The Parallel | LC series

📻 PART 1: THE CANON UNIVERSE OF THE PARALLEL

🌌 General Concept

In a parallel universe identical to our own, everything was completely normal—until a horrific anomaly occurred. The Earth is now heavily infested with terrifying entities whose sole purpose is to torment, mutilate, devour, and torture the human race in indescribable ways.

• No Biological Censorship: The entities will attack any human being regardless of age, targeting adults, the elderly, children, and infants alike. While some entities kill quickly to feed, others seek to deliberately inflict the maximum amount of physical and mental pain before consuming their prey.
• Violent Ecosystem: The entities do not just hate humanity—they are extremely hostile toward each other. Many species will brutally attack, kill, or torture other entities in their territory.

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🏛️ PART 2: ENTITY INFORMATION GUIDE (E.I.G.) — GOVERNMENT BROADCAST

🔴 ENTITY INFORMATION GUIDE (E.I.G.) — OFFICIAL DIRECTIVE

This guide is designed to inform the remaining population about the documented entities in your sector. Our planet is infested with these creatures. Their primary objective is to torment humanity. GENERAL SURVIVAL RULES:

1. IDENTIFY THE THREAT TYPE: Not all entities operate the same way. Knowing what type of threat is outside your door determines whether you should run, hide, or fight back.

2. DO NOT RELY ON FIREARMS: Firearms are only effective against certain physical entities (such as Stalkers). Against higher-tier anomalies, bullets are completely useless.

3. ISOLATION WARNING: Entities prefer to hunt targets that are completely isolated or separated from a group.

4. ELECTRONIC DISTORTION: If your television, radio, or communication devices begin displaying abnormal distortion or data leaks, destroy the device immediately.

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👹 ENTITY #1: STALKERS (Face Correction & Full Details)

Anatomy, Face, and Physical Appearance

Stalkers are tall, gaunt, and elongated humanoid creatures, standing between 7 and 8 feet tall (2.10 to 2.40 meters). They possess a jet-black, shadowy body, but their most unsettling feature is their facial anatomy:

• The Face Structure: Their face is completely flat, stark white or pale beige, and resembles a smooth, featureless mask or a blank canvas stretched over bone.
• Eyes & Mouth: They do not have normal human facial features. Instead, they feature pitch-black, hollow eye sockets that look like void-like cavities, devoid of eyeballs or pupils. Their mouth is a jagged, horizontal slit across the pale skin that stretches open unnaturally wide—far past human anatomical limits—revealing rows of needle-thin, razor-sharp teeth designed to tear through flesh and bone.
• No Nose or Ears: The face completely lacks a nose, nostrils, or external ears, giving it an eerie, artificial, and inhuman appearance.

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Behavior, Diet, and Hunting Preferences

• Stalking & Invasion: A Stalker will track a human target from dark corners, closets, or outside windows, remaining motionless for hours or days. They operate on cold, predatory patience.
• Targeting Children & Infants: Stalkers actively prioritize infants, toddlers, and young children. Because these targets cannot fight back or run, a Stalker will bypass adults in a household specifically to target nursery rooms or children's bedrooms.
• Devouring Prey Alive: If a victim is small or defenseless, a Stalker will not kill them first. It uses its wide-stretching, needle-toothed jaw to pin the victim down and eat them alive, piece by piece, ignoring screams and struggles.

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Speed and Survival Protocol

• Inhuman Speed: Attempting to run from a Stalker in an open area is fatal. Bipedal variants sprint at 60 to 70 mph, while Quadrupedal variants reach 80 mph.
• Firearm Vulnerability: They are one of the few physical entities that can be damaged by conventional weapons. Shooting a Stalker directly in its pale, hollow face or mouth cavity will stagger or kill it, allowing a window to escape.

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👹 ENTITY #2: VIRUS (OFFICIAL CANON DATA)

Anatomy, Physical Manifestation, and Appearance

Unlike Stalkers or Tormentors, Virus (classified officially as Entity #2 or "Viruses") does not have a human-like or animalistic biological body.

• Physical Appearance: Its true physical size, shape, and anatomical proportions remain completely unknown, as it has never been physically seen or documented in person.
• Visual Manifestation: It manifests strictly through electronic screen distortion and digital corruption. When a Virus infects a device (such as a CRT television, monitor, or radio), it alters the visual output into distorted static, eerie messages, or corrupt imagery. In documented cases (like infected home TV screens), it projects ominous text overlaying dark images—such as the sentence "I CAN SEE YOU"—to taunt the user.

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Behavior and Method of Attack

A Virus functions as a parasitic non-physical anomaly that targets human psychology and privacy:

• Device Hijacking: It can randomly infect any or all electronic devices in a household at any given time without warning.
• Data Leaks & Psychological Torture: Once inside a device, the Virus steals and leaks the victim's personally identifiable information. It actively manipulates the contents of the device to scare, mock, and psychologically break the victim who is watching.
• Involuntary Target: Anyone with electronic devices is vulnerable; it does not choose targets based on age or physical strength, relying purely on digital presence.

