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Published: 2012-12-07 19:30:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 2872; Favourites: 142; Downloads: 9
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Description Fun fact: I hate zombies. Why? Simply because I find them... lame. They are a half-dead stuff right? Rotten meat? Isn't that like stuffing your compost can full of meat, waiting too many days and finally waking up one day finding your compost can next to your bed, screaming your name. I call that lame. And disgusting.

However, I could call this little fella a zombie, just for fun. He's not, though. Let me introduce you, a dead fox, creatively named: Foxdead.
I was listening PMMP's song "Matoja" (=Worms) one day when I came up with the idea of parasite worms that move from animal to animal, digesting their host's internal organs and everything that that is not-so-important inside their host. What is left is the host who continues to live "normally", hunting and eating... but the meat it hunts and eats, of course is now digested by the parasite worms because well, there isn't even stomach were it could go. To keep their host alive, the parasite worms then inject a special "elixir" into it. The parasite worms continue living this way, eating, keeping their host alive, reproducing. Once the hosts insides are a bit too full of the parasite worms, it will cough some of them up, leaving the defenseless worms on the ground to find and infect new hosts. Of course, if the host were to cough up all of the parasite worms, it would die, because the lack of internal organs is rather troublesome (without the elixir of the parasite worms, that is). Although the host actually is already basically dead, it's just being kept up and running by the parasite worms.
And Foxdead happens to have his belly full of these parasite worms.

So there you have it :'D Happy little things.
I wonder if there are parasite worms like that in reality? : D

Some more sketches of him: [link]
(And iScream... :'D )
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Comments: 29

AjaxTelamoneis [2015-03-24 21:02:30 +0000 UTC]

Zombies creep me out, too.

(Those worms look kinda like grubs to me, which are not actually worms at all but the larvae of beetles. They live in the dirt, though, they're not parasitic.)

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Tuonenkalla In reply to AjaxTelamoneis [2015-04-13 22:31:03 +0000 UTC]

You aren't fully wrong, grubs were one of the "inspiration" while designing those worms. Also the larvae of woodroffei, even if it doesn't look like that very much, and of course they are also far from parasitic. I just simply had very bad experience with them, myself.
So yes, these worms are mixture of different creatures. :>

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AjaxTelamoneis In reply to Tuonenkalla [2015-04-14 20:49:01 +0000 UTC]

Well, they look great! Very creepy!

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Tamara-Hawk [2013-04-10 08:49:15 +0000 UTC]

There are fungi in certain species of ants in rainforests that take over the ants brainfunctions to make it fall down the tree they live in and then climb up a plant. They then make the ants bite itself into one of the leave veins so that when they kill it, it doesn't fall off. They then kill it and use it to grow on the outside and release spores that can infect other ants. ([link] )

The ants are called... Zombie ants... *grins*

So I don't know about worms, but there are parasites that work like this.

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Tuonenkalla In reply to Tamara-Hawk [2013-04-10 18:54:39 +0000 UTC]

Yes, I actually know about those zombie ants They are interesting. Nature is interesting.

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Nerisa [2013-03-31 11:44:51 +0000 UTC]

He looks as a personification of some sort of famin.

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majspanda [2012-12-09 00:10:13 +0000 UTC]

I loved this idea! It would be very interesting to see more art of Foxdead

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Tuonenkalla In reply to majspanda [2012-12-09 00:41:47 +0000 UTC]

Haha Thanks! I might be doing more, I like Foxdead too. Even if the thing that makes him him anymore are actually the parasites.

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Asp-Assassin [2012-12-08 16:35:50 +0000 UTC]

I had a dream like this last night, weird...

Nice artwork.

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Tuonenkalla In reply to Asp-Assassin [2012-12-08 21:01:53 +0000 UTC]

Huh? Weird indeed, and interesting...

Thanks :>

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JaguarGal [2012-12-08 08:29:26 +0000 UTC]

Kind of creepily, there are little parasites (that look like the ones you drew) that go into fish, then suck the blood out of their tongue until it becomes atrophied, and attach themselves where the tongue muscles start. They serve as a functional tongue for the fish after that, surviving off of either blood or mucus.
So sort of?

Nice illustration, btw - it definitely creeped me out the first time!

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Tuonenkalla In reply to JaguarGal [2012-12-08 10:50:36 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow those parasites sound so cool! And nasty.

Haha, and thanks! It's rather fun when the "compliments" this aceo gets are "disgusting" and "creepy".. xD I love it.

