As your bodies rot they slowly have to be replaced with mechanical parts. The parts people get don't pass for human at all, but they do their job, despite being very obviously metal. In pervious stages of the plague people looked down on those with the illness, but now even world leaders have it.

Everyone's waiting to slowly lose their humanity. People try their best to experience things before losing more of their bodies. It's one thing when people have to have things like hands and feet replaced (useally the first parts to go), but it gets deeper and deeper until you're barely human any more.

You think about the last time you'll eat. It makes you apricate your food more. You look at your stainless steel arm and it doesn't look like part of your body, it used to just be your hand that was that way, now it's up to your shoulder. You've seen the wraithlike silvery creatures thar have lost everything, with skeleton like metal bodies and gas mask like faces, you don't know if you should pity or fear them, you see those glowing yellow eyes on the street more and more.

When you have sex with your partner you do it knowing you're slowly losing your ability to do that. Every time you sleep with them it becomes harder and harder. Until you don't have enough flesh to do anything sexual, and then eventually even cuddling and hugging becomes hard when it's just steel rubbing agaisnt steel. You'll never feel that intimacy again, you'll never touch them that way again. You're still together, but all you can do is say nice things to eachother, and treat eachother nicely.

The last thing you lose is your ability to sleep. It means everything is finally gone. You're still you, you still have your personality and memories, but you're not a biological organism anymore, you're not even alive. It's hard to look at yourself in the mirror, your slender wraithlike body, your gas mask like face, it doesn't read as you, you want to see your face but you can't. You feel like your drowning now that you don't breath, like you need to rip open your neck to rip the metal away.

Warning: Under this more this is gore and has… ig mommy milkers? But not really? Idk it’s not nsfw and not like OPENLY IT, just plushy fabric but warning anyway ig