#werecat Mono

[blondeaxolotl]

I’m making a special treat for you boo but wanna drop this: Noah’s Ark Circus in your monster prom AU with Joker as a siren (to lure people in), Beast as a werewolf (or werecat), Peter and Wendy are either nymphs or imps (cause immortal youths)

These are actually great and fit the characters so well, I love Joker as a siren :0

#ofc beast as a werewolf/werecat is perfect as well #and wendy and peter as imps actually fit very well i love all of these choices for the characters!!!!! #you're cooking fr fr!! #mono ask

[thenixkat]

North America Pokemon Reigon? Part 1

We got Unova but that's? A really fucked up New York basically. Thoughts on other North American-based pokemon regions. At least in terms of pokemon.

So existing pokemon to that would reasonably be found in poke!N. America other than the Unova mons (plus fakemon evos/prevos):

Meowth variant. Ghost/Normal- has brown stripes and a small dull coin.

Persian variant. Ghost/Normal- brown back, pale underside, dark tail tip.

>>> 'Cattawomp'- Persian evo of the female using a Dawn Stone. Ghost/Flying- bipedal werecat, hunched over bear-like stance.

Totodile, Croconaw, Feraligator

Sentret, Furret variant. Dark type. Preys on the Patrat line.

Hoothoot variant. 2 forms.

>>> Northern Form- Flying/Ice. Snowy owl themed.

>>>>> evolves to Flying/Ice Noctowl that also snowy owl themed. Bigger, fluffier, feathered feet and smaller crest.

>>> Southern Form- Flying/Ghost. Barn owl themed. Yellow eyes, white bellies.

>>>>> evolves into Flying/Ghost 'Strigowl'. Vampiric, long neck and clawed wings.

Natu. Xatu with an alternate form. Xatu is much taller than those in other parts of the world.

Teddiursa, Ursarang.

Nincada, Ninjask, Shedinja

Sableye

Volbeat/Illumise

Cacnea, Cacturne

Seviper variant. Poison/Ground. No scars, tail ends in a club that is hollow and filled with shed scales to make a rattle.

>>> 'Ushiviper'- Seviper evo using Sun Stone. Poison/Dragon. Long horns, tail ends in mace.

Corphish, Crawdaunt

Bidoof, Bibarel

Murkrow, Honchkrow

Stunky, Skuntank

Carnivine

>>> Evolves to 'Carnicluster' via Leaf Stone. Grass/Dark. More traps in addition to a flowing stalk.

Snover, Abomasnow

Hawlucha

Goomy, Sliggoo, Goodra variants. Dragon/Water. Slimier in general. The Goodra is quadrupedal and has eyes on eyestalks.

Pumpkaboo variant. Grass/Fairy.

>>> Evolves to 'Pumpkapatch' with high Friendship at Night. Grass/Fairy. 2 forms:

>>>>> Mono Form: if [corn pokemon] and [bean pokemon] are not in party when evolving from Pumpkaboo then it is a small lizard-like cluster of vines with an orange cat-like Jackolantern for a head.

>>>>> Companion Form: If [corn pokemon] and [bean pokemon] are in party then it is a large lizard-like cluster of vines with multiple sets of legs and three black jackolanterns for heads.

Rockruff and Lycanroc variant. Rock/Fighting

Mudbray, Mudsdale

Rookidee, Corvisquire, Corviknight

Wattrel, Kilowattrel

Bramblin, Brambleghast

#nix meows #pokemon #headcanons #pokefake

[nightlightdragon1]

Sooo.....

So not gonna lie the idea of Mono as a big werecat and Six being a small werewolf makes me think of just Six being carried around by the hood of her coat and just pouting cause “mono I can walk by myself” when she cannot cause she twisted her ankle amuses the heck out of me and I wish I could draw it!

#little nightmares #little nightmares six #little nightmares 2 #little nightmares mono #werewolf six #werecat Mono #It's a cute idea leave me alone #nightlight rambles

[mimicmew]

Updated list and info of the species in the Monster AU!

Since some people seemed interested.. here we go!

If you’d like to add your OC or make a new character for this au, use these as a basis! Feel free to ask me any questions if you’re curious or unsure. ALSO IT’S VERY LONG

Humans

CANON CHARACTERS: none lol

- Humans are the basic species of this world.

- They can rarely learn magic and become mages, but most cannot.

