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Name: Aram’zdos(Ar-Am-Zous) Place of Origin: Venus Stomping Grounds: Pacific West, various volcanic locations Height: 150 feet Length 200 feet Biology: Another strange inhabitant of the strange alien world of Venus, Aram’zdos is a beast that exhibits the same strange biomechanic nature that seems to flourish on the hellscape planet. This particular organism, Aram’zdos, takes what is known of Venusian life(Or kaiju at least) and adopts an extreme way of life of extreme excavation to live deep in the scorching heat beneath the planet’s surface where it often grazes on volcanic chemicals such as pure sulfur, sulfure and hydrogen respirating microb matts and other such sources of chemicals it can upturn. Also will occasionally prey upon other large organisms, but rarely. 

The head and back extend out like a series of shovel spades to split rock and dirt, the central arm often acts as a giant backhoe to heave mountains of rock and dirt, the two main arms rotate as massive trenchers, an addition back pair of studded wheel-like structures to act as wheels, and the two legs familiar that face backwards act as a pair of arms with opposable digits to grip and push dirt so that Aram’zdos can continue plowing forward without needing to turn around. The mouth is neatly tucked between the arm and upper maxima, hidden away to avoid having dirt fill its feeding orifice. 

Venusian Power Super Strength Enhanced Healing Factor Immunity to Radiation Acid Spit Extremophile Strange Venusian Organs Organic Mega Machine

Personality Aram’Zdos is a reclusive kaiju most of the time who usually does not appreciate unwelcome visitors to its mounds and tunnels. The beast is immensely defensive of its home and will see off anyone that it perceives as a threat be it human or giant monster, that is until one makes their intentions and motives clear. Some have compared it to that of a eusocial insect mixed with that of a great ape, for while Aram’Zdos will quite literally heave a mountain at an invader, it welcomes in those who have respected its property lines.

Kaiju that have stopped at the edge of its territory and waited to be approached have been invited in have been seen to with what can be described as polite etiquette by Aram’zDos, showing a level of intelligence and sophistication not unlike seem in humans, and certainly more than most other Kaiju contemporaries. It’s even been suspected that Aram’Dos may be one of Venus’s dominant specie(s) to explain its civilized mannerisms. Aram’Zdos recognizes hard effort physically, and has strong respect for other creatures who put hard work into their building or other creations as complex as bright colors being mixed and arranged into patterns, to which Aram’Zdos also seems to be attracted to vividly colored rock and earth. Like many Kaiju, it also appreciates a good fight from a rough wrestle to a fight with intention to kill.

Name: Kongamahuul

Aliases: Mistress of Despair, The Cruel Ruler, The Draconian Enforcer, Ahuul’s Evil Bitch Mother

Date Discovered: December 26, 1956 Place of Origin: The Chasm of Sorrow Stomping Grounds: Is seen sporadically through the northern hemisphere. Not contained aside her home in the Chasm of Sorrow Height: 100 feet, 110 with the crest Length: 190 feet Wingspan: 300 feet Biology: Kongamahuul is one of the largest known specimens of the Flying Retrosaurs, and stands terrifyingly as tall as the largest land dwelling predators. Though it seems she is some demonic evolution of them, possibly even a mutant among mutants. As unique abilities almost unheard of. Super Strength Enahanced Healing Parthenogenetic Immunity to Radiation Harmonic Yamaenon Communication Refined Telepathy

Personality: Ahuul’s progenitor is the dominating force of nature of the land, sky and sea. She is most at home in the air, for sure, but is far from helpless on her legs or beneath the sea of she needs to be.

