recently downloaded a rain world mod that turns the slugcat until a parasite that possesses dead bodies and this is FUN. took over a dead scav corpse and used it to kill the rest of its group.
edit: peeps have been asking for the mods so here they are!
Weird disgusting idea that won't leave my head: Whumper torments Whumpee by giving them some sort of otherworldly parasite, only for Whumpee to discover that said parasite is sentient and equally unhappy with the situation
Time for a random hill I am willing to die on, so what in the Titans name is Hooty
beginning with few things we know:
He is a bug type demon and demons are born from a titans body & magic
House demons are not common but also not extremely rare (coven heads are confused in Hollow Mind but Amity is like, yea, house demons do be like that)
Hooty is not dependent on the place he lives in - can freely detach himself from the house and just go somewhere what does not affect neither him nor the house
Hooty is terrotorial and protects the place he lives in
There are organs with own pulse inside the walls of the Owl House
All of this being said, I believe demons later called "house" demons were born from wounds on titans body. After titan got hurt, lost an eye in some manner, a bug type demon formed or moved into the wound establishing in there sort of symbiotic relationship. Maybe protecting the space from other creatures that did try to feed on the wound. Long after titans were gone they just continued to live in crevices and protect spaces around them what was later was used by witches to guard their homes earning them the name "house" demon.
Role of house demons on titans might be similar to the one of Oxpeckers on big animals that are unable to get rid of small parasites. Titans are huge and seeing how some characters were literally walking through their empty veins it would be extremely difficult for them to get rid of pests themselves.
On how is he attached to the space around him, I think he might have some kind of specialised organ letting him attach and form new connections to the space around him.
With time the connections gaining mass and requiring better energy flow they start form organs around the space and a circulation system (that's why there is a pulse even after Hooty is not longer in the door). And that's also why King, Lilith and Luz might have had such disgusted reactions to seeing him leave his place. But whatever he uses to attach to the house it might be pretty vulnerable, so he acts like a hermit crab getting from one shell to another and thats how we get porta Hooty.
But HEY if he has organs that connect him to the house why can he just take of his skin like a sock. My brother in Titan. Skin is a organ too and we literally saw him leave some spare ones in the door. There is literally nothing that says he even requires it and cant be just a skeleton horror with only the essentials near base of his body.
On why I dont think he is a parasite like Cymothoa exigua (tongue eating louse) is because I'm pretty sure Titan would be able to get rid of them himself (and it would mean Hooty ate his way into the titan witch I refuse to consider). It can't be comfortable to have a weird bug in your eye socket just singing to themself all day, so they had to have benefited from it somehow, or at least didnt mind, as Hooty is protective of his space that wouldnt be a strech. Also if they were parasites it would just add insult to injury if they hanged around even after death xD
Im sure Im not the first one to have this thought but I literally searched for theories on him and only found the parasite interpretation witch I don't vibe that much with
and while we are at the topic of Hooty I highly encourage to listen to unhinged Dutch Hooty, I was in tears the first time I heard him. Apologies for video quality tho, it refused work any other way
I didnt like the way i drew peso’s old outfit- it was super bland with ZERO EMBELLISHMENTS OR POINTLESS DETAILS! so i fixed that. I wanted to make his fit look more like an emt uniform- with the blue, the patches and the reflective bands around the legs and sleeves. Afterall, hes a medic! He should dress like one! :3
Speaking of, i got a lil smthn smthn in the works. 2 somethin somethins. ;
"The infection is most common in parts of Africa, Brazil and the eastern Mediterranean region, like Iraq, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, according to the World Health Organization. "
"All leishmaniasis infections are caused by Leishmania parasites but can have varying clinical presentations. The most common form – called cutaneous leishmaniasis – can cause ulcers and permanent scars. Some more severe variations of the disease can be fatal, according to the CDC."
COMPLETELY NORMAL ITERATOR nothing wrong with them at all. they totally didnt accidentally inflict themself with a status effect nope!!!
this is Rooms Where Sounds Echo (any pronouns). The top images are their past appearance and bottom pictures are their current appearance. Ummmm they basically made a star parasite to get rid of a creature destroying stuff in their can (they would be able to control the critter like an RC car and make them leave) but instead infected themself and now they're silly. Rooms lacks forethought and has no braincells and that's why this happened lol