Milo Murphy’s Law OC Week - Day 5
Creature Feature: In the spirit of Halloween, let’s see how your oc does the monster mash! (being a monster, dealing with them, maybe just something generally halloween-y, ect…)
For this prompt I knew I wanted to make Artemis a monster, but I wasn’t sure which! I considered a werewolf, a zombie, a mantis man (this one almost won out), and countless other critters, but I decided why not go all out and make him a chimera! More specifically, a chimera with the head and talons of a barn owl, the antennae, wings, and fluff of a luna moth, and the legs, horn, and tail of a unicorn.
This version of Artemis would be able to fly, rotate his head 270 degrees, have an accelerated healing factor, night vision, innate resistance to poisons, venoms, and toxins in general, and a superb sense of smell due to the antennae on his head (yep, he’d smell with those!), which sounds like a lot, but I imagine being a hybrid creature like this would come with its own difficulties and disadvantages, such as comparatively decreased agility in certain regards.
Who knows how he may have ended up in such a state! Perhaps he had an unfortunate accident while trying to fend off a time agent, I’m sure he’d have a “fun” time dealing with it. Or perhaps this is an Artemis from an AU where he was always like that! A royal family made up of a bunch of chimeras could make for a lot of enjoyable, if kinda tricky designs.
And if you’d be interested in seeing the rough first concept I did while trying to figure out his chimera features, that can be found here.