A picture of a female Beautiful Dullahan that has been modified with a few flaws to prevent her magnetic beauty effects.
Entity Number: 877
Habitats: - Primarily Level-1750, but can be found throughout a majority of Cluster II and onward, existence of these entities wearing body obscuring outfits in Cluster I is possible.
Description:
Beautiful Dullahans are immortal entities that look like perfect humans with such extreme perfection that they are actively dangerous to look at. They have some similarities to Wretches due to both being former humans that lost their humanity and having a multiple staged transformation. Though as an opposite of wretches they only become more attractive looking, maintain their intelligence, personality and morals, and have a known cause of their transformation which is both as a result of being too long in Level-1750 and as a result of overdosing on Liquid Beauty.
Behaviors:
When it comes to the transformation from Human to Beautiful Dullahan, it is definitely tied to both Level-1750 and its endemic item. The transformation process into a Beautiful Dullahan is one of the few conditions that cannot be slowed or stopped by drinking Almond Water (which is probably because the transformation only "improves" the individual). This transformation is commonly referred to as the "Beautification" among wanderers, and cannot be reversed by any mean other than drinking Liquid Ugliness. The rate of transformation is based on where a person is in the overall physical appearance with people who fall under the criteria of being very high in the either cute, pretty, handsome and/or beautiful department transform the fastest, while a person who is very high in the ugly department transforms the slowest.
Complete prevention can be done by:
- Avoiding Level-1750 entirely and if you find any Liquid Beauty only drink as much as you desire and no more.
- If you do somehow end up in Level-1750, don't panic, and find one of the friendly Beautiful Dullahans to lead you to the nearest level safe exit.
- Alternatively wearing air filtrators such as gas masks seem to work in preventing transformation.
- Modifying your body to add some degree of ugliness to prevent Liquid Beauty from ever being able to reach the "Beautification" threshold.
- Bringing some Liquid Ugliness to drink everytime the beauty levels get too high.
When in Level-1750 "Beautification" lasts from at fastest a day to at slowest 5 years, while when overdosing on Liquid Beauty the transformation happens within an hour, the transformation stages are:
- Stage 1: Integument Shift: In quick succession, all present skin conditions either dissolve or flake off the body, all peach fuzz and unwanted facial and body hairs fall off at the roots, all old skin sheds for the last time all at once leaving only a soft and smooth layer of skin that is no longer able to stiffen into callouses, nail and scalp hair growth stops at a certain threshold, and any integumentary deformities present will leave the body in some form. This stage is rather rapid and quite painful as a result of the hairs ejecting the body by the roots.
- Stage 2: Anatomical Change: During Stage 2 of Beautifiation, all wrinkles smoothen out until there are none left anywhere in the body except for some epicanthic folds, philtrum disappears, scleras whiten and any ugly eye deformity present corrects itself, teeth whiten and correct any dental issues present, any remaining physical deformities fix themselves towards normalcy, the entire body restructures itself to perfection with all imperfect parts being moved and shifted to what looks best and already good parts being left alone, unhealthy organs turn healthy, and vomiting happens as a result of all unhealthy foreign contaminants being forcefully ejected from the body. From this stage onwards the need for bodily necessities is removed entirely. This stage is the slowest and most painful as a result of all the restructuring.
- Stage 3: Excretion Alteration: At Stage 3 the sweat glands are changed in such a way that instead of sweating from heat they release a cleaning enzyme that reacts like sweating when in contact with anything that is dirty, remaining hair and nails become slippery enough as to be able to easily shake off anything from mud to gum making it easy to dispatch any foreign contaminant in those areas. Tears are changed into the same disinfecting enzyme as their sweat glands and since the eyes no longer dry up, the tear ducts are used to ensure cleanliness while also still being able to cry normally. Mucus is no longer produced as both the nose easily ejects all foreign contaminants and the body becomes immune to acids making its use obsolete. Saliva and stomach acid now only generates when required or wanted instead of always generating since hydration is no longer an issue and eating is now optional instead of mandatory. Since all the ingredients to make earwax are gone they no longer generate and instead the hearing system has gained an immunity to sound damage due to a restructuring of the hearing system that no longer requires hairs to hear. Intestines now have developed a cleaning system of its own that activates after use and goes back to dormancy once entirely clean. From this stage onwards they are always clean regardless of circumstance. This stage is pretty brief and the second least painful stage due to the only pain coming as a result of minor shifts in the body.
