#originalcreature

[isa-dwane]

✨Noctis Resonantia✨ Also known as Noctirae, this nocturnal plant shelters a small bioluminescent creature within its petals.

It reacts to the vibrations and sounds of its surroundings, unfolding its petals and glowing more brightly the more harmonious the music becomes. In the presence of unpleasant or discordant sounds, it remains closed as a natural defense mechanism.

Despite its appearance, Noctirae is a harmless species that inhabits forests and valleys where music and nocturnal sounds abound.

Not long ago, I found a small flower that I absolutely loved and placed it by my window. Coincidentally, shortly after that, this contest appeared and ended up inspiring me greatly to participate. 😊

I didn’t want to create just a pretty flower, so I tried to design a creature with some kind of gameplay mechanic in mind.

Noctirae would function as a small musical creature: the player would need to press specific button combinations to “sing” to it. If delighted, it could reveal secret doors, show the location of hidden objects, or even share small secrets hidden throughout the environment. 🎶✨

Created for the Billie Bust Up “Mystical Plantlife” challenge.

[dariodremurr]

Un dibujito que use para poder experimentar un poco mas con mi estilo, ademas que hace rato que queria dibujar criaturas mias, junto a las de monster hunter A drawing I use to experiment a little more with my style, plus I've wanted to draw my own creatures for a while, along with those from Monster Hunter.

[thefaechild]

Sapphire Islands Fauna:

The Sapphire Islands is home to unique fauna that have adapted to the tropical island chain that lies between the Sirrocious and Alluvious Oceans on the equator. These islands are interconnected yet unique amongst one another as each island hosts unique fauna not seen anywhere else, which gives it the title of the most biodiverse biome on Terra. Due to the location of these islands, the most northern islands are not affected by tropical cyclones and are considered peaceful, perfect islands, however the southern portion do get tropical cyclones every year which most of the fauna have adapted too. Species have adapted to the Water element which provides protection from drowning, enormous rainfall and waves from tropical cyclones and also allows for adaptive swimming between the islands. This biome acts as a sort of melting pot for all sorts of fauna from around the world to interact and exchange due to its central location and branches that connect into the caves below.

1: Luname, 2: Kaimerfly, 3: Morifly, 4: Lunar Illumifly, 5: Meribug, 6: Azuraiin Coven, 7: Lunaren, 8: Mariwai, 9: Meraii, 10: Marine Lagoose, 11: Azuraiian Seatort, 12: Crowned Gog, 13: Sapphire Hermit Karmen, 14: Prism Gog, 15: Sapphire Caecillian, 16: Sapphire Astar, 17: Lunaray, 18: Lunar Vinch, 19: Alluvious Waipoa, 20: Prism Mageli, 21: Wai Vander, 22: Puuku Puffer, 23: Azur Naia, 24: Lunaski, 25: Sapphire Locusko, 26: lunaii, 27: Puuku Angless, 28: Turquoise Bip, 29: Prism Flane, 30: Turquoise Amori

*Disclaimer: This is merely a snippet of the fauna that inhabit this biome, and does not depict every species that could exist.

[charlie-ver]

Sirens (:

disclaimer under the cut-off in case someone wants to be the person to say "OH THIS PISSES ME OFF YOU PEOPLE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT A SIREN IS"

Please note that making my sirens "fish" was a decision based upon the fact that I have cryptids and creatures with feathers & wings already heavily present in my characters' universes, but no sea-related ones. Also if you want to argue about "original", Homer did not describe Sirens in the Odyssey. I am also aware that Sirens are alluded to not actually eat people, and do not create illusions but lure men with their song only. So you don't have to tell me how wrong I am for my depiction, this was a deliberate decision on my part.

I could be wrong, but while the bird body & maiden's head was a depiction later on, I believe that came from Ovid, and not Homer. The fish-people then was when Christians took over the myths if I have the correct information, and that's what we have today.

