#cryptid states

[chaoticarson16]

in honor of Texas having the most bats of any state, may I hear your thoughts on bat!Texas (like bat cryptid/hybrid Texas)? :3

Perfect lol. In my Texas design he doesn’t really have any bat themed cryptid attributes but he does have a bat tattoo on his right (our left) sleeve. But bat hybrid Texas would be really cool to see either with his hearing or being able to fly

[superhero-network]

Happy Holidays everyone!!!! I got a new tablet for Christmas and immediately drew these two idiots hahaha enjoy!!!

[hibiscuslynx]

trying to figure him out… im such a sucker for hybrid designs like i cant Not give him the horns and ears from time to time

[sleepdeprivedsimp234]

Some place. Somewhere. There is a video of fawn!Gov tippy-tapping around with his little hooves. I just. I just know it.

@greatinternetllama pspspspspspspspspssssss hey hey Gov simp :3

[fishtank-thinktank]

I can’t decide if Minnesota (+most of the great lakes states) are completely terrified of Canadian geese or have a fucking army of them.

Like this is just something I thought of 

Gov walks into the backyard and notices Ohio with a gaggle of geese 

Gov: d..do I even want to know what’s happening here?

 Ohio (turning his head around like almost 160° like a owl): I am the geese guardian, guardian of the goose. That state up north will tremble before me!

 In the tree line, Michigan walks into view or like sensing range. Let’s be honest with ourselves these men are not human. 

Ohio, whipping his head back (again, like an owl): Fuck off

The two of them are just flicking each other off 

This went surprisingly more Cryptid than I thought it would be but honestly Ohio just gives me a owlman vibes. Not in the I’m a very wise person way, But in the way that I can move my head in ways that I shouldn’t be able to and I cough up bones every once in a while. 

[s-e-v-e-n-24]

Cryptid New Jersey

He is the Jersey Devil/hj

Whether that's true or not he does take on characteristics

The Goat horns (Eyes too, it's supposed to have a Goat or horse head), forked tail, cloven hooves, claws, leathery bat like wings, and the ability to emit a blood curdling scream

New York hates him for it

[mur-art]

Cryptid!Arizona idea?

I almost forgot about this story but I was doing some research on the Headless Horseman for reasons and I got down a weird folklore rabbithole. Anyways, here’s the Legend of the Red Ghost, with only minor embellishments: 

(Under the cut bc of some morbid shit) 

(This first part is 100% true, I swear) In the 1850s, the U.S. Army (led by some future Confederate losers) experimented with camels in the Southwest. After the Army realized that camels made terrible pack animals, they were released to wander the desert. 

(Here’s where it gets into cryptid territory) One of those camels, they say, kept wandering. The legendary “Red Ghost,” the lone survivor of its kind, terrorized ranchers, settlers, and miners across the Arizona Territory. The creature was wild-eyed and 30 feet tall with fiery red hair. It was capable of trampling people to death and attacking grizzly bears. Some said the Red Ghost was ridden by the devil himself. When a group of miners shot at the “monster,” something shook loose from its back and fell to the ground. When they looked closer, they realized it was a human skull. 

Legend has it that a ghostly rider was strapped to the Red Ghost; a man who had died while riding the camel many years before. Some say it was a miner dying of thirst, who had strapped himself to the camel hoping that it would lead him to water. Others say it was a soldier who was trapped on the camel’s back when it bolted off into the desert. Nevertheless, the leather straps holding the man in the saddle were so tight that they cut into the camel’s back, binding his skeletal corpse together with the camel forever. 

As legend has it, the Red Ghost was shot and killed in 1893 by a farmer, but... perhaps if the desert night is quiet and still... if you’re walking down by a dry wash and feel the chill of a sudden humid breeze... if you hear a coyote’s lonely chorus and it pierces your soul... 

Maybe, just maybe, the Red Ghost still wanders the Arizona desert. 

...

I feel like this legend could make for a great AZ cryptid concept, with some creative embellishment. But that's the fun part, right?

[statesnstuff]

hoping on the Greg + cryptid states bandwagon-

technically Greg doesn't show in the actual "The Statehouse" series, but we've all already agreed that that's how he started working with the states.

The Statehouse series only has like 3 episodes if I'm guessing correctly (it's been awhile)... has anyone put any thought as to why the series ended in this cryptid AU? maybe something happened to Greg and the show was cancelled..

idk! just wanted to plant that idea if it hasn't been planted already... has some great angst potential