#star vampire

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

STAR VAMPIRE

by Christopher Burdett

[violetvolute]

Some dumb artist choosing to work late nights instead of sleeping angers their giant paralysis demon wife. Smh

[aut2imagineart]

If I'm doing a Hazbin Hotel x DanDaDan crossover series, then I would of course had to include aliens and what better aliens for the Hellaverse than the ones from the Lovecraftian mythos? My goal was to draw my selection in the Hellaverse art style. How successful I was at that, I'll let you all decide. Anyway, here's a quick rundown of the cosmic horrors I picked.

The top row is from left-to-right are Cthulhu, Nyarlothotep, and Hastur the King in Yellow. I imagine Cthulhu and Hastur being like the Ars Goetia in ranking while Nyarlothotep ranking above them like the seven princes of Hell. My take on Cthulhu is inspired by Bowser and King K. Rool while Hastur I imagine being like the overlord Zestial.

Right below alien races that are subservient to Cthulhu, Nyarlothotep, and Hastur respectively; The Cthulhi, the Mi-Go, and the Byakhee. The Cthulhi are to Cthulhu like the Koopas are to Bowser and I gave the one I drew a pose referencing the Serpo, one of the main aliens in DanDaDan. I imagine these aliens being the primary forces the protagonists of this crossover would have to deal with.

The bottom row are miscellaneous aliens that are not directly aligned with any Great Old Ones or Outer Gods. The first is a flying Polyp, a wandering species with unknown motives that acts aggressively to virtually anything they encounter. Next is a star vampire. These vicious, jellyfish-like predators have powerful constricting tentacles that end in toothed suckers for draining blood and from their toothy maw they emit a continuous, horrifying laughter. Lastly is a Yaddithian, a highly advanced species skilled the arts of science and magic. They were driven to near extinction by another race called the Dholes and the one shown here is a survivor that becomes and ally to the protagonists who helps them gain better control of their supernatural abilities.

Though this was intended to be the final part I might create one more that features at least You-Sothoth, Shut-Niggurath, and the Dholes.

Lovecraftian mythos belongs to H.P. Lovecraft (duh), Hazbin Hotel belongs to Vivziepop, and DanDaDan belongs to Yukinobu Tatsu

As always, comments and critiques are welcome.

[makosxa]

The Shambler from the Stars or here's my take on the star vampire's gijinka–

[valhahazred]

Them from Outside want in. Inside our universe of light and matter, so different from the formless chaos that roils around the universal font of Azathoth. Out there, they’re little more than plankton. Mere mouthfuls for larval Outer Gods.

But inside our universe, amongst the pitiful things that populate it, they’re the gods.

Their primary means of coming in is in the creation of the Outer Hybrids. They send whispers and instructions along the paths that they cannot tread alone, offering knowledge and power in exchange for aid. Success is rare but for those who exist outside of time, patience is supreme.

To make the biological connection, the Outer Ones instruct their conspirators in corrupted rituals of “connection” with Yog-Sothoth and inject their seeds when they are performed. Yog-Sothoth is the perfect interface between alien genetics, with its biological fusion of all multiversal life it can serve as the glue between even the most disconnected of species.

While its genes do end up as a part of the Hybrids, Yog Sothoth can only be said to be their father in the most technical sense. It does not have any agency in the process and doesn’t care for its misbegotten children. Indeed, Outer Hybrids that attempt to bring themselves to its attention are struck down without remorse.

When they succeed, the Hybrids will often be driven to open a true path into the universe for their forebears, now able to coordinate attempts from both sides of the divide. As the Hybrids work on the path they’ll scour worlds, blood and biomatter fuel for them to split and fissure and spawn. They’ll bloom in an orgy of self-devision until nothing else is left.

It is believed that this is what happened to the first biospheres of Venus and Mars and allowed the “Old Ones” to walk on Earth in the early days, as the Progenitors first colonised the system.

