Which means Trump himself probably survived, but not for very long
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Lol I'm actually headcanoning this now We get almost no clues about why Joel and Sarah were among the uninfected but they're apparently having money problems and Joel is working a lot of long hours so neither of them is getting many home cooked meals
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Unbeknownst to everyone in setting forever, Sarah had discovered the actual cure Hardcore drugs
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It would be funny if the Cordyceps spores are inactivated by cooking so the culprit is eating raw produce like salad and fresh fruit It fits the profile of a lot of foodborne illness (but not ergotism, which this is most directly based on)
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I mean there's no reason why it would have developed a way to avoid cooking if it jumped from ants Like, cordyceps of the "zombie" variety is actually super complex and has evolved all these back and forth mechanisms with different ant species But no ants cook, so...
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The complex life cycle where it actually grows long term in plants before jumping to a different phase in humans (a reference to the life cycle of the Plasmodium parasite in mosquitoes that gives you malaria or the Toxoplasma parasite) is already a huge stretch
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Like that kind of thing takes a long time to evolve, it can't just suddenly fuck with humans in this new and complicated way if it had no humans in its original environment
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But you know whatever I do still think the parallel to ergotism is intentional and highly evocative, since it was a big enough deal in medieval society to be this whole cultural thing ("St. Anthony's fire", "the dancing sickness")
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Yeah but I don’t get the impression that you trip balls on the last of us one
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The Runners do kind of come across as though they're tripping balls in a very specific way
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There are vague hints that when you're in the early stages of infection you start to "lose your mind" Like Tess becoming increasingly violent and reckless, although whether that's the infection or her awareness of the infection is unclear
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We could possibly headcanon that Ellie's personality is changed by her infection, although she seems basically the same in her pre-bite flashbacks
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