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evil parasite!

dude.... these 🤨 sunglasses

Did a redraw of my minecraft sona for halloween :] New:

Old:

The anglerfish furby is actually a design I won in a game on the artfight discord server! I uh... I don't remember who designed it becus the chat got deleted 💀 (I added the lil webbed fin feet myself tho!) + spooky version i made later:

self rb because I FORGOOOOT to mention that, in relation to 'fresh going in through the eye' thing, he doesn't have to be in the skull/head to be possessing someone's body, like in the True!Fresh image CQ drew, he's lower than the ribcage and still controlling the body fine...(the other colored tendrils are fresh's parasite offspring, you coouulld argue that they're the ones controlling the host but ehhh) So I like to think that despite the soul Always showing up in the eyesocket, Fresh doesn't have to be in the head to feed on it.

More weird questions I've just thought of, this time pertaining to the Fresh parasite

What is the texture of the parasite like? Is it squishy and slimy, or is it like a shark or sturgeon, in that if you run your hand over it one way, it's smooth, but if you run your hand over it the other way, it's rough?

Is it like an octopus, with being able to squeeze through just about any space? Or are there limitations?

Does the parasite have organs? Other than its one singular eyeball, I mean

Can I squish it, or is it a bit more firm?

Is there any way to deter it and keep it from hijacking people's bodies? I'd use "like salt with slugs/snails" as a comparison, but that's not a deterrent, that just outright kills them

How heavy is the parasite? Can it bounce?

Is it sticky, or does it have little suckers on it to help "climb" flat surfaces?

When it hijacks the body of a human (assuming it goes into the eye socket), what does it do with the eyeball? Does it just pop out the eye and make itself at home, does it eat the eye, or?

I know it doesn't need to breathe, but could it kinda sorta suffocate when placed in a hot enough environment? Is it weak to extreme temperatures?

Okay take this with a grain of salt because CQ doesn't talk about Fresh parasites much, but here's what I've gathered.

It's a common thought to have, but I doubt they crawl into the eyesocket unless it's open like with Sans (or someone missing an eye like Undyne, since Error in askerror mentions Fresh has possessed Undynes multiple times). Remember the kiss list? After CQ said Fresh likes to kiss people as a prank and keeps a list book of people he's kissed, people speculated that he not only kisses to see their reaction, but also when he needs a new host he uses that as a method to possess people via mouth. So no eye eating, only soul sucking.

idk about touch texture but Fresh is stretchy, during a roleplay CQ joined called Timeparty(I may be wrong about it being timeparty but it was one of those events), Fresh stretched his tendrils from his host and wrapped up another character just to threaten them.

I personally think that since Fresh can stretch out so much, he can also squeeze through small gaps like an octopus... makes the 'parasite invading bodies' thing easier.

Gotta use your imagination for the rest... or just ask CQ, though she hasn't written parasite lore in a while lmao. (F in the chat for Capri and Slinky 😔)

And I WILL use my imagination cus I like to headcanon that Fresh parasites don't have internal organs or blood and instead have a ton of tiny orb-shaped organelles throughout their body that serve both purposes.... like... like those orbeez balls..... lil orbs they fill with soul energy all circulating around their bodies...

More weird questions I've just thought of, this time pertaining to the Fresh parasite

What is the texture of the parasite like? Is it squishy and slimy, or is it like a shark or sturgeon, in that if you run your hand over it one way, it's smooth, but if you run your hand over it the other way, it's rough?

Is it like an octopus, with being able to squeeze through just about any space? Or are there limitations?

Does the parasite have organs? Other than its one singular eyeball, I mean

Can I squish it, or is it a bit more firm?

Is there any way to deter it and keep it from hijacking people's bodies? I'd use "like salt with slugs/snails" as a comparison, but that's not a deterrent, that just outright kills them

How heavy is the parasite? Can it bounce?

Is it sticky, or does it have little suckers on it to help "climb" flat surfaces?

When it hijacks the body of a human (assuming it goes into the eye socket), what does it do with the eyeball? Does it just pop out the eye and make itself at home, does it eat the eye, or?

