#phantom anon

-Phantom anon

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Baul…….. 👀 he’s so fine,,, in the context of that holiday post, I imagine darling will listen to him yap about the war and stories from his past. Anything to slowly understand him and hopefully find some sort of common ground, enough to be accepted and tolerated. >_<

As for getting Baul’s approval!!! Thinking about Baul when he’s younger (war era) and you work in a brothel. Something something human darling trying to entice Baul into bed because he’s a solider (the General of the Right’s most trusted) and so he must have money on him. Always sidling up to him, laying on all of the flattery, batting your lashes at him, etc. Constantly pestering him!!! Anything to sway him just a little. But Baul is so against it because you’re a lowly human and he would never dare entertain one in bed. >:( yet for the entirety of his stay in your village he’s always finding ways to walk past the brothel—for no reason, he insists. He’s just exploring, checking every area to ensure it’s safe, etc etc. all lies because he’s actually hoping to cross paths with you, but you didn’t hear that from me. :)

First of all, love that you felt the need to make sure I could figure out who Bugs and Daffy were if for some reason I was unaware. Happily I’ve been watching Looney Tunes since I was about five years old, so I am exceptionally qualified to answer this question.

Lore is so, so very jealous of the way that Bugs and Daffy can just casually break the laws of physics whenever and however they want. He takes notes for future Dreamscape shenanigans. He also falls victim to the classic “Rabbit Season” blunder and vows to never let anyone know that he was outwitted, ever. The problem is that Lore leans into chaos, and it’s never a good idea to bring more chaos to an already chaotic scenario. It just makes a feedback loop and then whoever takes advantage first wins.

Gen, on the other hand, functions more on logic than anything else, and while he doesn’t exactly win, he also doesn’t lose. “That’s a tunnel painted on a rock wall,” he says critically. “I’ll go around, thanks.” Meanwhile Daffy slams into it head-on, as he is prone to doing, but he also pops back into shape unscathed since he too runs on chaos. Gen “wins” by virtue of suffering the least amount of accidents.

This is literally the only time I'd want to see masc terms used for Mizuki: referring to her past and the transphobic assholes. She's a trans girl who's faced a lot of shit for that reason. Damn you early game weirdness meaning everyone but Kanade used they/them for her which turned into everyone using they/them for her, and damn you game for keeping things so vague

-Phantom anon

-Phantom anon

There is still hope in this world 🥹🥲

—phantom anon (sorry if that is already a “claimed” anon title lol)

- Phantom 👻

AYO HI???? Good to hear from ya, mate

Hope you enjoy the smut-angst lasagna which is iutmtm UwU

- hypercarnivores that will regurgitate anything that isn’t meat out of their stomaches. They can drink water too, but prefer blood

- they have barbed tongues, meant for licking blood and meat off of bones and also for preening one another

- in my version they’re not undead mobs, but their equivalent of burning in sunlight is getting blinded if theres too strong of a light source (eg sun or glowstone)

^ - if they’re forced to look at bright sources of light they can become permanently blind within minutes :(

- phantoms generally live in groups of colonies up to 10-50 (depending on habitat, could be even more)

^ - some people refer to groups of phantoms as “nightmares” much in the same way you’d call a group of bats a cauldron :]]

- phantoms rely heavily on camouflage when hunting in groups.

^ - this also means that whenever a phantom happens to be born with albinism, it is almost always eaten no matter how old it may be

- within phantom colonies, they tend to travel around area to area but typically reside in biomes with bad weather or dense forests usually with fog. anything bright is a no no (caves are also a good nesting spot but are more risky with spiders willing to take a bite out of them)

- places where phantoms nest or reside are usually very visible: scratches on trees and torn off, mauled branches, bones littering the ground, the constant distant trilling of one.

^ - phantom nests r usually called “graveyards” :3

- phantoms have a VERY in depth communication system, almost akin to regular humans

^ - the most similar thing that is able to be compared to their communication system is sign languages: simple words or “meanings” that can string together a sentence just via specific calls, screeches, trills, etc

- their level of intelligence is the same of a 9 year old (able to recognize body language, remember faces, locate weak points on prey, etc)

^ - they can also feel emotions much the same (empathy, compassion, etc) which most people usually don’t realize about them (usually assuming its like a snake thing where they don’t feel affection) (but phantoms do!! my oc would know that with how some of her phantoms smother her in really unneeded affection)

^ - also kind of obvious but they can make really strong bonds with one another

- in my lil version they have two sets of eyes: one on top, aka the normal pair of eyes and then their bottom eyes

^ - lower eyes dont have eyelids, meaning they do the gecko lick thing, even in their sleep

- whenever they spot prey their top eyes diliate from a full green to two pinpricks of green in full black (essentially tracking their prey very closely)

- ALSO also in my version they dont have any back legs, having a somewhat wyvern shape with their bodies

