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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?

foony fresh

look at my funny joke

me fr

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

Rick&Morty Copypasta but FRESH

To be fair, you have to have a very high amount of coolness to understand Fresh. His humor is xtremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of 90s stereotypes most o the jokes will go over an unrad broseph's head. There's also Fresh's radtacular outlook, which is wickedly woven into his characterization - his personal philosophy draws heavily from 90s PSAs, for instance. The coolkids understand this stuff; they have the wicked cool ability to truly appreciate the sicknastiness of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funky fresh- they say something deep about LYFE. As a gnarly consequence people who dislike Fresh truly ARE uncool- of course they wouldn't all up n' appreciate, for instance, the humor in Fresh's righteous catchphrase "Wiggidy wiggidy whatsup" which itself is a cryptic reference to The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.  I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those unfresh sinners scratching their heads in confusion as Crayon Queen's genius unfolds itself on their computer screens. What totally unfunky fools... how I pity them.  And yes by the way, I DO have a Fresh tattoo. And no, you cannot just up n' see it. It's for the ladies' and radlads' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within the amount of freshalicious swag points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.

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

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

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*

Fresh if he was in Gloomverse. You know I’m right

I know it might be a little late to ask ( I just noticed you allowed questions again), but since Fresh was in Gloomverse would it be possilble for him to get a hat or have magic? If so, what kind/type of magic would he have? ( I know it probably wasn't cannon but I'm just really curious).

If Fresh was in Gloomverse, he’d have really stupid improbable 90s magic, summoning freaking pogs and furbies and skip its and all that nonsenseIt would be really dumb

The Koch Snowflake science team!

Feel free to ask questions!!

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