I know it doesn't need to breathe, but could it kinda sorta suffocate when placed in a hot enough environment? Is it weak to extreme temperatures?

click and drag to take maisy car for a drive around your dashboard

oh right it’s #screenshotsaturday over on twitter! i’ve been reworking one of the big scenes in HOST, namely the first encounter with The Monster™, so here’s an animated part of it! :>

Things Fresh's stupid glasses say

Hello everybody! I'm back on my Fresh fan nonsense I wanted to make a collage of every time I've seen CQ draw Fresh's sunglasses saying anything that's not "YOLO".

The words on his glasses seem to be able to be changed by him at will, as well as subconsciously(?)... And his host can communicate using them too(though it would probably be incredibly difficult and potentially painful for them to go against Fresh's control like that), their words will just be in a different color than the usual cyan and yellow that Fresh uses.

Context for each:

"OH NO" and "NOLO" - His glasses said that when he was around Sage because he can't stand her

"2EDGE 4U" - His glasses default to this when he possesses UnderFell Sans, it seems like just a replacement for the "YOLO"... so his glasses can probably change to other things while he's still possessing Fell, they'll probably just go back to "2EDGE 4U" after.

"ERROR" - His glasses said this when he possessed Error.

"WHAT" - Ok I'm not even gonna explain this one, it's a lot, baby Fresh is just flabbergasted

"!!! !!!" - Fresh is shocked that Salt would humor the idea of doing drugs

"HO HO" - Festive christmas time! This is a replacement for the usual "YOLO", so his glasses can still change but they default back to "HO HO".

"BRAH" - His glasses say this while he's laughing with Underswap!Sans about something.

"RUDE" - His glasses say this when he's completely ignored by Underswap!Papyrus.

"OH MY" - Another context I won't explain, just know it's from the 'What If Error and Blue were Super Duper Gay' video.

"WHY DO I EXIST" - same context as the "OH MY".

"YOU'RE FUNKIN DEAD" - No context for you, I refuse, if you're curious message me lol

"PLZ end all this" and "Help Me" - His glasses flicker to these words because his Sans host is trying to fight back to communicate with Error.

blank glasses - His grin and silly "YOLO" are gone as Fresh is telling Pacifrisk the serious truth about his faked emotions.

I think it's actually going to drive me crazy if I don't find out who voices the bunny abomination thing at the end of Princess Quest in FNAF: Help Wanted

PLEASE I NEED TO KNOWWW I know it's only in a freaking mobile version of the game and it's a distorted voice clip but it's still original and I need to know who SAID IT

I'm so desperate, if anybody knows how to find out pls tell me  🙏 

I got water purification and word scrambling HAHAHA THEY'RE BASICALLY USELESS

it gave Crazy Diamond as the example for word scrambling though... nice

Click on it twice. These are your two super powers.

my BIG HAIRY REALISTIC EARS

The way you laughed while drawing this... and how you refused to show me until it was done WAS SO FUNNY

no words. @purrpletiger

It’s the same picture your honor

can't believe you drew me ominously looming in the background like some big scary monster when I wasn't even in call to know WHY. LMAO AWESOME i like the shinji he is so silly lookin

what a totally normal series of drawings i did in call with my friends that does not at all dissolve into madness

Is greaser sans and Fresh canon?

I'm not sure really, depends on what you define as canon. CQ has roleplayed the ship with Radsee (creator of Greaser, formerly went by Rodsee) and enjoys it, but she's also said "It's so out of character for Fresh to have a relationship. period" about a different ship, after the Freshgrease ship was popularized.

Hope that helps! I see the ship as a What-If scenario, being if Fresh was ever able to develop feelings and cope with them, he may fall for Greaser... Basically a looong string of roleplays is what got Fresh there.(It's also a crush that nobody would expect to happen, because Greaser is an alcoholic smoker and Fresh is STRICTLY against drugs and alcohol to an extreme extent) but in Fresh's default state, the Fresh most people know, he wouldn't fall for anyone because he's incapable of love.