She was discovered far into Canada’s wilderness, in a deep chasm that dove into a dark hollow that was discovered to be mostly lifeless, no doubt to its intimidating mistress that destroyed all that was in it when the power shift came with the Superquake of 54. It was desolate, a complete mess after the underground atomic testing had resulted in a high amount of damage in this particular hollow. Those who came near it were not heard from again, and it became clear why once the quarantine zone went up to keep anywhere from going near some time later after Typhon Island was discovered. The tenant of this territory took offense, and made a statement in action and word. Kongamahuul is one of few Kaiju that can fluently communicate with humans with a Psionic ability. She did not understand humans at first, but she experimented with her captors before ending their lives for trespassing upon her world without permission or any formal apology. It is also from her personal interrogations that she learned of how the world was actively coming along with contemporaries, and she took to the south to gather more information, leading to many grisly killings and fierce battles with other kaiju. Through those encounters, her ability to control other Kaiju became clear. The study of using unheard frequencies was not just something humans could abuse, but also by her. Her shrieks and roars register upon such instruments, and the Kaiju without the fortitude and willpower to resist her commands tend flee, obey or find themselves frozen in fear. The only other Kaiju she shown any respect for are other top tier predators or powerful herbivores. Her interactions with Tyrantis and his family have shown that, much to Tyranta’s apparent hatred for her. She has also shown a curiously soft side toward young offspring and juveniles of Kaiju, hinting at a softer side behind this cruel ruler. Kongamahuul was a name given by a combination of Lerna and Eric, but mostly Eric as he blatantly named it Ahuul’s mom and surprised to find out that she literally was his parent. The interactions between Ahuul and Kongamahuul are tense to say the least. Ahuul is fearfully respecting of his mother, but also despises her rule over him. Anytime he ever has anything to squawk about, she will remind him what happened to his siblings who attempted to usurp her powerful position. With what few times she has spoken to humans, she was quite polite and freely gave information that some would use against her, such as her lineage with Ahuul. She even was proud to boast of her collar of teeth and claws, which she explained are a warning to all of her bloody history of overpowering those who tread on her hospitality and forgo her kindness. She also made it clear she has no qualms mass murdering many, many humans if she deems it necessary. After some time she returned to her mostly barren kingdom in Canada, deep underground and on her throne crags, as if waiting for something interesting to be worth her attention.

Name: Charlotte

Date of Discovery: Oct 9, 1959

Place of Origin: Brazil

Notable Stomping Ground: Brazil, Challenger Messa Kaiju Sanctuary

Length: 280 Feet Height: 135 Feet Biology: Argued to be a Spiked Tailed Retrosaur, best known to those in the paleontology field as Psittasaurus Gigas, but it’s countered that Charlotte is most related to the horned goliaths and sometimes referred to as Titanos Granitestyraco. By all means its body resembles that of a Horned Goliath, but the clear Thaogmizer at the end of the tail makes classifying her not so clear cut. It isn’t the first time that a Thagomizer or something like it has been seen outside the Spike Tail family, especially in Tricerak’s particular case as he indeed has one but it’s been the heated subject of debate since Charlotte’s discovery. As the family tree shows, all three families are closely related and share ancestry, with evolution favoring different tail weapon for each group. It is strange that yet another member of the group has a thagomizer as well. Still, it has not stopped experts and especially the community from arguing over it. Indeed one paleontologist had suggested something new and strange; that neither is it one and instead a hybrid of two entirely separate species of Retrosaur from both clades entirely, as this one scientist had offered the concept that Kaiju biology can be so far removed from the norm that anything can happen. This theory is highly discredited though as even for a Kaiju, hybrids are rare even among ordinary animals and only between species closely related enough. The argument back is that at least two species of ant co-evolved to interbreed and cannot survive without cross breeding with one another, and that ‘not all that strange. Still, the idea that two kaiju who have low fertility rates and being two different species is highly unlikely. The argument still goes on today. From the two sides, most refer to this individual as Charlotte just to stay on neutral ground.

Charlotte herself is a heavy weight among kaiju, towering over most other species by a head at least despite her ancestors normally did not come up to a human’s stomach line. She is built like a mountain and digs through them habitually to get at various kinds of minerals. Her beak is thick and unforgiving, and her cheeks are strong and house several high crowned molars to crush stone down and pulverize woody plants. It’s thought that she eats stone for healthy scales, and has a fondness for basalt when its presented. Quartz and other gems seemed to be hoarded and eaten sparsely, and it’s unclear what biological use it is to eat gems. One theory is that it causes her armor plates and scutes to be more lustrous.

