I know this post is old, but it’s freakin’ amazing. Even to this day people get a lot wrong about Fresh and that makes me sad B’).
Two things I wanna say tho: 1. In my personal headcanon of Fresh, he rarely kills hosts. It definitely is a choice he has to make and not something that just ‘happens’ because he possessed them. Though based on this thing CQ said right here: “His whole existence derives off of manipulating others and possessing them, and the possession hurts the soul he controls, very badly, if they struggle against him.” I do believe if a host fought enough against Fresh they could damage their own soul to the point of death. That wouldn’t be a good thing for Fresh, and especially not for the host. But yeah, in my personal headcanon Fresh just avoids possessing a lot of people in the same location by poofing to a different place or whole other universe. If there’s one person in a whole universe saying they got dragged around by some 90′s-lingo spewing soul-eating parasitic skater starfish, who would believe them?
Fresh needs as many hosts as he can get, killing off some may not matter in a whole multiverse, but who knows maybe Lucidia works differently. In my interpretation of Fresh, he would only kill a host if they threatened his survival in some way.
2. We know that Fresh can possess Error, since CQ made a post about that a long while back, Fresh enjoyed the power of that host. That’s another facet of Fresh(warning: this is partially headcanon) that people don’t talk about often. Hypothetically, when Fresh feels secure, when he knows he won’t have trouble getting hosts.. he gets bored. I’d use loveball as an example of that, it wasn’t just him trying to survive, he was purposefully aiming for more power and control. If he just wanted to survive he would only need a single host at a time to do that. This is reflected in him possessing Error, he comments about how that host body was much different from others he’s possessed, hinting that it’s more powerful. Fresh didn’t have to go forr Error, he didn’t have to go after REAPER in that other comic CQ made either, but he did it anyway. So, in my opinion.. When Fresh feels comfortable he gets bored, and when he’s bored he can take just a small bit more risk than before, aiming for a goal besides just baseline survival, he wants power.
R.I.P Bread, u were the all up sicknastiest homeslice breadslice garlic bread broster toaster I ever had.
also, “sorry alaina” AHAHAHA OHNO LOL
So, I see you know that Fresh exists. A lot of people have a lot of ideas about Fresh, and while some are delightful, some just don’t make any sense. I’m here to unofficially address some of the things I see about his character that I wish I didn’t, so buckle up folks, this is gonna be a long post.
PLEASE NOTE that I am NOT CQ. Never have been, never will be(?), and despite my best efforts I don’t know everything about Fresh. To be honest, there are aspects that I’ll headcanon the heck out of, especially in regards to his magic and how possession works and what have you, but I try to make sure it makes sense with what I DO know- some of it’s probably wrong. I accept that. BUT YA BETTER BELIEVE THAT I’VE DONE MY RESEARCH ON WHATEVER’S AVAILABLE.
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