#sympathetic monster

[whereserpentswalk]

There's a demon that's been spotted around your city, around your neighborhood. All the local monster hunters are getting ready to find it, it won't be the first time some dangerous creature got loose in your city and had a hunt out for it. But this one is dangerous, she's faster than most cyptids, humanoid but not from a humanoid species that's known or common, and she's deadly, a few days after she's spotted its found that she kills. Somebody was found dead in the winter snow, on a street corner, with her claw marks on his chest.

You're not a monster hunter. But you are interested in these types of things, and you thought you spotted her one night and chose to give chase, against your better judgment you gave chase. You just want to see her, you just want to see something so strange, so inhuman. And when you see her she's as strange as you can imagine, most of her looks humanoid, slender and graceful, like the most beautiful human you've ever seen, but she has eyes with slit pupils like a cats, and long horns coming from her head, and sharp teeth in her mouth, bat like wings come out her back, and a scorpion's tail from the base of her spine, and where her genitals should be, instead there's the body and head of a snake coming out of her body. She's beautiful and horrifying.

When she comes near you she doesn't hurt you, she just looks at your camera. She doesn't seem to know what it is. When she realizes you're as harmless as you are she let's down her guard. You're afraid, but you slowly realize she's not interested in hurting you. She seems cold, it's very cold and she's not wearing any clothing. You offer to let her into your apartment, just for a night, just because nomatter what she is she deserves to be warm.

She lays on your bed for awhile, she seems so excited just to be on a bed, just to see a bed. She spends awhile under the covers. You were originally planning on letting her sleep on your couch, but she seems so excited to have a comfy bed. She finds one of your plushes and starts cuddling it at one point. You've never seen someone so happy just to have a place to rest.

In the morning the demon is still there. You don't want to kick her out. You bring her food and she seems really paranoid, it seems like a lot of people have hurt her before. You have to leave the room while she eats. But she does seem really happy to have something to eat at all.

Eventually you ask her about who she is. She says she doesn't have a name, and doesn't remember when she was born. She admits to having killed those people, which scares you to be reminded of, it scares you to hear her say it. But she tells you they shot at her, and she doesn't seem like a good enough lier to lie about that. They shot at her the momment they saw her. She was demonized for it, but it's the right of all creatures to attack someone trying to kill them, rather than die.

She really likes being in your apartment. You let her barrow your clothes, though she doesn't like wearing clothing, except for pajamas which she wears when she sleeps. You show her cartoons she can watch, and give her paper and pencils to draw with. It takes awhile for her to be willing to show you her drawings, but when she does they're quite good, you compliment them, and her face lights up. It takes her awhile to feel comfortable being touched by you too, but when she let's you she starts to love your affection, she likes being pet, and hugged, and cuddled, you don't think she's felt these things in a long time.

You let her stay longer than you expected too. There's still people hunting her. And there's still the winter, she says she's been through worse, but it's getting colder. Eventually you even introduce her to some freinds who you know you can trust. You just let her rest there, and part of you home this can just be a way she can exist, getting to draw, and have her head pet, and laying in bed when she wants to. You end up talking with her a lot, she's passionate about stories, and about things she finds pretty, and she loves asking you about the world, and about humanity, about all these things that are alien to her.

Eventually she tells you she has to leave. You try to tell her to stay a little longer, but it's a demon's nature to be free. She's been hurt by humans before, hurt by more than cold and bullets, but by binding spells, and deals she shouldn't have made. And as spring comes she needs to find a new city, and new space to exist it. You spend your last night together cuddling in your bed, and she tells you of ancient lands, and stories nobody else remembers. And then in the morning she's gone, she said she might visit you again, but for now she's gone. You thought you would see her leave but she spared you that pain, she thanked you for being warm to her as you fell asleep, and let your hands run across her cold skin. And now your room lays empty.

