It's not the technique I'm referring to, but the human perception of it. It's like you look at a solid wall, but not only is the wall not solid, but it has infinite space within it. Not only does that pretty much cause your brain's sense of perception to break, but it's impossible to resolve logically. So either Liu Xi has become accustomed to having her perception broken, or she found a way to resolve it or accept it somehow.

So it's a bit like sending someone into space suddenly, and their perception of direction, which way is up or down, and the position of their own limbs has become so distorted that confusion sets in immediately. It's been said that having to deal with that sensation for too long really can cause a person to go insane - which is why zero-G astronauts are tied to their chairs until the spacecraft stops moving, while airplane passengers can get up and walk around at a certain altitude. It gives them a reference point that avoids that kind of confusion.





That might be part of the answer - since Liu Xi is an elementalist, she probably "feels" those impossible elements, so she's in touch with them the way no other human can be. She becomes a part of that universe. That might make it so she feels as if she was born with them, even though she doesn't understand them.

Another interesting question is if Liu Xi spends too much time in the Shoggoth's universe, if she has problems adapting to the human one again.





I thought it had to do with more abstract things, which would relate to Liu Xi's handling of void. Elements might be even easier for her, as foreign as they are, because she can feel them call to her and sense their presence. Though the atmosphere may be toxic for her after too long, she might feel a connection to it so that it feels like home as much as her real home does.

Of course she still might be considered slightly insane, from the average humans' point of view, simply because she understands elements at all.





Lara Night is most sensitive to sources of energy and forces of the universe. The interesting part here might be if the Shoggoth gives off some kind of very foreign energy. Lara might go in, and then come out changed - maybe not mentally, but her energy-based powers might go haywire, or they might behave unpredictably, or she could simply have radically new or different powers for a while. Nobody would know for sure. She absorbs all energy around her, so the risk is high and unpredictable.





Noted.








Noted.