Here's a post CQ made about it to give better context

Also since I haven't gotten to see the roleplays myself, I don't know if they ever got together, all I know is that Fresh had a crush on Greaser in that roleplay and Greaser was terrified of being loved because he sees himself as a detriment to other people

"When I first found you, you were nothing. You were small, pathetic, but now you are more."

-Where there’s darkness, there is light…where there’s despair, there’s hope…no matter where you’ll go I will follow you til the end AFTON!!!-

-✨Princess Quest✨-

Ayo this post is FANTASTIC. I freaking love love love the implications and LAYERS that the Loveball/Timeparty RP events added to his character. HE'S SO INTERESTING. I will point out that the anger thing does seem to be related to learning friendship n stuff like that, here's a post by CQ that explains it.

Aaand if you want another Fresh fan going over what Fresh post-crisis would be like, here's a post I love!

OKAY SO THE FRESH ANALYSIS

ME DEARLY BELOVED FOLLOWERS, you probably started wondering why I like Fresh so much. Why I have been lovingly rotating him in my mind like a rotisserie chicken.

SO ANYWAYS I AM GOING TO DO MY BEST TO WRITE DOWN EVERYTHING I’VE READ ABOUT HIM. This is not complete simply because I haven’t read EVERYTHING on the old RP blog CQ ran for him. This is also mostly from the perspective of his character so other facts like Fresh using he/they pronouns and having furby bombs and canonically liking kissing (okay actually that does play into his character slightly) won’t be the primary focus of this analysis. This also, All, my own interpretation.

This analysis will be in three sections: His original characterization, his Monologue, and finally what could be inferred about how how his character changed due to the Event that gave us the Monologue.

His Original Characterization

The first thing you need to know about Fresh is that his goofy 90s persona was chosen specifically because they thought it would be non-threatening. This plays into a major part of his personality, which is that, baseline, everything he does is for survival. Once everything needed for that is met and taken care of the next major component is that he does whatever he wants to do to entertain himself.

He possesses people to live, but torments people on occasion (not too often, making enemies would go against the survival thing, unless he’s assessed that they would be a harmless enemy perhaps). All his weapons are innocuous at first glance to once again pass himself off as non threatening (oh hey the furby bombs come into play here, huh, he also uses a wiffle bat).

He doesn’t feel most emotions, but he can feel a few, (and at one point CQ said that the longer Fresh is in the same host the more he can feel? Not sure if that still applies, take that with a grain of salt) but those emotions are fear, anger, and amusement primarily (though affection and others are not off the table, it would just take A Lot of work for him to get to that point). Primarily his emotions that he portrays are all ones he’s imitating based on what he thinks are non threatening reactions. He easily pretends to be chipper or indignant but he doesn’t truly feel most of these emotions. According to posts written by CQ he is not genuinely flirty though him imitating “safe” emotions might put him in situations where he does that (most likely just to entertain himself, which is the primary reason he likes kissing. He doesn’t understand why kissing is meant to be important and does it because he’s amused by people’s reactions to it. Absolutely no thoughts [about kissing] behind those glasses.)

He is also very full of himself. He thinks he’s better than other people (but obviously he recognizes that as being a negative/”unsafe” thing to voice so he keeps it to himself and privately believes it). He thinks he’s better and deserves good things (this is directly stated in The Monologue), which is another reason he amuses himself by scaring people. IT’S IS ALSO A RESULT OF ANOTHER MAJOR COMPONENT OF HIS PERSONALITY: He has an ideology that people are primarily driven by selfishness. This is likely a direct result of him being a literal parasite who needs to harm others to live. He is really unable/unprepared to comprehend that people can care about others so much that they would put their loved ones before themselves. When this is challenged it typically makes him irrationally angry and ready to hurt people (even ones he “pretends” are his friends, and even though this contradicts his need to survive at any cost) to prove to them that they should never trust anyone. This is also why on occasion in a few comics CQ has done Fresh will offer up being possessed to desperate people with the lure that they won’t feel pain anymore (which is implied to be a lie because people who can read souls and Fresh himself say they can hear the host screaming, possibly in agony).