#196 #my thougts #worldbuilding #writing #my worldbuilding #my writing #fantasy #urban fantasy #magical realism #short story #short fiction #flash fiction #original fiction #demons #angels and demons #demon girl #demon #devil #cryptids #cryptid #hurt/comfort #sympathetic monster #cuddles

[studiolemonboy]

Day 14: Bolt-Boy

Season of the Bad Guys Club 8

#artists on tumblr #digital art #illustration #illustrator #character drawing #fantasy art #illustrated book #character concept #character illustration #children’s illustration #sympathetic monster #ancient robot #forest #mecha art #mecha #scifiart #sci fi and fantasy #digital drawing #digital illustration #digital painting #robot oc #robot art #comic art #indie comics #drawtober #kidlitillustration #children’s book #digital aritst #digital sketch #abandoned

[squirrel-writer]

rasping claws gaping maws

The scent of the campfire and roasting meat brought the creature to the campsite. It stalked around the camp investigating, probing the area sniffing the air. The campsite contained 8 young college students laughing as they passed a round of beers between them. backs turned to the forest, oblivious to the fate that was about to befall them. The creature extended it's claws and leapt out with an inhuman screech. It raised it's claws and slashed down ripping open

The bag of hotdogs kept on the picnic table, It began to gobble down the hotdogs with the feral ferocity of a starving beast. The College students screamed as they backed away from the creature, the largest of them stepped forward as if to try and take the hotdogs back. The creature hissed at the student and swept it's claws in a clear warning to the rowdy human. before grabbing as much of the food as it could and leaping off into the night. Giving off a primal cry of victory as it retreated into the night

#short story #ha ha funny #monster #sympathetic monster #cute horror #my writing

[worldwillhatethis]

'Fish Girl' (2021)

#fish girl #deep ones #sympathetic monster #monster girl

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

"RIP Jonathan Harker but I'm different" really??? are you really though?

You, a new hire, loaded with student debt, upcoming wedding to pay for, been given a huge opportunity at work, employer paying all your travel costs. you're telling me that you, exploited corporate lackey that you are, you would actually be self-empowered enough to turn back last minute? after spending all that time and money traveling to the rich client's megamansion? because of what--BAD VIBES? how precisely the fuck do you plan on explaining that to your boss??? bitch your credit score can't AFFORD to avoid red flags, you're going into a possible life-or-death situation whether you like it or not, that's capitalism baby!!!

#dracula daily #tumblr reads dracula #as sympathetic as i am to Jonathan's plight it still sounds pretty cushy compared to literally any modern retail or service job #'oh you've been hired to serve a powerful bloodsucking inhumane monster' yeah that's called a megacorporation #consider this: dracula is a monster but he is also very VERY rich #society has excused worse for less #i mean yeah he's evil but he's not like. jeff bozos levels of evil #the real monster wasn't Dracula it was the unsafe working conditions we were forced to tolerate along the way

[coulsart]

"Relax... you're in capable hands."

Self indulgent chara design between comms! The Mad Doctor

#couls art #oc #ocs #character design #eye strain #body horror #kinda? #maybe #I haven't decided on the pronouns of this character so any pronouns are fine #but they are pure evil and have no redeeming personality traits #no tragic backstory #just a genuinely evil twisted individual #i love my sympathetic monsters but wanted somethin different :) #blood

[valdevia]

any love for friendly horrific creatures? i also wanna give the weeping raven a hug but i am fascinated with the idea of horrific beings beyond our comprehension also being capable of kindness and care 🥺

I'm a big fan of that, too!

I especially love creatures that you can try to empathize with. The ones that, even if they do hurt people, are just acting out their nature or defending themselves against humans.

Here are some I've done in the past that come to mind, with their links:

Girlboss taking revenge on her awful ex-husband.

Intelligent mermaids being left to die on a beach, treated as curiosities.

Since you mentioned it, the Weeping Raven!

And of course, Richard, who fell in love with the moon.

#ask val #sympathetic monsters

[billford-dump]

Nobody actually knows if Bill destroyed his dimension on purpose, including Bill himself. He's lied about it so many times in so many ways for so long that he's lost track.

