He’s like a vampire, feeding on her and keeping her oblivious. He managed to become a mayor while Ozzie was away, and now forces him into submission in order to keep Lea safe from Trax. The symptoms are nausea, dizziness, disorientation, then pain, tremors and paralysis.Īs for what I had in mind for Thrax and Ozzie is that Thrax turned it into a mindfucking power play. Maybe more, since the feeding is not a daily routine but more like once in two-three days.

Withdrawals symptoms would kick in on a third-fourth day I guess. The virus may add some degree of variation to the effects, like giving the cell short-term amnesia or long-term addiction (the later would develop anyway if the virus feeds on the same cell long enough). I didn’t give much thought to duration of these effects, but I guess the drug euphoria lasts for the time of feeding and some ten-twenty minutes more, the rest of the time the cell feels normal. To do that the virus sort of enslaves the cell with drugs, forcing chemical attraction and even making feeding process ecstatic for the cell along with boosting cell’s metabolism to produce twice as much nutrients.

(I’m talking osmosis jones sexy viruses, not the actual microbiology of course.) So they can kill cells and take needed elements from them, or they can create a kind of symbiosis with a living cell. The idea was that viruses are unable to produce nutrients for themselves.

What substance kills thrax