- Most humans fear and hate monsters, hunting them down and killing them.

- The Pale Kingdom, regarded as the most hateful kingdom, is currently under attack from a dangerous dragon and it’s siren ‘companion.’ They have managed to cool this by sending regular sacrifices to the ocean.

Sirens

CANON CHARACTERS; Mono, Thin Man

- Sirens are very uncommon, as many of them are hunted down by other species when young, as they are very dangerous.

- Sirens live in pods consisting of 3-15 members. These pods usually exist of siblings from the same hatching, and rarely separate pods fuse to make larger groups. This is uncommon as Sirens are often quite territorial.

- Babies are called pups.

- Sirens never cut their hair, unless they lose a battle. A siren with long hair is to be feared, as they are undefeated in combat.

- For design, Sirens have normal skin colours until their waist, where it fuses into scales. These scales are usually cool colours such as blue, green or purple, and fade into a darker or lighter shade down their tails. They have fins on the sides of their faces that open and close as they emote. They have bright spots across their tail, face and hands. The spots are usually warm colours such as red, yellow or orange. These spots are different shapes depending on where the Siren is from. The only canon ones right now are the eye-shaped spots that both Mono and Thin Man have, so go wild with the shapes! They’ll usually wear shirts as a way of mimicking humans.

- Their magic can be very varied, but is always tied to their voices. A siren without a voice is a dead siren.

- Siren’s grow for their entire life! They grow to about 8 ft by 18, and then they grow roughly half a metre a year, so as you could guess, Thin Man is very long.

Centaurs

CANON CHARACTERS; The Hunter, The Toddler

- Centaurs live in large herds, ranging anywhere from 20 to over 100.

- They live in both forests and open plains.

- They are very naturalist and believe in not taking any more then they need.

 - They have a belief that the face (Particularly the eyes) is the most vulnerable place for spirits to enter, so at a certain age, (around 5 years old) they begin to wear masks. This can range anywhere from beautifully hand-carved wooden masks to just… a sack.

- Centaurs have long hair that runs down their back like a mane. It’s not uncommon for centaurs of any age, no matter the gender, to grow out beards or chest hair. 

Gorgons

CANON CHARACTERS; The Lady, The Lady’s unnamed mother

- Gorgons come from a long line of cursed humans, which have split off to its own species. They are very rare and usually exist in powerful families.

- Gorgons are almost only female, and can reproduce with the same sex.

- Gorgons have rock-hard scales that are always muted colours. Their underbellies are a lighter colour. The snakes that make up their ‘hair’ can be any colour.

- Gorgon’s eyes can turn people into stone through their eyes, so most cover their eyes.

Harpies

CANON CHARACTERS; Raincoat Girl

- Harpies are tall, with their human arms replaced by large bird-like wings. Their legs are much like that of a bird of prey’s. The can have feathers on any place of their bodies.

- They often resemble an existing species of bird, from a bright scarlet macaw to a pitch-black crow.

- Some harpies live in large flocks, while others live alone.

- they usually wear long singlets that do not cover their shoulders, as to avoid restricting their wings.

- They often gather odd trinkets and items.

Fauns

CANON CHARACTERS; Runaway Kid

- Fauns are the deer-like cousins of centaurs

- They usually live alone in dense forests, but can sometimes be seen travelling with centaur herds.

- They have horns that can be any shape, and long, floppy ears.

Gargoyles

CURREN CHARACTERS; The Janitor, The Wax Bellman

- Not much to say, usually just enchanted statues. Aren’t always made of stone, and can be made of most materials.

- Can really look like anything.

- Usually made to serve a master.

- Don’t need to eat, sleep or drink. 

Changelings

CANON CHARACTERS; The Pretender

- Changelings are creatures that, after having a hatchling, will sneak into a human’s house, usually kill or dispose of the human’s child and replace it with their own. Because of this, many changelings grow up unaware of the fact that they are changelings until they grow older.

- They have two forms, a regular human one, and a more monstrous one, often resembling some kind of insect or reptile.

Cyclops

CANON CHARACTERS; The Twin Chefs, The Lollipop boy

- uhh just big Cyclops honestly not much in terms of lore or design.

- Usually very tall and large.

Zombies

CANON CHARACTERS; The Viewers, Some of the Guests, The Doctor

- Zombies can be made in many ways. However, the ones in this area are specifically made by the haunting songs of the Siren.