He burned it out of maliciousness, pure and simple. He didn't even have anything against the place, he just thought it would be fun.

His home was a convenient stepping stone on his road to power. The amount of energy released by burning down an entire universe, even a two-dimensional one, is easily enough to make someone a god if they know how to harness it.

Of course he destroyed it on purpose, he hated it, hated how oppressive it was, how boring it was- how could he not destroy a place so awful?

Obviously it was an accident. He loved his home, his family, he would never willingly destroy it.

He wasn't even involved with his dimension's destruction, he was just one of the few survivors, either by accident or design.

#bill cipher #gravity falls #he changes his story based on mood and how he wants people to see him #is he a monster? a sympathetic villain? a victim? #who knows! #definitely not him #if you were REALLY curious you could ask the Axolotl about it but youd probably just get a riddle

[rotisseries]

my favorite thing about mha has got to be how you can't tell if the writers are aware or not that the setting is in fact a corrupt police state

#like. it almost says something sometimes and then they back out of ittttt😭😭😭😭 #I'm not keeping up with mha canon presently so I'm just thinking back on things #like. they have plenty of villain characters where it's like oh they're sympathetic and were clearly pushed into this life #by the narrow views of what is acceptable in society and the corrupt police state #AND THEY HAVE CORRUPT HEROES AND A CORRUPT ORGANIZATION SO LIKE. YOU KNOW IT'S A CORRUPT POLICE STATE THE WRITERS MUST KNOW #but then mha pulls fun shit with like. redeeming endeavor!! A CORRUPT HERO WHO GETS AWAY WITH THE SHIT HE DOES BECAUSE OF A BROKEN SYSTEM #while the ENTIRE rest of the todoroki family is like #“well obviously dabi sucks and is a monster and needs to be put away and can never be rehabilitated ever” 😐 #AND LIKE. FINE. FUCKING REDEEM HIS ASS IF YOU WANT (BOOO HATE THAT BITCHHHHH) but don't then act like dabi is unsalvageable!! #both or neither babe!! nerf or nothing!! #like. do you guys get me. sometimes it feels like wow look at how much this corrupt society sucks #and sometimes it feels like yes we are going to not examine this at all #it's just. mha is so bad. it's so bad guys and it could've been good but it's bad #it could be so good if it was good but it's not it's just bad #it sucks its a stupid anime stupid manga fuck off

[milyoasis]

Unfinished drawing of Kyouka (Kirigiri Sou) I had in a dusty corner since late 2022... This game deserves more fanart, seriously. Maybe I will make (and actually finish) more someday. There's an english translation of this game as a PDF file, you should definitely check it out if you haven't before.

Extra (also unfinished) doodle for the ones who decided to peek more ;) I know my posts are low-key bibles lol.

#danganronpa #kyoka #kirigiri sou #dr fanart #danganronpa fanart #kirigiriso #kyouka #kyoko kirigiri #I know she has somewhat sympathetic motives as a character #but I always have the urge to draw her as this horrifying human-eating monster #I mean #she kinda is in certain bad ending routes #but you get my drill

[picklepie888]

The biggest mistake Dracula adaptations have done is making Dracula the main character.

#dracula #dracula daily #what made dracula famous in the first place was that he was this mysterious and seemingly unstoppable force #he was a monster in human clothing #he had all the evils of man and beast in him #by trying to make him sympathetic you take away that edge he had that made him so terrifying #if y'all want sypathetic monsters adam and erik are right there #but dracula was never intended to be sypathetic #imagine if there was a remake of stranger things that focused more on the demogorgan than the human characters #and they paired it with joyce for some weird reason #or if disney made a sleeping beauty adaptation that made maleficent sympathetic #oh wait

[whereserpentswalk]

#fantasy #monsters #monster lover #sympathetic monster #demon #fey #alien #cryptids #eldrich horrors #eldrichcore #196 #silly #r 196 #urban fantasy #hornyposting

[iidsch]

