True!fresh - Blog Posts

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?

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 :]

FRESH DRAWING GUIDE:

Hello everybody, I've come to give you all this absurd reference guide for drawing Fresh. yep. I decided to spend hours slapping this together.

If I got anything wrong or should add anything PLEEEASE lemme know! All ideas welcome!

If you want to see my "research" on this character, let me know in the replies, because there's so much to talk about with him and I'd love to do a character analysis or two, I couldn't put much about his personality or source posts in this because it's just a drawing guide!

Link to all the full images

Transcript and close-ups of the text on the image: (May be in a strange order)

Fresh was created by @loverofpiggies (CQ)

Main Outfit:

YOLO sunglasses

Backwards propeller cap

Pink Polo shirt

Crayola Jacket

Gold Tooth

SWAG fannypack

Convertible Zip-off pants

White Heelie shoes

Pink socks

He has thick eyebrows to emote! (The eyebrows are usually depicted with black hair but one human design has eyebrows that match the pink hair color!)

The bag says SWAG on it

His glasses say YOLO by default, but the letters can magically change mid-scene...

this design for Fresh is Tall, we dunno how tall but taller than CQ's Sans characters (or just Geno since he's literally sans undertale with some added steps). But his height is just his host's height sooo it can vary.

those (cyan and yellow) shoe details are on the innerside but not outerside

HE HAS HEELIES!

Pink glove cuffs!

his skateboard is inconsistent dont worry about it

Glasses Off:

The host's soul shows up in their left eyesocket

- The soul tends to look unstable (cracks & a sortve stroboscopic effect.. i couldn't think of a better word.) but not in some cases...

It doesn't have to be a white upside-down heart, that's just a reference to an undertale monster soul.

He has a purple substance full of little RADs that emanate from his eyesockets (when his sunglasses are off)

"The soul in Fresh's eyes CAN be cracked. That soul isn't his. it belongs to his host. And.... after a while.... things go bad for the host, and he needs a new one." -CQ

(example of soul with unstable effect with no cracks) (example of soul with cracks but lacking the effect)

The purple aura(?) can glow and emanate from the eyes when his glasses are on too

i miss this one design specifically. the colors and the SK8 OR B SK8 shirt were peak

I miss the SWAG necklace...

Fresh leaves a rainbow cloud of smoke when he "poofs". Either teleporting him and his host body somewhere or leaving his host behind.

Human Designs:

Fresh can possess humans too.

They all look physically different because they're different people that he's possessing.

Fresh can possess pretty much any body, but I thought I'd show the varied examples of humans anyway

Don't forget the orange jacket flaps! or his hat propeller!

I dunno what's up with the multicolor tongue thing. I think it was extra parasites in the host's mouth? I feel like it was scrapped at some point... but I could be wrong

FURBIES!:

Oh yeah, he also does this: (no image for the bat tho)

"I mean when he fights he pulls Furbies out of his magical fanny pack. takes out a wiffle bat. and hits the furby at his enemies.

And then the furby explodes in a blaze of glory." -CQ

Despite using some furbies as explosives, he seems to 'care' about and treat these two like precious babies:

This one is potentially named McFreshby The Fresh Furbrah (Fresh is mentioned to have one named that, and this is the only other furby he's been depicted with)

It can also do THIS: (roll its eyes back into a spookier look)

This is DJ FurBs. that's all i know about him

The REAL Parasite:

Fresh is actually this little parasite controlling a host body. (if you didn't know that why are you reading this post rn!?! but nah I love new Fresh fans, welcome!)

The main parasite is this purple one with the eyemouth and four(?) tendrils, the other colored tentacles are prrrobably Fresh's offspring (freshmageddon moment?) (I'm not actually sure, I'm just pretty sure they're not part of the main parasite but are parasite tentacles)

You can also see Fresh's five or more purple tendrils here stretching out all over his host's body

All art from CrayonQueen/@loverofpiggies

Reference guide made by PurrpleParrasite/@purrpletiger

pls suggest changes or additions if u have ideas!

That's all!

When you get this, put 5 songs you listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your followers (no pressure ofc :)!! )

five songs from the Fresh playlist everybroosskiii

Set It Off - Skeleton 💀

Song That Might Play When You DONK 🛹 sytricka - Running in the 90s (Vaporwave Edit) 🏃

Groundbreaking - Plushtrap 🕶️

Lemon Demon - You're at the Party 🤍

I want to post the full playlist sometime with a lil animation graphic of him over it but im worried of getting copyright flagged lol

Happy Valentine’s day!  As an aroace goblin I don’t have much loveydovey stuff to post. But since it’s “Freshuary” I thought I’d compile all the characters that remind me of the Fresh parasite!  (I wanted to do the freshuary drawing prompt thing but i didnt have enough time or ideas lmao)

I freaking LOOOVE this flavor of characters(radical dudes who are actually evil) with a burning passion but simultaneously hate that I love them lol, I guess that’s why the passion’s burning.  I fully blame Alex Hirsch and @loverofpiggies​ for starting my unhealthy addiction

Aaand here’s a bonus:

All of these are official images from the source material (Making Porty and Starro transparent was sooo annoying) except for the Fresh parasite which I drew myself, and the SCP.  

If you think of any other similar characters leave them in the notes!

Hope you had a nice holiday and/or have a fun rest of the month! B)