THE MONOLOGUE

Okay so I’m going to explain the events leading up to The Monologue, and then I’m going to share the whole monologue here, then I will analyze it (plus here is the link to the post with the monologue and a more in-depth recap of events from Fresh’s old RP blog)

There was a huge multi-blog RP event (these used to be very common, I don’t go to the RP scene anymore though so I’m not sure if they stopped or I just stopped seeing them, basically a whole bunch of blogs get together to RP through one big common event, typically a party that they are all attending) called the LoveBall that Fresh went to with the plan to infect as many people as possible with parasites he produced and from there infect the whole multiverse (which he claims is to “help” them all). Fresh directly states that he’s not a Sans here, even though this was before his redesign when he was still possessing one (STARES DIRECTLY AT EVERYONE CLAIMING I AM A SANS SIMP FOR LOVING FRESH).

Anyways he gets confronted by another Not Sans, who takes him to The Last Corridor (judgement hall) and Fresh is sure he’s going to die, though he still tries to act unbothered. They talk a bit and it is revealed to Fresh that he is a fictional character (he could see the whole multiverse was code too which is a fun detail), he’s clearly taken aback but still tries to play it off as it’s explained to him that him and the other Not-Sans and everyone they’ve ever known are Nothing, and that it would be for the best if he doesn’t try to get OUR attention.

SO NOW WE COME TO THE MONOLOGUE ITSELF WHICH IS SO GOOD THAT I WANT TO EAT IT. Anyways:

…….I’ve thought about a lot of stuff lately. Ya know. All these inner thoughts I ignore or avoid listenin to. And I realized. Ya know. Maybe I wasn’t lookin to ‘help everyone’. It was some excuse, ya know? I like messin with people. I like the concept that in some way, I’m more clever, or amusing, or hilarious, or-…. simply put, I’m BETTER then the rest of em. I’m better and I deserve to get what I want, and I wanna mess with people and I want to hurt people, and since, ey, I gotta possess people to survive, I might as well ENJOY the process as well, ya know dawg? I wanted to take over the multiverse because yeah, it extended far beyond somethin so noble as ‘helpin’ people, I wanted to take over because I COULD, and because it was FUN, and because I couldn’t be STOPPED. I wanted the power to enslave E͏̷͏V̨̀͜E̸͠͠R̡̢͠Y̸͢͟T҉̢͠H͏͜͞Ì̴̕N̡̨̕G͡. The power to enslave everything. But. I can’t do that. Can I?

B̷͠E͢͝͡C̕͠͝Ą҉̀́̀U̡̢S̀͏E҉́͢͟ ̷͜͞Ó̡̢F̢̧͝ ̶Ỳ̨́O̢̢̢Ù̶͡.̨̛ ̵͜͜R͏̷͢Ì́Ǵ͝͞H̡̡͟T́͞?̛͜͠ You’re the voices Error hears. Aren’tcha. The voices Error always talks about. Always chats with. You’re ONE OF THEM. BEYOND THE CODE. YOU’RE WHAT I WAS WARNED ABOUT. YOU’RE WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT. BEYOND ALL OF MY KNOWN EXISTENCE. BEYOND ‘THE GAME’. You’re toying with Error. Askin him questions. We’re all your toys. Every single thing I’ve seen, every Universe, every single creature I’ve come across or possessed, every bit of data…. is something you are capable of manipulating, right? And now.I got your attention. Just like he warned me against.

….y-ya know. I won’t stop. Right. I’m gonna keep possessin peeps, and runnin around and having a radical time.

That’s what you WANT, right?? That’s what you’re lookin for, to be amused, and have a laugh! Well you’re in luck! THATS WHAT THE FRESH IS HERE TO DO! No worries, my good ol chums!!I’ll keep it up. Everything.

Right?? THATS WHY YOU’RE TALKING TO ME NOW. Right?? You are amused by me!!! Ah hahaha wicked brah! I’m glad! I’ll just- keep–

I-I…. I’ll just. Keep up my dated lingo. I’ll heelie right into every situation and make a joke of myself, and then when peeps drop their guard I’ll do somethin creepy or hilarious– OR BOTH! Ah hahahahahahaha. That’s what you want. THATS WHAT YOU WANT?

