Hey guys! The Hazbin video had an error so I'm still in the process of remaking it! It'll be reborn soon but I hope you enjoy these creepy character designs in the meantime!! :3c

"She don't bite" *rabies girl foaming at the mouth trying to chomp down on someone* "YES SHE DO!"

I love watching a soft voiced lady draw spooky fellas

Lavenders voice: ☺️ What she draws: 💀

There's a two sentence horror story I'll remember forever. "This is a Public Service Announcement. Rabies is airborne."

Prion be like: "yoink got your brain 😃"

I love how the prion disease character looks to be absolutely starving to death, because to my knowledge that tends to be the main time when when cannibalism occurs, at least in animals.

Favorite thing about rabies is that it probably explains the uncanny valley. When we were evolving and say something not quite right, one of the members of our pack acting strange , aggressive, paranoid, paralyzed, or a prey animal acting like that too. We learned that when something isn't quite right, it's unpredictable and dangerous, so we developed the uncanny valley as instinct so we'd stay away from them

Nobody can convince me that diseases like these aren't the reason we have the Uncanny Valley instinct. The odd behaviour they cause perfectly fits with the "Looks human but doesn't really act like one" panic of the UV instinct. When the new humans saw others act like that would have recognised "That human(?) is acting weird. Last time someone acted like that they died really horribly and the ones they infected did too. Better get the hell away from them so I don't suffer that fate." and now that stuff is just ingrained in our monkey brain

The prion girl looks like someone who would commit war crimes and get away with it

Theres a song called "Suburbia Overture" and one of the lines is, "I got kuru from your sister and died laughing in jail" This makes significantly more sense now. Edit: Will Wood reference!!! 😁

Fun story: I'm a Veterinary Technician and at my old job I was bitten by a Raccoon because my boss wanted me to restrain it without sedation for a rabies vaccine. They didn't quarantine it, they just let the owner take it home. The owner of the Vet Clinic told me not to go to the ER because they didn't want to get in trouble because they weren't supposed to be seeing raccoons. There is a separate license needed to treat non domestic animals. I had horrible night terrors for a month straight.

One thing you forgot to mention about rabies is that you don't experience any symptoms until it's too late, and by then your brain will have mostly turned into mushy goo from how the virus destroys your nervous cells

i think this is my favorite way to learn about posions and sicknesses

The most horrific symptom of prion disease that I have heard of is fatal insomnia---damage to your brain/nervous system such that it makes you not be able to sleep until your body gets so tired you die

If you decide to do a part 2, may I suggest: -Radiation Sickness -Black Death(Already done) -Leprosy -Tuberculosis(Already done) Edit: I completely forgot about her plagues video let me redo this lol -Radiation Sickness -Leprosy -Necrotizing Fasciitis -Dysentry

I thought it said “disasters” and i was just thinking “is she gonna draw nine eleven anime girls”💀

fun fact with prions, they can also be inherited and can be somewhat spontainious. For example a family in italy has a prion disease that gradually will stop them from ever being able to sleep again by the age of thirty or forty and results in death, while some forms of dimentia are also theorized to be related to misfolding protiens

The second guy looks more sad to me than scary. Like he’s regretting what he’s created when it’s too late

Meningitis, even when survived, can be really scary. I'm friends with a really lovely girl in my college who had it as a baby, and while she recovered, it has left her with Cerebral Palsy, she can't walk without a walking from and has a visible lazy eye along with other health complications, and she got off on it lightly. It is definitely scary and can hit anyone at any time.

The moral of the story is don't do cannibalism kids. Who else thinks Lavendertowne voice reminds them of rain for some reason?

Prion diseases are actually so fascinating on a chemical level , they are not like bacteria or viruses , but actually a improperly folded protein that causes a chain reaction unfolding other proteins in your body

The characters you make are always so... cosplay-able, you know what I mean? These would all be soooo interesting to create costumes for and stuff.

If you ever make a part 2, it’d be interesting to see something like Naegleria Fowleri, the brain-eating amoeba. It has around a 98% fatality rate, but thankfully, cases are very rare. Since it’s an amoeba that lives in warm, freshwater environments, maybe some aquatic creature person would work as a way to portray it.

I love watching my favorite youtubers when i'm dying of a cold

Lavender town never fails to rip my limb apart one by one as I scream in excrutiating pain and agony meanwhile my consciousness slowly fades away

She sounds so calm while talking about literal death 😭

Oh my goodness!! Lavender knows about Prions! As someone who knows far too much about prions, I’m ecstatic! I think one of the scariest things about CJD is that it’s not only caused by ingestion of prions. The most common cause is random misfolding of the heathy PrPc protein into PrP protein. You can do everything to avoid it and still get it because ultimately you can’t do anything to protect yourself from a freak accident during otherwise normal physical process.