- Stage 4: Symmetry Adjustment: Once they hit this stage their body aims towards bilateral symmetry and therefore one final body restructuring commences where everything in pairs is aligned and shaped evenly between both left and right side, while singular things are shaped and aligned so that they are perfectly centered. Individuals with freckles will have them shift to become bilaterally symmetrical patterns in the skin. This symmetrical restructuring unlike with Stage 2 will also have an effect on the internal organs, making this restructuring more internal than physically perceived. In this stage there is only one psychological change which is that they are immune to being influenced by physical looks entirely. This is the last stage they appear relatively normal. This stage is of moderate speed and considered the second most painful stage as a result of the body restructuring.
- Stage 5: Final Revision: Upon entering this stage all instances of normalcy disappear. Their entire external body's coloration generates its own light resulting in increased whitening of teeth and scleras, an increase in skin, iris, and hair vibrance and saturation to be similar to that of Level-1750 and Liquid Beauty itself, lips change a color that makes them resemble lipstick, palms and soles turn either a paler or pinker shade depending on the base skin color and nails end up with such perfect patterning that they resemble fake nails only with the coloration of Level-1750. This is the stage where they get all their other strange abilities. This is the fastest and by far the least painful of all stages exhibiting no pain since the only real change is attributed to colors.
The behavior of the Beautiful Dullahan is no different than that of a human except they are immune to being affected by the physical appearance of humans or any backroom entity that uses good looks as a weapon including themselves, they also tend to vary in intelligence like that of humans. Since their personality remains unchanged from when they are a human they are able to easily fit in with humans, but they must wear clothing that covers their entire body outside of their home level so their beauty cannot influence humans. Due to their ability to regenerate and survive dismemberment they are helpful in both revealing otherwise hidden traps and exploring levels that would otherwise be unexplored due to hazards. If they receive severe enough damage they will feign death by entering a death-like sleep until they are fully recovered. Due to being like humans there are three different types that based on their morals:
HABITAT(S): Primary Level-1750, Majority Cluster II+, Cluster I Civilizations?
- Type A: Beautiful Dullahans who are either primarily or completely benevolent fall into this category. Beautiful Dullahan of this type tend to act as a helpful ally to any wanderers who are lucky enough to encounter one. They have proven very useful in achieving dangerous tasks that would otherwise result in casualties, and have helped make their species more easily understood. They tend to often join and form groups that aim to help wanderers. They are most commonly found in Level-1750 in outfits appropriate for their hot environment and amongst helpful groups in other levels such as M.E.G. wearing the outfits that obscure their entire body. The only thing that can go wrong is that betraying one through violent means will place a curse that sets all exits to extremely dangerous or even unescapable levels due to a passive ability of theirs.
HABITAT(S): Primary Level-1750, Majority Cluster II+, Cluster I Civilizations?
- Type B: Beautiful Dullahans who are in the grey area between being benevolent and malevolant fall into this category. Beautiful Dullahan of this type tend to be either indifferent toward wanderer's plight or shift between doing good and evil. They can be helpful at times, but they can also lead people astray just as easily. They tend to often join and form groups of all sorts. Like Type A, they are most commonly found in Level-1750 in varying outfits and amongst various groups in other levels regardless of morality wearing the outfits that obscure their entire body. There are no consequences for betrayal since they aren't as actively trying to be helpful.