Several vivid green and blue spines adorn her face, mainly her large cheeks. As a female, it’s hard to say why she is this colorful to begin with as few animals are adorned with something that gets them noticed. One theory is that due to the underground nature, bright colors stick out much more in dim light.

Powers and Traits Super Strength Enhanced Healing Factor Radiation Immunity Empathic Manipulation(Able to calm or rile other individuals but only to a degree)

Biograpy It is thought that Charlotte was in some sort of hibernation when her domain was dug into by a deep mining crew on the search for veins of precious metals or jewels. The crew dug deep into the amazon forest to find hidden troves, and were perplexed when they found a complete rainbow of different gems and metals that turned out to be a hoard. The moment they dug out part of it, the ground shook and came alive. For a whole day the ground breathed and bulged until the giant mountain, armored beast of a Retrosaur emerged to the surface. After that it was a series of attempts to corral an otherwise grump lady that woke up on the wrong side of the bed. At average, Charlotte is a calm and assured individual who fears little. She is simply too big and too strong to care for dangers and to this day holds that. On her day of awakening though, she was angry, and bulldozed her way through anything that threatened her. It became clear that the only option to possibly contain her was to drag another Kaiju toward her and hopefully get her beaten into submission, or killed to some’s preference. Not too far away was the well known Challenger Mesa that became a rich habitat for Kaiju, easily supporting some of the worst predatory ones that were happily left in the middle of it and away from civilization. Such as Rampartogon… The carnivore was well known for his savagery and it was thought such ferocity would overwhelm Charlotte. It was a chore just to lure him out and in the right direction, as he chased down anything that lured him and smashed it into pieces. Luckily he sensed his new contemporary and charged straight for his new target. He was promptly thrown around.. His attacks were vicious, but Charlotte just endured. The whole operation was a mess, for as much as Rmapartogon got beaten, he got up twice as mad and fought twice as hard, making it impossible to retrieve him. He eventually gave up and glared at his enemy from a distance. Charlotte eventually calmed down enough to show her true colors. She was a very peaceful herbivore, or sometimes classified as a Geogravore as she dug out rocks from underground. It also became clear at in due time that Charlotte had strong telepathic abilities. After a while it was less about containing and transporting the peaceful herbivore and became a horrible mistake. It eventually came down to her needing to corral Rampartogon as he started to look for trouble elsewhere. Much to the relief of the human race, Charlotte turned out to be incredibly benevolent, down right motherly toward anything smaller than herself. It came down to her to bring into the rowdy youngster.

Much to her attempts to peacefully do so, Rampartogon was not having it and fought harder than ever to the point that Charlotte showed her vicious side again until the carnivore once more was barely able to move. He was returned to the Mesa, and Charlotte too willingly went to live there. She went about to find new rocks and metals to eat with the new geography pushed up from the superquake. Ironically Ramaprtogon has become her unwanted neighbor/houseguest , as he constantly stalks her person territory border and sometimes right overtop of her deep burrows to pick another fight if he can find her.

Personality Aside her initial awakening, Charlotte is a very calm, collected and kindly retrosaur. She turns very patient even toward her aggressors and normally calms down those who even attempt to prey upon her. In all the years that Kaiju have proven almost driven to fight one another, Charlotte stands out. Some though persist, and once she is on the warpath, Charlotte can be a nigh unstoppable juggernaut that will break bones and smash organs without remorse. She doesn’t take pleasure in it by any stretch. Her attacks are swift, hard and done with as soon as possible, which normally means she turned her enemy into a twitching mess of what they once were. Rampartogon is about the only one who keeps coming back for more without learning a lesson and refuses to be calmed down like a stubborn child. Charlotte can be downright motherly toward anything smaller than herself, especially mankind. She does not defend humans at the drop of a hat, and seems more curious toward as to what they are, what they do and why. Small kaiju simply stay near her burrows and in her territory, and dart down deep when danger comes. Charlotte either sees those predators off, or actually ends up calming them down and they leave on their own.

