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The Atraso
« Thread Started on Oct 14, 2006, 2:51pm »

A detailed spread sheet of what the Atrasos are exactly...

The Atraso, in short simple terms, are a rapidly devolving race of humans actually, devolving referring to a genetic simplification of species. humans and anthros are two of the most complex species on the planet. Atraso are usually born, therefore, as humans or anthros who begin to rapidly deteriorate to a more simplified creatures like a cat or dog. Some atraso are born in this simplified state, others are born to human parents and simply develop the trait later on. Confused? I knew you would be...

The state of being Atraso comes in a few different types and stages. An atraso born from two atraso parents are fine and simplistic creatures. they do not actively devolves and remain in the form they are born in forever. But Atraso that merely contract the disease Doleo, they actively devolve between three stages.

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The first stage is called Mostly-Human, or Homid if you'd like. This is when the virus is just beginning to effect one's appearance but only just. The Atraso still looks mostly human, obviously, with maybe dog ears and a tail, possibly digigrade legs or something. This stage is very mild and hardly painful at all, though usually quite shocking to the effected individual.

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The second stage is far more drastic. Called Half-Human, or Hanyou if you'd like, this form is somewhere between human and animal. Usually the atraso has grown quite a bit of fur at this point, with ears, a tail, and often a snout and paws. They can still operate like a normal human being but obviously, they don't look very much like one anymore.

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The third stage is the most drastic and probably the most painful to endure. This one, yep you guessed it, is called "Mostly-Feral, or Fera if you'd like. At this point, the Atraso looks like any other animal you might see out the brush, walking about on four legs typically, able to make the typical animalistic sounds of a feral and much smaller than they used to be. However, they're behavior is still totally human. They hang onto the ability to talk and make facial expression and can even walk on two legs if they so desire. Most notably, is their desire to wear clothes (specially made for them of course) and their ability to influence their environment much like any human might. They can still drive cars, use computers, and do pretty much any human activity they desire.

Exact traits from stage to stage vary depending on the individual of course but that's the general gist of things. Now, the devolution of an atraso can be stopped at any of these points by medications and treatments that kill the bacteria, but these treatments are expensive and painful, so most choose not to do them. Therefore, Fera is the most common form of Atraso to be found.

The actual act of devolution, like the original form of the Doleo disease, is supposedly an unbearable thing to go through. The disease is in fact contagious, transmitted in the saliva, blood and other forms of bodily excrements, which is the main reason humans fear the Atraso. When humans think of a contagious disease, they think that mere contact with the individual will give them the disease and therefore avoid them. Though this is a myth, the mere sneeze from an infected Atraso that has not gotten treatment could transmit the bacteria in its entirety. Once infected, the victim often receives some sort of irritation, usually in the soft tissues of the mouth or in the stomach depending on where the bacteria has settled within the body. If the disease gets in through a wound, the site of injury is often the irritated inflamed area.

There is then a period of time where there are absolutely no symptoms. The bacteria, having just started duplicating, is so wide-spread, it has no effect on the host body for anywhere from 2 weeks to almost a year. The disease is still transmittable during this period and there is almost no way to detect it. Not until the first stage begins. The victim would notice certain minor bodily details changing such as excess hair growth, misshapen teeth, maybe a lump forming someplace lumps are not supposed to be. From there, slowly, these traits would worsen, with minimal discomfort at first, taking a few weeks to a few months to fully emerge as Stage One of the disease.

Stage Two is far more drastic. These strange details only get stranger as the hair spreads across most parts of the body, the legs slowly warp and shift to take a more animalistic form. Toes thicken, claws grow, snouts emerge, all coming in brief waves of change and immense pain as the bacteria begins to attack the nervous system and the DNA within the cells there. It is very difficult to stop the disease at this point, the bacteria's focus being in the brain of the victim. Many Atraso emerge from this stage deformed or mentally unstable, brain damaged for the rest of their lives. Soft tissues also tend to damage during this stage, the sudden waves of morphing and shifting often pulling and stretching certain organs until they tear and bleed. Many Atraso die during this stage, drowning in their own blood when their lungs tear open or poisoning their own blood with the contents of their liver and so on...

If they do survive stage two, Stage Three is the most dramatic, painful and dangerous of all. The pain come more frequently, lasts for longer periods and increases in intensity every time until each surge is powerful enough to make the victim literally writhe on the ground. The bacteria has begun to over-populate the victim, and now every individual bacteria is seeking areas to reproduce, competing with the cells already in existence and with other bacteria. Such chaos results in the most drastic of change. The fur spreads everywhere, thickens and lengthens, the ears move on the head and the skull reforms. The skeleton molds and bends, breaks and cracks and heals itself all over again. Immense internal damage is imminent, many bones healing incorrectly or puncturing soft tissues. The act of the skin stretching to cover all the new areas often cause it to tear at random and bleed profusely. The changing vertebrae can pinch and even sever the spinal cord, causing massive neurological damage. Seizures, mental instability, infertility, paralysis, liver and kidney failure, asthma, among other things can plague the rest of the Atraso's life... that is, if they have any life left. Luckily, many hospitals are well equipped to assist an atraso during this time and those that receive such medical support often manage to survive this stage without too much internal damage.

Once the third stage is reached, the pain tones down slowly over time, the changes stop as the bacteria die off from overpopulation and competition. Once the pain stops and the bacteria levels are small enough to survive, it returns to a dormant state. The Doleo bacteria does not affect animals, of which the Stage Three Atraso are close enough to and are therefore unaffected by the disease after that point. Unless it is reactivated. If the bacteria is reawakened, which it can be, all changes that are left to take place will in a dramatic explosion of pain and convulsions. However, what exactly reactivates the bacteria is still unknown. Ferals seemed to be able to tap into the element and, with enough persuasion, they can fully convert a Third Stage Atraso into a full feral. Scientists believe it is the release of a hormone in the brain that is usually triggered during a moment of extreme ferality such as a dramatic hunting expedition or some sort of life-or-death situation based on feral behavior.

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