Cocooning is the Shadow’s way of healing a life threatening wound or a sickness they would sometimes get. If the beak of the stomach is broken or shattered or even rotting, yes it can rot, is when the Shadow needs to Cocoon.
This process also happens when TestTube Shadows first become Shadows to make sure their system and body works correctly. In this post, you will know the steps of the Cocooning process. If you see a Shadow’s cocoon, stay away from it and leave it be.
The Stomach: It is the Shadow’s most valuable organ, it regulates its eating habits and keeps the Shadow’s body healthy and in shape. If they do not feed or cocoon on the Stomach’s regular chosen basis, it will rot inside out and the Shadow will die.
The Stomach resembles a dark squid-like mass with hundreds of tentacles coming from it. The beak and the teeth surrounding the beak are the closest to the Shadow’s belly skin. The abs around this area are said to be very fragile and can easily split apart to gain access to the Stomach itself. It is also very easy for the Shadow to get injured here. Harming the beak with a special bullet is the easiest way to kill these creatures. The Stomach also has genes and a brain all its own, it is technically a separate entity from the Shadow, but they both work together to keep the Shadow healthy.
1. If the Stomach’s beak is injured in any way, the Shadow will either have to feed or in most cases feed then Cocoon.
The Cocooning process starts with this. Then the Shadow falls unconscious to begin the process. The Stomach lifts over the Shadow’s head out of the belly and begins wrapping the Shadow in a massive pulsating Cocoon like structure.
It digs its tentacles into the floor and ceiling of any room the Shadow might be in, securing itself into place and forming massive and poisonous barbs as a line of defense for the vulnerable Shadow inside. The secondary defense against any outside force is the many smaller squid-like smaller versions of the Stomach that act as the guards. These are called Squids.
2. The beak forms a Cocoon for the Shadow to be in while the process begins.
Inside, the Shadow is in fetal position as smaller clear tentacles begin injecting themselves into every part of the Shadow’s body. This is when the Shadow needs another person, someone they trust completely to help with this process also. The other chosen person must pluck out all shriveled and old and dark colored tentacles but keep as many as the Stomach says to keep. Most often the Shadow should keep at least two dark colored tentacles with all the other bright light blue ones.
3. The chosen help assists with the tentacles inside the cocoon so the Shadow has the right amount of liquid entering his/her body. The chosen must stay inside the cocoon the entire time the Shadow is inside the cocoon. This process takes at least an hour.
After the hour passes. The Stomach renters the Shadow’s belly, and the Squids force themselves back into the Stomach’s beak. Then the Shadow becomes conscious again. His scales become brighter or darker in this case, (the shine brighter), and his muscle mass is grown a small fraction. Shadows can NOT gain muscle the way humans do, they can work out, but their muscle doesn’t grow unless he does the Cocooning process.
4. The Shadow is finished after the hour is up. He exits the cocoon healthy and stronger and his body brighter or shinier. Shadows cannot gain muscle mass unless they do the Cocooning process, which only happens if the beak of the Stomach is damaged. Shadows can and sometimes do damage the beak themselves to gain this muscle mass after a workout.
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