Hearing Lavendertowne talking about Rabies makes me realize it feels very intentionally designed to be like,,, the most infectious disease. Biting someone while your saliva is foaming and extreme is the perfect way to transmit disease?

These all sounds so scary like I love lavendertown but- 😭

My favorite Disease is Chronic wasting disease (CWD) for short. a prion disease that affects deer, elk, reindeer, sika deer, and moose families. Love your art, you inspire me to pick up a pencil and draw again.

Prion diseases are absolutely horrifying yet so interesting! Especially seeing as it's already an umbrella term with many specific diseases with varying symptoms and causes. It only really makes the iceberg even deeper, and how little we know about these diseases more apparent. Especially seeing as how little research has been conducted about them

I would love to see a replica of this video but with fictional diseases!

Loved these designs Gotta have "Naegleriasis" (the disease of the Brain Eating Amoeba "Naegleria fowleri") for a part 2

Hey lavender towne!!! I just wanted to let you know youre not alone in that fear of having a deadly disease all the time. Im 15 and constantly terrified that i have ovarian cancer, endo, etc. Just the most crippling anxiety. Knowing that you also have that and have lived as long as you have and gotten past it is very comforting. Funnily enough, the pqrt about prion disease definitely drove me into a mini anxiety attack lol.

The Prion disease one was so well designed. The emaciated figure made me think of Chronic Wasting Disease, the prion disease found in deer.

The first one freaks me out so much, especially because of the awful treatment of the cows in intensive farms :( the whole thing feels so dystopian and awful.

The way she's able to humanize concepts such as deadly diseases and create such designs out of it will never not be amazing to me, I wish I had as much creativity as hers!

meningitis is genuinely one of the most terrifying things to me. every time i have a headache, i have the thought "what if i have meningitis?". it also tends to come along with "what if im having an aneurysm?"

her inspiration: 🖤💀🔪⛓🩸 her voice: ☺🩷😘🌸🍬

7:27 Man, this looks so much like a character that one of my friends could make. She's really interested in military suits and antropomorphisizing non-living things. If I happen to meet her someday again (we haven't seen each other for years), I should probably recommend this video to her.

If this is going to be a new series, may I suggest: Polio Smallpox Brain-eating amoeba Malaria Ebola Encephalitis Disease as a concept is such a terrifying thing, and art with themes of disease is weirdly fascinating because of it. I would love to see more of this!

Remember when Lavender did character designs for the four horsemen? What if these guys are like servants or workers for Plague?

Aspiring epidemiologist here! I really enjoyed this episode, and would like to touch on a few design features that - while not discussed in the video - are still quite fitting: 1) The emaciated appearance of the prion character nicely references Chronic Wasting Disease - a prionic disease in deer that causes them to lose the capacity to feel hunger, and becone emaciated (among other things.) I also like that the skull of the character appears to have been split open, since contact with infected brain tissue is one of the main ways it's spread (even if the brain itself isn't eaten, if any misfolded proteins from it contaminate an object that isn't properly disposed of, crosscontamination and an indirect infection can potentially occur.) If there's one thing I'd change, it's that I would've given the character dark circles under the eyes to reference Fatal Familial Insomnia, a genetic condition that all but garuntees that those who have it will eventually have proteins misfold in their brain, leading to a prionic condition that prevents them from being able to sleep, with death usually occurring for reasons related to sleep deprivation rather than the actual holes in the brain that usually kill prion victims. 2) I appreciate that the rabies character is female, as the scientific name of the virus is actually named after the Greek goddess of rabies and violent frenzies, Lyssa (yes the Greeks had an entire goddess whose main thing was being in charge of rabies. She also nade Hercules murder his family because Hera threatened her, and also sicked rabid dogs on a guy who peeped on her and Artemis bathing. That's pretty much all of her surviving mythos.) I would like to clarify that rabies doesn't simply cause a fear of water, it causes the victim to have violent spasms if they look at water or think about drinking - because this hurts, the patient typically exhibits a fear response to water because it's presence is causing them pain, so they want to get away from it. This doesn't occur in all cases though, and is thought by sone to be the reason why vampires (likely at least partially inspired by rabies) are said to have an aversion to running water. 3) I like that the meningitis character doesn't have visibile legs, as a common complication of meningococcal meningitis (one of the more common bacterial meningitises) is necrosis of the limbs, causing them to essentially die and rot off while the person is still alive. No idea if any of these were intentional or not, but I still thought they were really neat. Also, I can somewhat relate to the hypochondria thing. It's something I've rarely experienced myself (which surprises a lot of people considering that I have contamination focused OCD,) but I have fallen prey to it on occasions where I have a sudden onset of severe symptoms, or a combination of symptoms that's rather ominous - especially if it's things I'm not used to. I got sick a lot as a child (11 seperate cases of strep throat in kindergarten alone,) so the realization that sickness could KILL me set in a lot earlier than most people, which feuled the phobia, but it also meant that I got used to dealing with a lot of common symptoms, resulting in more of a "Oh, it's this again," response to them rather than a "What's wrong with me?" response like most people. I'd feel a certain sort of throat pain, and know it was probably just my old nemesis strep throat yet again, and thus avoid panicking about other, more exotic possibilities. I also find learning about diseases was very reassuring, in my case at least, since I know which are the most likely suspects, and which can probably be ruled out due to missing key symptoms, low probability, or lack of exposure opportunity - though I'm fully aware it has the opposite effect on a lot of people. (Which is why my mom got told not to research breast cancer when she first got diagnosed. It didn't stop her, but luckily she had the same response as me and felt calmer once her research reassured her that she didn't match the features of the worst case scenarios.)

