Their "true" form No one can fully perceive it. Whenever Torchwood cameras try to record a Celestis, the image is distorted: Light bends around them. Their outline constantly changes. They seem to occupy several positions at once. Looking directly at them causes headaches or lost memories. One character might describe them as: "It's like looking at time instead of a person." Human avatars To interact with the physical world, they inhabit specially grown biological bodies. These look almost human, but something is always wrong: Perfectly symmetrical faces. Eyes with no visible pupils. Skin that seems slightly translucent. Movements that are unnaturally smooth, almost like they're skipping frames. When injured, instead of bleeding, fragments of light and impossible symbols leak from the wound before the body dissolves into dust. Reality glitches Sometimes you don't see the Celestis—you see reality reacting to them. As one walks through a corridor: Clocks all stop at different times. Security footage shows yesterday. Flowers bloom and decay within seconds. People's reflections keep walking after they've stopped. Torchwood realizes the Celestis aren't creating illusions; they're altering causality. During battle When forced into a confrontation, their avatars crack open. Inside isn't flesh. Instead: Moving constellations. Spirals of Gallifreyan symbols. Entire timelines folding over one another. Voices from hundreds of different futures speaking simultaneously. No CGI Ver mais