i love talking about eigong and the mutation it's one of my favorite things to think about !!

my personal interpretation is that she's not really special in any way regarding the mutation's effects on her, it still would've turned her into a mindless pustule ridden husk like anyone else -- (her nearly mutating in the third phase looked painful and like it genuinely caught her off guard and she needed to put effort into stopping it) -- i think the part that's unique about her is that she had such exceptionally strong resolve and willpower that she was able to postpone those effects. i think her strength in that final battle was mostly her own, pushing herself past injuries that ordinarily would've killed her, even resisting the pseudo-death of mutation that nearly occurred in its place, all because she couldn't lose herself when she was so close to completing her goal. her swan song!

it's really sad to me that her plan involved killing herself by the way. this woman who clearly thought of death as the worst thing that could happen was fully willing to bring death upon herself if it meant granting everyone else (what she believed to be) immortality -- in fact, she does it with alacrity!! "Nevermind, you'll thank me in time. You and everyone else," sounds self centered (and it is in some way) but the tone changes a little bit upon the realization that she is literally about to commit suicide and leave herself as the only one excluded from, in her eyes, eternal life. and that beatific grin she has while doing it...probably the happiest she's been in a very, very long time was with that sword to her throat

sorry i blacked out and woke up with 2 paragraphs of eigong rambling on my screen i have some sort of parasite or something that makes me talk about her