the adventures of trina the forest imp

Random creatures from my brain. 1. This thing wanders the ocean floors in the alien world I'm writing, swallowing entire mermaid villages in its wake. What should I name it? 2. A multi-deer??? Concept for my character that is the forest's superhero that everyone calls The Beast. 3. I.... don't know why, but I really like this lizard dude. 4. The Vampire Leech from Book 2 of my stories. No spoilers, will start posting them soon, but this monster eats "mana" which is... basically your soul's will to live and thrive, so-to-speak. 5. I don't know what this guy is, I was trying to workshop some forest imp designs and ended up here lol. I might keep them for a later story idk yet

My forest imp oc, Trina Tree! She's had three coffees this morning. Silly imp.

It's about a forest imp on an alien planet. Her name's Trina, and she wants to be the new alchemist. That nobody is really asking for, but they obviously need it. In this forest, Alchemists don't just make potions.... They're supposed to help heal the self, too! She may be biased because of her choice of work, but she thinks her forest community needs a bit more.... magic, in their souls. Creativity Magic. It tends to help with the monster problems..... Her mate/best friend is a necromancer, and their boss is a giant, talking Sitka Spruce. They get into a lot of mayhem.

Here's a mallard-type domesticated Terror Bird. Should I sketch more kinds lol? It's a Pacific-NW/alien ecosystem.

Why forest imps? When I was a kid, they used to be another kind of small hero race popularized by the great Tolkien. I was super into The Hobbit when I was a kid, before I discovered Discworld, and I've always been short lol. Eventually, I learned certain kinds of names can't be used by others, and started calling them halflings, etc, but.... then, Final Fantasy IX came out, with all of its creature-centered worldbuilding, and it inspired me to do something entirely new with my characters. Static used to be a literal imp, like a copy of Impmon almost lol Twenty five years plus later, and I'm glad I made the change.

This is a character of mine that I've been writing short stories about for the past twenty years, but mostly since the 2020s. Her name is Trina and she's a mammalian forest imp. She wants to be the next Alchemist of the Forest, and she lives in a universe where magic is tied to your own creative visualization. I'm at about the 50-story mark, all around 3k-7k words with some as big as 15k, but none of them have been edited or worked enough to Put Out There. But, it is my goal, eventually, to properly introduce the world to my forest imps and their absurd little late-snowball-stage island.