These ideas of turning random stuff into people is actually really cool. And the characters turn out so interesting in the end ✨

This is great! I got another terrifying and deadly disease for ya. Cancer. There's multiple types of cancer that affects different types of the body. And it can affect anyone at anytime, and it doesn't matter whether or not they're healthy or a young child. There's no cure for Cancer, but there's treatments. Unfortunaty, half the time the treatments don't work and the person dies. Cancer is so bad that EVERYONE has had at least one person in their family that had either went through Cancer or died from it, whether or not they're aware of it.

this is living proof lavender isn't bad at character design

When my brother was born a couple months later he had a rash on his back. My mom took him to the hospital worried since he was still a baby and they life flighted him, they kept on pulling out spinal fluids and they weren’t quite sure what he had but they diagnosed him with meningitis. I don’t really remember it because I was 2 but I remember how scary it was for us. He survived and is a completely healthy kid

This video is amazing, can you do more genetic disorders like scoliosis? I have scoliosis, thank goodness it’s not bad at all, but it’s very scary. scoliosis is a genetic disorder that pulls your spinal cord tight and makes your spine curve if it gets really bad it can crush your organs. I would really like to see you draw something like that.

Oh my GOSH Haley, for a long time I have actually been secretly wishing if you could make another one of these videos centered around making character designs based on science and medical-related stuff, so this has made me SO SO SO excited, AAAA

This is so scary bc my mom and I were attacked by an untrained husky today, and my mom was bitten. Thankfully, this dog was already vaccinated and did not give my mother rabies, but holy shit that really made this video extra scary

Lavenders voice: 🥰😚🩷🌸🌷 What she’s talking about: 🥀☠️🔪⛓️

I would just like to say real quick that, by far your art style is my favourite, just the love you put into all your character designs is incredible, thank you for making content and creating for all this time.

I love a classic Lavendertowne thing-that-kills-you-as-a-character video!

Y'know what would be, like, awesome? A reverse kind-of creepy design. Like, if it's supposed to be normal but it has an element that is just strangely off-putting and uneasy. If you would like an example: a character with a scarf, but the scarf is actually a noose (y'know, the rope used for hangin')

This might be your darkest episode yet. I know you did a bunch of other videos for like poisons, chemicals and such but the description of those illnesses were particularly disturbing to me. But it was very well done and the art looks great! Very cool video, just a bit more spooky than I had thought (not a criticism)

Fun fact about rabies is the reason they foam at the mouth and are scared of water is because rabies is mostly found in the mouth and water makes it weaker i believe. So the disease purposely changes its prey's behavior to make sure it won't become weaker in a sense which i find really interesting.

Are you familiar with Urbach-Wiethe disease? Specifically one of the cases in which the amygdala (the part of the brain responsible for feeling fear) is damaged. Many of the sufferers are incapable of feeling any fear - which has interesting side effects (at one point, she was mugged at gunpoint and scared off the mugger through an inability to be affected by the threat of violence)

My reaction as i opened the video basically "SHUSH I JUST WANNA SEE RABI- Oh nvm i can learn about others" "Prion can be acquired from canni-" "I'm interested"

The sick, raspy, low energy, quiet voice fit the vibes perfectly.

