#GODD i love my fucking monsters.. sm.. theyre the best

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do you think the flesh beast creatures would have their own unique abilities? or would they just be differentiated by size and color and stuff?

AGGHH EXPLODES. THANKYOU FOR LETTING MY TALK ABOUT MY CREECHERS.

under the cut bc this is long but I LOVE THEM.. none of this is exactly spoilers this is just stuff it goes into in the story explained in more detail ^_^

OK! SO. the thing about these beasts. hangon copying and pasting from some chats here because I cant explain them better than I have previously:

" !!YEAH EXACTLY. THEY CAN MIMIC VOICES. ANY VOICE THEYVE HEARD. THEY INTENTIONALLY STALK SOMEBODY BEFORE KILLING THEM SO THEY CAN HEAR THEM SPEAK AND COPY IT AND UGHHHH "

" im not gonna spoil anything but the scariest part of these monsters is theyre not just killing for food or survival with animal intelligence. theyre entirely sapient and are knowingly hunting their target with methods they know they'll fall for via observation.. I may or may not adore my own monster concept.

Meaning theyre absolutely smart enough to do things like. open doors (if the weird sludge form they took has proper parts to mess with a lock). replicate the voice of somebody it knows the target trusts. again, stalk for days beforehand to know exactly what it needs to do. imagine trying to fight against something that's intelligent as a person, if not more because of hivemind, and has been observing all your weaknesses for days. rest in peace "

"it's very cool in concept! and the thing is theyre not just mimicking what they've heard to garner trust (though it still sounds a bit off because clearly most of them don't have the proper parts to vocalize), they can understand and form sentences from what they've heard somebody say too.. so eg if you ask it to say something specific to verify its not just parroting it will say it back to you (as long as its heard the sounds to replicate). still not entirely convincing bc again its off, esp if they haven't heard the proper noises to replicate a word, but its VERY convincing from, say, a distance.. if youre not paying attention.. if youre in enough distress to believe its whoever theyre replicating.. etc. which is an incredible feat of 'nature' and is cool as fuck. but also HORRIFYING "

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" YEAH!! not all of them are like that like I said, its actually bc of a specific thing about that character it was about but.. it can kindof fuck with your body however it wants to. repurposes your biological material for itself yknow "

(about beast process->) " I DONT HAVE IT FULLY DEVELOPED YET. However. the general thought is that theyre basically dead and having their body used, but.. it's like some greater organism that consumes you and uses your bits to remake other things with the knowledge it gained from Absorbing You. so technically your brain is still there. just part of a greater hivemind now in a different way. its horrifyingly intelligent and replicates new creatures from the slop.. or atleast begins to transform you once you're way too deep in the " my skin is falling off im dying " stage to recover so it just slides on in and slurps up your melted flesh and starts to reconstruct you "

" basically yeah you're dead its just using your flesh and the basic structure of your body but your mind is still kindof there in a way through the knowledge it has 👍 your consciousness isnt there with it, whoever it takes is GONE but. "

" I mean it doesn't really melt you its more rapid infection and necrosis of the flesh so that your shape falls away away and is no longer stable so it can take over and change into something else and attempt to replicate what was there before but. yknow "

" it makes a convincing deer! somebody goes out to photograph wildlife and sees this thing and stops to take a picture and then its fucking face tears open the second it notices him and its form unravels entirely. its intelligent enough to actively hunt and trick you and thats exactly what it's doing "

+ this post

THATS ALOT. But basically I just set it down bc these things all share those few central important traits bc otherwise they're not exactly 1 group of beasts! there's multiple. and it spreads. TLDR shared traits:

Can spread the beasting through fluids/bites (think rabies), and Creech other things with it

(But don't have to creech things! sometimes they just eat)

Technically a hivemind. Stored knowledge from everything they've killed like a library. They can't exactly read the minds of eachother when separated into different creatures, but from the Goop..

HORRIFICALLY intelligent, fully sapient and possibly even sentient depending on beast

Can manipulate their own anatomy when Creeched due to being able to melt and reform flesh (though their mass stays generally the same, they can't randomly get LARGER unless they absorb another thing). It takes time of course, theyre still ripping and changing and liquefying flesh and bone, its not instant. but they can still do it

Able to mimic voices they've heard. Cant speak on their own, they need to have heard a voice to replicate (usually the one of the person it originated from

Are we on the same page. ok COOL. So, even with that, theyre not all exactly the same. They won't turn into the same gorebeast every single time- their appearance varies based off " host "- as well as alot of other traits. they won't solve situations the exact same way, may develop different hunting strategies best suited to their appearance, etc etc..

For example: take whoever became a BEAST was very intelligent. that monster would display that same extreme intelligence and thinking, despite no longer being them. it just might be used in different ways. And with that varying intelligence comes the difference between their natural survival instinct as a living thing vs actual sapience extending into sentience.

