You know what they say, there's a fine line between genius and insanity. Liu Xi might be incredibly smart to be able to resolve that, or she might be insane so it doesn't bother her, or maybe a little of both.





Fortunately, unlike Lara who absorbs energy, Liu Xi doesn't absorb them at all (except through normal eating and drinking like most people). She just feels their call and manipulates them, and doesn't really know how it works or care. It's more tied to her emotional response than and kind of logic.

That's nearly perfect for handling diseased, foreign elements, because while they will "feel" different to her, and have unexpected results (i.e. if she wants to burn something with fire, she might change its color instead) it still feels similar.

The good news is because she doesn't absorb any of it, she can't take it home with her and pollute her own world with it.








Most notably this might cause problems with her recognizing right and wrong, and the sanctity of life, much like the Shoggoth does. In the Shoggoth's world, all that stuff is all the same anyhow. Like a child, she might believe if she kills something, it's not really dead.





She doesn't need to really, since she *is* a pocket of normal elements and physics. Perhaps she's just better and holding those together because she can sense the elements within her being pulled apart and is able to hold them in place.








No, she would be the one reconfiguring the walls like an elaborate puzzle instead.








The good news is nature is good at fixing that to an extent. Travelling between universes uses up a huge amount of energy, which would purge most of the foreign energy quickly (but then it would be on the loose in the Parodyverse).

So the biggest problem for Lara would be how to avoid absorbing enough foreign Shoggoth energy that she can single-handedly corrupt part of the Parodyverse. It's like being radioactive and figuring out how to decontaminate so you don't kill everyone around you.