#fictional creature

in general, a creature who can only become itself/the creature once it interacts with someone else, bound to fate, it's cool. doesn't necessarily have to be an angel (still cool! the post was a cool concept rly), imagine a werewolf that doesn't depend on the moon but like. A person. maybe they can become werewolves/other creatures together. imagine the shock, and the person that triggered ur (maybe unwanted or maybe desperately wanted/needed) transition would be so actively present in your life that the only reason for this to happen you can think of, is the person.

(rtts fan sophonts)

i redesigned arachns hands

The first one used for climbing on thick web or prey's skin

The Void is home to many creatures which cover an even greater variety of body plans and aesthetics. A large number of creatures which form in or come to this place of darkness between worlds adopt a measure of that darkness into themselves. The shadowcatch rabbit with its coat of hazy, indistinct black fur which mimics the shadows it dives into. Afterthoughts, which are composed of material resembling starlit skies and points of light are incredibly difficult to spot in the dark alleys of population centers. The even more rare creatures which stalk the endless shifting stretches of wild void, which none have catalogued. Some sapient life even, if the shifting shades of the E'dahs are taken into account, bear a measure of inky black void in their amorphous shapes.

Many species adapt to use the dark voidscape to their advantage, though the Weave above does provide some semblance of constant illumination there are many many dark places for the enterprising creature. Some few additionally adapt to hunt such hidden creatures, the Grasping Fear of the Wrathroot senses its prey via widely spanning mycelial roots and shiverfin darters manipulate time to hunt their hidden prey by knowing where they *will* be. None is quite so effective as the shiftsnitch hawk at hunting the wide open stretches of ink dark void.

The marsh is dead silent. No crickets. No frogs. Just a massive, jagged shadow breaching the reeds. It has a sail on its back that looks like a row of broken fence posts, and it's breathing in deep, rattling vibrations that make the mud under my boots shake. I thought it was just the river current, but the water is moving backwards toward me. Please stay away from the banks. I think it heard me typing. It's stepping onto the tree

So I was doing some art studies and remembered something interesting! For as horrifying as their bodies and movement are to many people, it’s really difficult to make a spider face look menacing. Their mandibles are freaky, sure, but their eyes are always very cute and round and shiny.

(These are all real spiders btw, that guy in the bottom right is a clown spider, look him up he’s crazy cool and almost certainly the inspiration for pennywise).

Meanwhile, butterflies are considered an “acceptable” bug to many. Their pretty wing patterns and small legs and faces make them appealing to many people who hate most other bugs. The thing is, when you get a closeup of their teeny tiny faces, it’s actually just as inhuman and creepy as most other insects.

(Fun fact, I actually am an exception to the “butterflies are an acceptable bug” rule. I’ll let a little spider or harmless black ants crawl on me all day long but butterflies’ erratic flight patterns and their habits of swarming water sources just freak me out).

Anyway, I decided to take the least appealing traits of both these critters, along with some deep sea creature traits for flavor and throw them together into a beautiful abomination :) :) :)