The sapience doesn't exactly MEAN super extreme intelligence: it's just learning and wisdom. Knowing something and acting based off that. It doesn't exactly mean it's capable of feelings and EXTREME critical thought (despite also being able to think)

+ with different physical appearances (i usually based the beasts off of something correlating to their stand ^_^) comes different kinds of uses of their anatomy/abilities that others may not have or think of. it's not like MAGIC, its like strategy and conforming to their own anatomy , and they can't exactly do something impossible (go invisible, breathe fire) but they can certainly develop things other beasts wouldn't have depending on what they became during transformation and their own specific thought.

EG: one might learn to camouflage in some way or learn stealth hunting strategies + change their own anatomy to be better suited. Like developing soft pads on the feet to move silently. or if their body was severely damaged, ripping and cracking their own ribs out of place to hold their own organs in for safety and even reforming their own peritoneum so they aren't just spilling out, vulnerable.. yknow!

Their forms usually remain vaguely humanoid in some way, due to building up off the appearance of the thing they've consumed and taken and changing it, but it can be intensely graphic in different ways for that reason. And sometimes the mutations can occur without reason in rotting and melting away their host to cause the process to go faster (eg: skin splitting open and folding back down to bone, having flesh tendrils somewhere)... just happens.

+ considering theyre still a living thing, they need guts to function. and will even actively attempt to reform them or make new ones as backup from the viscera theyre made up of... they'll stop the life functions of whatever they've taken and just start them over immediately and replace organs (eg brain, any important vital bit) they've dissolved before going anywhere.. have a screenshot for this too actually

SO I hope that answers the question kindof.. theyre not all exactly the same they vary! in different incredibly gruesome disturbing ways! general size and ability just comes down to what they believe will work (and sometimes it doesnt)

#asks #🦅 #Keep a Cool Head Tag #GODD i love my fucking monsters.. sm.. theyre the best

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The comment: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA FKHDSNAKJFNDSKAJDNSKAFJSDNKJSANDFS HELLO AGAIN YOU JUST KEEP MURDERING M E EACH TIME LIKE!!!! WHAT THE FUCK YOUR HONOR ILY!!!!!!

BUT OKADSJNDFAK MAN FIRST OFF!!! FICRST OFF THANK YOU FOR HAVING SO MUCH COMFORT I AM SO SOFT FOR EVERYONE HERE I CANT NSDKJFSD I AM SO SOFT THIS IS SO WHOLESOME IT FEELS LIKE THE LOOSE ARMS OF A HUG THIS IS SUCH A CUTE CHAPTER LIKE OK O O K K JINOK HAVING TO EXPLAIN HYUN'S JOB UPSTAIRS TO THE KIDS I AM SGOING TO SOB THAT DIALOUGE WAS SO GOOD ESP THE KIDS NOT BEING DETERRED

LIJFNSDKJFD "He turned, messy hair and soft voice contrasting his usual stoic demeanour" HE'S !!! HES BEING HIMSELF AND CHILLING OUT I LOVE HOW THEY'RE SO COMFY WITH EACH OTHER DHM U

AND THEN!! THIS PIECE OF DIALOUGE "“Damn you complimented him… good luck getting him to do anything now." LIKE!!! SO TRUE BANGER!!!! I LOVE UR CHARACTERIZATION SM AND FUCK YEAH FOR THE RETURN OF OVERSIZED CLOTHES LETS GOOOOO

AND DSNKAFASDNK I AM SUCH A SUCKER FOR JAEHUN HYUN INTERACITONS LIKE!!!! THEY ARE LITEARLLY FAMILY UR HONOR, kokoko im gonna breathe but the soft check in has me just afjdnskafjndsf so bs i am crying sm i love them i love the familial interactions ur honor

and then the kida ajndsakjfnds i , man you write them so so increidbly well i litearlly feel adoration for these words on my screen bc of u bc!!! its them and theyre so babey!!!

AND THEN YOU JUST AFJKDNDSKF RIPPED MY HEART OUT WITH THE!!! THE MONSTER FDJKSANK FCKING HELL LIKE HYUN TOOK IT LIKE A CHAMP AND FINSIHED THE PUZZLE DJNDSJKAFDS I AM ,,, M A NNN

and then the casual comfort like,,, god your pacing is amazing jus t the way you make this seem like a normal day and all intertwined these scenes throughout the day msdjanf lovely

AND TFHASDKJFDS FUCKING THEN

THE ENDING,,,, BYE

IM DEAD, LITERALLY THE FIRST TIME I READ IT I THOUGHT THAT LIKE THE GANGSTERS WERE HERE FOR SOME REASON??? BUT NO YOURE SO BIG BRAIN MY GODD YOU BROUGHT IN THE PAST MESSAGES IVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE DO THAT BEFORE YOURE SO SMART WTF!!!! IM SO EXCITED TO SEE HWERE THAT GOES!!!

SO YEAH TYSM FOR WRITING I REALLY LOVE IT!!!! (sorryr if this is a lot fkadjsnajfds ) have a nice day :D

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It’s been a couple months since I got this comment and I can’t tell how many times I’ve gone back to it, honestly the best comment I’ve ever received and I wanted to share it. They’ve left other comments like this on previous chapters and each time it motivated me to continue :(

The fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29585232/chapters/72716676

#submission #ao3commentoftheday