Talk:Hitotake/@comment-186.222.101.252-20150109024140/@comment-172.89.194.127-20200301203412

According to collected data, it is highly unlikely that this mushi actually "wears" the skin of the original fetus; instead, it is more likely that the Hitotake consumes the zygote in it's earlier stages (most likely for genetic information, but also nutrients, since the ovum is to humans what a yolk is for chickens, birds, and other egg-laying species). It then spends the next 8 1/2 half months attached to umbilical cord (in order to absorb sustenance and increase it's mass to form the slime ejected upon birth). Finally, it leaves after being ejected as a mass sentient slime enveloping the Hitotake spore, then spends the next six months siphoning it's mass into a formation resembling a baby (but that is really just a spore covered in slime and a flesh-like membrane), and eventually sends that "child" back to the mother (host).