#monster idea

[nimbudcat]

The beast, it stalks the woods with gnashing teeth, glowing eyes that seek the blood of heretics and their godless ilk.

But for now, he is just trying to get his cat out of a tree.

First/2/3/4

[tabletopmonsteroftheweek]

It's that time of year! Christmas time! And what better way to celebrate the festive times than with a good ol' threat block?

Though I'm a bit conflicted and unsure, as I want to do a mix of old fairy tales or fandom specific (minecraft, home safety hotline, ect.) So I thought why not put up a poll? For fandom specific ones, I'll put their picture &/or description below.

I'll have this go for a week and do the top choice, however if i get it done quick i'll pick the second and possibly third highest!

Quick descriptions & pics under the cut!

The Saint/ The Sinner

The Saint is a Warlock sometimes resembling a bearded elderly human male adorned in thick robes often seen riding a pale, horse-like creature. The Saint is known for traveling through snow storms at night, leaving strange artifacts on the doorsteps of homeowners. Often, The Saint's arrival is followed by The Sinner shortly afterward.

The Sinner is a large bipedal goat-like creature known for breaking into homes and devouring human children, usually arriving after a snow storm has passed. Homeowners often report the sound of chains or hooves, broken doors or windows, and missing children.

Locomotive

Trains haunted/evil

Home Safety Hotline desciption: The Locomotive is a large, segmented, train-like organism that can only be seen by animals and human children. It is known only to appear after nightfall after the 21st of December. Homeowners affected by The Locomotive often report the floor rumbling at night, distant whistling, snow falling in strange patterns, or missing children.

Creaking

I wanna turn him into a pine tree

Description: A creaking is a hostile mob spawned by active creaking hearts at night or during thunderstorms. It moves and attacks (via headbutting) only when no Survival/Adventure mode players are looking at it, and otherwise remains completely stationary and motionless. It is protected from all damage by the creaking heart that spawned it; breaking the creaking heart instantly kills the creaking. Hitting a protected creaking causes resin clumps to grow near its linked creaking heart.

The Mouse King

Main villain of The Nutcracker that i wanna see if I can give it a horror angle!

The Great Elf

What are they hiding. Who do they work for other than santa.

The Hunt

The Hunt is a storm-like fungal weather phenomenon that carries with it large quantities of infectious, snow-like spores. Homeowners caught in The Hunt commonly report thunder, blizzards, electrical outages and violent or erratic behavior from neighbors. The Hunt's spores, if ingested, can also cause unpredictable and hazardous symptoms in humans such as color blindness, physical deformations and cannibalistic desires.

Lab experiment Santa & Reindeer

No photo here lol. They were science experiments made by a scientist to bring santa to home instead of hiring a santa impersonator. The santa was a Yeti who liked to carry around bags and the reindeer were insect like so that they could have small wings to hide the fact they could fly without magic (spoiler, they have beetle wings).

False Carolers

False Carolers are flocks of feathered humanoid creatures draped in many layers of clothing that are known for their pleasant "singing" vocalizations and for approaching the entrances of homes after dark. Homeowners afflicted by False Carolers often report sounds of singing, missing neighbors, or large feathers appearing around neighborhood doorsteps.

Gremlins

Classic. Don't feed them after midnight and dont put em in water.

Gremlins are all very mischievous, dangerously violent, and crazily fun-loving. Their level of intelligence varies, though all are capable of working (and sabotaging) complex machinery and devices, as apparent in folklore where they were believed to have brought down hundreds of planes in WWII.

Killer Snow Sculptures

Self explanatory (i know theres a horror movie version of this, i watched it with my friends! I just thought this pic would be funnier)

Trevenant

I cant fit more pics :( i wanna turn them into a pine forest

Trevenant can control other trees by using its roots as a nervous system. It uses this ability to trap people who harm its forest and will curse people who cut down trees. However, it is very kind to forest-dwelling creatures and Pokémon that reside in its body. Trevenant hates Fire-type Pokémon, so lumberjacks usually bring them to repel it. It is even believed that Trevenant has consumed people, although it is unclear whether this is fact or rumor.

[feyosha]

Hit blunt

A Hydra; but Weasels

Think about it

[writerbeemedina]

You’ve heard of Monster High, now get ready for — Monster Retirement Home.