HABITAT(S): Majority Cluster II+
- Type C: Beautiful Dullahans who are either primarily or completely malevolent fall into this category. Beautiful Dullahan of this type often tend to manipulate any wanderer unlucky enough to encounter this type into being a mind controlled minion by weaponizing their beauty. This type has the capacity to be one of the most evil entities in all the backrooms because they are capable of committing the same atrocities as humans only they have both an eternal lifespan and a healing factor to negate any filters driven by fear. They tend to often join and form evil group to which they are almost always the mastermind behind. They are rarely found in Level-1750 wearing classy attire due to usually being exiled by the other types to maintain a habitable rating and commonly found in evil groups in other levels where they either wear classy outfit or outfits similar to what the Type A variants wear in Level-1750. Since they are evil bringing one down results in a blessing that makes exits lead to safer levels and possibly even lead back to Earth.
Knowing which type is being encountered is paramount to wanderer's survival. One of the biggest downsides to being a Beautiful Dullahan that makes it something to be avoided is that they cannot ever return to Earth which most have come to terms with. Beautiful Dullahans have the best understanding of the backrooms from Level-1000 onwards due to having been able to traverse them the most easily with a possibility of some even being present in Level-999 and below.
Biology:
Beautiful Dullahans are as variable as the humans they originate from with the only true consistencies in their physical appearance being that they look absolutely perfect to the extent that they are either cute, pretty, handsome or beautiful to the maximum degree. Along with this perfection other traits present in all Beautiful Dullahans is that their scleras and teeth are pure white, and that both their skin, hair, irises and nails are high in vibrance and saturation. The colors they emit are just as unusual due to not only generating directly from their body, but also being able to be perceived by people who are colorblind, always glowing in the dark areas while also not brightening up the area around them, and are completely immune to the "color rules" of any level they're in. They can be any ethnicity and gender that exists in humans of the backrooms. To further add to their variation any human that either enters Level-1750 or overdoses on Liquid Beauty ends up having their age locked to whatever age the transformation takes place, but since Liquid Beauty also doubles as a fountain of youth, any person who has gone past the age where they looked their best will revert back to it. Those who are age locked at a fertile age are able to produce baby Beautiful Dullahans that can age lock themselves to any age they choose till they reach 25 to which the aging stops completely. Their body can never stay dirty due to a combination of a reflex in their body similar to sweating that releases a clear cleaning liquid that causes the body to glisten like sweat but smells like fresh linen and causes all foreign contaminants to slide off their body like soap, their hairs is frictionless and thus makes even it immune to foreign contaminants, their tears are made of the same cleaning liquid as their "sweat". and every other available opening in their body causes all unwanted contaminants to simply fade to nothingness.
A modified version of ★ spunkinator's "Anyone up for some basketball?" image on Flickr used to rather crudely depict how Beautification transforms an individual, while also quite accurately depicting how most Beautiful Dullahan's heads are separated from their body.
Beautiful Dullahans get the other portion of their name from their ability to not only survive decapitation, but are also able to have their headless body function as if they are connected to each other. Though they are similarly able to control any other body part that gets cut off. All body parts that get severed are capable of levitation and have a skin covered stump that is smooth and soft. They are able to reattach body parts seamlessly by pressing both ends of the stump together. After initial dismemberment they are able to freely separate parts of their body whenever they so choose. They are capable of misplacing body parts by pressing a body part to a stump that belongs to another body part. Beautiful Dullahans are even able to easily connect with body parts that belong to other Beautiful Dullahans regardless of any differences and whichever part has the brain will always both take control over and feel every other body part connected to it when body parts are swapped. Slicing and severing are the only forms of damage that doesn't technically harm them.
