#anyways he gwumpy and hes masquarading as a physics professor so that doesnt help

[jacqcrisis]

Writing up about the monster from this post as I've had him around a while and I wanna write down what he looks like. Putting under a read more cause...its a lot.

Head: The monster has a smooth rounder top his head (much like an ape) and short snout. It has two large, almond shaped black eyes under a prominent brow ridge, a more reptilian snout with slits for the nostrils, and a mouth that is difficult to see until it is opened. The mouth is wide when open reaching farther back than one would assume, containing a long bisected tongue and teeth not unlike any omnivorous animal. It's difficult to tell where the skull ends and the long thick neck begin until it lifts its large, pointed ears that are often resting on the back of its neck. When engaged, the base of the ears sit where a human's might and are capable of an impressive range of motion before going back into a resting state where they are once again difficult to discern. His eyesight and hearing are phenomenal but his sense of smell is only slightly better than a humans.

Body: He's a big long boy. The body is monkey-ish, with a deep chest and a slim abdomen. His form is very sleek, flexible, with a hidden strength not obvious until he has his hands on you. The monster is capable of both walking on six/four limbs as it is walking upright, though being upright is more awkward and he will swap between the two at will. Standing upright and straight as possible, he is over eight feet tall. From flat nose to tip of tail, he is over sixteen feet long.

Arms: he bares two sets of arms from two sets of shoulders. The higher set is notably stronger and slightly longer than the second given it is the main set used for climbing and needs to be able to hold the monster's weight and whatever the monster is carrying. It is also the main way the monster grabs onto prey as the hands on the higher set of arms ends in four short fingers with curved, black, hook shaped talons. No thumb is present on this one. Whereas the lower set are somewhat weaker and shorter, they are used mainly for more complicated tactile chores. On this set, they end in a hand with three long fingers and a thumb, the palms being hairless and black in color. Both can be used for ambulating, but the second set gather more speed.

Legs: The legs are short in comparison to the arms, yet powerful, and ending in two digitgrade feet. They are somewhere between paws and monkey feet, not as dexterous as the latter, but more so than the former. The claws on its four toes are sharp and black as his others. He is capable of quite impressive leaps, often using those to precipitate climbing or to close the gap on something he's chasing given his top run speed is average at best.

Tail: The tail is long and quite thick at the start, yet rapidly slims, making up for about 50% of the body length. It is prehensile, used to not only carry things or for communication, but also to counter-balance the monster when it walks on two legs and also to wrap around things to hang off of, acting as an anchor and capably of bearing the monster's full weight. The end of the tail is quite interesting, as the final six inches hide a hollow needle within the tail connected to two venom sacks. When a series of muscles are engaged, the needle shoots out, envenoming whatever it stabs with a rather powerful paralyctic toxin. One stab is enough to kill a person several times over.

Other bits: there several places on the monster's body where the fur doesn't grow back right due to various scarring. He has a black metal diamond shaped piece in the middle of his sternum. It appears this device allows for a) a limited cloaking capability that obscures him when in use, and b) a more complex ability that allows him to assume a human form. This human form is a slim, rather unassuming, if taller, human man in his late 30's early 40's of difficult to determine descent with a noticeable hobble in his gait.

Fur: The monster is covered mostly in a short tightly packed white fur that is rather smooth to the touch. This feathers into longer patches around the base of its neck, creating a mane/collar of sorts, as well as along the wrists of its four arms and the end of its tail (which helps hide the venom sacks and the needle). These longer sections of fur are red in color with the collar around the neck more vibrant while the other sections are more dull. His skin under the fur is black and under ultraviolet light, one can see that the fur has a hidden complex pattern to it. Along the throat and on either side of the spine are evenly spaced patches of furless black skin, three rows of two on the neck and five larger rows of two on the back. These patches can emit a bright bioluminscent blue that is used mainly for communicating heightened emotion to things both above and below.

The environment he hails from is one of large, multi-layered often frozen forests. His species typically spends a lot of time in the various levels of the tree canopies and the forest floor. They are notable for a hunting strategy of hanging off lower branches and listening for prey to walk under them, at which point they will fall and depending on the size of the animal in question, will either land on their neck or back with their feet to break the spinal cord or grapple onto them with their hook claws to begin stabbing them with their venom-bearing tail spike. After, they drag the food back the tree to feast upon.

Personality: The monster is a grumpy, closed off asshole. It's his way or the highway. Stop bothering him, get that camera out of his face, get out of his way, he's got some monster ass to kick. Fast to snap, fast to growl, fast to threaten whatever is bothering him. He's a big 'leave me alone for your own safety' kind of person and the curiosity and nosiness of the amateur cryptid hunter annoys him to no end, but he's also a big softy and craves companionship and is so touch starved, it's starting to make him itch.