Rewatching this scene and I cannot believe Mizu was so happy and proud of making a little dish even if it wasn't the best, but that fucker VERY RUDELY coughed and left instead of thanking her for her effort. Getting stabbed by a nagitana is not enough I need to trap that man in a room with the elephant's foot

#m #blue eye samurai #I HATE HIM 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 #i was slightly sympathetic because i thought he was a product of his difficult life + misogynist ideas of the time #but the fact that he warmed up to her and was in a similar situation as her and still called her a monster 🧨💣🧨💣🧨💣 #i hope he gets reincarnated as a snail so i can feed him to the french

[rowan-guerrins]

people on tiktok well on all social media sites actually will loudly critique the fact some people (especially those who only watched the movies) “didn’t get the point of the hunger games” and then turn around and say gale is the worst person in the universe and treat him like he’s a monster, and that all these traits are innate characteristics completely isolated from the circumstances in which he lived and the people around him. like girlie i think maybe YOU didn’t get the point here either.

#obviously this isn’t to say you need to or were “supposed to” like gale #there are a lot of good reasons to criticize him. esp wrt his sense of entitlement to katniss. #but he’s not supposed to be a Villain™️ #like he’s a poor traumatized (brown coded) boy whose very valid anger was used to groom him into a perfect soldier. #kind of almost like it’s a critique on the militarization of young boys. esp those who are underprivileged. #which doesn’t excuse his actions & it doesn’t mean you have to like him #but it’s enraging when people act like he is a heartless monster who is unredeemable or whatever. like. oh that’s not…. #bonus points if they babygirlify cato and clove (and marvel and glimmer) and cry about how they’re just kids #+ “they were only the way they are bc of the capitol 🥺”. #like yes it’s a big point that they were kids groomed to be child soldiers because the capitol pressured and “rewarded” career districts #to churn out child soldiers and whatnot. but that. ok. #truly just how do you hold the belief that to an extent excuses them or at least makes them sympathetic— #—but then not extend that empathy to gale. side eye. #esp bc a lot of the stuff is taking potshots at gale to uplift peeta/everlark. #like. uh! okay! #obligatory disclaimer i don’t actually like gale. however i am at my limit on weird and bad and inconsistent takes on him. #yeah he sucks. almost like that’s because he was horrifically oppressed by the captiol + then was groomed to be the ideal soldier by coin. #crazy how that’s the point. #and AGAIN. doesn’t EXCUSE what he does. but it’s important to acknowledge bc it v much contextualizes who and what he is and does. #the hunger games #gale hawthorne #i don’t think i need to tag this in the anti tag but lmk

[telesilla]

Man, I hate to be That Older Person, but every few years, circumstances force me to pull an all nighter, and every fucking time it gets harder and harder, so if you’re young and can stay up for *checks* 30 hours and counting, enjoy it while you can.

#og had to go to the vet again #so there’s the usual thing where alistair is hostile #and since nancy is on a hiring committee #that is doing interviews this week #she absolutely had to go in today #so she needed her sleep and now she’s not here #i was like…i’m taking my pills as soon as you come home #to be fair she was sympathetic and appreciative #but i still want to die right now #on top of it all #these little monsters have slept all day #and if i could sleep without meds or weed #i’d be fine #but once i’m asleep they could have an epic battle on my tummy #and i would sleep through it

[tinygremlim]

don’t leave me. please.

edit: as @justahumblesideblog said before , i think belos/philip’s feelings towards his brother stem from a feeling of betrayal and abandonment of him, and his inner child just wanted his brother back. but i just wanted to make it clear that i don’t condone his actions in any way even if he could have been at least somewhat innocent as a child. anyways thanks for coming to my ted talk have a nice day/night byeee

#the owl house #kid belos #philip wittebane #emperor belos #digital art #my art lol #toh belos #toh fanart #i wanted him to be more sympathetic. #but what did we get instead? #we. got a monster #heavy sigh #oh well at least there’s always AUs #more tags #baby belos #toh philip wittebane #the owl house belos #belos toh #illustration