Well, hello. I wanted to present an old idea that I had saved somewhere in my chats.
I look forward to u opinions, idk
"Vermis aurum"
This would be a complete species. It would be a parasitic flatworm belonging to the cyclophilic cestodes of the family Taeniidae (Tapeworms), physically identical to Taenia solium. The visible anomalous characteristic of the specimens is that they are made entirely of pure gold (Au; 79), being unknown how it is able to recreate the functions of living beings. Young specimens measure about 3-30 millimeters, reaching up to 8 centimeters in some cases; as adults, they measure an average of 6 - 15 meters.
These organisms are aquatic in nature, being able to move without problems in aquatic environments (rivers, ponds, lakes, fresh water in general), presenting an undulating and serpentine mobility.
When it finds a host to parasitize and the host is in the water, the tapeworm will seek to enter the individual through any available orifice (mouth, anus, vagina or urethra, among others); this process is performed by small young specimens, as large ones are usually detected in the process (I mean, who would not notice that a 15 meter worm is crawling up his ass? Lol); They parasitize exclusively mammals, preferring humans above all.
Well, once inside the subject, the tapeworm will begin the same infestation process as its non-anomalous relatives, with the difference that it will secrete a viscous substance that will cause a slow process of internal transmutation where, slowly from the inside, the tapeworm victim will be turning into gold. The process continues for the next few months or years similar to that of any tapeworm, only that the conversation in gold will get worse and worse. At one point, the skeleton of the host will begin to turn to gold, presenting multiple new and highly painful bony structures that will form inside (i.e., it begins to generate new golden bones that mutate and degrade in appearance).
Other similar processes will appear, such as the presence of golden tumors that will form. In general, the process usually ends with the infected person dying after becoming a golden statue/amalgam that serves as a lair for the tapeworm until its death.
But it doesn't end there. Subjects who live alive, even in spite of the effects on their body, will desperately seek a large body of water, usually a river or a lake. This seems to be because of some manipulative cognitive compound released to the subject's brain. Here, the subject will enter and not struggle to surface, subsequently drowning. Upon death, the decomposition process will not occur and instead, the corpse will eventually turn into that golden amalgam, allowing the tapeworm to reproduce internally to use its body as a nest. Once the young are born, they will be able to move out of the host to look for new targets.
I feel like a psychopath explaining this. I don't know why.
