Talk:Like A Sickness/@comment-7706473-20130618073534/@comment-4332975-20130619110953

The theory about Parasect is an old one. They say that the mushroom on its back is like a Cordyceps, a parasitic fungus which can control the behaviour of its host. They say that, when it evolves, the fungus takes complete control, killing the host. That's why all Parasect have those dead white eyes.

My Beedrill theory is similar. To put it simply, you've never seen Weedle's final evolution. No-one has. Think about it for a minute. Weedle is a caterpillar that forms a chrysalis around itself. That's not where bees come from. Well...except for one variety. Parasitoid wasps do, in fact, emerge from a cocoon. Only it's not theirs. The adult wasp lays its egg in a caterpillar, like our sweet little Weedle, and they lay there, dormant, until it forms its cocoon. The egg hatches, and the larval wasp eats its former host eventually emerging from the cocoon in its place...but you just let it happen, never questioning why you got a bee, instead of the expected butterfly or moth. Almost makes you wonder who's really the monster.