TIMOR INFECIT.
Latin Translation:
Fear Infected.
A parasite that goes straight for the brain taking your darkest fear and making you the living embodiment of them.
The way that it turns you into a beast made by your own fear is not well researched into. We know it has something to do with the spread of its children. But the way that it infects others is also peculiar. Depending on what fear its host has it will go for another human with the same or directly opposite fear. Like a complementary color.
This worm-like beast first has to find the part of the brain holding the fear and will show no signs that it has infected a host until then. We have already seen a few of these monsters. Abandonment presents itself as a humanoid shaped goo latching onto its victim and never letting go. When the other is infected the Abandonment monster will die. Knowing that it in itself has to let go of the new monster. But this death only makes it more infectious. If it gets into any plant matter, whatever plant it is stays infected forever and its children will also pass on this parasite. We pray to the gods or the devil whatever this thing comes from it does not end up in the grain. The failure monster will draw a smile across its always frowning face in red. May that be marker or blood as long as it's a deep red on its inky black. It has no eyes and long fingers. It will hug anyone that has the fear of failing as if it wants to comfort the other. It will end in a few scratches that the spawn of the parasite have already gotten into. For those with a fear of success or fame it will use the claws to dig deep into searching for a heart. And stuff it into its open chest cavity. Trying to use the others' fear to fix itself. It will only make this creature more upset and chase after anyone that had been more successful than it was in its past life until it is killed off or no one is left above it. Then there is child loss. A beast that will forever hold any child it can while crying.. If you try to remove the child this beast will lash out in a blind rage until it returns the child that over 3 weeks will become a new carrier. It will have no symptoms but at that three weeks when it's left by the child lost beast no one should comewithen five feet of it. Isolation monster. Keeping indoors away from others will not fix the issue as the isolation monster will infect these beasts and they will infect everyone they come across. fear of traveling. This facultative biped has long legs and arms. It will take anyone on a long trip on their back if they have the fear of traveling if a certain destination is the fear they will find a way to get to it. This disease is believed to be an immeasurably more perilous version of the toxoplasma gondii and theorized to have come from north africa and brazil just like it had.
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The parasite has been contained to poveglia island.
No one is allowed to go there. It's often called haunted and where those who had the plague would wait to die. Then a psychiatric hospital was made where they could do as they pleased. These are thought to be the reason why the island is off limits but now it's for these creatures. Please for humanity. Never venture there. You would break many a law as well as doom us all.
(I'm thinking of doing test logs for the kids held by the child loss monster where they will act like a person and by letting this generation live they will be ¨immune¨ but it ends up in a whole civilization of these monsters. thoughts? this all could become a story if yall want.)