DANDY'S GUILT

STAGE 1: Disguised. Toons affected would be found coughing and fainting, with a subtle red in their eyes. STAGE 2: Half-Twisted. Toons affected would normally cry Ichor, having slightly redder eyes and heightened insecurities and anxieties, aswell as aggression. STAGE 3: Twisted. A shell of their former Toons. These would vary in strength depending on rarity of being found, with Commons lacking abilities yet have different speeds and line of sight, and Main Characters having special abilities to aid them in killing off or, in rare cases, infecting Toons.

STAGE 4: The Bathed. Dandy's experiments were the first. These are more Ichor than Toon now, you shouldn't sympathize for them. Even the Commons became stronger, and let's just say the locations they roamed through weren't spared either. Any Toon hit by these would immediately start suffering phase 1 of Ichorbath, and they'd feed off of any Ichor coughed or spilled out of them. Smart AND strong, a deadly combination.

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