So just in case you are itching to tell me that I am uneducated or stupid, yes, I know, and I don't care, fish-people simply fit better and that's what the common man will think of anyway. Yes, I was influenced by Epic, but these Sirens tie into lore-related plots where one of the main characters sails the sea in order to retrieve his partner. Making a sea creature was a pretty convenient thing, and why not a Siren. I like designing merfolk in general. The lore here would really be that someone calls them Sirens *due* to the mistake myth, but it catches on, so nobody else bothers to change the terminology. This does happen in real life (: We people do this.

[sharksa-shivers]

What are...Shadowdemons?

I thinks ima do a new sorta thing where i explain an aspect of Kidnapped and whatnot in a post...So for our first one, we've got shadowdemons!! Shadowdemons are the main type of demon we see in series. They are the ones that are running the shadowcult and are doing...Alot of uhhh not good things... (NOTE TO BE AWARE OF: Not every single shadowdemon we see in series is bad...Shadowdemons as a species are neutral until proven good or bad. They are not inherently born hateful, they become so overtime...I wanna make this clear before i start going off about them because THIS IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT...Hell, some shadowdemons we even get to meet in show are actively fighting against the cult and their shit...It's just the cult is fucking HUGE and there's alot of shadowdemons in it...) Alrighty so ig i'll start with a bareass basic explanation...What are they exactly? (Old art incoming and whatnot lol...I have to use old stuff cuz i haven't done any newer stuff soooooo bare with me here...)

(...This above might perhaps potentally be Bastard #2...Prince Collin...Perhaps...But ima actually officially introduce him later and give him a better design lol so uhhhh hold up for me yeah??

(Rando one i drew lol) Shadowdemons are described as very very humanlike...By this, they behave similarly as well, being intellegent and whatnot. They tend to be pale-ish tones of white or grey, some being darker greys as well. They have black voids for a base eye and a more blurry/glowing light for a pupil. It's also known they have incredibly incredibly sharp features usually...They have razor sharp fingers, teeth, ect. All shadowdemons can fly but typically lower casted ones/more common ones have wings while very very high status ones (like...Collin lol) Have no wings and fly by levitation instead. High powered shadowdemons ALSO have the ability to steal magic from mers which...is a death sentence to a mer...A MER CANNOT SURVIVE WITHOUT THEIR MAGIC. IT IS A VITAL PART OF THEIR SYSTEM... Shadowdemons are...Known for not being easy at all to kill. Mostly because there's only one surefire 1000% kill method for them. Only ONE. And that's by burning them. They have to be burned to be fully destroyed (and even then, you have to FULLY FULLY burn them...You cannot halfass it otherwise they will regenerate.) Typically if you stab a shadowdemon or take their head off or whatever other death method you wanna use, they will simply be temp dead for a 5 to 15 minute period (depending on how bad the injury is) and then they will reform...They can literally reform their entire head and brain if you shot them like 30 times, you need fire to fully do one in... Shadowdemons do need food and rest to recoup and regain lost energy HOWEVER they will not die without these things and some shadowdemons forgo these things for years and years...Depends on the demon, each one has their preference... Shadowdemons are also known for being able to blend among people very well. They are known to have 3 forms: 1. Their typical shadowdemon form, the form we see the most usually. 2. A "human" form, basically a disguise form to fit in among people without raising flags... 3. Their shadowform, basically they can turn into a shadowcloud. We tend to not see this as often but it does and can happen. As a note as well; Mers and humans are about on par strengthwise (if you don't count magic) Shadowdemons however, are about 3 times stronger on average then humans and mers, they can SERIOUSLY do damage and fuck you up with raw demon strength if they're able to… Your average mer without magic is like a typical human...A shadowdemon, 1 shadowdemon alone, can give Sharky a run for his money in the strength department so yknowwwwww uhhhhh not good lol...They can take alottttttt of damage, regenerate and are very difficult to fight. Alot in the cult are bloodthirsty though some aren't and are simply...Just trapped in the cult unfortuntely for them... Another thing of mention in the shadowdemon toolkit is something known as 'body-hacking' ...........And yeah, it's exactly what you think it is; demon possession. If a shadowdemon can get inside you and they have bad intentions, it's pretty much curtains for you because there's...Not really a good way to exorcise them out of yourself...They can weaken you and weaken you and weaken you and the weaker you get, the more control they get of you...Andddddddd that's not really good for your ass now is it?? --- Shadowdemon reproduction (might as well since i am talking about them lol...) Shadowdemons-Shadowdemons reproduction is VERYYYY different from humans…For starters, asexual reproduction…Shadowdemons also do not need het coupling to reproduce either, any gender of shadowdemon can join in. Shadowdemons also can reproduce with more then 2 partners, up to 5 (past 5 demons, you usually start getting really bad genetic defects…)

