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Communication

SARS-CoV-2 has several different ways of communication; its own first language, human language, body language and telepathy.


Native Language

SARS-CoV-2's own native language exists of animal noises.

  • Roaring - Only the king can roar! Very deep and loud noise, sounds very similar to a tiger's growl. The king uses his roar to tell his entire pack to charge and attack.
  • Roar-Barking - Only the king can roar-bark! Very deep and loud noise, sounds like a large dog's barking mixed with a tiger's growl. The king uses his roar-bark to silence his entire pack.
  • Barking - Barking has various meanings, depending on the tone in the barking voice. It can simply be meant as a way of communication with virions who are far away or just not seen. They use their actual barking voice for distance communication. Some virions may automatically bark when they're excited or happy, and their barking sounds more higher-pitched. Virions use a deep barking voice when alerting pack-mates. And when a virion tries to intimidate or scare away enemies, his barking voice sounds deeper, but with a growl mixed in, in order to sound more aggressive.
  • Growling - Virions may growl when being mildly irritated by pack-mates, or to appear intimidating to enemies. Even when scared, virions growl at the enemy. Virions may growl when playing too, but this always a 'friendly growl', similar to a dog growling when playing with its human. A deep and loud growl may be used as a milder way to put bratty pups or lower-placed virions on their place.
  • Howling - Howling is mainly used as a way to tell potential enemy packs to stay out of the territory. This sounds very similar to the howling of wolves. The D614G mutant also has a special, deeper and kinda depessed sounding howl, known as the 'funeral howl'. D614G virions do this when someone very close to the king dies. The king starts the funeral howl and his entire pack will join in. D614G virions do mourn every single virion who died, but in a more silent way. The funeral howl is used to pay extra respect to those whom the king had a special and/or stronger bond with. The funeral howl may sound like the pack is about to burst into tears, and it may even sound so heartbreaking, that some cells may even start to feel sad too.
  • Sneezing - Not actual sneezing, but rather a sneeze-like noise that virions make in combination with tail wagging, quick head shaking and lowering the front part of their body. It is used to invite a pack-mate to play.
  • Squeaking The same high-pitched, squeaky noise that a dog makes. It is an expression of discomfort, as virions usually make this noise when they're frustrated, are in pain, scared or feeling nervous.
  • Whimpering - A whiny noise, also mainly used to express discomfort. The squeak may be mixed in. Virions (mostly young virions) may also make this noise to beg for attention from a pack-mate, usually their father.
  • Yelping - A loud screaming noise, used to express extreme discomfort. Virions do this when they're scared to death of something, or in excruciating pain. Some more sensitive virions may yelp when they're startled.
  • Murring - A deep noise which some virions may make when they're doing a big stretch or are scratching themselves where it itches a lot. It sounds like the virion says "Ehhhrmmmmm".
  • Puppy Noises - Cute noises that only newborn pups make, sounds the same as dog pups. Varies from softly whimpering to loudly crying. These noises activate the protective instincts in both wild-type and D614G mutants, but it only has a short effect on the wild-type. The puppy noises of pups of one virion don't have effect on the other virion. In D614G, however, a virion's strong nurturing instincts are activated as soon as he hears a puppy crying, no matter who's kid it is. Adult virions always come running for the pup like a mama dog.
  • Panting - Like dogs, virions pant to cool themselves off. Though, panting may also be an expression of discomfort. The virion may be in pain, sick or feeling nervous.
  • Clacking - Some virions clack their teeth as a warning when they're in defensive mode, or when annoyed by a pack-mate. It sounds similar to an owl snapping its beak.


Prince Scratcher clacking.

Human Language

SARS-CoV-2 is a highly intelligent virus which quickly adapted to its human host. At first, it didn't spoke, but since King Bao and his strong interest in the, to him rather weird 'sing-song' noises that cells make, the virus learned to speak human language. Bao's 'words' sounded more like a dog trying to imitate the sounds of words at first, and thus sounding rather unintelligible. But he and his offspring were a fast learners and their animal noises started to sound more like actual words as time passed. Eventually, most virions were able to construct full on sentences, even though it still sounded as broken human language, and with a croaking voice, as growls were still mixed in.

By the time King Matthias was born, SARS-CoV-2 spoke the human language fluently and without the animalistic noises mixed in. It also learned to speak more different languages as it spread to more countries. Chinese was the very first language the virus learned to speak.

