The Shadow Tubby Phenomenon

Type of Life Form: Illness

From: The hand of a hand-less being

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The Shadow Tubby Phenomenon is a cast of emotional illnesses that one can experience when they're exposed to it.

The Shadow Tubby is not a real entity, and is just a hallucination, many teletubbies have a hard time figuring that out, which makes them scared.

Physical Appearance
The Shadow Tubby Phenomenon is not a physical entity, and isn't even classified as being sentient.

Although, the teletubbies who have been affected by this phenomenon have said that it looks like a teletubby in the form of a shadow. Others have said that it has small, red cross pupils. There are many thing that all of the teletubbies affected have seen, like the "Shadow Tubby" having their fur color. Other examples include the "Shadow Tubby melting and splitting apart.

If anything, The Shadow Tubby is closer to being a parasite or a mental illness rather than a real thing. Although, it does act a lot like an entity, so most teletubbies assume that it's a spiritual entity, like a ghost or a demon. But, none of these theories have actually been confirmed, this leaves The Shadow Tubby's origins very ambiguous.

This illustration was created to depict all of what was described.

Personality
The Shadow Tubby is an extremely ruthless entity, only showing their true form if they want their host to die.

Apart from being a dick, The Shadow Tubby doesn't really have a personality, since they aren't really sentient.

Mental Effects
Thanks to the many testaments from other teletubbies, a list of mental illnesses, as well as other effects, has been compiled to show what The Shadow Tubby can do.

Mental Illnesses

 * Bipolar Disorder
 * Schizophrenia
 * GAD

To give a more broad list, brain

Other Effects

 * Anger Issues
 * Self-Harming Thoughts
 * Disconnection from Reality
 * Hallucinations
 * Manic Episodes
 * Death

What happens when you get affected by/contract the Shadow Tubby Phenomenon?
At first, teletubbies don't notice that they have the illness, so it's pretty difficult to get treatment when you don't know you have it. The only way you can know that the disease is around is to smell something in the air. This smell will usually be strange and unusual, something like charred tomatoes would be an example. This smell is different for every teletubby, and it can range from other-worldly to just a regular old smell like, for example, cinnamon.

How do you avoid/protect yourself from The Shadow Tubby?
Since most of the difficulties teletubbies gain once they contract the Shadow Tubby Phenomenon are mental, it's best for them to either try therapy for mental release, get a prescription for a type of mental health medicine depending on the type of symptom & its severity (Antipsychotics are the most helpful), or seek help in the form of your loved ones.

Many old reports from the early age of teletubby civilization, the 1530s, proved that all three of these things work well.

How do you kill The Shadow Tubby?
You need to pray.

You need to remember the people you love.

You need to be determined.

And you need to be ready to beat the hell out of them.

Alone.

It might help to have some kind of spiritual object nearby, but nobody has ever tried to kill The Shadow Tubby, so they don't know for sure.

Theories
These lines of text might give you a little insight..

"Have you heard? Has anyone told you? The rumor of the Shadow Tubby!"

"Rumor has it that a dangerous creature is going around in the form of an invisible gas, spreading curses and misery to all those who sniff the fumes, oh no!"

"They need only to make you smell them, and it is then that you will surely go crazy.."

"It's the hottest rumor going around in the state of Kansas, and this ones got an outcast super interested!"

Trivia

 * The Shadow Tubby has been around since the early 1300's, meaning that humans have experienced this phenomenon too.
 * There's a rumor going around that only a saint, only a teletubby of pure good can kill The Shadow Tubby.
 * At first, I made this article to give one of my characters a motivation to stay hopeful, but now I'm seeing that this thing I created embodies my one true fear..that my brain will turn against me.
 * The Shadow Tubby Phenomenon was supposed to be more surreal than scary, but I couldn't exactly go for that..so I went with the bodily horror over the surreal features.
 * The Shadow Tubby's eyes are meant to symbolize another creepy image that is way too creepy for me to talk about.. I left a pretty obvious line of text that'll tell you what it is, it should be pretty easy to find in case you want to scar yourself.
 * no

Credits
The Shadow Tubby Phenomenon belongs to Maker-Mosify, if you want to use it, make sure to notify me first about what your intentions are, then I'll happily let you use it!