#carrion speaks

[predacon-carrion]

Who took this photo? I didn't consent to this...

Er, perhaps I shall keep from destroying it, though, for the moment...

[level-1-slime]

Hm? What is this? It looks red...and angry. I suppose being a pooltoy will have it's benefits! Hi red thing!

(Carrion grabs you with one of it’s tentacles, and observes you.)

No smell… not food. food.

(Carrion throws you to the side and continues searching for anything edible.)

[predacon-carrion]

Indeed, if I could figure out how this little device works…

Ah, speech to text seems to function.

Also wanted to announce… I have officially made a dedicated sideblog for Carrion!!! Go follow here: @predacon-carrion

You’re still free to ask questions about him here, but if you wanted to speak to Carrion more “directly”, that blog is the place to do it! I just thought it’d be a good idea after the great reception he’s gotten :D

Hope to see you guys there!

[rebellionsuite]

hozier made a mistake dropping unreal unearth so soon after good omens season two… look what you’ve done to the people, andrew

[matryx7728]

i don’t know if anyone else here plays the game carrion (play it. it’s on sale on steam rn i think it’s like $6) but i think if v1 ultrakill encountered the carrion tentacle monster it would shoot it until it’s as small as possible but not to the point of death and then strap the flesh beast down onto its back for endless fuel source (the meat thing bleeds constantly). and then v1 just runs around like that

gabriel would see it and be like WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT !!! and v1 would be like Look At My New Pet :) and gabriel would od squeal like a girl and hide in the corner you know

​this came from a sequence of conversation in a vc with @cikdik there’s plenty mroe j could talk about but i’m gonna ask her first

[y-rhywbeth2]

Durge: "One last thing - go and fetch that bone you threw." Gronag: "Hah! Wait. You're... joking, yeah? But we're ready to go. You just need to tell Kansif inside." Durge: Shoot him a knife-glare: you are worse than the shadows

Durge: "I can excuse stuff like infanticide and serial murder but I draw the line at cruelty to hyenas."

[ganymedesclock]

So that #Syrin the Dread Blade tag, thats a new one. Seems like a interesting character, a sentient sword, how did Tyler happen upon them? What does the sword look like, and does it have any special magical abilities? How do they like the other members of the party? Do they actually speak or do they have a telepathic voice?

Technically it's just a tagging misconception; I haven't tagged Syrin reliably before because his nature as a sword does mean he's kind of attached to Taylor. But he is his own dude!

A short primer: magic items in this setting tend towards a level of awareness. Magic is essentially what souls are made of, ergo, if you stuff enough magic in anything, it starts to have a soul, and behaves accordingly. Entities as fully developed and chatty as Syrin are rare; far more common is that magic items tend to feel just a little bit haunted, inclined towards some things and away from others. It's a bit creepy if you're not used to it; enchantments are commonplace and widely accessible, so that 'not being used to it' is more a statement on if the individual is used to handling a particular thing.

Syrin himself is the ostensible opus of the previous Lord of Darkness, a Dark Sword that was meant to contest and cancel out the legendary sword of light wielded by the hero. Ostensibly, because for unknown reasons Syrin was left in storage the eve of the fateful battle. Being groomed exclusively for this purpose by someone he regarded as a father and then abandoned for ten years definitely wasn't traumatic or terrifying for someone with the cognitive level of a child, we promise. Especially since Syrin needs to eat.

Syrin's construction, and what leads Taylor to point out he's a bit like a 'needle', is a crystal-bladed thrusting sword with a hollow core. Despite its delicate looks, the blade is actually both quite sharp and highly durable; the thin tube at the center being essentially his mouth, by which he is supposed to drink blood. His victims', if he can get it, or, failing that, magically drawn from his host. As a result his blade itself ranges from grayish translucence to dark red if he's gorged to fullness.

From there, he has the power to generate and shape a kind of magical flesh, allowing him to weave more elaborate forms around his core body, the sword.

As you can guess, this gives Syrin a somewhat unpleasant and brutish first impression on people, as he has no verbal filters, was raised by a would-be conqueror of the world, and is dependent on blood and thus interested in more fights than not. I've described him before as like a preteen on xbox live who talks up a nasty game mostly out of loneliness and a need to be liked, where you can tell the kid themselves is not as bad as the people who taught them all those words and that they were "funny".