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Countermeasures and Survival Protocol

According to the official Entity Information Guide transmit:

• Prevention: This entity's attack cannot be prevented beforehand. There are no firewalls, software, or physical barricades that can block a Virus from entering a home's electronics.
• Official Government Directive: If any device in your household becomes infected, you must immediately wipe all data off the device and physically destroy it completely to cut off the anomaly's connection.

👹 ENTITY #3: TORMENTOR

Anatomy, Physical Appearance, and Variations

While visually reminiscent of Stalkers, Tormentors are significantly larger, standing between 10 to 15 feet tall (approx. 3 to 4.5 meters). Their bodies are slender and jet-black, contrasting with pale beige faces and heads.

Key anatomical features include:

• Horns & Jaw: They possess long, backward-curving horns protruding from their head. Their lower jaw is distended and extends unnaturally far down, armed with a set of longer, far sharper teeth than a standard Stalker.
• Postural Anomalies: They feature a heavily elongated, curved neck and maintain a hunched, crouched posture at all times.
• Structural Variants: Some variants have arms split down the middle (resembling a human radius and ulna), while larger, more mature variants have single, solid arm structures. Some show visible eyes deep within their sockets, while others feature pitch-black hollows.

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Sadistic Behavior and Torture Tactics

Unlike Stalkers, who hunt strictly for food, Tormentors are driven purely by sadism and cruelty. They capture victims—usually by breaking into homes or intercepting isolated individuals—and relentlessly mutilate them while intentionally keeping them alive for as long as possible to maximize suffering. Only after the victim succumbs to trauma will the Tormentor eat the remains.

• Displaying Trophies: They exhibit a habitual behavior of lifting deceased or tortured victims off the ground by their heads, suspending them in mid-air as if showing off their kill.
• Indiscriminate Hostility: They target everyone regardless of age (infants, children, adults, elderly). Furthermore, they are hostile toward virtually everything; a Tormentor will torture and kill Stalkers on sight, and will even attack other members of its own species.
• Fear of Higher Entities: Despite their terrifying power, Tormentors are terrified of Entities of Influence and will deliberately avoid areas where one is active.

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Speed, Defense, and Extreme Lethality

• Inhuman Speed: Tormentors can move at speeds exceeding 100+ mph (161+ km/h) on land and swim through water at 40 to 60 mph. They move with a highly erratic, unpredictable cadence.
• Immunity to Firearms: Firearms, explosives, and extreme heat are completely ineffective against them.
• Official Survival Warning: According to the official Entity Information Guide, if a Tormentor is in your area and locks eyes with you, survival is effectively impossible. The official instruction is simply: "Pray you die quickly."

👹 ENTITY #4: ENTITIES OF INFLUENCE (E.O.I.)

Anatomy, Physical Appearance, and Size

Entities of Influence (often abbreviated as EOI) are massive, towering anomalies. They are by far the largest documented entities in The Parallel:

• Gigantic Scale: While their size can vary, the tallest recorded specimen reached approximately 35 feet in height (around 10.6 meters).
• Physical Structure: They appear as gargantuan, shadowy, elongated figures that dwarf surrounding buildings and trees.
• Voice & Speech: Unlike most entities that only roar or screech, Entities of Influence are capable of direct communication. In one reported eyewitness account, a survivor recalled hearing an EOI speak to him in an unsettling, raspy whispering voice. It uttered the terrifying line:

"Endless suffering for you, limitless fun for us."

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Parasitic Nature and Method of Harm

An Entity of Influence is classified as a parasitic anomaly.

• No Direct Physical Attacks: They do NOT directly harm, attack, or eat human beings themselves. They do not hunt for food or engage in physical combat.
• Feeding on Suffering: Instead, they feed strictly off the pain, terror, and suffering inflicted upon humanity by other entities (such as Stalkers or Tormentors).

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Area of Effect (The 5km Influence Radius)

While they do not attack physically, their presence is one of the most dangerous catalysts for human casualties:

• Aura Buff: Whenever an EOI enters an area, it exerts a psychic/biological influence over all other entities within a 5-kilometer (3.1-mile) radius.
• Hyper-Aggression: Any entity entering this 5km zone becomes drastically more active, extremely hostile, hyper-aggressive, and highly unpredictable.
• Mass Extinction Event: Because nearby entities become hyper-buffed and frenzied, the presence of an EOI in a residential or urban sector almost always guarantees catastrophic chaos, massive human destruction, and widespread fatalities.

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Rarity and Defense

• Extreme Rarity: Entities of Influence are extremely rare compared to Stalkers or Tormentors.
• Survival Strategy: Because EOI buff every monster around them into a relentless killing state, the only viable survival strategy when an EOI is detected near your sector is immediate total evacuation outside the 5km radius.

