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The Phasefox, White Phasefox, or Common Phasefox, are all common names of Vulpes vulpes aeris, a species which scholars heatedly debate diverged from the common red fox either as a result of inter-dimensional influences, dark, deliberate pagan rituals, or simple, freak mundane magic-gone-wrong. Parties are highly divided on the study, and further research is pending (largely on the account of phasefox attacks upon researchers).

Whatever the case, the behaviors of this species divergence are only understandable at a rudimentary level, and what research has been performed has lead to the conclusion that adults of this species exist only in a female variant, most often found carrying their larval youth along on their energy signature. To elaborate, the phasefox appears most distinctively as a vaguely vulpine silhouette of white, plasma-like material, and somehow functions as living energy while in this state. The odd nature of this form grants the creature relative immunity to physical trauma, and allows it some manner of airborne propulsion.

Noted in this state is the sensitivity of the creature to fluctuations in the moisture content of the air. Rain and direct exposure to water seem to deter the creature and cause it 'pain', though it has not yet been tested whether extended exposure to moisture can harm a phasefox in its energy state significantly. At the least, specimens we have witnessed in the wild seem to simply find excess moisture unpleasant, and avoid it when possible. Their incorporeal nature makes studying these creatures in captivity for any extended period difficult, to say the least.

More notable perhaps than the phasefox's 'phase' state (on account of the threat it poses to humans), is the creature's reproductive strategy. While carrying kits, the phasefox seeks out a human, female host. Acting parasitically, it is able to infuse the host with the energy signatures of itself and its incubating offspring, merging with the host to accelerate the gestation of its young.

Thus "possessed", the host undergoes a gradual reorientation process where their body rejects its original structure, and steadily diminishes to the size and proportions of a naturally-occurring red fox. Oddly, the metabolic rate of monitored individuals has been steady enough to enable, at least in all documented cases, the stabilization such a drastic metamorphosis. (Arguably the phasefox itself takes on a role in processing the lost mass, though this is as of yet a difficultly quantifiable theory).

The first physical symptoms of the transformation begin with the alteration of primary and secondary sexual characteristics, to closer suit the capacities of a pregnant vixen. At first, the host symptoms include extreme paranoia, and a sensation of being 'eaten away', or 'filled up', presumably by the creature's spawn. Within a eighteen-hour period, however, the host human sheds all their nails and body hair and begins to acquire a marked reduction in size, accompanied by regular flatulence, and by delusional behavior more akin to wildlife than humans. Patients interviewed in this period describe a sense of 'distance' and ongoing contentment, and only vaguely surface enough in awareness to react to their marked alteration, past said eighteen-hour point. Occasional bursts of spasmodic bone development mark the end of this 'second phase', and the changes are often accompanied by fatigue and sleeping on the victim's part.

Past this point, the victim continues to undergo modifications, particularly while experiencing REM sleep, up to and including growth of fur, spinal extension and development of a rudimentary tail, and a complete change of personality. Within the next twenty-four hours the host completes her transformation, and becomes a relatively unremarkable, though turgidly pregnant vixen.

During this period, it is uncertain why the phasefox must utilize a host body, as it retains the ability to vacate the host body along with its kits. Presumably, the human is used to hasten the incubation of the bodies necessary for the animal's kits to inhabit, and this author posits that the creature cannot assume a physical state in its larval form, or otherwise continue to mature without aid. Additional to this proposition is the notion that it is inherently safer for the fox to use a proxy body, which it may vacate, to take continued advantage of its 'phased' status. Regardless, the creature only seems to have its young while forcing its form on a human host.

Gestation occurs within a matter of a month to two months. The host, now fully in the shape of a member of the species, carries live birth, and expels the essence of the phasefox, along with one of its remaining kits--presumably the 'strongest', which does not attain a body. While the parasite separates, the host continues to nurse the phasefox's young, gradually reverting to its human state only once the kits (all, intriguingly, female) are mature enough to survive on their own.

Observing the behavior of a phasefox thus liberated from its host, we discovered (through relative misfortune) that the creature's next objective is to implant its 'firstborn' within the nearest available human male. This inflicts upon said 'secondary' host, much the same process of eventual metamorphosis, into a relatively unremarkable, but fully matured adult male specimen of Vulpes vulpes. This is, debatably, a means for secondary distribution of the species' genetic material, though it is unknown as of yet whether offspring sired between an ordinary female red fox, and a Vulpes vulpes aeris victim can sire more phasefox progeny. Further experimentation is pending review.

Once the phasefox has transferred the last of its progeny, it becomes corporeal and within a matter of hours begins to undergo the normal estrus of a vixen. At this point, it will seek out a mate in much the same way as any fox--and may even mate with its own, singular male progeny, if they cross paths. The reason behind this salacious, unselective behavior is not yet understood, but it's speculated that perhaps this behavior is linked with the system of human hosts, and that some unknown, additional benefit is extrapolated from the female-infestation process, extending as far as carrying over multiple crossovers, or piggybacking additional genetic content onto the male progeny, beyond what would be expected for regular fox offspring. Subsequent breedings do not appear negatively impacted by this incest, though we have as of yet the means to provide a sufficient test sample without the sacrifice of further human subjects.

Interestingly, female hosts parasitized by the phasefox continue to carry an innate affinity for recolonization, even after they have physically reverted from their vulpine state. This is particularly intriguing as it implies a level of deliberate choice on the fox's part, to repeatedly pair with the same host, as well as an ability to manipulate the host's desires somehow to make the prospect seem innately 'appealing' despite the outward reversal of bodily alteration. This report posits that future analysis be made as to the viability of the phasefox's abilities in technological adva

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