As of now, the future of Earth looks bleak. What began as seemingly a joke has turned into a worldwide catastrophe; the virus is growing more and more powerful even as I utter these very words. At the center of this Xelluenza pandemic is a notorious demon known only as "Xellos Metallium". The most obvious symptom of this disease is the unnatural altering of hair color to the color violet; this altercation will also roughly match the hairstyle of the original Xellos to a degree. There is no further factual information on what this horrible disease might do, but some hypotheses are:
1) The purplish hair will keep growing and growing until it consumes the subject entirely, absorbing the subject as power for the evil demon.
2) Xellos will be able to control anyone that has violet-colored hair.
3) The rest of any infected subject will eventually turn purple.
4) Victims will eventually turn into clones of the original Metallium demon.
5) Nothing will happen.
Whatever the case may be (5 appears most likely at the current confusing time), it will still cause panic nonetheless. While select small religious groups regard the event as a sign from the heavens that purple is in fact the holiest color, others believe that the human race will turn into demons manipulated by the newly-colored hair that they possess. The stock market has also crashed in many countries, presumably the start of a Second Depression that is far greater than the first. No one knows exactly why this is the case, but everyone assumes that it is their government's fault for destroying the economy after the sudden onset of the growth of purple hair, while the government assumes that most people are anarchists who are bent on rebelling against the government at the sight of purple hair. In this chaotic time, the only people that are happy appear to be bald people. In fact, reporters such as I note, they appear to be getting rather hostile, shouting remarks such as, "NOW who's the one laughing? hahahahahahahahahahahaha..."
But getting back to the actual point - Xelluenza. The nature of it appears to be extremely sudden, and also extremely contagious. As purple-haired scientists have examined, the viruses appear to be shaped like tiny black cones that will launch themselves onto a target at the first sign of life. The scientists have also found that peculiarly, the viruses do absolutely no harm whatsoever, except for the obvious bit of the violet hair. A vaccine has yet to be found.
How did Xelluenza start? It appears to have been started unknowingly by the original Xellos, when the purple-haired black cone cells began multiplying rapidly from some sort of exposed radiation. It did not effect us first; the members of the same anime were struck first, as you can see from these startling photographs: |