BRO I CAN'T HOW ARE YI1U SO TALENTED AND CREATIVE!!

0:00 intro 0:06 Piron 3:32 Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) 7:32 Rabies 13:21Meningitis 16:38 finished diseases group 16:49 outtro

I CAN'T WATCH LAVENDERTOWNE WITHOUT DRAWING!!! It's actually kinda a problem 😭

Ooo I love these! Prions are terrifying, but I love learning about them :D Great art as usual!!

Ur talking about an uncurable brain disease & yet I feel very much at ease 💀👍

It's barely noticeable but between the display of characters and the end credits at the end of the video around 16:49, the rabies character flickers and disappears while the rest remain.

bros giving the scariest descriptions in the sweetest voice 😭

Prion & Meningitis look like sisters, and both deal with the brain, interesting!

I love the fact you include the spiraling shape of the broke prions for the character in her curls and ribbons.

I gotta say that the Viral disease (don’t know how to spell it) is my favorite! I like the Soviet inspirations and how he actually looks in pain! I also think it is hypothesized that rabies may be the reason that humans are so scared of zombies!

your art and the way you design your characters is so inspiring to me ! I love your art so much especially miwed with spooky concept !! (also i cant believe bats give this many diceases ?? how am i supposed to live without a pet bat ??)

Meningitis has such an otherworldly and commanding vibe to her, like holy wrath

would love a video on characters based on terrifying experiments in psychology (stanford-prison-experiment or milgram experiment for example) i'm obsessed with these kinds of experiments and i think it'd be super interesting to see characters based off of those

I love watching Haley talk about the many ways you could die With a calm voice

I find it funny that this video is recommended to me as soon as I start drawing an OC who's made to be basically the embodiment of rabies EDIT: I did research on prion diseases for a school speech (choose your own topic as long as it's science-related in some way). *You don't even need to eat infected meat to get a prion disease.* They also appear sporadically, meaning that a random protein can misfold in your body, spread like a molecular level cheese touch (thank you Casual Geographic for my new favorite way to describe a prion disease), and screw you over without you even doing anything. There's Mad Cow, Kuru, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob like you mentioned, but also Chronic Wasting Disease in cervids and Fatal Insomnia in humans and they do exactly what their names imply.

Please note that rabies can infect *any* mammal. Coyotes, skunks, and raccoons are also common carriers.

Always fun to watch a new Lavender video. I actually had meningitis when I was younger, and I adore the fact that you’ve turned it into such an interesting character

I have fibromyalgia, and was really surprised when you mentioned it. like you can get it as a symptom of diseases. Makes a bad situation even worse. must suck

13:12 Her face looks like she feels bad for her actions but she can't help it (kinda like a smile is getting forced but she actually isn't okay). I don't know much about rabies but if victims can still think in their head then I think it's a good detail that she might feel back for her friends or family because of what this disease does to them.

Another prion disease that is absolutely terrifying (but only affects animals) is chronic wasting disease, which tends to affect deer. Essentially, it causes the deer to completely stop functioning, to the point where they don’t eat and die a slow, painful death from wasting away (hence the name)

as the freak-kid that was constantly pestering my mom with questions about diseases, going "what does this one do?" "is it really bad?" "and what does this one do?" (mostly just to scare myself for fun??), this appeals to me on a weirdly... nostalgic and comforting level.. very odd, but the designs are absolutely lovely and i still have a strange love for learning about dangerous afflictions

the little rash marks at 7:31 looking like creepy smiley faces was such a great subtle detail

If you like media that features these kinds of diseases (but like 100x times worse), I recommend The Maze Runner books/movies they portray the horror of it SO WELLL it’s one of my favorites ever

Lavendertowne can you please do deadly animal diseases as humans? I think it would be a great idea to draw diseases that only animals can get like chronic wasting disease. Also I like this series so much and learning so many things from it! Please like so she can see this!

The first Drawing Diseases as People video is what got my into your channel in the first place, as it's been a long-standing interest of mine. So you can imagine how excited I got when I saw this pop up in my recommended.

Prions are terrifying. Not only are they 100% fatal, they are also extremely hardy. Prions can survive the heat of burning wood, decades in direct sunlight, and the only way to remove them from a room is to flood it with hydrogen peroxide for days on end.