- They are killed by the first song, then slowly revived by the second, usually over a timespan of about 5 months.

- These zombies are mostly unfortunate humans who got too close, or sacrifices. They can be of any species, however.

Werebeasts

CANON CHARACTERS: Six (werewolf)

- Werebeasts are a collection of species. Some of the most well known are the Werewolves, but many more exist, such are wereboars, werebears and werecats.

- They usually resemble humans, but after some time will shift into a monstrous half-humna, half-animal form. Some will change back, while others will remain like that forever.

- They act very similar to their animals. Some are more human, while others are almost entirely beast.

Ghosts

CANON CHARACTERS; The Sheet Kid, The Glitching Remains

- Just funky little ghosts! usually only of people who died tragic deaths :( 

- Usually have stains on their face resembling tears, and can seem like they are fading away, missing parts of their bodies.

Dragons

CURRENT CHARACTERS; The Eye, The ‘Hunger’, The North Wind

- Ancient and powerful beasts, dragons are the most dangerous species to roam this world.

- If you’re going to make a dragon, try to use it for very powerful entities. Double check with me if you’re unsure.

- They can really look like anything, as there are many subspecies, such as wyverns, wyrms, hydras and more. However, they are unfortunately dying out at a rapid rate.

- They cannot die of old age, only of illness or injury.

- They usually have very strong magical abilities.

- While not always evil, most dragons will horde things. These can be jewels, people, plants or anything really.

ALSO:

Here are some species that might exist, but I dont have any proper lore on yet

- Shapeshifters

- Vampires

- elementals (living elements)

- half-borns (people who are half-animal, half-human)

- Fae

- Selkie

And these are just the ‘sentient’ species! Many mythical animals exist too, such as Phoenix or Unicorn, but are only. animals

#monster au #updated version of the monster au species!!! #little nightmares #little nightmares au #besties please #also if anyone wants to suggest any new species or ideas feel free! this is a very loose guide so you can really bend the rules if you want #anyway if someone does make this I would kiss them /p #please tag me if u do btw!!

[treeofliferpg]

Creación de personajes: Personajes con cola

Recordamos que el siguiente texto no ha sido redactado por el staff de ToL, solo lo hemos traducido para que pueda llegar a más personas. La autoría pertenece @she-who-fights-and-writes. Podéis leer el post original en su  tumblr así como en nuestro tumblr bajo la etiqueta “idioma original”.

Cuando nos aventuramos en mundos de fantasía o ciencia ficción puede suceder que, oh, sorpresa, uno de los personajes tenga cola. ¿Pero qué significaría esto para el personaje? ¿Qué tipo de cola exactamente tendría?  ¿Por qué tenerla? Para estas y otras preguntas os traemos el siguiente texto que, esperamos, pueda ayudaros con vuestros pjs.

Empezamos:

1. Haz una cola solo si es estrictamente necesario (la cola de tu personaje debe tener un propósito)

A diferencia de lo que puedes pensar, las colas son muy, muy difíciles de escribir si las estás aplicando a humanos, y supongo que es sobre lo que pregunta @ dollyjean911. Hay algo en este tipo de anatomía que hace que sea increíblemente difícil describirlos sin que parezca una tontería. A menos que tu personaje sea una sirena / tenga una cola que se usa para nadar; en ese caso, es razonable, que es exactamente lo que quieres, que sea razonable.

Si tu especie / personaje de fantasía tiene una cola, asegúrate de que sea ABSOLUTAMENTE NECESARIA, porque de lo contrario te arriesgas a que tus lectores la encuentren ridícula, especialmente si la cola se usa solo para alivio cómico como molestar a otros personajes (no estoy diciendo que debas eleminar la cola si tu personae la usa como alivio cómico, solo digo que si eso es lo único que hace la cola, es posible que desee reconsiderar darle o no una a tu personaje).

Cosas para las que se puede usar la cola de tu personaje:

Equilibrar

Para la batalla

Sostener cosas

Es relevante para la criatura que es tu personaje (también conocido como un dragón o algo así)

Retratar una emoción

Nadar

2. Debes saber que hay muchos tipos de colas y que todas tienen un propósito diferente

Parece que somos uno de los pocos animales que carecen de cola. Todos los animales la tienen y, por lo tanto, eso significa que hay muchos tipos de colas para que elijas, tanto reales como imaginarias. He aquí una lista:

Pájaro

Bovinos (Vaca / Buey / ñu / etc.)