“Just start at the beginning.” “It… It started…. It started three months ago when we went on an outdoor vacation. We won at a big retail place, expenses paid! We liked to fish, and hunt… So we took it.” “Okay, and then what?” “We took a plane all the way up to Canada… All the way up in the Northwest Territories. Above Saskatchewan by a little bit, but still deep in. We got a cabin with all the normal conveniences they had just built the year prior. I guess the whole thing was an attempt to get the word out. It was really nice, too… We made our plans to go out fishing and hunting, with our first day we were going out fishing. The roads were all worn and we had to use diesel running engines with four wheel drive. But that’s when it began. The road was damaged at one point, and it looked like a landslide! We had no idea what it actually was.” “And what was it?” “We couldn’t tell at first, but I swear to god you have to believe me when I say it was a footprint!” “A footprint?” “That’s what I said! You don’t believe me, do you?” “I never said that. Please, continue.” “It was an honest to good, two-foot deep imprint of somethings foot. It didn’t look like a foot… It looked twisted and round, but I remember seeing four, misshapen toe shapes. I didn’t think much of it at first. So we drove over the road and went down to the lake a few miles. We were told the fishing for pike and trout was out of this world, but we caught nothing…” “And that is important to this? We just need facts, sir.” “It is important!” “Calm down!” “No, YOU calm down! That lake was dead from that thing eating all the fish!” “Sigh…” “It ate them all! We found out days later that no one had caught or seen so much as a single fish that was there, and I know for a fact that thing would have expended that energy to actually try and eat as much as it could.” “So your saying a creature did all this? All these disappearances and disasters that you are linked too.” “Linked too!? Ha! You make it sound like I’m somehow responsible! But… But you may be right… It followed me for hundreds of miles no matter how far I went. That thing looks like it acts like an animal, but it knows who I am, and it is coming here for me! What are you going to do when it comes ripping off this roof and eats us all?”

“Is that some sort of confession?” “No, but it did follow me and I promise you that it took every chance it got to eat anyone nearby as it did.” “So say this thing is real… How can you possibly not see or hear it coming?” “I seen how it hunts. Don’t look at me that way, I have seen it! It likes to hunt when the sun goes down… I think that’s why it usually stays up there, near Alaska. It’s dark nearly all year up there. I seen it stand so still that you can mistaken it for part of the forest. It’s skin is craggy and looks like rock and dirt, it has moss over its body! I’m telling you the god honest truth, officer, you won’t realize you’re standing right next to it until it grabs you!”

“And eats you.” “It doesn’t just swallow, either. It has a giant mouth, but it chews… It likes meat.” “It has to walk, right?” “It does, very slowly. Its so big, but you won’t hear it coming. Not unless its outright running.” “So when did you first see this creature?” “The first time I saw it, it was under the water. It does not swim. It walks, along the bottom. I wasn’t on the water and I’m glad. The sun was setting... I saw it open its mouth wide and pull in enough water to fill maybe a hundred swimming pools. It then walked into the forest. I tried to tell the others, but they thought I began drinking some of our beer. The next time I saw it, it was just… sitting… it was sitting there against an incline. It looked like a big lump of dirt and trees. I watched it for a near entire day before the sun began to set and it finally moved. It was taller than the trees… And it then just stood there, perfectly still. That’s when I realized it hunted by letting animals come to it. Far as I can tell, animals can’t smell it. That or it smells like the rock around it. I saw this poor brown bear get snatched up and eaten like a piece of popcorn. I spent the entire night staying as still as possible until the sun rose and it went back to sitting down.” “It sounds like you we’re pretty lucky to not get eaten.” “That is what I thought… But I learned quick that it knew I was there all the time. It smelled me.” “How do you know it did?” “Because a few days later, I found its footprints near our cabin. The others still didn’t believe me, even when I showed them. I had no idea that it was standing right there just an arm reach away. Not until we went out hiking and I looked back toward camp and saw its… its…” “Face?” “YES! It has a this horribly misshapen frown full of teeth and they’re all broken and I saw bones and bits of skin and-” “Easy! Have a drink of water, your sweating really bad.” “........” “Better?” “A little... I’m scared it’s still out there, waiting for me. After a while it started to just follow me and not wait for me to get close. Always at night is when it starts to come.” “It almost sounds like a vampire or something.” “No, it eats meat. Lots of it. When it was standing there once, I saw it go out of its way to eat a squirrel that had climbed onto its body when it mistook its legs for a tree. Well, it got tired of waiting. I stayed as far away as I can, I begged my friends to stay away and begged for us to go home before it got us.” “And they didn’t believe you.” “No… Not until it got fed up with waiting. It took the first of us on the sixth day of the vacation. John never saw it coming. He never even managed to scream. It took my other friend six hours later when she went out to find him. I knew what happened! I told him not to go. Well, Kevin believed me after he saw it happen.” “Then what?” “We got the hell out of there! We took a plane in, but we didn’t wait for that. We loaded up on all the diesel we could get pack into the Hummer and drove two days straight before stopping to sleep.” “But it followed you, didn’t it?” “Yes…” “And it followed you all the way down through over seven-hundred miles, causing all of the landslides, all the damages to homes and businesses, all the lives, broken bridges and forest fires all from just one creature?” “We tried to burn it.” “So the forest fire was your doing?” “After it caught up with us a few times, me and Kevin knew we had to try and kill it. So we took all the diesel fuel we had and stopped at a gas station. We… forced… we forced the guys working there to help us.” “One of them was shot.” “It was him or us!” “Least we’re getting some honesty, now.” “I knew you didn’t believe me! But your going to see, either today or tomorrow, maybe a week from now… Its not guarded by near constant darkness now, but each night, I know its following the trail I took, all the way here! You need to call the military or something, because once it realizes there are people here, then it just found a new food source and it will not leave! More people are going to die! We have to kill it!” ------- This creature in which we have come to suffer from for the last decade is still a mystery. What we have learned, though, was written and recited many times before despite that.

