[He makes a quiet 'hm' sound as he tries to figure out the best way to explain.]
...Jenova. An alien life form, a kind of psychic parasite that infects whole species. Some asshole scientists used its DNA for human experimentation, which ended up exactly as horrific as you think. It can create copies or illusions of itself and its hosts, absorb and implant memories, turn people into mental clones by overriding their will...duplicates and perpetuates itself any way it can until it manipulates whole civilizations into killing each other.
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Date: 2024-11-30 06:08 pm (UTC)How is a disease memetic? Psychic, I understand, but memetic?
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Date: 2024-12-01 06:26 am (UTC)So's the enemy blowing up your planet.
[He makes a quiet 'hm' sound as he tries to figure out the best way to explain.]
...Jenova. An alien life form, a kind of psychic parasite that infects whole species. Some asshole scientists used its DNA for human experimentation, which ended up exactly as horrific as you think. It can create copies or illusions of itself and its hosts, absorb and implant memories, turn people into mental clones by overriding their will...duplicates and perpetuates itself any way it can until it manipulates whole civilizations into killing each other.
We destroyed it, but...not completely.
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Date: 2024-12-01 02:31 pm (UTC)Yeah, we got shit like that back home. No one I know, but I've heard of people trying to buff soldiers by injecting them with all sorts of shit.
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Date: 2024-12-03 04:21 am (UTC)[Sort of. Close enough.]
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Date: 2024-12-03 01:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-12-04 08:02 am (UTC)Could've been better, could've been worse.
[Really, there aren't a whole lot of ways it could have been worse, but he's sure there's gotta be one somewhere.]
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Date: 2024-12-04 01:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-12-10 05:50 am (UTC)...you need anything else from me?
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Date: 2024-12-10 02:20 pm (UTC)