Canino (lobo / perro / dingo / etc.)

Cervine (ciervo / alce / caribú / etc.)

Equino (caballo / poni)

Felino (gato doméstico / tigre / león / etc.)

Sirena / Tritón

Mono

Rata/ratón

Reptil (Dragón / Iguana / etc.)

¡Y muchos tipos más!

3. A menos que sea mágico, la cola de tu personaje tiene límites; INVESTIGA

A menos que se especifique, la cola de tu personaje no puede hacer giros ncreíbles y estirarse a longitudes locas o lo que sea.

Algunas colas son poderosas y musculosas, capaces de causar una gran destrucción (también conocidas como reptil y sirena) y otras son delicadas y suaves, más una molestia en la batalla que un arma real (felina).

Como dije, las colas tienen diferentes funciones, y si tienes una cola de perro haciendo el trabajo de una cola de mono, tendrás una reacción seria de los lectores, quienes criticarán duramente o simplemente dejarán de leer por completo, y eso es lo ÚLTIMO qe quieres.

Si después de esto no escuchas mi advertencia e ¡INVESTIGAS!, puedo garantizar que tus lectores no serán fanáticos de la cola de tu personaje, incluso si crees que sabes todo lo que hay que saber al respecto.

3. A menos que sea una sirena, la cola no debería ser el único rasgo que tu personaje tiene si es parte de una especie ficticia

"Oh, sí, soy un dragón, pero lo único que tengo es esta cola".

"Genial.."

"Sí, como en tu casa con tu familia en ella".

Si estás escribiendo sobre una especie ficticia, como lector te ruego que no pongas la cola como característica definitoria. De lo contrario, tu criatura se sentirá bastante coja.

¿Es un dragón?

¡Agrega cuernos y / o alas! (Mira mi publicación increíblemente popular sobre la escritura de personajes con alas aquí )

¡Quizás tal vez escamas en el dorso de las manos / pómulos / por la columna!

¿Es un licántropo?

¡Agrega colmillos o pelaje en varios lugares!

¿Werecat?

¿Qué pasa con varios patrones de pelaje como rayas o manchas en partes del cuerpo?

(Mira mi publicación popular sobre cambiadores de forma aquí)

¿Criatura mono?

¿Qué tal el pelaje en partes del cuerpo como en el hombre lobo?

Y así... No es necesario, pero se recomienda si tu personaje con cola es parte de una especie, ¡solo para condimentarlo un poco!

4. Debes ser profesional

Esto es tanto para las personas que escriben profesionalmente, así como para las personas que quieren hacer escritos (rol, fanfic...) serios.

Como dije, las colas son un negocio arriesgado. Un movimiento en falso y tu historia puede parecer el primer fanfic furry yaoi de un niño de nueve años, y a menos que sea eso lo que estás buscando, te sugiero que escuches lo que estoy a punto de contarte:

!!!!!****MUESTRA NO DIGA*****!!!!!

Sí, sé que escuchas esto todo el tiempo;

La comunidad de consejos de escritura te lo pone en la cara siempre que puede, pero con colas, esto es una necesidad. Elevará o destrozará tu novela / rol / historia / etc.

"Su cola de gato se esponjó por la sorpresa"

La oración anterior no debería existir.

No quiero ser duro, y puede que te sientas mal si has escrito algo así (¡admito que yo misma he escrito algo así!), Pero esa frase suena muy poco profesional, y muchos lectores cerrarán la pestaña / el libro tan pronto como lo lean.

Debes introducir la cola de tu personaje describiéndola. A diferencia de las alas, no se puede simplemente decir "cola de gato" y terminar con eso. No suena a trabajo profesional, que es lo que probablemente quieras escribir.

Esto es COMPLETAMENTE una cuestión de opinión, y solo estoy diciendo lo que yo como lectora y escritora creo. Algunas personas tienen gustos diferentes, ¡y eso está bien!

Así es como deberías introducir la cola de tu personaje:

En lugar de:

"Su cola de gato se esponjó por la sorpresa".

Podría ser:

“Sus ojos se abrieron y él captó un atisbo de movimiento detrás de ella. Temiendo que fuera una de esas criaturas de antes, su mano voló hacia su arma, solo para encontrar una cola (adjetivo) curvándose alrededor de su pierna ".