^ - they perch via the claws on their wings (on like. The elbow part. or something idk what to call it)

- they have this sort of ribcage section on their bodies that is able to open— it has two main uses

1.) secretes stomach acid (which is. very strong) onto caught prey in order to soften them for biting

2.) childbirth (they just sort of spit the babies out)

- two rows of teeth (ouchie)

- male phantoms tend to be smaller in size but faster in speed, females tend to be larger (child holding reasons) (also to protect said children from potential attackers), have larger claws, and have more steady flight meant for long distances

- most colonies have some sort of leader; one that usually tends to be biggest and most brutal, and is the one that takes charge when finding new areas to nest in

- you probably guessed this already but they’re nocturnal :33 during the day when they sleep in their dark areas they hang upside down like bats, or hold onto branches with their wings spread out

^ - they have glowing markings that look similar to eyes and use it to scare away predators (similar to moths having eye camouflage!!)

- most phantoms find strength in numbers, meaning when one finds itself lost, old, or heavily injured the rest of the colony will usually leave it behind once it either doesn’t return or is unable to fly. (Phantoms that formed a strong bond with the sick phantom will usually offer comfort and fetch one last meal for them before killing them)

- phantoms are able to mimic cries and sounds from all kinds of species, usually being cries of horses or the whining from dogs, and very rarely human screams.

^ - there have been folklore made about those screams before people found out it was from phantoms

^ - they use said screams and cries to lure unsuspecting prey in

- phantoms have their own form of mating dances and courting !! this usually occurs in winter when the weather sucks and it gets darker quicker

^ - male phantoms will offer certain kinds of trinkets to appeal to a possible mate’s preference, show off to them, make a nest, or do some sort of feat to impress the potential partner

- above clouds and after hunting sessions, phantoms enjoy playing with one another (chasing, nipping one another’s tails, interlocking tails and going into free fall with one another for a moment, races, etc)

- baby phantoms are the sized of month-old kittens when first born :3 their diet also mainly consists of bugs and rodents until growing larger and consuming bigger prey

i love these vulture sized man eating blue wyverns .okay ramble over thanks 🗣️‼️

You inspired me! I’m at work so it’s on paper, but here’s some sketches!

I love the idea of phantoms being like… vulture sized. Perfect to pick up under an arm. They’d be really nice to use similarly to falcons— probably good to bring in to catch stray vexes or birds or whatnot!

I have made a couple headcanons off of yours, so feel free to bounce them around if you don’t have them already!

- Phantoms likely are a sort of… bat/snake mixture (I had some shark ideas too— face shape or teeth!) My drawings are somewhat… bat/snake/dragon/lizard/shark/bird combo… a lot of elements, lol.

- They’re surprisingly light for their size, averaging roughly 10-20 pounds (more similar to wild turkeys rather than condors, and perhaps lighter bones for easier flight)

- They have talons and feet similar to owls, with their third digit able to rotate so they can have it in the front or back for better grip on prey. They prefer to fly firstly, then crawl, then walk— they’re usually in the air!

- Maybe they could spit venom also? Like how you said with the stomach acid— they might just be able to spit it on cue, because it’s a little more accessible and would make their bites more of a nuisance to people. Good for defense too, especially for baby phantoms!

- On that note, they prefer to bite rather than claw. They’re notorious for their bites, with those rows of razor-sharp teeth (not to mention the bite strength of like. A parrot, if given a good shot), but they sometimes use their talons to pick up smaller prey like rabbits, chickens, parrots, baby animals in general, etc etc. I’d think they’d mostly eat on the spot, preferring to cache tiny little bits of food (or eating a good fill and keeping it in their crop for later) rather than trying to lug around whole kills…? Like. Eat a rabbit foot instead of carry a rabbit back, if that’s anything?

- Maybe they lay eggs? I feel like they’d have a good brood patch of sorts going on, their underbelly being super warm.

- Their outer ribs/bones thing going on is either the ends of their spinal column poking out for defense against predators (perhaps activated at will with the ribs, like that one newt species), some good coloration, or maybe even semi-translucent skin/scales!

- You mentioned second eyes! When I think of that, I imagine them to be more like iguanas— something sort of vestigial, a simple eye that detects movement and brightness. That way, they can stay alert to subtle changes that they might be blinded by something soon!

- If they get blinded as you say, rather than burning up as in game, I can only imagine the chaos after a sunrise when the phantoms are out late. You’d probably end up with a bunch of injured and half-blind phantoms on your doorstep (does your oc rehabilitate?).

- Their tail’s a little longer to act like a rudder! Instead of flapping sporadically like a bat, I feel they’d flap a little slower, but more determined… maybe even like swifts? Like, capable of gliding up at super big heights up in the wind columns, but they’d dive down and flap like sparrows to get back up to where they were to get another shot at it.