Even though the virus speaks fluent human, and the animal noises have disappeared from their spoken words, the voices of most virions still sound extremely deep, almost demonic in some cases even. Only a handful of virions have normal sounding 'human' voices when they talk.

Body Language

Body language is also similar to dogs.

  • Tails
    1. Tails held horizontally and wagging fast means general happiness or excitedness. Tails stiffly held horizontally and not moving means that the virion is alerted.
    2. Tails down and not wagging means that the virion is neutral and just minding his business. Tails down and wagging a bit, also in combination with bowing, means that the virion is showing submission and respect to his superiors. Tails down and between the legs means fear.
    3. Tails quickly wagging to the right means that the virion is happy to see a specific pack-mate, such as his father, brother or a friend for example.
    4. Tails wagging to the left means that the virion is aggressive; when about to attack a cell, or when two kings meet and are about to fight each other. In case of two kings meeting, the tails are also wagging slowly.
    5. Tails of king held high up in the air and wagging slowly and with short strokes after a lower-placed virion challenged him, means that he's reminding the virion who's head of the pack (without the use of any violent punishment). Tails of king held up high into the air, and arching over his back but not moving, means that he's showing general authority.
  • Ears
    1. Ears set wide (relaxed) means that the virion is feeling fine or neutral. Even wider set ears, and with the insides pointed to the sides and a friendly expression too, means that the virion is showing friendliness. Virions mainly do this when interacting with to the ones they like, or with pups.
    2. Ears close together and pointed forward means dominance. Higher ranking virions do this to show authority, This is always in combination with holding the head and tails up in the air and the chest forward. They often walk around in a stately manner too. Though, when the virion has forward pointing ears in combination with an angered expression, the virion most likely tries to appear intimidating. But it can be also a combination of being dominant and appearing intimidating, like King Matthias on most artworks.
    3. Ears lowered and pointed to the sides means either fearfulness or discomfort.
    4. Ears drooping while still showing the insides a bit means sadness, often in combination with teary eyes. Sometimes it's in combination with a surprised expression though, but in this case the virion isn't sad (no tears), but rather flabbergasted about something.
    5. Ears held horizontally and pointed backward, in combination with an angered expression, teeth bared and loud and deep growling/barking. The virion is either angry, aggressive or in a defensive mode. In case of the defensive mode, the virion isn't angry or aggressive, but scared, and he tries to scare the threat away by looking and sounding intimidating.
  • Play Bow - Virions lower their front body, spread out their front legs but stick their hind in the air to send a friendly invite to play. This is in combination with excitedly wagging the tails, moving from side to side, sneezing, and panting and barking with a higher pitched voice.
  • Greeting King - When greeting the king, lower-placed virions keep their hind part and tails low, but they wag their tails fast. They look up to the king and sniff and lick his snout. Most virions also make nervous squeaky noises. Virions are happy that their king returned from his patrol or hunt, but this greeting behavior also means that the lower-placed virions have respect for their king, as this particular body language clearly shows submission.
  • Meeting A Stranger - When virions meet each other for the first time, they learn to know each other by sniffing each others face, peplomers, front paws and under the tails. A virion's pheromones tell everything about his age, health and if he has a pack or not (and in case he does have a pack, what his status within said pack is). Virions will only be tolerant of each other if both are without a pack, as virions who have a pack are rather territorial and protective of their nest, so strangers won't be tolerated.
  • Snout Biting - An aggressive way to put a badly behaving virion on hs place. Virions only do this if the badly behaving did something really attrocious or just happens to be too bold. Some virions may bite too hard or they vigoriously shake their head while brabbing the other virion's snout (adds an extra 'I'm very serious, don't even try me!').
  • About To Fight - Virions who are about to attack and fight each other, will slowly circle around each other and intensely stare each other in the eyes. Of course both hope that the other will retreat, as virions usually don't like it when conflicts are escallating. But, most conflicts between lower placed virions will be stopped by either the king or an another superior, so fights between lower placed virions almost never occur. Fights more often occur between two kings, or a king and a challenger prince from a different pack.
  • Letting Head Rest On Superior's Neck Or Shoulder - Or at least trying to do so. This is considered attrocious behavior, as it involves a lower placed virion showing pure disrespect to a virion higher up on the list. In some cases a virion tries to climb on the other virion too. The lower placed virion then approaches the superior from the side, and tries to jump or climb on him and then just stay put, all to make a statement. Virions who don't accept a certain virion as their leader often display this behavior.


