The Corruption

The Corruption is a mind-warping, highly deadly infection in Incineration-Lore. It is the TRUE main antagonist of the story.

## Known Information

The Corruption is a very powerful infection, much stronger than something like a zombie apocalypse, as it can pose a threat to not only people, but also the world around them. The Corruption has no known creator, and is referred to as the "star-borne infection", but there is no direct proof that it is from space, and it is unlikely so. The Corruption is also shown to be sentient, as shown in Act 4, further proving the theory that the Corruption has no creator. The Corruption is also manipulated heavily by the Corrupted, a very important antagonist in Incineration-Lore. Simply being exposed to the Corruption will sap a magic user of their power. The more corrupted an area is, the weaker their magic is, hence why Storm isn't able to most of his godlike powers.

## Effects

**Effects on Humanity and Demonic Beings:** The Corruption will slowly take over the hosts body, warping the hosts appearance into a demonic-looking monster covered in Corruption when fully overtaken by it. (See Appearances) The Corruption will cause the host to lose most self awareness when completely covered, but if the host is strong enough, they can take control of their own voice and body for a short time. The hosts voice will remain the same, but it will be distorted, making their voice sound lower pitched and scratchy, with a second demonic sounding voice behind their own. When the host's body is fully overtaken, it will clear its mind of everything, and replace it with the strong desire to corrupt everyone and everything. The host will be able to produce very long dark red magenta strings from their claws that they can use to tie an uncorrupted being up with, limiting their movements, further allowing them to slowly be corrupted by the mere touch of a corrupted being. If the host somehow manages to get uncorrupted, they will regain their mind and control over their body and voice.

**Effects on Wildlife:** The Corruption will slowly take over the animal's body, and cause it to slowly die from the inside out.

**Effects on Terrain:** The Corruption will slowly take over any surface, warping its appearance, using colors like dark red, dark purple, and most notably, black.

## Appearances

**Normal human appearance:** When fully taken over, a human's clothes will remain, but turned completely black with a dark red tint to them. This tint can also be a very dark, almost sick kind of purple. (Hex code - #331D61) They may also form dark red magenta (Which can also be very dark purple) spots and streaks on their clothing and skin. Their skin will also turn completely black. Their eyes can turn into dark red magenta spirals with a purple glow in the middle, or turn into dark red outlines of their eyes. Their mouth will be replaced with dark red teeth, sticking out from the inside of their mouth, covered with blood. Their hands will be replaced with claws covered in blood, with purple outlines.

**Normal demon appearance:** The appearance of a demon can vary, as many different types of demons do not look similar. The most notable changes of a demon is that they will grow a demon tail and horns (If they don't already have any) They also will have a large dark red magenta X on their chest, that bleeds through any clothing they are wearing. Their eyes will turn completely white and glow in the dark, much like an Umbra.

Anyone heavily associated with Storm could have an appearance similar to this, but could be changed. Appearances of bigger characters such as Storm could have heavily modified appearances.

## Trivia

•Despite The Corruption sharing the same name with the Friday Night Funkin' Corruption and having similar appearances, both are completely different, being how each respective infection effects the host. The Corruption is heavily inspired by the Friday Night Funkin' version.

•The Corruption is the true antagonist of the series, alongside Anti-Cyclone.