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melian does not eat like an elf does. she sees elves eating fruit off the vine, and digs up roots to shove into her mouth, into a stomach that goes nowhere, to feed a hunger she can never feel. on her worst days, she is amorphous, forgetting what melian the queen looks like.

radagast does not speak, forgetting how after centuries of disuse. he wheezes, purrs and clicks, and the animals of the wood understand all of it, giving him an applause only he can hear. the beloved son of yavanna houses animals under his skin, sustaining the vulnerable off his own mana.

saruman is the most unhinged, his appearance wearing thin on him, and occasionally melting. any new patches of skin simply wilt off, and he has given up. what is left of his skin remains on him, held together by stitches and mana that serves as glue. his facial features are too distorted to make sense of.

gandalf hides it the best, staving excess energy off in the form of his pipe, streaming away whenever it gets too much. he knows the consequences of untapped power going unchecked. on days where it is hard to hide, he screams in a voice that is far too young for the body he is in, with pulses of energy tearing themselves from him. the process leaves him exhausted, but it is worth it, simply to feel like a mortal in those moments.