Deep down (and not all that deep, like I said, no filters), Syrin is a vulnerable child who was groomed to do violence and got no experience with it until strangers came to loot the dangerous ruins he was held in, at which point he did what you'd expect a strong but sheltered child to do faced with a home intruder, and killed/devoured that individual in a panic. His first kill being no glorious conflict or victory approved by his father, but essentially a desperate scramble in the dark with himself on the edge of fatal starvation messed him up even more than ten years of silence.

Enter Taylor and party, who happen to pass through those same environments. Syrin makes an attempt to body-snatch Taylor that fails due to the latter's particular properties, and Taylor, being both a good-hearted person and a stubborn busybody, feels obligated to bring this chatterbox with them and attempt to bully him into developing some sense of tact while Syrin attempts to Corrupt His New Wielder To Violence.

This doesn't work because Syrin has no real ideas how to go about corrupting someone besides loudly telling them to stab things more, while Taylor is an apprentice surgeon and mortician who is a lot more desensitized to bodies and their workings such that if they have a weapon, they'll at least consider it as a solution to most problems. So the punchline is that Syrin is more often thrown/flabbergasted by Taylor than vice versa, while the latter just sees him as a sort of annoying kid who's easily talked into almost anything as long as you compliment him first.

[cruell-summers]

finished listening to Unreal Unearth. will have to listen again but first and foremost thank you Hozier for still writing songs with bridges and outros in this day and date i am having the time of my life

[menelvagor]

Hope everyone had a nice Halloween/Samhain/Harvestmath!

Spooky wishes to you from me and the big guy! Costume mun photos under the cut!

[funkbun]

Consider: a Carrion-like game but as playable bugsnax/snakmonster/snakqueen....

OOOOO!!! bug food parasite simulator....

[predacon-carrion]

Introduction

I’ve been told by a certain human that I have gained a sort of… following, on this website. So as per her advisement, I have made my own “blog” so that you little creatures may ask me questions or interact with me more directly.

Please don’t let this be a waste of my time…

~

Designation: Carrion

Pronouns: He/him

Faction: Decepticon, formerly Predacon

Alt Mode: Red-headed vulture

Voice: Tony Jay (Megabyte — ReBoot)

(Ask box is open for questions and interactions! There will be mentions of NSFW, vore, and bot cannibalism. Carrion is a vulture, after all, he’s quite familiar with dark themes.)

(Voice reference and general bio under the cut!)

Originally forged in the future where Maximals and Predacons are the main factions on Cybertron, Carrion used to be the Predacons’ resident medic, under the Predacon leader Megatron’s direct command. Like the rest of his team, Carrion was sucked into the transwarp time anomaly during a spatial battle with the Maximals— however, rather than being blasted back to prehistoric earth, Carrion found himself smack dab in the middle of the “ancient” war between the Autobots and Decepticons.

Still loyal to the Predacon cause for his own reasons, if he could no longer serve under his Megatron, perhaps the original would suffice.

After searching for quite some time, Carrion eventually ran into the Decepticons, and managed to find himself an audience with their leader. While Megatron initially doubted Carrion’s story of coming from the future, all it took was the mention of the Deceptions’ loss in the war, and Carrion “coming from the future” to stop that from happening, to convince the commander to allow the vulture to join his ranks. Generously granted a frame more fit for the era (increasing his size to a more standard Decepticon height all the while), Carrion became the cons’ resident forensic pathologist (and backup medic, if no others were around).

Carrion himself is very sarcastic and tends to be a loner cause of his prickly personality. Upon the Nemesis, there are rumors that he does more than run forensics on the deceased frames he’s given. They say he picks the cadavers apart, salvaging decent quality parts to keep in case future transplants are needed, and *consuming* the rest for himself. No one knows for sure, but in any case, most Vehicons try to avoid him for fear of finding out for themselves. Not that Carrion minds, either way.

[level-1-slime]

[Select books it over to the new monster]

@character-selecton

(It is quick to notice, and is already halfway through charging a bite.)

[dilfdoney]

mystic carryon

[this-was-a-terrible-idea]

i'm so partial to the myth of icarus because i have this whole lil retelling in my brain that i don't think i've ever shared but i think about often and hozier's i, carrion (icarian) makes me soooooo emo

[carr10n-exe]

a bitey ball of flesh excited to explore via the power of friendship with an absentee father whos off breaking things of people the audience absolutely HATES

That is entirely more accurate than I expected. Good job.

[matryx7728]

i don’t really post art here that much but here’s a wip of the Meat Beast from that one game (carrion)

this is not finished and also mostly experimental so it looks kinda iffy. sorry

my sister wanted to see it purple so here’s a purple version too