- Carolshell and Karahell -
Here's a couple of designs based around carousel horses, that are found in a fairground/theme park area in Holofist. They literally came from a discussion about how carousel could be worded 'Carou-shell' and be an armored horse, which devolved into 'carous-HELL' being an evil twin.
After actually writing that out, Carol Shell sounds more like a name for a turtle rather than a horse. fuck.
These sketches are of their baby and adult forms, not showing their teen and young adult form. All buddy's in Holofist physically grow and change level-by-level as you train them, rather than 'all of a sudden' evolution in other popular monster battling games. This was partly inspired by Tamagotchi's we owned as kids, which has also lead to mechanics based around feeding as you train to help your buddy's grow.
