#murder pickle

[iconicjohnny]

Lord help me, I'm tempted to spend unreasonable sums of money for this.

[yanirapadron]

Angry pickle wants to fight.

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[aemidaniels]

MH Headcanon

Ok ok ok

But hear me out.

What if Anjanath is an adolescent Deviljho?

no no no don't click away! This is stupid and I must get it out in the world!

All the pickles on the island go into heat around the same time and a mass nesting takes place. The villagers sigh with relief because they can finally go outside without having to fear briny death and since nesting is one of the last things the adults will do in their long lives (kinda like those moths or spiders that die not long after laying eggs), the villagers have a several year window of breathing space before the next batch descends upon them with ravenous hunger.

When the new murder pickle babies are born they are a soft pink and have these proto-wings to glide away from the nest before an aged, half senile momma murder pickle eats them. They live out there on their own having to avoid their murder pickle brothers and sisters cuz all murder pickles are just hungry all the time so they get to be savage little anti-social gherkins. The babies take absolutely forever to grow up so the adults are all long gone before the babies are of age to have their own.

As they grow bigger, their bodies start to outgrow their proto-wings and since they are too heavy to make use of them anymore they are eventually reabsorbed into the body or simply crusted over with the darker scales of their more grown-up bodies. The tails thicken out for balance and extra teeth spikes grow along the chin. They shed the feathery floof of their youth and settle into the bodies of the massive murder pickles we know and love, ready to start their own brood!

And eat some hunters.

And maybe their own tails. Cuz pickle tails be delish. 

You come along in your hunter gear on this strange new island about halfway through this life cycle so all the adult pickles are gone but the teenage pickles are just starting to assert their newfound dominance that comes with the much larger bodies. The locals have their own name for this stage in the lifecycle and since you have never actually SEEN a baby murder pickle before you simply assume it is a new species altogether and nobody felt the need to correct you.

[sketchrosa]

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