#mothfolk

[ashmcgivern]

Meet Atlas Moore (they/them)! My Call of Cthulu campaign character from this past year. We played a campaign that was thematically more Gravity Falls/Twin Peaks than it was classic Cthulu, so when I learned that there was going to be cryptids.... well, of course my player character had to be one. It was a secret to the players up until our second to last session and the reveal was GREAT.

You can read more about them under the cut ;]

Atlas came to live in Lane's End (a small town just outside of Portland, Oregon) in their mid 20s, around 1984 or just after. They originally had planned to set up an arcade in Portland since the Intel factory moved nearby, but something drew them to Lane's End and they decided to set up shop here instead. They currently runs Luna Games as well as do routine tune ups and repairs on all the machines inside.

They love games and collect just about anything they can get their hands on. They also keep spare electronics parts in their shop to run repairs, but also do fixes for the local kids' home consoles as well.

Atlas' gender is a mystery - nobody can decide what they were assigned at birth. Whenever directly asked, Atlas just shrugs and moves the conversation along. They are unbothered by any pronouns that people use for them.

They are beloved by the community for bringing an arcade to the town. Atlas regularly puts on events at the arcade for the kids, and doesn't mind if they hang out in the space (during normal business hours, of course). One of their favorite events to put on is the "First day of Summer Play Day" where the day after school ends, they hand out tokens for free so people can play as much as they want.

The only people who seem to not like Atlas are the parents of the kid who disappeared in Luna Games - understandably, but Atlas insists they had nothing to do with it. (This child was absorbed cursed and absorbed into a cursed intel chip that was unknowningly in one of their arcade cabinets, and Atlas has been working to get the kid out ever since)

Atlas is a friendly, but sort of reserved personality. While they mostly keep to themselves, they do not mind company at all, and are welcoming of people into their space. Their favorite animals are moths, and have patch that they wear on their denim jacket that says "Looking for my Mothmate."

Atlas is, in reality, a mothfolk. They are able to hide most traits of their monstrous form (Lilo & Stitch style) so that they can pass for a normal human. They don't often associate with other cryptids, preferring to live a "normal human life." Humans are fun, and they like them.

Atlas grew up in West Virginia with a small group of 4-5 other mothfolk - all hatched from strange eggs wrapped in a snake-skin like cocoon, and none of them knew where it originated from. At some point they all felt the pull, almost like a flickering light, to go to places of power - most flying out eastwardly to Europe (one particularly determined to find out why they are and where they came from), one to the Middle East or India, and only a few more moving into areas of the United States. Atlas, being the last one to leave, felt that they could integrate better with humans if they went to college and gained some skills. They went to college for electronics, and finally felt the pull was strong enough to merit moving out west.

[toadalled]

I made a new gal. Her name is Whisper (Wisp for short.) She works as a museum conservator, raising smaller bug species to later pin, as a hobby. The patterns on her wings writhe and pulse and are rarely the same from day to day. The eyespots remain ever-present.

[mebis-art-dump]

the mothfolk were a colorful, feathery bunch

early version

[wandapinkay]

I missed making pixel icons man.. for gracelessdance over VGen! ✨

[memento--moray]

New DnD PC

Leona, the mothfolk warlock

Up on my Art Fight along with all my other characters!

[sorry-but-no-sorry]

Part 10 of the Moth saga comes as a package deal!

Staring

-Mothmy Dimitrescu as a white witch moth / thysania agrippina

-Moth-er Miranda as a black witch moth / ascalapha odorata

-And the daughters who are actually corpse butterflies / purple emperor butterflies /apatura iris

@exhausted.tech

[ennnetc]

anatoli character ref

more dnd ocs. this girl in particular is a mothfolk artificer (i could not find a homebrew species that had a name i could pronounce) named anatoli, and she's kind of fucked in the head. insane inventor but quite literally a mad scientist.

shes an artillerist specifically, very well versed in mechanical creation with destructive abilities, and while living in the feywild, she seeks to make sense of the chaos and harness it, as she sees it as full of potential thats just waiting to be put to use. she's a daughter of a king in the fey court in my story world, but ran away and has since not been seen for years. she very much so needs to touch grass.

along with paltiel (another oc... not sure if my queue will post any paltiel before or after her) she created the warforged cornerstone, though has not seen the end result of this creation since paltiel abandoned her. she was not aware of where paltiel went, until after she sought him out in the overworld only to find that he was the newly appointed high priest of the church, an organization explicitly anti-magic and fey. to say she was angry would be an understatement.

she is also the mother to a young changeling named cordelia (ANOTHER oc), though due to this child's relation to paltiel, she decided to abandon her to the church anonymously.

she seems to hold grudges, and does not forgive nor forget. there are lots of plans for destruction ruminating in her mind, and her high intellect does nothing but fuel that obsession.

[somesecretpie]