Prince Vasiliy showing disrespect to his grandfather, because he doesn't want to accept him as his king.

Scent And Pheromones

SARS-CoV-2 makes use of scent and pheromones for various reasons too.

Like other viruses, SARS-CoV-2 has a penetrating, extremely bad smell. Very similar to the smell of a decomposing corpse, yet the virus of course has its own distinct version of said smell. Viruses are able to detect differences in the scents of different species, cells can not. To cells, the scents of ALL virus species are the exact same typical virus scent. They can differiate between a virus, bacterium or a parasite, but just not between different species because they only need to know what kind of pathogen has entered the body, and adapt to that. SARS-CoV-2 doesn't mind its own smell, but it does hate the smell of other viruses. This is both because it is territorial and probably feels threathened by the scent of other species, and because viruses themselves also think other species smell bad.

The king has the strongest personal body scent, while the scents of his pack-mates are rather faint because the king produces testosterone suppressing pheromones. When cells think they smell lower placed virions, they actually smell their king because the latter applies scent-flags on them. The king scent-flags his virions so they can help him scent-mark their territory, but it also functions as an ID card in case there might be an another pack present somewhere. If so, and the virions of both packs meet without both kings present, they can meet each other's king that way. Lower placed virions can smell each other's own body scent too, as they have a very sensitive sense of smell and thus can easily detect differences in scents, while ignoring the stronger scent of the king. They can also tell if the stranger they just met doesn't belong to a pack, as his own scent has become stronger and no stronger scent is present (this is also true for virions who left their pack out of free will, yet lack the desire to differentiate into a king).

Scent And Pheromone Glands

SARS-CoV-2 has multiple glands that produce and emit various pheromones. Like dogs, virions sniff each other when meeting or greeting. A virion can tell what the other virion's general health status is, his age, if he's awaiting the budding of his pups or already has them, and what his place within the pack is.

  • Facial Glands - Glands located on the snout and cheeks emit the virion's overall personal body scent. These glands are active on all virions, but the scent is very faint in lower placed virions.
  • Paws - Located between the toes and on the pads. Also emits the overall personal body scent. These glands are active on all virions, but the scent is very faint in lower placed virions.
  • Belly - The glands on a virion's belly are only active when the virion has newborn pups. These glands emit both a gentle sweet scent and a soothing pheromone, which calms crying newborns. Short haired virions may have small bald spots on their belly when the glands are active.
  • Envelope Protein - Located right under the tails. Also emits the overall personal body scent. These glands are active on all virions, but the scent is very faint in lower placed virions.
  • King's Pheromones - Only the king is able to produce these pheromones. Pheromones that have a suppressing effect on the testosterone levels of lower placed virions. All virions produce testosterone (a virus version of it), but lower placed virions produce only a bit, while the king's testosterone levels are sky high. That's why the king is larger and more muscular, stronger, more aggressive and more dominant than the other pack members. Testosterone levels differ per virion (both kings and lower placed virions) too, which is why some kings may look larger or bulkier than the other, and why some lower placed virions may look rather scrawny and small compared to other lower placed pack-mates.
  • Peplomers - Only the king is able to produce these glands. Peplomers are literally scent glands on stilts. They produce a colorless, oily liquid with a strong rotting smell (amplified version of the king's overall personal body scent). The king uses his peplomers to leave scent-flags on his virion and on specific spots in his territory. The peplomers of lower placed virions don't produce this liquid because they're affected by the king's pheromones. When the king is applying a scent-flag to a virion, the virion will bow and sit still while the king rubs his peplomers all over the virion to leave a film of the smelly, oily liquid on his coat.

Telepathy

SARS-CoV-2 is one of only three viruses that are able to use telepathy, the others being morbilivirus (measles) and HIV. It is not understood WHY these viruses developed telepathy, while the rest didn't, but it is thought that it has something to do with their mutations. This is for sure the case in SARS-CoV-2's mutant variants, given the wild-type form can't use telepathy at all. It might also be caused by the slight increase in brain size in D614G mutants, or maybe because they use more procent or power of their brain.
Like morbilivirus and HIV, telepathic use is in SARS-CoV-2's advantage as it now can communicate with pack-mates in silence. It can also make telepathic connections with cells, to create illusions, make them 'hear voices'... or take full control over the minds of cells and make them do anything it wants.