Alaina Urquhart

Science.

That was loud.

Flaying involves tearing the skin away from the muscle, not cutting it.

So it's the ripping motion that means your nerve endings are just, they're not being severed cleanly.

Instead, they're just fucking torn to shreds.

So your nerve endings are just being like.

bombarded yeah it's not like a clean cut that they can like recover from um you're gonna feel your skin being pulled off every bit of muscle oh my god and you're literally gonna feel your nerve endings die like you're gonna feel every nerve ending die you're gonna feel all of it so despite the fact that those administering the torture may also be hitting you or hanging you upside down to keep you awake and alert which they often did

You may lose consciousness from blood loss, from pain and fear, or because your brain is most definitely going to go into self-preservation mode and just start shutting shit down.

Right.

Which, thank goodness for our brains.

For real.

Or you could die from hypothermia, even if it's not cold out.

Because you don't have your skin to protect you anymore?

Yeah, because your skin is the biggest and one of the most vital organs in the human body.

And it regulates temperature, protects all the other organs and systems in the body.

So not only that, but you're exposed completely to infection.

You will definitely die because of all that.

Without your skin, you can repair and regenerate skin.

Without your skin, you are nothing.

But once you've lost that much skin, your body can't regenerate that much skin, obviously.