Eduardo Valdés-Hevia 👁️@Valdevia_Art · Sep 27, 2024

FRACTAL July 23rd 2006. When a transport ship capsized, an unidentified liquid leaked into the ocean. It formed a…

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Summary

A fictional narrative following the emergence and spread of 'Fractal Syndrome,' a mysterious fractal-patterned pathogen that leaks into the ocean in 2006, spreads globally through nature and humans, spawns a major religion, and culminates in weaponized bioterrorism attacks across world cities in 2011.

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FRACTAL July 23rd 2006. When a transport ship capsized, an unidentified liquid leaked into the ocean. It formed a perfect Mandelbrot’s fractal pattern. In the following months, strange fish were reported in the area. Little did we know, this was only the beginning. (🧵)
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September 2006. Hurricane Julia approaches the US East Coast. Its strange fractal patterns and iridescence can’t be explained by meteorologists. Organisms put in contact with it would begin developing odd symptoms in the following days.
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As the fractal spreads through the atmosphere, its effects first start to be seen in nature, from plants to flocks of birds. The patterns would infect anything they touched, changing their growth and behavior. The longer the contact, the stronger the effect.
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December 2006. The first signs of fractal infection appear in humans. Strains of Rothia dentocariosa, bacteria otherwise normal in the mouth microbiome, start growing in strange patterns. Their rapid spread would prove hard to control with antibiotics.
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Fractal Syndrome is defined as a new entity by the WHO in 2007. First symptoms appear in growth areas such as the skin, nails and intestinal lining. It slowly spreads to the iris, teeth and eventually limbs. Transmission occurs through unknown mechanisms. No treatment exists.
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When the Fractal Syndrome eventually takes hold in the brain, strange behaviors start to occur. Though the changes are unconscious at first, they are visible when crowds spontaneously form into self-repeating patterns. Children start showing fractal conducts earlier than adults.
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The Fractal Communion is established as a major religion in 2009, as their numbers explode in the millions. Congregants expose themselves to Hausdorff-D2.5, now identified as the substance behind Fractal Syndrome. They call an elixir capable of miracles, such as curing blindness.
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July 23rd 2011. Hausdorff-D2.5, the Fractal, is released as a vapor over major world cities in synchronized attacks. As it rains down, it coats every surface. The attacks are planned by a radical religious collective known as The Branch. Tens of millions fall to the Fractal.
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As major urban centers across the world are taken over by the Fractal, authorities quarantine entire cities to avoid its spread. Riots soon escalate into open conflict against government forces. The Fractal is used as a weapon by the besieged fighters, infecting millions more.
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Eduardo Valdés-Hevia 👁️@Valdevia_Art · Sep 27, 2024
After the majority of the human population falls victim to the Fractal, a semblance of peace returns. Around the world, people single-mindedly organize to build fractal megastructures. This purposeless construction appears to be an advanced effect of the Fractal on the brain.
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Eduardo Valdés-Hevia 👁️@Valdevia_Art · May 6, 2025
It is estimated that by 2016, every human has dangerous concentrations of Hausdorff-D2.5 in their blood. The first to be affected by Fractal Syndrome have seen their symptoms worsen over years, slowly turning life-threatening. Their bodies cannot sustain the level of growth.
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The End.
Eduardo Valdés-Hevia 👁️@Valdevia_Art · Jul 28, 2025
The Fractal is fate. The Fractal is the end. Each body twisted and failed. Humanity consumed itself under the weight of change it could not control, change too large to adapt. Their only legacy the scars they inflicted on each other. Ages pass, and humankind becomes a memory.
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Nothing really ends.
Eduardo Valdés-Hevia 👁️@Valdevia_Art · Oct 6, 2025
Aeons come and go, millions of years slipping away like minutes. The Fractal remains. Mountains sprout in strange shapes, and in their twisted shadow species continue to evolve, die, be born. Nature has endured what humanity could not. Nothing ever really ends.