Sé que escribir es subjetivo, pero ¿no suena mucho mejor esa segunda descripción?

No sé vosotros, pero en mi opinión prefiero presentarles a mis lectores la segunda descripción que la primera.

(Por supuesto, agrega algunos detalles, pero ese es el caso. Además, ¡aumenta el recuento de palabras!)

5. ¡No ignores las colas de tu personaje!

¡Las colas son algo 100% real, 24 horas al día, 7 días a la semana! ¡Es molesto cuando los escritores mencionan la cola en un capítulo y luego solo lo mencionan como alivio cómico o para derribar algo y bloquear a los malos! ¡La mayoría de las veces, olvido que los personajes incluso tienen cola!

Aquí hay algunas ventajas de tener una cola (estas también son cosas que puedes usar para la descripción)

Aporrear enemigos (si son voluminosos)

Equilibrar

Transmitir emoción

Usarla para nadar (colas de sirena)

Intimidar

Derribar cosas para bloquear enemigos

Causar estragos generales (bromas)

También está el hecho de que las colas tienen muchas desventajas, ¡más aún que ventajas tienen!

Tiran cosas

Pueden ser pisoteadas

Pueden ser atrapados en la batalla

A menos que sean voluminosos o puedan agarrar cosas como colas de mono, son inútiles contra los enemigos.

Pueden quedar atrapados en cosas

Pueden molestar a otros personajes

La cola de tu personaje es un apéndice adicional; ¡es parte de lo que es! No tienes que pasar cada segundo recordándoles a los lectores que está ahí, pero no pases mucho tiempo sin ni siquiera mencionarlo.

6. ¡Las colas también pueden transmitir emociones!

Cuando los gatos están enojados, sus colas se mueven hacia adelante y hacia atrás.

Cuando los perros están felices, sus colas se mueven.

Cuando los gatos se sorprenden, sus colas se esponjan.

Al igual que con mostrar y no decir, este consejo puede aumentar tu recuento de palabras en un 100000% y puede dar un toque extra para que tus lectores se entusiasmen más con tu escritura.

Aquí hay algunas cosas que pueden hacer/mostrar las colas de tu personaje:

Felicidad

Rizarse

Hacer una especie de ola

Menearse

Nervios

Curvarse alrededor de la pierna del personaje

Erizarse

Agitarse

Metese entre las piernas

Enojo

Latigazo de ida y vuelta

Erizarse

Abofetear

Durante la batalla

Golpear los pies de la gente 

Actuar de maza (probablemente no lo hará mucho daño, pero seguro que dejará un gran hematoma si la cola es lo suficientemente musculosa)

Distraer a los enemigos

Sexytimes

;)

Hay más cosas, estas son solo algunos ejemplos.

#tol #spanish rpg #rpg español #foro de rol #rol en foro #consejos #consejos de escritura #creacion de personajes #creando personajes #personajes con cola

[titleknown]

Three Spooky Fictional Knockoff Toylines!

That’s right, as the big writing piece for this spooky time of year, it’s three spooky toylines ripping off bigger properties in a way that do not exist.

These are all public domain/CC0, free to use for whatever you see fit, though crediting me and linking to my Patreon or Ko-Fi would be nice. 

Shoutout to @genustoys, @phelous and @therobotmonster for heavily inspiring these with their work!

Now, LET US BEGIN!

Monsterlords of the Nether Realms- This line is an odd duck in that it was a knockoff of a toyline that wasn't all that popular. Namely, Inhumanoids.

It was seemingly designed to be cross-compatible with the large monsters of that line, yet in all irony it stuck around seemingly far longer, likely due to the lower price points it was was able to get away with due to being a “non-branded” product and the cross-compatibility of play pattern with the larger figures.

And they were shockingly lavish for what was seemingly a “low rent” property, which has lead to suspicions of it and its related properties being a money-laundering scheme, or at least cover for something unsavory, though others say it could simply be good craftsmanship and the evidence in favor of and against such is perhaps a story for another day.

There were five of them that ended up bumping around store shelves, give or take a few “extras,” which we will cover as they come.

The first piece; likely intended as the “mascot” due to its prescence in promotional artwork is the one known as MOLINTHA, or “ANTHILL EVIL” on certain variants, a large figure encased in a roughly mountain shaped “shell” when curled in a specific position; with an ominous “maw” that turned into a torso when the figure was uncurled.