[davidthephoneguy]

Rat.

Comms still open

[msvblight]

Monster idea: the pseudo-hydra.

Rather than growing new heads, the pseudo-hydra is actually multiple creatures.

Similar to how anglerfish mating works, two Pseudo-hydras will actually merge their bodies together into one. There's no dimorphism in what happens, as their sex is reduced to a reproductive gonad.

Rather they both become one creature. In favt multiple can merge together, older Pseudo-hydras end up having many many heads as they are a vast bundle of male and female mates that now appear as many heads on a single massive body.

The second most dangerous polycule.

[icefir-windbreaker]

If there is a monster for an Analog Horror, would it be...?

[yeetspace]

Aight so I'm redoing some old designs

So I'm just redesigning the draconic hippo first. I kind of fucked with its anatomy more to make it look more hippo like but then also additionally fucked with its anatomy even more to make it look more dragon like than my initial attempt. I made it to lithe, to streamlined to good looking. This is a thing that is turning into a completely different animal that is literally a part of a different sector of animal types. This is a terrestrial amphibious mamillion carnivore Who has suddenly developed a fucking stone heart in the lore of Elden ring and it's just turning into a horrifying, flightless dragon parasite monster, This is in some hypothetical alternate reality where the thing that's bleeding into stuff and like fucking with things growing like the Crucible does in the meantime line, is instead the dragon Outer God

This time around I also actually used reference images instead of just memory and used the picture of what a proper hippos skull looks like to create this design

[akuma74]

Well I am back on my little nightmares hyperfixation and now I am making my own monsters.

And I just thought, throughout the games most monsters were obssessed by something and hated kids, but what about a monster who is obssessed by kids ?

A sort of toxic mother who desesperatly want childrens to "take care" of. Who will lure the kids with songs, treats, plushies and promise of safety. Who will actually protect them from the outside world but preventing them from ever leaving.

A monster with an apparent kindness but will get incredibly mad for the slightest "misbehaving", who will lash out and be violent everytime one of the kids do not fit her unrealistic expectation of being a "perfect child".

So yeah it's just a bunch of random idea in my head, need to put some order into that.

[onehobgoblin]

A giant monster who is a big jelly cube, perpetually angry, screaming with rage, eager to destroy the world. Completely unstoppable, immortal, capable of consuming everything in his way. But it can only move 1 meter every month.

The nearest city is 15 kilometers away.

It will take 1250 years until it get there.

I don't know what to do with this, but it is something I thought about

[mcsh-mmv]

i think more vampires need to bite deep sea sharks or just sharks in general, i think a shark going "bleh bleh bleh i vant to drink your blood" or asking to be let into a coral reef would be hillarious, but also a shark that can turn into a bat means that as long as they're in batform they can hide in caves at day time and if they're fresh water tollerant like a bullshark we could have vampire sharks fighting goth wearwolves in places sharks have no place being, like mountain creeks and the elabkrate fountains in europe

[spookypainting]

Monster Idea: Indoor Vampire

it's a vampire who's powers can work during the day, but only inside of buildings. they can go out during the day. they just turn into a normal person.

example:

[tabletopmonsteroftheweek]

Monster: Lawn Ornament Mimics

Lawn Ornament Mimics take the form of lawn decorations, ranging from garden gnomes to a seasonal variety such as skeletons and reindeer. It removes the original ornament to take its place, making the lawn its new territory. Anyone that encroaches onto its territory will have it lash out or hunt them. Otherwise, it will not bother anything or anyone else once it’s settled down.

They also reproduce via fragmentation or binary fission, meaning if a piece of themselves is broken off, a new individual develops from that piece or they split themselves in half naturally.

Type: Parasite (motive: to possess, control and devour)

Powers:

False Appearance

Strong Carapace

Adhesive Residue

Razor-sharp Teeth

Acid Spray

Weakness:

A way to tell a lawn mimic from an ordinary decoration is to tap it with a stick. If its hard, doesn’t crack, and possibly sticks to the stick, that’s a mimic.

As the mimic will regenerate/reproduce if even a little piece of it still exists after being killed/destroyed, it’s advised to disintegrate every last piece of it with blue fire or a disintegration spell. Bug Spray will also help melt the carapace to get to its soft weak spot. Melted carapaces do not regenerate into new beings.

