Panacotta Fugo's Stand Purple Haze holds a flesh eating virus within the bulbs on its knuckles. When one of these bulbs breaks, the virus is released and can infect and kill any potential host within seconds.
Summary
Disease Manipulation is the ability to disrupt the standard biological structure functions of organisms. While normal diseases can cause changes or harm in order to simply propogate themselves, many characters may manipulate disease specifically with the intent of causing harm, or applying a wide variety of biological or psychological changes.
This is often done through the direct manipulation of pathogens, infectious agents that are often microorganisms. However, there are often cases in fiction in which diseases and their symptoms can be caused without a biological agent, or have capabilities beyond that of biological agents. All of these cases differ from something like poison manipulation, however, which utilizes chemical substances that directly harm an individual. Diseases on the other hand primarily cause symptoms via their reproduction or other processes.
Possible Uses
Bacteria: Bacteria are a large domain of relatively simple prokaryotic organisms. They likely some of, if not the oldest organisms to exist on Earth, and are notable for being the route cause of most significant infections.
- Example: Kharaa Bacterium (Subnautica)
Single-Celled Eukaryotes: Eukaryotes are significantly larger, complex cells that posses structures such as membrane bound organelles and a nucleus. These types of cells are relatively better understood with more unique classification. For single-celled organisms, these include protists and some fungi.
- Example: Cioccolata (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure; Fungi, via his Stand Green Day)
Multicellular Eukaryotes: Multicellular eukaryotes are even more complex organisms which have more advanced biological, systems. These include macroscopic fungi, and parasites.
- Example: Nemesis (Resident Evil; Parasite)
Viruses: Viruses are submicroscopic infectious agents composed of DNA or RNA, as well as other proteins. While viruses are commonly considered pathogens, they are distinct in the fact that their classification as being "alive" is highly debated, and are able to infect other traditional pathogenic organisms.
- Example: Pannacotta Fugo (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure; via his Stand Purple Haze)
Idiopathic: Idiopathic diseases are those which are caused by an indirect, indeterminate, or unknowable agent. Generally speaking, this includes any disease that is not spurred by a physical pathogenic agent, but rather another other ability. These can include such as Biological Manipulation being used cause symptoms of disease directly in a person's body, Mind Manipulation being used to induce certain mental disorders. Stronger abilities such as Non-Physical Interaction and even Corruption may be used to cause diseases that affect more than a person's physical body.
- Example: Gravelord Nito (Dark Souls)
Limitations
- Characters with medical knowledge may be able to create medications, vaccines, or other treatments to halt or prevent specific infections.
- Characters with stronger immune systems, or ones able to control their internal functions to target infections may stop a disease.
- Resistances to abilities tied to diseases may be able to halt infection or their affects. For example, a bacteria which releases a deadly poison may be resisted with poison resistance.
Notes
- Archaea: Similar to bacteria, archaea are a prominent domain of single-celled prokaryotes. However, these organisms posses unique biological traits that make them more complex, and are fundamentally more similar to eukaryotic cells. However, while Archaea may have potential to cause disease, particularly in fictional verses, there are no known species of pathogenic Archaea and have thus been excluded from the list above for the time being.
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