Common traits Undimensioned and unseen. The Hybrids are generally invisible to common eyesight as they exist slightly out of phase with visible light. They can be seen by those who can look Beyond, or can make the Voorish Sign. Spreading the dust of Ibn Ghazi in the area where their presence is suspected can force them back into phase and thus fully visible.

Winds of magic. The presence of Hybrids is accompanied by cold winds and strange weather. While they seem to simply generate air currents, it actually comes from their influence on the psychokinetic energy field through their connection to Yog-Sothoth. In addition to the telekinetic currents, they can strike with subspatial lightning.

Vampirism. While they’re perfectly capable of consuming ordinary food, Outer Hybrids are also able to suck blood through their trunk-like tentacles. In many cases this is a catalyst for reproduction, triggering their growth to enormous size before splitting into numerous offspring.

Of two minds. We once thought some dinosaurs had two brains. In the Outer Hybrids, this is usually true. The brain in the usual place maintains the capabilities of the source species, preventing the Hybrid from being lost in rational space-time. The Outer mind manifests somewhere in the lower body of the Hybrid and leads its decision making when it comes to magic, reproduction and calling the Outer Ones. While both minds are aware and in constant communication, one tends to exist in a dream-like state while the other leads.

Known Hybrids The Progenitors chose to make a Hybrid as an experiment after being swayed by promises of supreme biological power, the goal of all the earthly colonist’s scientific development. It resulted in a single larvae that grew to titanic size before bursting into hundreds of predatory flying polyps in seeming parody of the spore-based reproduction of the Progenitors. The conflicts between the Polyps and the Progenitors lasted millenia until the Yith chose Polyp territory to found the Library of Pnakotus. The Yith locked them away and squated above their prisons to dissuade the Progenitors from mounting all out attacks against the cities of the Yith. Now with the Yith gone the Polypous Ones are technically free but those that remain beneath the sands of Australia are old, long past their reproductive age and content to stay hidden and unbothered.

Human Hybrids have sprung up several times. Old Wizard Whateley forced his daughter Lavinia to carry them and led to the legend of the Dunwich Horror. In the distant future the Deathless Sorcerers will breed hundreds in hopes of powerful guardians and unwittingly create their future Empress. Al-Hazred himself was devoured by one in the marketplace of Damascus. One interesting thing about Human Hybrids is the frequency they are born in pairs, a firstborn Guide and a mighty Harbinger. The Guide tends towards the human, less developed biologically and sothically but much more in tune with human things. The Harbinger, on the other hand, inherits much more from its alien parents and is nearly incapable of surviving on its own in the alien environment of Earth. The division is not absolute, however. An aged Guide will become much like its brother over time; the Harbinger simply has a head start.

Star Vampires have been in the Sol system for as long as the Yith can perceive. What species spawned them is unknown. The Star Vampires maintain a single colony, hidden on a parallel Mars known as Rhylkos. They’re eusocial, with a spawning queen known to occultists as Uvhash, the Blood-Mad God of the Void. They sometimes come to Earth to take blood back to their queen. Their presence is always announced by an unnerving hyena-like cackle. Although it brings to mind malevolent laughter, the sound is an alien form of echolocation, pinging across the subspace veil in search of astral cords.

[skookworks]

A German sorceror dies. Maybe. Hijinks ensue.

[dream-menagerie]

A star vampire, a terrible leech that dwells in the gaps between stars.

[lpbestiary]

Star Vampires are extraterrestrial creatures from the Cthulhu Mythos. First appearing in Robert Bloch's short story The Shambler from the Stars, they are described as tentacled, jellyfish-like creatures that are usually transparent and invisible.

Befitting their name, Star Vampires are voracious bloodsuckers, and will flush red and thus become visible when they have drained a living victim. The Star Vampire's tentacles have suckers with which it sucks blood. They are said to emit a horrid sound akin to manic laughter.

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