Talk:Re: Chapter 117/@comment-95.168.158.235-20170318121308/@comment-217.212.214.57-20170322044641

^ True.

But those creatures are flatworms and the like...so unless you're saying that ghouls are flatworms (which would fit into my theory of the kakuhou originally being a deep-sea creature from the abyss) then human regeneration and "flatworm regeneration" are two completely different things due to the construction of the cells.

The immortal jellyfish achieves it by aging backwards.

In essence, it doesn't extend the hayflick limit, but returns it to its original lenght by entering its polyp state once again. It doesn't add tissue either, it sacrifices it in order to extend the hayflick limit.

In a human, it would be like the user of "reverse regeneration" would turn themselves into a baby in order to grow back lost limbs and the like, turn back the passage of time.

But the problem is, "reverse regeneration" only goes in one direction...backwards.

Not forward.

Which means, that the user would still age normally, and be stuck as a baby once the regeneration is done, essentially forcing the user to re-learn everything in life from scratch once more, be depended on others to feed it and have to go thorugh kindergarten, pre-school, school, relearn their education and all of their skills again and might even end up as a completely different person mentally once they reach adult stage after twenty or so years.

That is the price for "revert regeneration."

All traces of the person you were and life you had before that.

Sure, it is immortality, only problem is, the user won't even be aware of it long enough to savor its prospects.

And even then, the user can still be killed as a baby since there's a limit on how far back the "reverse regeneration" can go. Unless it goes into overdrive and reduce the user into a embryo, killing it for certain.

Let us recap what we got!

"Accelerated Regeneration" = Shortened hayflick limit and decreased lifespan

"Cancer generation" = Removal of the hayflick limit but the risk of increasingly deformed genetic structures rises with each use to the point of deformity (for reference, se William "G" Birkin of Resident Evil 2)

"Reverse Regeneration" = Mental process lost with each usage, forcing the user to re-learn everything again, loss of personal memories such as friends, family, happpy memories, trauma and the liek and the user is still suspectible to damage and death if assaulted in infantile state.

That's what we got so far.

So no, "Regeneration" is still a sucky power, no matter what shape it take.