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JaguarGal In reply to Tuonenkalla [2012-12-08 20:25:41 +0000 UTC]

Well I imagine that was what you were going for, here

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Tuonenkalla In reply to JaguarGal [2012-12-09 00:42:58 +0000 UTC]

Indeed!

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Nick-Matulich [2012-12-08 06:10:27 +0000 UTC]

Interesting. I once saw a live malamute with maggots inside its partially detached upper mouth.

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Tuonenkalla In reply to Nick-Matulich [2012-12-08 10:51:49 +0000 UTC]

Eww. Things like that in reality... they are so nasty. ^^'

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DawnSentinel [2012-12-08 04:13:06 +0000 UTC]

I'm sick of the zombie craze, but this idea is cool.

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Tuonenkalla In reply to DawnSentinel [2012-12-08 10:52:42 +0000 UTC]

I'm too. I don't understand the craze... :/
And thanks!

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classpet [2012-12-08 03:19:15 +0000 UTC]

They have symbiosis. What creative little bugs forcing the animal to feed them in return for the life they took.

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Tuonenkalla In reply to classpet [2012-12-08 14:36:57 +0000 UTC]

Yes they have. A bit... forced and twisted symbiosis but still. : >

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Girlfoxgirl [2012-12-08 03:09:48 +0000 UTC]

Oh boy. Creative description, indeed I find this a bit more horrifying than zombies if it were to infect humans.... And in nature, some things a bit like it!

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Tuonenkalla In reply to Girlfoxgirl [2012-12-09 00:42:18 +0000 UTC]

Yeah. Things like this are rather... disgusting. And still so interesting.

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Beledra [2012-12-07 20:35:08 +0000 UTC]

wow, thats a disgusting creature... but at least there is nothing like that in real life. I know some pretty disgusting parasites, but yours go to the extreme XD

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Tuonenkalla In reply to Beledra [2012-12-09 00:53:29 +0000 UTC]

Isn't it! And I'm glad there aren't quite such things in real life. It would be nasty in the hospital "oh okay so you have these worms inside you, but we can't remove them or you will die. Although you actually are already dead since your stomach and lungs and heart are all gone. But fear not, you can live just fine! Just cough the extra worms out when you feel like it, but keep them away from other peoples so they won't get infected also. And no sleeping in the same bed with others from now on, these worms can crawl to those persons while you are sleeping."
Happy diagnoses : D

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Tamara-Hawk In reply to Tuonenkalla [2013-04-10 08:53:11 +0000 UTC]

In real life they'd probably kill a person like that, or at least keep him or her isolated in a special ward... I can't imagine they will live long without a heart or lungs :S How will the brain get oxygen?? Will they still be the same person if their brain also dies?

*grins* I always think too much about this sort of thing, that's why I can never watch horror movies that try to make things like this seem plausable...

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Tuonenkalla In reply to Tamara-Hawk [2013-04-10 09:18:31 +0000 UTC]

But if they keep their host isolated, how would they find the next host? I have to admit I have no idea how could creature live without heart or lungs technically, but I've put those problems under the solution called "elixir" that the parasites can produce. And maybe the brain can get oxygen some other way? Surely the host won't be the same person if the brain dies, but since I don't know what all effects the elixir holds... *shrug*

I like to think these things too. Then again, I don't watch horror movies for other reasons.

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Milarcha [2012-12-07 20:20:12 +0000 UTC]

Hyi, ällöttävää, kammoan loisia, yök, yök, yök! Mutta on tämä siltikin hieno työ, hyvin tehty kuva ja jännä idea (vaikka myös ihan järkyttävän inhottava). Onneks moisia toukkia ei tietääkseni ole olemassakaan, ei ainakaan selkärankaisissa loisivia, mutta aika samantyyppisiä taitaa olla kyllä hyönteisillä. Muistan jutun joistain zombimuurahaisista... Mutta juu hei, zombit todella on aika leimejä, myös mun mielestä. Miks? En tiedä. Ne vaan on... yliarvostettuja, käytettyjä.

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Tuonenkalla In reply to Milarcha [2012-12-07 20:38:35 +0000 UTC]

Kammoan kyllä loisia myös, että ei kyllä sen puoleen, yököttäväähän tämä. Pakko myöntää :'>
Zombimuurahaiset taitaa olla sienen aiheuttamia? Muistaakseni näin... mutta totta tosiaan, ihan kuin olisin hyönteismaailmassa enemmän tällaisista tappajaloisista kuullut...
Kiitoksia kuitenkin!

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Milarcha In reply to Tuonenkalla [2012-12-09 10:23:25 +0000 UTC]

Thihi, kyllä, se taisi olla jokin sieni, mutta juu, great

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