Attacks:

Bite (2 harm hand ignore-armor messy)

Acid Spray (1 harm far area volatile)

Harm: 9 harm (2 armor)

Custom Moves:

False Appearance: While the mimic remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an ordinary lawn object.

Strong Carapace: Unlike ordinary lawn ornaments, the mimic has a thick, hardened shell encasing its soft flesh.

Adhesive: The mimic adheres to anything that touches it and starts to dissolve it for consumption.

[charliethejumper]

I genuinely can't tell if this is real or not.

this is the teaser image and actual title of an upcoming horror movie, by a director who thinks cgi is overused and too fake looking already so it’s probably going to be pretty funny

[fairsweetlonging]

truth serum / system reveal au where shen qingqiu gets hit with an uncloaking spell that reveals the system in the reflection of his eyes every time it pops up.

during one of his missions, in the treasure hoard of some dragon-like creature, he finds a golden, oval shaped hand mirror, its gaudy style more victorian based than anything (airplane you hack!), that doesn't seem to do anything when he looks into it. but when he does, it reveals the system's screen in his eyes.

he doesn't notice this, of course, because he can't see it, and the system, surprisingly, stays quiet.

the peak lords think he's cursed.

maybe mu qingfang is the first to notice, during the mandatory post mission check-up, when shen qingqiu is scrolling through his most recently accumulated points and mu qingfang can see the strange vividly-blue lines reflected in his pupils. it's gone when shen qingqiu blinks, like it was nothing but a trick of the light.

it comes out when yue qingyuan is visiting and, just as he's done laying out the plans for a new mission, shen qingqiu's eyes glaze over and a bright blue box takes over the whole of his iris. shen qingqiu goes quiet; the thing in his eyes moves, shifts, pulses for a second, like static worms crawling all over his pupils. then he blinks, and it's gone, and shen qingqiu accepts the mission that yue qingyuan was almost sure he would decline.

maybe there is an intervention, when the peak lords corner shen qingqiu at qian cao peak and try to figure out what's wrong, subjecting him to all kinds of treatments and curse-finding spells that turn up empty, they can't find anything.

of course, the silencing threat is still very much up and running. at first shen qingqiu was kind of confused by the whole ordeal, but when the peak lords start describing a "strange blue box", he realizes, with sickening suddenty, that they're describing the system. and he can't say anything.

this only makes everything worse, because their fellow peak lord now keeps evading every question and acts like he doesn't understand. liu qingge points right at his face and asks, "that blue box, what is it?" and shen qingqiu laughs nervously and starts talking about how bright the weather is and surely it's the sky and nothing to worry about!

even worse, during the intervention the system thought it was a good idea to start talking to him, so now even the peak lords who hadn't seen it and who might have been persuaded by light tricks and reflections, get a first row view that no, that definitely isn't a trick of the light.

they try to do the whole thing of "are you in danger, blink twice" but shen qingqiu can't even do that because it's still a direct admittance!

maybe eventually he starts saying vague confirmations that don't actually confirm anything, like "this master hears what you're saying", or maybe he goes with a classic "this master can neither confirm nor deny that." but the system starts warning him for that too and eventually he stops saying anything, which worries the others more.

luckily mu qingfang catches on that every time they ask a direct question about the box or shen qingqiu says anything vaguely confirming, it appears. it doesn't appear when they ask about curses or demons, so it must not see that as a threat.

for a little extra angst: maybe the peak lords keep pressuring him for answers, and at some point shen qingqiu gets fed up and snaps out something like, "why don't you understand that i'm not allowed to answer that!" the system counts this as a direct admittance, threatening it's existence. so it punishes. shen qingqiu has a qi deviation so bad it lasts two weeks and takes two people every day to cleanse his meridians. the system doesn't appear in that time. it doesn't appear for a long while after that, either. the peak lords stop asking, mainly because shen qingqiu will instantly leave the room if they do. they don't stop searching for a cure, though.

shang qinghua returns from a business trip and catches on the second someone mentions a blue box and forced silencing.

[take-a-dip-in-the-deadpool]

Big anime monster who rips people in half except its a chiropractor who pulls you just enough to adjust your spine.