Clicker (TLOU series)

Clickers are the third stage of the infection from Cordyceps, taking roughly a year to reach this stage of infection after exposure to the Cordyceps brain infection. They’ve had prolonged exposure to the fungus, and possess strength that significantly surpasses the average human. Clickers appear less human, with faces that are completely skewed and scarred by fungus developed from their infected brains, often only leaving behind a maw of jagged teeth. By this point, whatever clothes the host may have been wearing are either mostly tattered or gone. The skin is covered in mold and scaly fungal growths, which are bioluminescent. The eyes of clickers have been pushed out of the sockets due to advanced fungal growth, leaving them completely blind and lacking any eyes, noses, or ears. In response, clickers develop a form of crude echolocation by producing rapid clicking and croaking sounds, which has earned them their namesake. The formation of fungal plates on the heads of clickers are adapted to offer protection to the brain, leaving their head largely misshapen in accordance to the Cordyceps fungus growth. All female specimens have enhanced/exaggerated feminine features such as: High voluptuousness, thickness, curviness, plumpness and large sizes especially in the breasts, rear and hips. They also have a sagging belly, that accompanies their plump body. Clickers are only seek to hunt down with their blindness and echolocation. They are completely instinctual and do not talk nor respond since they lack any form of communication. If they hear you, they will immediately come over to the area you are in and investigate, looking for you. Clickers can sometimes be found in a passive state and standing in a slouched position, erratically twitching and often stumbling clumsily when walking around. They’re dangerous and very aggressive with their enhanced strength, as they can overwhelm and always succeed in killing their prey if attacking other humans. Clickers also possess high intelligence, never leaving an area when they have heard prey run by them, constantly checking every available nook and cranny to locate the source of the sound relentlessly. The front of their head is where the clicks are sounded, as their face plates are shaped like a megaphone, directing it straight ahead of them, but not all around. When provoked, a clicker will immediately become ‘berserk,’ aggressively flailing its arms and 'roaring' as the clicker attacks and searches for the stressor regardless of their blindness.