This is Dr. Vasquez, head of the Parousia Institute, recording the first entry in what I guess can be called a diary.

It has been a year since the Incident occurred, and while everything is starting to feel, well, as normal as it can be, there are still numerous things that we aren’t sure of.

For instance, we still don’t know how to cure it. We called it the “TF Virus” in the hopes that it would instill some confidence that it can be cured, but we aren’t entirely sure. In the future, yes, but at the current time, we are unable to change what it has done to a patient's body.

Even if we had one now, there’s too many strains to reasonably cure everybody, should they wish to be cured. As a doctor, it frustrates me that I can’t help everybody that needs it.

But the things I've seen... People turning into monsters, excruciatingly large body parts, forms I didn’t even know the body could take... it’s...

There are things we do know. It isn’t lethal; no matter what form the person takes, their body will somehow adapt to allow them to live despite how impossible it should be. Though there are some exceptions, like with aquatic forms, generally this is followed.

Second, there is a relatively small number of Infected. I mean, ok that’s still a lot of people, but it’s not a majority of the population. The research so far shows that there is the same chance of being infected if one has or has not been in contact with an infected.

On that note, we still don’t know how it infects. The method of infection is seemingly random, but we are sure it isn’t spread through the touching of bodily fluids, sneezing, coughing, or other conventional ways of infections. Maybe the secret lies in the viruses it interacts with, but we are having trouble determining that.

For whatever reason, it only seems to affect people aged 18 and higher. There’s really no scientific basis for it, but none of the subjects thus far have fallen below 18. Some subjects even reported having been infected on their birthday.

It’s... frightening how much uncertainty there is with how this all works.

In any case, we are still working with Aqua to figure out a solution to all of this. Whenever the day may come, I’m not entirely sure. I just hope it’s sooner rather than later.

In the meantime, we’ve come up with a way to categorize the infected, for both our benefits. For instance, we’ve figured out our priority levels.

Firstly, Halcyon are those with minor changes who don’t need or need minimum help. Things like cat ears and dog tails along with the odd patch of fur here and there. Easily dealt with and the best to adapt to.

Then comes Vitram where they do need help with their new forms. Like, a subject with the TG strain needs help with adapting to their new identity, or a mermaid who needs to be in water to survive. This is where we focus the most since a majority of infected are either Halcyon or Vitram.

Then… Belial. I… These are people we cannot help because they either pose a threat to others or themselves. They usually must be secured, but often we cannot do so without harming others around them. I… I’d rather not give examples for this one. Lestra is a more extreme version of this… can’t be treated or observed… just best to leave them alone…

Oh god, my stomach…

Ahem. I’m fine. Just… yeah. In terms of the conditions of the patients, we’ve split them into Stable and Continuing. The former is when the body is no longer being affected by the virus. The latter is… when it’s still changing…

The sound of slapping cheeks is heard.

Moving on, we have also identified many strains of the virus and split them into two categories; Primary and Secondary. Only one Primary can infect a person. With Secondaries, we’ve observed that these 3 of these strains can infect if the person does not have a Primary. This in turn leads to the strains mutating into a Primary. If the subject does have a Primary, then only 2 secondaries will occur. We have identified a Primary strain that allows two Primaries other than itself to exist within the same body, but that’s the only one of that nature we’ve found so far.

Generally in either case, the subject is immune to further strains. But there is the possibility of that not being true as we observe further. I dearly hope it isn’t...

I suppose that’s everything… I thought this diary would help with the stress, but it seems that I’ve made myself sick just talking about it. Maybe the more I do, the better I’ll feel about all of this.

Hopefully the more stains we identify the closer we get to fixing everyone...

Dr. Vasquez, signing out.