The mountain pieces themselves (Which were free-standing on their own) provided a large amount of play value with platforms seemingly shaped for various 3&¾-inch figures, but the body itself was a gorgeous design, with the “scaffolding” where the mountain clicked on turning into a series of platforms for figures to climb and clamber over,

The articulation was low, but the sculpting was pleasantly gnarly, resembling some dark ancient castle covered in mystic carving given humanoid form, without an articulated head but instead a snarling “maw” in which figures could be placed inside. Though, there has been some speculation that this head was ripped off a similar design from the front of the classic D&D Dungeon Master's Guide, and I would be lying if I did not see the resemblance.

As expected, it did not come with any figures, but did come with a large assortment of commonly-circulated plastic “bugs” molded in a clear rubbery plastic; along with a few of the notorous “Chinasaurs” that ended up as the basis for D&D monsters bizarrely enough.

The second known most commonly as “LEVIATHOIN” was a piece that had a similar yet wildly different gimmick. The main “body” was actually simply an inanimate idol, which one might say resembles a very specific image of Baphomet, but the smaller figures were of real interest.

Four five-inch ones, bearing an odd resemblance to a scaled-down Molhilintta minus the scaffolding and with a few odd tweaks, with a similar simple articulation scheme, but also a feature in which the arms and legs could “click” together tightly, which leads to the real draw of such.

Each figure attached to a socket in the main “idol” and functioned as a crude combiner., forming a huge “creature”. Each figure could function as n arm or a leg on either side, and the color variants (Including a few alledged remolds of these torsoes) could be their own article in and of themselves.

The third known as MECHA-SHAG was an extremely simple design and yet also one of the most bizarre of them all. It was a hairy “core” akin to the Masters of the Universe Grizzlor, but with a strange robotic face; limbs and at least a dozen missile launchers. They were Micronauts-styled “safety” missiles, but still fascinatingly odd all the same. There is evidence for the pieces origin as a possible Shogun Warriors/Jumbo Machinder knockoff, but again that is a detail for another day.

The fourth one was known as RUCIBEDO, and was unusual even for this line. It was a stylized kaiju-esque “pterodactyl” with a flapping action; its oddly “bio-mechanical” look seemingly giving credence to the idea that the enigmatic company behind the linwas making a Shogun Warriors knockoff-series before they decided to switch gears, but those are not the only notable parts.

The most blatant one is the fact that it is sculpted in a bright red; translucnet plastic, and not only that but had electric lights wired to the flapping mechanism in some bizarrely spacious “alcoves” in the back (Possibly for aborted missile-firing features), creating an immensely striking effect. Albeit one that had a tendency to break; though there are repair guides out there.

And the fifth PLUCHUN is an odd duck, because it should by all accounts be considered kind of a “ripoff” due to using far less material for the same price point as the others, but is often the most fondly remembered.

It is a small torso seemingly made of organic “pipes with a “hatch” on the head and a button slightly below. It also came with a small container of “slime” indicating its function. Namely, put it in the back of the head; press the button repeatedly; and the slime drips out of the holes in the creature, with a pumping rubber “heart” completing the effect. Weirdly; while the rubber on most of these has rotted off, there appears to be a fully sculpted (Albeit much cruder) “heart” that still moved in and out when the button was pressed.

The whole thing was capped off by immensely long rubbery bendy-limbs in the same style as the “main body's” pipes. These tended to be very fragile, and while memorable, this has the fewest surviving specimens out of them all.

As said before, there are other specimens that may be covered at a later date; such as the odd hand-puppet and the bizarrely remolded Imperial Dinosaurs linked to the line and the smaller-range figures, but this is running a bit long, so I'll leave it here for now.

Nightmare Gores- Relating to the preponderance of He-Man knockoff figure lines in the 80s, and the popularity of slasher films, it was only a matter of time that the two would be combined, in ways only possible without mass-fundie-protest at least) in small lines like this.

In striking red-and-black packaging with crude art of a horde of ghoulish monsters rseemingly ripping out of the card back, with the bizarrely memorable phrase of “WE WILL KILL YOU” coming out of a word balloon, there's relatively few things like it.

It used a standard barbarian body whose origins predated the line; but from where they predated was a matter of debate (Though it is known that it most certainly was original to that company and not a He-Man or Galaxy Hole bootleg(), all the same across the line with differing headsculpts.