Eons ago, when mankind was still young and just harnessed fire… Something primeval also arose. They were many once, now, there is one. They fed upon the the giant mammoth, and waded the sea for the biggest whale. They were unchallenged… They ate… They ravaged, and destroyed with only fear of this from their own. The nords called them Jotunn… Those in Norway knew them as Trolls. Their prefered land to hunt was cold and barren, and their hunger was well known as those of Ojibwe and Algonquian knew them as the Wendigo.

It is thought the creature once roamed northern Siberia, where it possibly ran out of a proper foodsource after all these centuries of its extensive lifespan, and began wandering south into the new world. Canada became its new hunting ground, and with none of its own to take it, it aimlessly wandered the wilderness eating everything it its way and leaving nothing but silent forests, barren waters and destruction the likes that mankind never knew any animal was capable of. It is all a result of it getting to food. Even if its tiny insects hiding in deep caverns, mountain sides have been dug up just to get to them. The tenacity in which this creature exercises is beyond the understanding of what is known to us. It wastes energy for the smallest intake… It pays mind to the smallest creature.. Its body is misshapen and not at all efficient. None of it makes sense. The only thing it compares to is mankind itself, in which it actively destructs everything around it for its own benefit. Could it be possible this creature is somehow our own doing? Some horrible… terrible… twisted line of change in a human ancestor, resulting in this? It does vaguely resemble a man, if that man grew so old that plants began to grow on him and if his skin dried to what resembles rock and if its jaw became roughly thirty percent if not forty of its entire mass. Any attempts to kill it fail. Nothing short of an atomic blast, in which politically is still out of the question. Fire has been tried, leading it off steep cliffs, cannonfire… And the use of the most destructive weapons we have are refused as it never leaves residential areas. It just keeps walking… Occasionally very fast. It walks, and eats, and sleeps…  It never attempts to flee or hide, or at least anymore. Hundreds of thousands of human lives have been lost. That isn’t counting what else it’s eaten, either. Pets, farm animals… It don’t matter. As long as it is flesh and bone. The destruction continues on basis.

America is where it currently ambles… How long until nothing is left for it to devour? If it leaves the entire country barren… How did it survive before? How did mankind, or the rest of the planet even with just one of these things? No fossils exist… Some suggest one ever did, and throughout the entire course of mankind’s existence, has continued to eat, destroy and grow.

If this is true… How long until the continent is too barren and it looks elsewhere in the world? How long until it’s endless path of eating pushes mankind to use its most catastrophic weapons to stop it? Will that, then, kill it?