Azalea

“A variety of wild animals visiting a water fountain”

rose 🌹

The regular entry-level monster, except big  

The high school science project gone awry  

The teamfight against an evil adventuring party that ends up being more challenging than the final boss purely by virtue of the fact that they also have a healer  

The one where there’s two of them  

The one where it’s impossible to be appropriately armed and equipped because it keeps changing colours  

The Furby that hits like a truck  

The really big guy whose name, environment, and pre-fight banter imply this enormous edifice of worldbuilding and lore that has never come up before and will never come up again  

The ambiguously bisexual dude whose battle anthem sounds like circus music  

The blatant allegory for the cost of poor environmental stewardship that you’re supposed to feel bad about killing even though fighting is the only way you’re allowed to interact with it