….don’t kill me. Don’t kill me. Or worse. Whatever you’re capable of….

I… I’ll do what you want!!

I PROMISE. just….just.

Don’t kill me. Please.

So one of my favorite details here in the monologue is the fact that it starts with him outright stating that he thinks he’s better than everyone else and it ends with him begging us not to kill him. His hubris hit an unmovable wall at 100 mph.

I really feel like the monologue speaks for itself, so onto the next part!

Post Event Characterization Implications

So one of the things that could probably be inferred by this is that all three of his major motivators, His Need to Survive, His Want To be Entertained/Amused, and His Ideology of Selfishness are basically shoved into a blender. I’m sure he still believes in inherent selfishness but his ego about it should be at least slightly bruised, knowing that he’s just as microscopic and inconsequential as anyone else in the multiverse. As for his need to survive and want to be entertained, they’ve both been subverted to different extents. His want to be entertained is completely subverted where instead of being the one being entertained by bothering people, he is now the one wanting to do the entertainment because they believe it is necessary for their survival.

I imagine he is being eaten alive every day by the worry that he’s not being interesting enough and will be abandoned and effectively killed for not entertaining us enough. Though he might be able to push that out of his mind most of the time to continue what he normally does, because he might be able to convince himself that we have to like him for who he is to some extent or he wouldn’t have gotten this far, which seems very plausible given how good he is at hiding his fear and anxiety during his confrontation with the other Not-Sans.

Anyways he’s a bastard and he’s great and I am unfortunately in love with him. He probably wouldn’t be down for it but I will still imagine holding his hand and then picking him up and slam dunking him into a trash can (lovingly).

Do you have any canon facts about Fresh? You seem like you know about him a lot so I wanted to ask :')

Sure! If you'd like to know something specific you can ask, but here's some commonly misunderstood aspects of his character.

He doesn't kill his hosts. He leaves them in a weakened state when he's done with them but their soul can recover over time. it's possible for them to get possessed by him again.

He talks using his host. He doesn't have his own voice and as a parasite separate from a host he can't talk, so his voice will only sound like his host's with a different tone. Though it's totally possible but not confirmed that he has a way of mentally talking to his host, it is confirmed that he can hear his host mentally. (He can hear his host in their mind so maybe they can hear him?)

Fresh isn't a disease, a virus, or an infection. He's a heckin parasite, he can only possess one person at a time. He has to physically go into a body and control it. His host's personality doesn't change him at all unless he's trying to pretend to be them, because he has full control. The host can fight his control to do things but this is incredibly painful and can damage their soul significantly more.

Fresh can't feel most things. Fresh lacks most emotions, he can't form emotional connections to people at all. The only things he can feel is fear, a tiny hint of sadism(Meaning seeing people in pain or distress brings him joy), and rarely anger over things he doesn't understand. The fear of death is a natural instinct, as a living creature he wants to survive and continue to live. His joy in suffering of others is a learned feeling, because his entire existence is causing pain, over time his mind has formed a connection, other's pain = his gain, his gain = his survival, him surviving = him feeling content. (His sadism is a very small and muted happiness, it'd be barely amusement to someone with a full range of emotions, but to him it's everything because it's the only way he feels good) The anger over things he doesn't understand was only canonically triggered by one thing, and it was someone sacrificing their life to save someone else. He was so angry someone would do that, because everything he knows is survival, and throwing your own life away is infuriatingly stupid to him, it's too different from his core understanding of life (this only happens when he starts to unlock more emotions like companionship tho).

Fresh is an asexually reproducing parasite. He has no idea of romance, sex, or even the complexities of gender. He doesn't understand love, or any of that. He's physically incapable of basically anything sexual. He does asexually create other parasites tho, he can do this intentionally as seen during Freshmageddon, where he spent three days making more parasites. He will do some things seen as romantic, like kissing, because he doesn't understand the romantic connection and finds the reactions people have funny

Fresh feels everything physical his host body feels. I see stuff in the fandom all the time where Fresh possesses a host and gets them severely injured but doesn't care… This is the opposite of accurate. Fresh can feel everything his host feels physically, but to a lesser extent… and I'd think pain/injury freaks him out because it'd remind him of his fear of death. I don't think he can feel damage inflicted to their soul though, because otherwise possessing people and damaging their soul over time would really suck!