Spinal meningitis almost killed my grandfather when he was 7 or 8 years old. He told me all he remembered was feeling kinda sick and way too warm and going to bed after coming home from school and apparently he never came down for dinner and his aunt and uncle went to check on him and he was in a coma. The doctors told my great grandparents that if he survived he'd probably have brain damage, be blind and or deaf, and most likely be unable to communicate verbally ever again. Miraculously he survived without any of those things. He's 72 and is still engaging in his lifetime hobby of running and is coaching my old high school's cross country and track teams. He was so lucky to recover, let alone without any brain damage or other complications.

oh big mood on the hypochondria. I used to get sick a lot or have anxiety attacks which caused physical symptoms when I was a kid, and combined with a family that's very much 'you don't see a doctor until you're Actively Dying' I got told I was a hypochondriac a LOT as a kid and it kinda ruined my ability to actually tell when something is bad... about a month ago I had a severe reaction to one of my meds and couldn't keep water down and I was sitting in urgent care going 'man what if I'm overreacting'. I think being told that also predisposed me to being Super Paranoid about being infected with something incurable like a prion disease, but that's kinda something my highly disordered brain does, I get very paranoid that my powerpoints will fry and set the house on fire for one example lol but your drawings are so cool and have such meaning stuffed into every aspect that it's kinda rewiring parts of my brain to be less paranoid which is neat as hell

I really love your "incredibly terrifying things as spooky character designs" videos. They actually really inspire me a lot to want to make things like it. I even had an idea for a game I wanna make inspired by the ‘dangerous substance as a cute girl’ concept haha

i love how the title is screaming at me and then the whole video is just a nice soft voiced lady

Love watching videos like this when my intrusive thoughts are screaming at me and overthinking--

Amazing drawings as always

11:03 also if you get bitten by a squirrel or weirdly social raccoon! both of those things also commonly carry rabies. Oh and also it doesn't have to be a wild dog or anything. It can be a domestic dog that caught it due to not getting proper vaccinations. If you get bitten by a domestic dog and are able to contact the owner ask about it's shots. If you're not able to contact the owner go to a doctor because it's better to be safe than sorry. Rabies is horrific and painful for sufferers. Also even if the animal isn't foaming at the mouth it can still carry the disease in an early stage. Every stage of rabies once the person/ creature becomes aggressive is contagious regardless of hydrophobia. (I think) If you ever find a bat on the ground DO NOT TOUCH IT that is a very very common sigh of rabies. Also bats carry other diseases so if you do touch it wear gloves and if it bites go see a doctor ASAP! You can also get tetanus from a dog bite. And dirt. Which is how you'd get it from a dog bite. I got bitten by my neighbor's dog once like bitten bitten not just playful. I was dog sitting and the dog was fine with my mom but when I walked in he latched into my knee and I didn't scream or anything I was just like. "Uh..." and my mom turned around and freaked out. She cared for the dog and I waited in the car. I got home cleaned the wound with soap and warm water (do not use hydrogen peroxide it damages skin) while my mom called the doctor and asked them if we should come in. They said yes and made sure I was up to date on my tetanus shot and all that jazz. My mom also called the neighbor cause they're friends and asked if the dog had all his shots. He did. So the doctor said "If it gets anymore swollen, warm, red, or smells come back immediately." thankfully none of that happened and I'm fine. I did get paid extra. The dog is aggressive towards men (or was I dog sat him again recently and he was so much nicer). But yeah just an interesting story.

fun fact! prions can also be absorbed by plants in soil, EX., deer with CWD pees on some soil, grass grows there and absorbs the prions, another animal eats that grass, BOOM prion disease. I saw it a few years ago in a video about CWD so my memory may be fuzzy but I do remember that specific example being used. horrifying.

i love watching videos of a talented artist talk about deadly diseases in the softest, sweetest voice😊

I love learning about gruesome things AND beautiful art!! It’s a win-win!!

thanks for this i was really struggling to articulate to a classmate of mine that cannibalism is not only morally wrong but it will literally kill you lol, also the meningitis passage was particularly interesting. A different classmate of mine recently contracted meningitis which is unfortunate bc he was like, three months away from being vaccinated? He's doing a lot better now but it's terrifying to know that it could happen to anyone, that kid was probably one of the healthiest people I've ever met aside from that. Scary. Great video! I love your designs as always! I think rabies is my favorite, i think the skull chestplate? bustier? (or whatever?) is particularly visually striking, especially since you put the teeth at the corners of her mouth like she's being forced to smile. Keep up the good work! :))

this is so interesting! it's funny how you're so calm and comforting while talking about some of the weirdest, deadliest things known to humankind lol

I think the prion character should’ve had vitiligo to reflect the mad cow disease

Prion disease is so weird... It's like, one day a protein is like "nah, I wanna be different" 😭😭