Energy Absorption

[NotaNuffian]

James has Life Force manipulation, something that he uses to heal people by pumping them full of LF and accelerate their healing process (he also knows when to stop or else cancer and unwanted tissue growth are always a possibility). He also can use it to draw LF away from others to heal himself or weaken them as he bashes their heads in with his fists. The only issue is that due to the setting of the world, James' siphoning powers cannot work on the dead, he can make the corpses fresh though. The issue comes when the body recently dies, James has around 10 mins or so to draw out the LF within to use as the LF has two.routes; it is slowly drained out like a leaked balloon or worse, when the LF gets slowly converted into death energy and James sucking these up will cause him to decay as death energy does not play we with Life Force.

So as a subset to that power, the protagonist has this ability call full (efficient) caloric absorption, ie he eats a bread and immediately gets to use the calories instead of wasting his time while the food slowly digests. The food provides James with energy as well as healing.

Also, cooked food yielded more calories due to oil and while James can eat raw chicken, he opts not to because it is disgusting, he has no qualms in sucking the life out of people though.

My question is, can the caloric intake be taken just from Life Force absorption, considering that while calories are a form of potential energy, should James be cheating just by grabbing a xmas turkey in each hand everytime he wants to heal?

 

[Lloyd]

The real question is this. Why have you still not posted a novel?

 

[NotaNuffian]

The real question is this. Why have you still not posted a novel?

Because wayback is a thing and Ima coward.

I have an ego more fragile than a prepubescene schoolgirl who just got rejected by her crush.

Ps. How the hell you add Pepe the frog into the dropbox of your info?

 

[RepresentingWrath]

I have an ego more fragile than a prepubescene schoolgirl who just got rejected by her crush.

Still better than some 'top' authors on webnovel.

 

[Lloyd]

Because wayback is a thing and Ima coward.

I have an ego more fragile than a prepubescene schoolgirl who just got rejected by her crush.

Ps. How the hell you add Pepe the frog into the dropbox of your info?

Its not pepe, it's apu. Learn your frogs.

 

[NotaNuffian]

Its not pepe, it's apu. Learn your frogs.

Oh wow.

Am I... frog racist?

 

[Lloyd]

Oh wow.

Am I... frog racist?

I changed the banner just for you.

 

[NotaNuffian]

I changed the banner just for you.

???

All I see are crosses. Are those mass graves?

Is it an Evangelion reference?

 

[Lloyd]

???

All I see are crosses. Are those mass graves?

Is it an Evangelion reference?

It is literally a still from evangelion.

 

[NotaNuffian]

It is literally a still from evangelion.

No wonder.

 

[greyblob]

Am I... frog racist?

more like an ignorant plebian.

 

[NotaNuffian]

more like an ignorant plebian.

So far, two ppl thinks that James should eat with his hands. Eww.

 

[greyblob]

So far, two ppl thinks that James should eat with his hands. Eww.

i haven't actually read the thread. i'll get back to you later.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Everything we eat was once alive, but you said the power doesn't work on dead things, so unless he's standing in a garden munching tomatoes right off the vine, I'm not sure how he could get LF out of it.

 

[NotaNuffian]

Everything we eat was once alive, but you said the power doesn't work on dead things, so unless he's standing in a garden munching tomatoes right off the vine, I'm not sure how he could get LF out of it.

That is my own argument towards this power, because what he eats is calories from the corpses while the LF is ATP???

 

[RepresentingCaution]

That is my own argument towards this power, because what he eats is calories from the corpses while the LF is ATP???

 

[ElijahRyne]

James has Life Force manipulation, something that he uses to heal people by pumping them full of LF and accelerate their healing process (he also knows when to stop or else cancer and unwanted tissue growth are always a possibility). He also can use it to draw LF away from others to heal himself or weaken them as he bashes their heads in with his fists. The only issue is that due to the setting of the world, James' siphoning powers cannot work on the dead, he can make the corpses fresh though. The issue comes when the body recently dies, James has around 10 mins or so to draw out the LF within to use as the LF has two.routes; it is slowly drained out like a leaked balloon or worse, when the LF gets slowly converted into death energy and James sucking these up will cause him to decay as death energy does not play we with Life Force.

So as a subset to that power, the protagonist has this ability call full (efficient) caloric absorption, ie he eats a bread and immediately gets to use the calories instead of wasting his time while the food slowly digests. The food provides James with energy as well as healing.

Also, cooked food yielded more calories due to oil and while James can eat raw chicken, he opts not to because it is disgusting, he has no qualms in sucking the life out of people though.

My question is, can the caloric intake be taken just from Life Force absorption, considering that while calories are a form of potential energy, should James be cheating just by grabbing a xmas turkey in each hand everytime he wants to heal?

No for a couple of reasons.
1. It would be awkward to carry the turkeys while fighting.
2. He has to eat the turkey to get the calories, pretty hard to do while fighting.
3. It would be more efficient to steal LF from his opponent to heal himself instead.
4. You aren’t getting as much calories as you think from turkey.

This would be a thing to do in preparation it would be akin to marathon prep.