The oldest known instance of the "Cool S" symbol, a sigil of unknown origin, found on a Viking runestone dated to the tenth century AD.
This glyph has persisted through millennia and is still widely seen today. Scholars believe its origin is unrelated to the letter S, and that it may have originally been part of a religious ritual.
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A small spoiler of what else I need to draw-
But due to the fact that I have so many ideas that sometimes I just cut into drawing new things, forgetting about the old ones, and because of this I am stupid and forgetful, I hope you will forgive me for this. And I marked with numbers what I will try to finish in turn-
Well, because I'm slow as a snail-
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"The Red Means I Love You"
BEHOLD! My design for an I-LOVE-YOU computer worm for the universe of Deltarune Chapter 2! I actually had a fun time making this little beast, it's based off of a pork tapeworm (whose larvae causes afflictions to the brain that inspired one of the uses for these ILOVEYOU worms)! More information on this species that I spent far too much time on under the cut!
~~ILOVEYOUs used to be far more common in Cyber City, but the development of better anti-virus technology has largely made their populations die off. They have a commensal relationship with ViroViroKuns, gaining hosts via whoever a ViroViroKun decides to infect, and the ViroViro being unaffected.
~~The virus would spread via magic attacks from either their host or a ViroViroKun, and would slowly feed on their host's energy. Not many deaths have been caused by these viruses, but if left for long enough they can do major damage to a host's systems. Symptoms of an infection include glitches that get more severe as time progresses, headaches, a common state of confusion, and blackouts where the uninfected don't remember gaps of time - these gaps of time are usually filled by the parasite attempting to make the host spread the virus.
~~Larvae are far more dangerous than mature worms, and they do most infections. A larvae is classified as a worm that has less than 6 heart segments on its body (not including the base of the tail), and they start with two or three hearts, gaining one every 3 months and living up to 5-6 years. Once matured, they gain a fully functional head and mouth, but their effectiveness lowers substantially.
~~The adults do, however, still have a use, although not a legal one. With the diluted effects of their infection, the worm itself can be destroyed and used in love potions. There's still a demand for love potions to this day in Cyber City among its residents, although they were made illegal.
~~Symptoms of a love potion have some similar effects to the more intense infection of the larvae. These include small blackout periods when not in proximity to whoever the love potion is supposed to work on, minor glitches from time to time, and headaches, combined with the usual lovey-dovey-ness and eagerness to please commonly seen in any love potion. Users can become addicted to using them on their chosen target, and if the infected's systems are suddenly drained of the potion, their minds are normally very paranoid and clingy for up to a year after the potion effects have worm off.
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If you go to the pool this summer, watch out for False Caustics. They look like the dancing lights at the bottom of the pool, but they stay mostly still.
False Caustics (Praya dulcis) are in fact siphonophores that colonize pools with poor filtration systems. If you swim through them, they will burn your skin. Their sting is rarely fatal, but it causes excruciating pain that can last several years.
These siphonophores are colonies of tiny organisms related to jellyfish. They are the only known species in their group to live in fresh water, and likely imitate caustics as a form of camouflage.
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