The Anxiophagic Parasite or Anxiety Parasite is a rare brain worm.
Biology[]
A pink worm with a single antenna, six tendrils for movement and twelve eyes. It a creature that eats and eradicates anxiety. When infesting a brain, the worm devours a subject's anxiety, leaving them nothing but bliss and positive feelings. However the more anxiety the worm eats, the bigger it grows, creating a lump on the skull that will continue to grow causing the subject dies. When threatened the worm will dig its tendrils into its host, said tendrils even reach out from the orifices of the subject to attack.
When its host is at risk of starving it of anxiety, the worm will use the brain to conjure a psychic smoke manifestation to increase anxiety.
It also can reproduce asexually, by splitting itself. Though the double can act as a mate, which after a sexual encounter one of them consumes the other.
Source[]
- The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy: Episode 1: Sometimes Heads Break