#musclebeasts

its looking at you

D --> You have strayed far from the brooding caverns.. where is your lusus?

This description of musclebeasts from [S] Equius: Seek the highb100d caught my attention because it follows pretty much the exact format that descriptions of the zoologically dubious; Nrub’yiglith’s vocalisations cause bones to explode, Oglogoth causes a random galaxy’s children to frown by grinding its teeth, and of course, Gl’bgolyb’s Vast Glub kills every troll in the Empire. Is it practical or meaningful that these two groups of beasts could be connected?

Musclebeasts are associated with the night (and on the same page where the Alternian undead are associated with the daytime; worth noting that Rose’s Horrorterror-fueled “grimdark” transformation is referred to as a complement to Kanaya’s sunlight-powered rainbow drinkerism). Equius, is, of course, a Void hero, and he wears the kind of shaded sunglasses that conceal the true nature of demons like Horrorterrors. His shades are also broken, which evokes the image of the broken windows that cause zoologically dubious beasts to spawn (a fact that has led some to consider broken glasses a symbol of Void).