Talk:Helminth/@comment-1162170-20161225052803/@comment-207.255.34.142-20161225103821

It's a parasitic virus that causes the host body to shed it's human traits that are obsolete to its new life cycle. The first and most distinct adaptation is the development of a long, retractable proboscis beneath the host's tongue, capable of extending up to six feet from the mouth. This "stinger" is both the feeding and reproductive mechanism; shooting forth to latch onto human prey's throat or thigh, both draining the victim's blood for nutrition and infecting the human with capillary worms. The jaw is set at a lower hinge than a human, the mouth gaping like a snake's when the stinger is deployed. As the structure of the stinger is modified tissue from the human lungs and throat, Infected are incapable of physical speech once the stinger is deployed; beforehand, grunts and rudimentary monosyllabic speech are still possible (words like mama, papa, love, help, cold etc.) Hair and fingernails are gradually lost, while the external nose and ears atrophy, leaving the fully matured skin as smooth and featureless as marble. The digestive and circulatory systems of the host to simplify and fuse. The interior organs most resembling a series of connected sacs. The infected gain their nutrition from blood feeding, which transports it throughout this system via a thick, viscous white fluid that forms the host's equivalent of blood. The capillary worms are present in this fluid, swimming throughout the circulatory system and often visible beneath the thin skin. The complexion is extremely pale between feedings, but appears a flushed red following a recent blood-meal. Eye coloration consists of a black pupil surrounded by a red sclera, with a white nictitating membrane sliding across for protection. Like rodents, the Infected is unable to vomit, its suction-based digestive process functioning only one way. All bodily waste is excreted from a single rectal orifice in the form of a pungent ammonia-based spray; an infected host will excrete for the entire duration of a feeding, purging old food as it consumes new blood.