Sometime I'll make a Fresh doc exploring all the aspects of his character with all the source posts from CQ to back it up :]

me fr

I'm such a fucking rabbit, am absolute bnuuy.

Share da plague <33

[4/20] happy belated birthday xd

Fresh by loverofpiggies

And a piece I started but failed to finish for now??

OKAY BUT FUZZY FRESH?? PRECIOUS BABY??? COULD YOU IMAGINE FUZZY BITTIES

liddle Fuzzies! Many people asked me to make Fresh being fuzzy so here U go!! 💜

Thank you for your ask!! 💜

I just think he’s neat 🥰

#undertale #pokatutu #sans #sansau #undertaleau #ausans #utmv #UTMV #fellsans #underfell #swapsans #underswap #underswapsans #inksans #errorsans #freshsans #freshparasite

I can't get over how cute the Buny Haspitle is

like OMG little bunny with a carrot drip

number 1 Snowshoe fan fr

Helloooo guys gals and other pals! How yall doin? That’s right, I’m coming out of my cave to talk a little bit about the video game I’ve been working on.

Truth be told, between working conventions and etsy, somedays I’ve been having 12 hour days working on this thing. I have a huge portion of the world already done (At least, the bare bones basics of the visuals) some enemies programmed, including 2 boss battles and around 15 unique enemies (so far), and most concept art for these locations finished.

It probably isn’t a surprise that I’m keeping most things a surprise until release gets close, and when that happens I’ll release more official art, designs for certain characters and basic character bios, all that.

My hope is to have it finished in a year and a half, and then do a kickstarter to help fund hiring a composer. I can do most everything else myself (Even if its a lot of work!) but music is not a skill I’ve ever worked to grow. That, and I’ll want to make sure the bug fixes go well. I have great close friends who are being my beta testers, because I want to release this game as good as I can! It won’t be on switch (Sorry) but it’ll for SURE be ready for computers, and I hope to have a phone version, too. Depends on how much I’m able to get done. Anyway, yup! Final date I hope to have the game done is end of 2024. I don’t know how many people are excited, especially since I’ve been SUPER hush hush about the characters, and the story, and all that, but. I’m pourin my soul into it, and just wanted to sneak yall an update in the mean time. <3

Until then, enjoy the Buny Haspitle

that Neil mashup is just what it feels like to be infected with a Fresh Parasite I think. like, the hand POV makes you feel sort of restrained, in the same way you're strapped into a rollercoaster; it's disorienting, slightly off-putting, and might give you a little bit of motion sickness, but it's still a BOP. it's a good time! and so genuine in its weirdness that even the traces of eeriness (ie the way the hand lurches around) can be brushed off because it's just part of the goof. we are movin we are schmoovin. and also we have contracted toxoplasmosis

HAHAHAHA EXACTLY I LOVE THIS ASK I've totally had that dream before.

WAIT TOXOPLASMOSIS?? THAT'S HILARIOUS

Though to be fair canonically Fresh possession is REALLY PAINFUL cus he's literally DRAINING your soul, and it starts cracking over time which must HUUURRTT. I'd think it'd feel like some aching heart pain even at the least intensity, not fun!

But yeah Aaron by Neil Cicierega is totally on my Fresh playlist. Sometime I'll make a video of my Fresh playlist to share with tumblr. >B)

TO my followers

uhhhhh

I know yall are here for Fresh stuff but I'm into more things! So once I get back to actively posting fan art and stuff- here's the fandoms I'm in!