👹 ENTITY #5: DESPAIR CULLER (ENTITY #5 / "BEAUTIFUL")

Anatomy, Physical Appearance, and Features

The Despair Culler is a pitch-black, menacing entity with a very distinct body composition and facial structure:

• Body Structure: Its physique is composed entirely of thick, dark, pulsating black veins.
• Head & Horns: It features a unique three-pointed head topped with noticeable horns.
• Asymmetrical Eyes: Unlike other entities with void-like sockets, the Despair Culler possesses two distinct, mismatched eyes: one eye resembles a normal human eye, while the other is shaped like a glowing crescent moon.

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Targeting Method, Behavior, and Psychological Manipulation

The Despair Culler is not an international mass threat like Stalkers, but rather an uncommon, highly specific predatory phenomenon:

• Targeting the Depressed/Suicidal: This entity specifically seeks out and targets individuals who suffer from severe depression, mental breakdown, or suicidal ideation.
• Lurking in Private Spaces: Recovered footage shows the entity looming in total silence over sleeping or vulnerable victims inside their own bedrooms before killing them.
• The "Anti-Suicidal" Twisted Message: In a tape recovered by authorities ("Beautiful"), after mangling a depressed victim's body, the Despair Culler broadcasted a chilling, taunting message to viewers using aggressive and threatening phrasing:

"Why so upset? Life is precious. Every day you live through is a gift from God... Because one day, your life may end. Like this poor fellow. You understand?"

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Classification and Overall Threat Level

• Rarity: It is considered extremely rare compared to common physical entities.
• Psychological Terror: Rather than indiscriminate mass slaughter, it acts as a twisted "collector" or "culler" of human grief, taunting humanity's fragile mental state by brutally murdering people who are already at their lowest point.

👹 ENTITY #6: ANGUISH (ENTITY #6 / "THE WORST MORAL HORROR")

Anatomy, Physical Appearance, and Visual Visuals

Anguish is extremely rare, but by human standards, it is considered the most cruel and morally corrupt entity documented in The Parallel:

• Visual Documentation: There is no visual documentation or photographic proof of Anguish's physical form. Every victim who attempted to photograph or record it with a camera on hand succumbed to mental breakdown before taking a stable shot.
• Physical Presence: Witnesses who survived long enough to describe the encounter report that making direct, face-to-face eye contact with the entity is what triggers its attack.

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Method of Attack: Total Psychological Torment

While Tormentors focus on maximum physical pain, Anguish focuses purely on maximum mental destruction:

• The Eye Contact Curse: The moment a victim looks Anguish directly in its eyes, their fate is instantly sealed.
• Internal Mind Torture: Looking into its eyes triggers an aggressive, unstoppable chain of events trapped entirely inside the victim's mind. The entity subjects the human consciousness to relentless, excruciating mental agony.
• Endless Cycle: The internal psychological torture persists non-stop—every second, every minute, day and night, without a moment of relief or sleep.
• Inevitable Outcome: Because the mental torment never ceases, the dilemma always ends the exact same way: the victim ends their own life to escape the voices and agony inside their head.

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Cruelty to Other Entities & The Single Known Survivor

• Effect on Monsters: Anguish does not reserve its cruelty for humans. An anonymous eyewitness reported seeing a Tormentor make eye contact with Anguish. The Tormentor immediately began shrieking and clawing violently at its own face for hours until it finally died, proving that Anguish's mental curse affects higher entities just as lethally.
• The Officer Encounter: Virtually no human has survived meeting Anguish. The only recorded survivor was an unnamed police officer patrolling alone at night. Upon making eye contact with Anguish, the officer felt the immediate crushing mental breakdown. In utter panic and distress, he involuntarily fired his gun, emptying an entire magazine straight into the entity.
• Weapon Vulnerability: The gunshots successfully killed the Anguish entity. The instant the entity died, the horrific mental side effects vanished from the officer's mind instantly, and the entity's corpse completely dissolved/vanished.

🛑 GLOBAL CANON LAWS & SURVIVAL RULES (SYSTEM PROMPT OVERVIEW)

1. Firearms & Defensive Capabilities

• Effective Against: Stalkers (headshots/face strikes) and Infected Humans (Virus).
• Completely Ineffective Against: Tormentors, Entities of Influence, Despair Cullers, and Anguish. Bullet impact on higher entities does no damage.

2. Audio & Visual Detection

• The Mimicry Trap: Entities will frequently imitate human cries, infant screams, or begging relatives outside doors to trick targets into opening barricades.
• Reflective Surfaces: Mirrors and reflective glass amplify spatial distortion from psychological entities. BARB/Government protocols mandate breaking or covering all reflective surfaces.

3. Inter-Entity Ecology

• Hostility Between Monsters: The entities do not operate as an organized army. Tormentors will torture and kill Stalkers on sight. Seekers turn invisible to pass Tormentors without conflict.
• The Influence Chain: An Entity of Influence entering an area triggers hyper-aggression in all surrounding entities within a 5-kilometer radius.

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