This is obscenely rough, but it will have to do, (This a early draft for this concept, feel free to crucify me in the comments)
"It would look like the dermis of a fluffy, with thousands of ants living in a colony on the inside, the queen can control it, speak, and excrete the colony’s waste, it’s a stupid concept but I’d like to see it, it’s kind of like Hyper-Realistic Cake, and this Anomaly could be anywhere.
The identifying traits are as follows, The colony never shows symptoms of smarty syndrome in fear of being in the spotlight, the tend to stick to the back of the herd rarely but kindly socializing with the resented members of the herd, they are abnormally quiet for a “fluffy” and don’t play with other fluffies, then can stand still for hours on end not moving a muscle, and they have a human-like voice, but raspy and high pitched with a very unnoticeable speach impediment when compared to a normal fluffy.
One thing to note is that they will gladly eat anything given to them, but will prefer fruit over the typical spaghetti.
They reproduce after 7 years of existence, the aberration will screech as 4-6 Queen Alates erupt from the fluffy, their mission being to find an opposite gender Alate and mate, then the young queens will fly up the ears of unsuspecting fluffies, and will eat them from the inside out, making a good head start for the new colony, the young queens carry their predecessor’s knowledge and the cycle continues."
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You could make variations of them per fluffy species. Ants for Earth Fluffies, Plankton for Sea Fluffies, Flies for Pegasus Fluffies, Etc
I can image Cannibal fluffies having resistance towards them and possibly being a known predator to said species.
Jellenheimers tend to ignore them I’m guessing.
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Fluffy donut steel one o one it doesn’t talk like a fluffy , now ask yourself why would a parasite trying to hide not blend in whit it’s host why would it make it’s self purposefully identifiable
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It’s trying it’s best, okay. Acting like a lobotomized brick is hard as fuck.
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Perhaps, good idea, do you have any major suggestions?
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It’s best would be a raspy fluffy voice I doubt it would make an effort to change a fluffys voice box or forget a fluffy speech pattern since they carry over knowledge from generation to generation
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Oh my god this general concept is incredible! I don’t know how well ants would work, but for the gross factor, making it a worm/maggot would be horrifying.
Let a central specimen control it like you said, but allow the species to proliferate by leeching nutrition from the GI tract like tapeworms and eject fertilized eggs with fluffy crap to advance their spread.
Since they’re almost always filthy, either covered in crap or eating it like runts or poopie colors, the infection rate would be capable of wiping out feral herds in weeks.
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have the flying ant lay eggs in the fluffy and it it alive from the outside
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or take it back to the nest to eat it alive
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I looked at the title without reading the post im sorry XD
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How about doing it like those zombifying wasps? Like the ant goes into the ear and injects the venom, kind of brainwashes the fluffy so its only purpose is to be alive and keep the eggs in it’s skin safe until it just dies and it’s eaten by the new ants and the cycle repeats
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You might want to consider something a bit less direct. Here’s a few real insects from nature that might give you some ideas.
Jewel wasp, Ampulex Compresa - Stings cockroaches and selectively lobotomizes them before leading them back to the nest and laying eggs on them. Roach is eaten by the young, alive, without reacting.
Glyptapanteles wasps - Plant their larvae in certain caterpillar species. When pupating, one or two of the young stay behind inside the caterpillar to mind-control it into acting as a bodyguard for the remaining young in their nest while they eat it alive.
Cordycepts Unilateralis - A fungus that targets ants, forcing an infected ant to climb to the highest possible point overlooking its nest, so that when spores blow it infects the maximum possible number of ants.
Horsehair worms, Spinochordodes tellinii, Paragordius tricuspidatus, et al. - Infect grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, and others. Parasitically controlled to return to the horsehair worm’s original spawning waters, where they rip out of the host’s chests and begin living normally outside the body.
And of course,
Ticks, suborder Ixodida - Fuck these things.
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Ticks are cool, a hybrid with cockroach genes would be cooler.
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why not just pull from the real world, directly, and use parisitic wasps?
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