In order to produce a shadowchild, a few steps are taken. (we will discuss this with a average couple of 2, insert whatever gender you'd like, but 2 parents…)

The shadowparents will dig a hole, about 4 or 5 feet deep, deep enough for the offspring to grow.

The shadowparents choose a base parent. A base parent is one that will temporarily sacrifice a limb that will be removed and placed into the hole. The limb removed is usually a arm, hand, foot, or leg. The usual method of limb removal will be through a sword, knife or machete and will be done fast, usually to try and help reduce pain. Once the limb is removed, it is placed into the hole…

The other shadowparent will then proceed to add some sort of dna, usually spit or blood to the limb (though other dna isn't unheard of.)

After this is done, the hole is very very very quickly covered back up and the base parent leaves as quickly as possible to avoid the limb reconnecting to the base parent. After this process is complete, the hole is left alone for a weekend to a full week…Shadowdemons are made very quickly compared to other creatures due to their regeneration aspects…After this timeframe, what's known as a shadowchild, will dig it's way free and into the world, "being born". Shadowdemons do not have a baby stage in life, instead being "born" as children right off the bat(albeit small children…) Shadowchildren are able to take human forms pretty much instantly and resemble 4-6 year old children…Shadowchildren are then either picked up by their shadowparents or move into society themselves and are given food and clothes upon moving into the area. Shadowdemons have areas where orphan shadowchildren can stay as they grow up.

Shadowdemon life cycle: Shadowchild-->Teenager-->Adult Shadowdemon It's noted/thought that the most powerful shadowdemons have some sort of direct connection to Demon Drop...Who was the first shadowdemon and seems to be somewhat different then other shadowdemons...In certain ways... Collin for example is incredibly incredibly strong and takes alot more to tempkill then your typical shadowdemon...This is because Collin is Demon Drop's son, directly apparently (and thus why he has the power he does in the cult...And why he's prince...And everythingggg else...) ------ Shadowdemon culture: There's the cult culture where...You do whatever you are told or face the fire/consiquences OR the shadowdemon outsider culture...Where alot of them try to hide and live their lives like normalass people, wanting absolutely nothing to do with the cult and their bloodshed. It very much depends... It's said too there's a demon fighting group known as 'The Rising Dusts' which is made entirely of ex cult demons and tries to fight against the cult as well as pulling shadowdemons from it...And stopping the whole uhhhh doomsday death thing the Shadowcult wants to spearhead at some point very soon...(Perhaps we'll even get to learn/see/encounter them in series despite them being quite elusive apparently...) The main shadowdemons we will see are from the cult though...And we'll see them in full action, killing mortals, trying to recruit outsider shadowdemons, trying to fuck with demon fighters, trying to bring Demon Drop back, the whole 9...So that'll be funnnnnnn... ------

......I think this is the bulk of info but i mayyyyy probably am missing something, idk, ig i can always do another later on if need be lol...

[douglysium]

Urchian

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It is now developed enough to not need to worry about traveling in groups to scavenge anymore. Sometimes it crawls out of the bottom of the ocean in order to scavenge for food. In desperate times it may even resort to hunting for food, relying on its spines to subdue its prey. It has been observed to still like messing with people occasionally. It uses its spines for both defense and offense.

[nimphradora]

A griffin sketch.

[space-passenger]

Igna. Something between dragon and Peacock