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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 :]

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

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

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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*

LOOK AT HER!! ! LOOK AT HER SHES SO CUUUTE

NESSIE97 PRINCESS QUEST PONY EEEEEE

What about... mlp!vanessa

Vanessa except she's a pony, also heavily based on the Princess Quest minigame since I very much associate that with Vanessa lmao

AAAAH I'M SO HAPPY TO SEE THEM TOGETHER 💛 💛 💛

HARE-HAUNTED RETRO VIDEO GAME PRINCESSES!! I love how one of them has a lantern and the other has the swordddd

Thank u so much for makign this for meeeee <3 <3 luv u

Rabbits and princesses...

(Art for @purrpletiger !)

I downloaded gachalife... Starting my quirky relatable animation channel today. 420 blaze it!!!

  TENTATAILS ARE SO HAWT  😫 💦 😳 😳 i couldnt go any farther with the joke, it was too painful. xD Happy april fools, yall.

YEEEAAAH THE GUUYYYY THE MAAAN THE SICKNASTY WICKED RADICAL TOTALLY RIGHTEOUS FUNKY FRESH COOL DUDE YOU DREW HIS HECKIN RAD’S AROUND HIS EYESOCKETS LIKE NOBODY REMEMBERS TO DO YEAAAHAHAH you’ve won, my friend

fresh lucidia art on MY blog? it's more likely than you think.

WIPs cause they look funny. also i love this stupid parasite and his skeleton mech cause on the surface he's a goofy funny guy but underneath he's a complex individual i wanna put him under a microscope and examine him

Oh yea I should share these pics of my birthday cake! I drew up the design then helped with icing some parts of it.

bunny shaped birthday cake bunny shaped birthday cake

living my fnaf ar dreams rn

♪ "We are but machines

But we breathe,

life into a glowing home

full of new friends,

not the end!

Only blood that's flowing here is in our father

he's the author of our Wonderland!

He made us into what we've become!" ♪

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