#pineskulk

HI JACK you KNOWWW THAT HALLUCINATION SKULK THANG !!!!Ok but i think that like. itd be sort of similar to how a lot of diseases (esp ones that make it to your brain) affect you in a way to get you to spread the skulk (eg rabies), except it NEEDS you dead to fully turn you into skulk so it focuses less on spreading and more on convincing the host (parrot) to stay with the skulk, let it consume you even faster. It doesn't want to leave the deep dark anyway, so it's going to keep you there <3 Parrot hallucinates wifies bc TO ME he has 1000000 tons of repressed guilt about not being able to save wifies, so the skulk is very kind and lets them think they have a second chance to possibly save him, except its really just trying to get parrot closer to the skulk lump to infect him faster :)) i think for most people a brain-skulk infection would make them lose hope, but parrot didn't have any before infection so it gives him hope <3

or maybe it’s like a more alive version of skulk that moves and stuff and recovery compass is like. based on which direction they’re going in to get to where you died like the nanobots in big hero 6 it’s sensing the recent death on you and trying to go to your “body” to eat u like a delayed-catalyst type reaction