PRE #XIII: (The Dying Man [Shards] )

Designation: PRE15

Colloquial Terms: The Dying Man, the Lost Man, All and None, the Decay, Jumper, VAGRANT, He Who Seeks Shelter, Tinker, Changeling, Reaper, The Wandering King, The King Within and Without, The King Without a Kingdom, Anubis, Dionysus, Timor Nex, Humpty Dumpty, Amos, Thanatos, The Brothers Sleep, The Shattered Regal, Finnegan’s Wake, The Soul, Freak Designation Zeta - LEGION, Fisher King, The Skin Within, The Broken, Koschei, Ogbunabali, Subject Delta Mike, Fossil-Type LAZARUS.

Physical Characteristics: None, though victims/host do exhibit signs of necrosis and occasional deformities.

Behavioral Characteristics: Lacks a physical body, but inhabits the bodies of others. Once it has entered a host body, the host begins to decay. Symptoms of PRE15 instances'[s] (see below) infection include necrosis and a variety of deformities including, but not limited to, the growth of extra limbs or digits, scales developing along the skin, development of extra organs, and cancerous growth of skin and muscle cells. The speed of decay varies from victim to victim, ranging a few hours to a few years. Psychological effects on hosts also vary. Some hosts appear to lose all signs of previous personality as a PRE15 instance takes control, others appear normal except for occasional episodes of erratic behavior. A small number have been reported as having gone comatose. When the host body has decayed to the point that it is no longer feasible for a PRE15 instance to inhabit it, then the PRE15 instance will seek to make physical contact with another organism, jumping into the new body. There are some reports that PRE15 is able to split its consciousness and infect multiple bodies at once, though these reports are unconfirmed. It has been confermed that PRE15 is not one being but the shards of the being. thease shards have there own personality and prfences. PRE15 shards can be abosrbed by other shards.

Though PRE15 currently possesses no body of its own, there is evidence to suggest that this was not always the case. NOTE: That evidence is classified. --SΣ

Further Reading:  This blog as well as this blog, both concerning the same victim of PRE15