SAPRONOSIS

SAPRONOSIS is a character played by snoruntpyro.

Appearance
A dark figure whose features, if they have any, are difficult to parse. They appear to be covered in dark purple growths or tendrils of some kind, though even that is hard to tell for certain. They appear to be wearing some sort of hoodie, and lack any facial features at all, with mushrooms instead growing out of where the face would be.

Like the other two, they always carry an enchanted netherite sword— sometimes even two, one in each hand.

Bio
A mysterious entity that often appears alongside FAMILIAR and ETERNITY. It first appeared out of nowhere to Thistle and was presumably responsible for infecting her with Eternity Parasites. Since then, it has been flickering in and out of existence and appearing to people with little warning. It seems to have an intense dislike of Theta and Rho, and harassed both of them after they escaped FAMILIAR. Seems to have the ability to play back audio recordings of past events, and has knowledge of multiple timelines.

As revealed later on, it used to be a normal person named Angel, in a doomed alternate timeline of the Community Server where something abnormal happened to the Void Hourglass, before being infected with Eternity Parasites. According to recordings played back by SAPRONOSIS itself, Angel was someone particularly fixated on video games, particularly Mega Man Battle Network, and apparently avidly played those games, including their multiplayer. Seems to be analogous to a certain someone.

Personality
Like its fellows, very cryptic and difficult to understand. It is entirely unknown what its motivations are, and it has acted the full range from cautionary to foreboding to outright malicious seemingly arbitrarily.

Similar to FAMILIAR speaking in opposing twos, SAPRONOSIS tends to speak in synonymous threes: "typical, expected, knew it. you weren’t present, around, existential." Often talks about rotting, poison, spores, bodies breaking down and reforming, mirrors, and broken glass shards, among other topics. It has a habit of interrupting or appending its own speech with Battle Chip or Card descriptions from Mega Man Battle Network and Star Force. Additionally, it has a strong hatred of flowers, calling them "meaningless"; it's unknown why this is the case.

Trivia

 * Its username it uses in its occasional recording playbacks, electric_angel, is a pre-existing pseudonym that has been used by snoruntpyro in non-Sockscraft 2 projects and contexts.

Etymology

 * Sapronoses are a type of infectious disease caused by an organism that is able to live and reproduce in the soil or an other abiotic environment, and infects a living host directly from that environment.
 * Septicemia (the namesake of one of SAPRONOSIS' swords) is another term for sepsis, a bacterial infection in the blood.