CRABGEDDON

Yes! They’re a lot like glue traps to witches because it’s really easy to get stuck in them and then, DEATH. And Lenly’s extremely competent at her profession, but it still took her awhile to get good at sewing Noya up- partly because Noya had a very, difficult time accepting help and partly because she’s suuuper, super ambitious and has a hard time taking things slowly.

And mistakes range from unwanted, but slight, changes or alterations (memory loss, changes in appearance are some common ones) to complete meltdown emergencies where all that’s left is like black-hole type situation thats hard as hell to fix. Theres a clean-up crew to deal with those types of mistakes but you don’t want to get them involved because it also involves some pretty serious punishment.

YOU ARE ASKING MY FAVORITE QUESTIONS, thank you- And, aah, It’s a little difficult to explain without getting into the thick of things but i’ll try to keep my thoughts brief- Threads in my headworld are kind of the un-tamperable magical knitting holding the world together. And they’re not really supposed to be messed with because yknow, you start pulling at a stray string in a sweater and suddenly your sleeves’ unraveling. Witches’ aim to snip or re-knit these strings of the world into different arrangements, and depending on how good they are at their craft, they can either do it without much harm to the thing or, completely disassemble it. 

But, when i’m talking about threads in terms of the eaters i’m usually talking about the same thing, just theirs are so unstable and unmanageable that they don’t have a solidly constructed state and continually re-arrange and regenerate, visibly affecting their bodies. It makes them really hard to pull them apart, but easy to over-generate themselves and gorily burn out (imagine setting steel wool on fire, thats kinda what happens)

Noya and eaters in general deal with sickness and disease like everyone else But, since their bodies are hyper-regenerative and really.. imperfect, shall we say, if they get a serious health problem they go through a gross period of 5-12 hours where their bodies superheat and reconstruct to fry out the threat. It’s like going through an entire course of a flu in a day, and its exhausting, sweaty and miserable. After the process is done, its pretty normal for hair & nails to be grown out and shifting scars to be healed over (which is a whole other problem because it makes the next shift pretty painful)

And as for unique diseases, it’s possible for the regenerative aspect of threads to over-compensate, literally building a hard armor around an eater and eventually burning them out if it doesn’t stop- it’s a pretty serious condition and only happens when they take a ton of damage. They also have to worry about debris and miscellaneous items getting stuck in their threads, which isn’t really a health problem but it is ANNOYING like getting a sliver you just cant pry out.

ohhhh man thank you a bunch anon, i think thats the nicest, most satisfying compliment and i’m pleased as punch you like teef and snarly mouths as much as i do!!

I try to keep the ones on her face consistent, one on each cheek and that notch on her nose- theyre some of the points where her threads burst pretty uniformly. Thats all her scars are really, the points where her skin breaks open first and where it seals up last when she winds back down. I’ve been playing with the idea of giving them more of a consistent pattern but nothing’s really stuck yet :\

ooh thisi is really good question thank youu, 
Shes definitely at serious odds with the dragons for using her as a living good luck charm against her will, ANd boy theres a lot of things in the world that’d see Ash as an easy meal… most recently these big decayer beasts, which look like dark eel/panthers and rot out trees living things and are bad news bears for everyone.

AW JEEZ ;w; I’ll be sure and let them know, thanks very sweet anon!