The headsculpts did have consistent names, and one could tell their inspirations relatively well. Joe was obviously a Freddy Kreuger without the hat, the hockey-masked Rod was obviously Jason Voorhees, Mike was very obviously a riff on Michael Jackson's Thriller Werecat (Corroborated with the usual non-caucasian color of his body sculpt) and Gross was blatantly the Toxic Avenger. Mush was a generalized “melting” face, but could be said to be taken from Cropsey of The Burning; and Hexen's gas mask was likely inspired by My Bloody Valentine's main antagonist; albeit with bizarrely added devil horns.

Then there are the oddballs. Clash is a fan-favorite alongsid Hexen due to his pure black-plastic body and strange hood in striking red with a black void for a front and two piercing red pupils, but I like Frank a lot if only for being a big ridiculous Frankenstein head repurposed for this, as was what I would call the “Baltard” of this line Stall-9 with his slighly crossed eyes and almost comical grin negating whatever intimidation factory they might have. Redd caps off the line with the strange combination of bull and horse head designs obviously repurposed from the barbarian toyline this comes from in a way that still sorta works.

Their pack in accessories vary across production, but there are some commonalities. Mike; Rod; Hexen and Clash almost always came with cool red vinyl “jackets” and Tedd and Frank almost always came with bizzarrely realistic handguns molded in bright orange. And Stal-9; Mush and Clash came with a “chainsaw: very clearly remolded from a gun.

The rest were a mushmash of machetes and hammers, and knives; axes and clubs that were clearly re-utilized from the original line. There are other “relatives” like the Killer Beasts and the Murder Lady, but we'll leave it here for now.

ShineFriendz- One of the many Tamagochi-come-latelies in the 90s, this line tried valiantly to differentiate itself from the usual Tamagochi clones by giving itself a backlite, far more extensive interaction within the limits of its mono-colored pixel art and a link function for “playtimes,” All in a model approximately the size of a modern day smartphone, and to be supported with early web tie-ins in lieu of an expensive animated series.

Of course, the fact that it was its parent company's first venture into such things; a battery company to be exact (Hence why they felt so secure in being battery-eaters), there was very little oversight into the programming. And, due to a series of circumstances too stupid to mention, the devices had  far more memory than they anticipated, and far more than they would need for the device's intended functions.

And, what happens when you have bored programmers and lots of time, you get easter eggs. Lots and lots of unsettling easter eggs. To the point where they took up approximately as much space as the “main” games.

So, they were immensely easy to run into during play, but they went unnoticed by corporate during the first three iterations of the pets. The most notorious of them was the possible evolution called only BREATHING which looked like an emaciated and decrepit eyeless version of the brand's canid mascot-species the Buroof that was continually doing what its name implied and had a legion of ominous quirks too long to list here.

Despite rumors, surprisingly none of the glitches involved causing death or injury to any of the pets. Though, that still didn't make them any less fucked up, with such examples as a “pet” known as BRILT that took the form of continual flame graphic that at times would flicker to the outline of another; random pet, to the weird “bird” known as CAUSE whose pleasure meter would go up if you hit the scold button,

There's a full list of “AnomalyFriendz” (the usual fan nickname0 that's too long to list here, but it wasn't limited to them, with such things as a “Game” that involved running from what looked like a crude pair of jaws to a “food” that looked like a wad with what was unmistakably eyes. And the web fiction didn't help, given how the actual text stories were dark , reading more like if Clive Barker wrote Watership Down with it just being barely within what was “appropriate” for kids, with increasingly less subtle allusions to the “AnomalyFriendz”

The minority of parental complaints weren't what got the execs notice however, it was actually the fans of the property, young girls who wrote in asking about those glitches. Not even in disapproving tones either, just asking whether they were intentional, or even asking if playground rumors (Or the rumors circulating across the website's own forums) were true.

This lead to them trying to integrate the macabre bits into the actual marketing for the toys, with the fourth iteration “FreakyFriendz,” with a cleverly altered shell with an ominously warped corner and more integration of the “anomalous” and “regular” Friends. And that is what sunk the line.

Because, parents actually noticed and; since this was the 90s; they bitched up a storm, leading to most of them being removed from shelves. Which is a shame, because enthusiasts say these were the best models yet.

The company left the business shortly thereafter, but there remains a small cult fandom to this day; complete with officially sanctioned web-iterations and even a few (sadly stillborn) attempts at full on revivals. But, maybe someday...

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