is this possible

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    [fancypost bgcolor=; border: none; width: 450px; padding: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify]this is what the last of us does to me


    going of how the zombies work in the last of us, unlike the others bejng virus based it is fungi that causes the change, i had a look around and there is a fungi that has been thought to create 'zombie' ants as it grow jnsides the ant and changes it's behavioural patterns so the fungi might live, affectively killing the ant
    this fungi is ophiocordyceps unilateralis, i don,t know if there is a different name for it but that is the one i can find for it, and i was wondering if a character would be able to grow this fungi using flower prints and use another in which to grow it, meaning another character would become a 'zombie' similar to the ants and than the infected individual can be controled via telepathy or a bond. going off what i read it takes four to ten days for an ant to die so they would only function for a week or so, and it would take a long time for it to grow and affectively change a larger animal but i was wondering if this might be allowed

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    [fancypost borderwidth=0px; background:#DDDDDD ;border-top: 2px dashed #7799cc; border-left: 2px dashed #7799cc; border-bottom: 2px dashed #7799cc; border-right: 2px dashed #7799cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; width: 350px; height: 200px; text-align: justify; margin-top: -8px; overflow-y: auto; overflow-x: hidden;][justify]That doesn't sound like the fungus is the one doing it, so as long as the other person agrees to it for plot reasons, I don't think that would be considered using flower prints offensively, since it's really the telepathy doing the controlling. You could always say the fungus was what was controlling them, but if someone asks OOC just clarify that it's actually telepathy doing the controlling.


    That said, I don't believe the fungus you're referring to works much beyond smaller scale like ants and such, and even then it just makes them act a certain way that helps to spread the fungus around, not like "raaawr must eat ant brains". x3


    It's a neat idea! I think it could work really well for a plot. [/justify][/fancypost]

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    [fancypost borderwidth=0px; width:400px][justify][size=9pt]The fungi only affects ants, but you could have a character grow it and tell the character they're giving it to that it will turn them into a zombie. From there, your character could use memory manipulation and telepathy to try to control the target, and those two processes could be facilitated by the placebo effect of telling the target that the fungi will change them. The placebo could also lead their body to think that it will die in a week and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. :0c

    [fancypost bgcolor=; border: none; width: 450px; padding: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify]i wawn't thinking of the brain eating zombies and all that, it is more that the fungus changes the ant to a point it's behaviour is changed, it doesn't eat or perform regular tasks but i can see the fault now, i can't find anything of it workkng on bigger creatures


    i think i might go with my first line of thinking qnd use memory manipulation to pretty much wipe everything but the most basic functions but thank you for the idea cinder and you polar for pointing that out, i was all excited and din't think of the scale of it