This isn't everything I like but it's the thing I think I'd post about :]

Lemme know if you like any of this stuff too! :0

This is so CUTE

YESS THIS IS WHY I MADE THIS

reminds me of this thing I typed years ago: mama miaa spaGHETTI itsa meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee *The ever-present otherworldly garbled chanting grows in volume from subliminal to clear as day* LETSA GoooOOoOOoOoO *is immediately eviscerated by void-like tendrils as blood and tar pours out of my mouth and nose, swallowed up by the growing lacuna in the canon of our reality.* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Wahoo!

this this this

I have my own headcanon that offspring parasites with their own special abilities can use their host’s abilities if they’re 1. Older like Fresh , and 2. Have studied that ability in action

Like Fresh or the ‘runts’ you mention would have some innate sense of how to use their host’s ability, but if a different parasite wanted to use it they’d have to take a more analytical approach to it.  

Liiiike for example my OC Grunge (inspired a lil by Unfresh, I wanted to make a similar concept without the aspects I disliked, then he ended up developing into his own character) has smoke abilities, but he learned how to use his host’s bone magic too :D

The funny thing is, he probably understands his host’s magic better than his own.  He doesn’t even realize his smoke can be used for illusions or suffocation because he keeps using it just to elongate his stupid tentacles and make a smoke cloud similar to Fresh’s poof

He’s also got a different style from Fresh! He’s got a 90s grunge style rather than that neon look Fresh is known for. B)

(i forgot to add the back tendrils on the drawing above RIP)

idk if people really care about parasite OCs, so lemme know below this post if you want me to infodump about this edgy guy.  I’ve got a lot more than him but he’s one of my main ones

how does fresh reproduce?

he reproduces asexually!! More parasites are grown inside the hosts body while he’s in there and he coughs them out (and then crushes them into powder, he HATES the other parasites + they’re competition + they could get him caught in whatever world he’s in if they got loose, they’re flat out a genuine danger to him) though a few do occasionally escape, it’s a LOT of them and they’re small, and that’s how you get fresh parasite ocs!

it’s an involuntary thing that he has to do every so often, but he CAN do it on purpose, like at the ‘freshmageddon’ event in the loveball (which had a gateway to tons of other au’s, which is how people got there!!) where he spent three days straight creating them to infect thousands of universes at once!

the parasites also HAVE to obey him, even if they don’t want to, unless it goes against their deep deep deep core values, and even then, it’s REALLY difficult to! they also can’t create more, unless they live long enough, and the vast majority are also ace, like fresh, same species! (more fresh parasite info under the cut!!)

ALSO! the fresh parasites each have their own specialized power that starts out weak and gets stronger as they age, heavily based on their first host bc that’s what forms their identity the strongest! like instinctively knowin languages, healing, emotional manipulation (my kid, toffee!), telepathy, basically anything under the sun, from overpowered to basically useless - like a power roulette!

fresh doesn’t have this, and neither do ‘runts’ which are born without any powers, which means they can borrow and use the power of their hosts (like fresh using sans’s bone attacks) instead of the host’s magic being ‘overridden’! this means that most regular parasites can’t use their hosts abilities iirc, or can only use it like… REALLY weakly! unlike fresh or the runts, who can harness all of it!

the parasites can also have any color/pattern and don’t have to be strictly 90s-themed like fresh, in fact, they probably wouldn’t be unless their FIRST host was a huge 90s fan! they can have ANY aesthetic imaginable, tho the majority are naturally drawn to bright or clashing colors it’s absolutely possible for one to favor more muted or matching clothes, the one thing they all have in common is the host’s soul in one eye - and they don’t even necessarily need shades to hide it!

in lucidia there are plenty of skeletons without eyelights like salt, so they could theoretically just wear an eyepatch over the soul eye and not have the risk of shades falling off! (i have my own hc that the empty socket is unnerving to other skeletons, even if it looks normal to us it looks off to them but this is JUST a headcanon and not at all backed up!!) get creative bro!!!!

fresh parasites can also feel emotions or not have any, or just feel one or a few emotions really strongly (like how fresh can just feel anger and fear in specific circumstances, a parasite could theoretically feel ONLY happiness, ONLY sadness, i don’t know what other emotions there are, disgust maybe??) there aren’t any concrete rules abt it from what i remember!!!

fun fact! yknow how fresh has many rainbow tongues? those arent tongues! those are parasites! those are sentient dudes. *sticks out my sons i hate to intimate you*