Thread:AngryLance/@comment-28144855-20190915035744/@comment-39280634-20200112174951

Funny thing about that: parasites vs symbiotes. The former uses you and feeds off of you, giving nothing in return, while the latter exchanges benefits with it's host for the sake of shared survival. This is the contrast I found it interesting myself. The only weird thing about the latter is that (in Lance's case) it kinda ceased to 'live' as a distinct being and was almost fully 'absorbed and integrated' into Lance's body, which might indicate that it's not an ordinary type of lifeform...