years. But whenever they cannibalize or take in a whole lot of RC cells they have the abiltiy to freeze time (in a sense). So if a 15year old ghoul cannibalizes on a few of her fellow ghouls, then she won't age a day 'til the extra mass of RC cells are all consumed and used. Ofcourse heavily wounding a ghoul will quicken the process of aging, because a lot of cells will have to divide to create all the lost tissue again.

To go even one step further in this analysis. In the event that their cells can't divide anymore, their RC cells might take over the functionality completely, which gets us to what a 'Noro' could be defined as. Wether that is as a zombie or as their self is something I don't know.