All other damage can be recovered by their regenerative healing factor that works at an incredible degree. Beautiful Dullahans are able to regrow limbs, but only after a limb is completely obliterated and the newly grown limb will have to be severed again in order to gain the ability to detach the fresh limb. When they enter their death-like sleep their healing factor works at a phenomenal degree faster. Unusually though, despite their healing factor, both Almond Water and Cashew Water have no effect on them, while Liquid Beauty amplifies their healing factor to a visible degree more than usual for about an hour and Liquid Ugliness is their weakness that renders any injury done by it unhealable even going as far as to make slicing and severing by a blade coated in the liquid fatal. The only body part they cannot regrow is their head, which means complete obliteration of it will also result in their immediate death. They are immortal because both Liquid Ugliness and the complete destruction of their head is the only thing that can truly kill them.
Their eyes can perceive every color that exists, they have a sense of touch, hearing and smell that are far stronger than what is possible for humans. They are able to control their perception of time however they like.
Their best weapon though is their looks to which they can use to manipulate people who look at them into mind-controlled puppets who will do whatever they say. More horrifyingly, they can use their looks to straight up kill people by showing enough of themselves to induce a fatal heart attack (as a result of too much adrenaline) to any who observe enough of them. Similarly, their physical perfection can also be felt through the sense of touch which results in even feeling too much of them being dangerous.
Discovery:
The first recorded Beautiful Dullahan discovery was when M.E.G deployed a found Compass Point Team "Ivan" after they had been missing not long after entering Level-1750, Only for them to have discovered the entire team had gone through Beautification and became Type A Beautiful Dullahans. They didn't come back prior to being found by the search team because they didn't understand what had happened to them and if they were dangerous the way they are. The Beautiful Dullahans became significantly better understood When Ivan and his team compliantly let themselves get researched to better understand how they work and what they are capable of.
The first of Type B was discovered earlier by Team "Ivan" themselves in their explorations of Level-1750 to which their type was confirmed by researchers who interviewed the Beautiful Dullahans encountered.
The First Type C was discovered when a M.E.G base on Level-1751 was under attack by a group of mind controlled soldiers attacked with a Male Beautiful Dullahan of this type being the mastermind behind the attack. Entire entity removal teams were wiped out by that one Beautiful Dullahan. He was ultimately terminated when Liquid Ugliness was discovered and used against him.
Additional Info:
Various body part of Beautiful Dullahans have been known to prove useful in isolated levels:
- All parts can be used for their hypnotic perfection
- Beautiful Dullahan heads can be used for every head based biometric scan in all variants. Type A variants are more useful though due to also being used for their sense of taste to determine things such as the difference between Almond Water and Cashew Water or detecting the safety of food, their sense of smell in determining toxins, their sense of hearing to determine danger, their sense of sight to spot hidden colors, and/or for simply a someone to talk to.
- Beautiful Dullahan hands can be used for every hand based biometric scans and to get anything normally out of reach especially if entire arm is included.
- Beautiful Dullahan feet can be used for every foot based biometric scans.
Do's and Don'ts:
In General
Do:
- Take the precautions in Cluster II+ levels since the dangerous variants start appearing in them
- Try to determine what type your dealing with before taking any further action
- Use their smell of fresh linen when in contact with contaminants to determine their presence
- Wear touch weakening gloves when touching extensive parts of their bare skin is required
Don't:
- Look at too much of their perfection.
- Touch too much of them
- Bother using either Almond Water or Cashew Water on them since they are immune to the effects of both
Type A and B Variants
Do:
- Try to make friends with them
- Treat them as much like the humans they once were as possible
Don't:
- Betray them in an unjustifiable way that cannot be explained to them
Type A Variants Only
Do:
- Ask them for help when needed
- Trust them
- Bring them with you as an ally whenever possible
- Accept their offer of essential parts of their body when they tell say your gonna enter an isolated level since parts of their body count as an object rather than a person
Don't:
- Attack or kill them deliberately because doing so will result in an inescapable curse
- Be cruel to them
- Disregard any advice they give
Type B and C Variants
Do:
- Be on your guard when in their presence
Don't:
- Trust them