Talk:Everything Dies/@comment-24239143-20130830075431/@comment-5025667-20130905212949

Yeah. I always found the concept to this Pokemon to be particularly disturbing, as you literally work it to death when you get down to it.

Most of the features and effects to the Pokemon in the pasta are inspired by the real life equvalent of the fungus: cordyceps (look it up, disturbing as shit and really made me afraid to go to sleep when I watched a video on it late at night). Originally, this was going to be a post-apoltolyptic story involving the infection, but considering that the trailer for The Last of Us came out quite literally a day after I planned that idea out, I had to come up with another idea.

Considering that, surprisingly, there was no pasta about Paras/Parasect out there, it was the perfect solution.