#gnowledge

when a gnome dies - some bits and pieces fall off or decay slightly when rigor mortis sets in, like the insides do, hence why most “lawn gnomes” (hollow gnome corpses) look so nonthreatening. along with the decay reshaping things like ears and fingers and rounding the face, discoloration is what causes the typical ‘blue and red’ coloration and the ‘rosy cheeks’. the pupils shrink down to a more classically dinural size as well, hence why most ‘cute lawn gnomes’ do not have haunting black blinkers.

those are just Dead Gnomes. Gnomes don’t physically age or decompose conventionally once dead. their rigor mortis is much more intense than that of a human and lasts forever! their insides evaporate, hence why Dead Gnomes appear to be hollow shells!

I feel like a girl? I’m human. I feel like a guy? I’m human. I like guys? Those are humans. It’s not really the concern of gnomes which humans get with which other humans.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

anything that eats or kills gnomes = extra bad.

Depends on the mouth! Gnomes got some very good chompers on ‘em in the first mouth! First mouth is for bugs and many of them are fun and cronchy! Second mouth has teeth as well - fangs, actually, not like snakes but more like sharks - but they are more flexible, as gnomes with second mouths have muscles around that jaw to retract the second teeth for more seamless mouth closing and also so they can move the teeth back and forth to help catch larger prey and pull it into the second mouth! (note, this does not count as biting, as they barely break the skin. it is more of a grip to aid that seamless, fluid swallowing whole of large prey.) Isn’t that nifty? :D