#black shuck or equine death

[dearorpheus]

The enormous black creature wrapped itself around me, and licked me, my neck, my ears, gently, I let it do it. Under the creature's tongue, I 'thought' without thought [...]

— Hélène Cixous trans. Catherine A.F. MacGillivray, 'What is it o'clock? or The door (we never enter)', Stigmata: Escaping Texts

[theelliottsmiths]

Cryptids are fine

The rammboys as cryptids/mythical creatures (thank you for this ask, finally listening to the Cryptid Keeper Podcast is useful):

Schneider: Kelpie. He has very delicate, slightly equine features, and their whole deal is being a sometimes-horse who can also turn into the prettiest man you've ever seen. He's also quite tricksy and deceptive, which are important qualities if you want to fool someone into touching your sticky skin so you can murder them.

Alternately, Fae. His features are delicate and he has a very ethereal quality. Looks like he would trick you out of your name.

Or just a giant rat. That's arguably a cryptid thing.

Oliver: I want to say skinwalker but from my understanding the cultures skinwalkers belong to aren't super happy with people treating that part of their culture as a joke? So consider, perhaps, a Fresno night crawler

Till: Wulver. Basically a wolfman (not a human, not a shapeshifter) from the Shetlands, notorious for leaving fish for poor/starving families. Like a werewolf but soft and sweet and good.

"The Wulver was a creature like a man with a wolf's head. He had short brown hair all over him. His home was a cave dug out of the side of a steep knowe, half-way up a hill. He didn't molest folk if folk didn't molest him. He was fond of fishing, and had a small rock in the deep water which is known to this day as the "Wulver's Stane". There he would sit fishing sillaks and piltaks for hour after hour. He was reported to have frequently left a few fish on the window-sill of some poor body"

Alternately: Black Shuck. Black Shuck is just Till when he needs to go off into the wilderness for a while

Paul: Kappa. They're mischievous tricksters. Their heads have a little bowl of water and if he spills it he is defeated. Fitting, given his little bowl cut thing.

Alternatively: Spring-heeled Jack. Bouncy. Mischievous. Nasty boy.

Flake: hoop snake. But no in seriousness, I was going to say some kind of shapeshifter because his looks are so vastly different I used to think he was several people, but maybe a sphinx? He seems like he would be good at riddles.

He could also be the banshee, reason being he's got a good shout on him, judging by a few Feeling B videos I've seen. He would probably have fun being an omen of death.

Richard: Incubus and/or vampire. Unsure this needs an explanation. Fun fact, one way you can supposedly identify an incubus is by their unnaturally large or cold penises.

You could also probably write an interesting selkie fic with him and his white fluffy coat.