Kaiju Character Discussion

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Roars in welcome

The Ink-Drinker is sort of a mostly-featureless vaguely humanoid upper body on top of an ever shifting, snakey length of liquid. Her whole form is made up of some kind of thick, black ichor that smells like calligraphy ink and sulphur. The outer layer is more solid, like a skin or cell membrane, while the interior is completely liquid. She's perpetually surrounded by a thick layer of dark colored fog that doesn't really obscure her but makes it hard to tell where her fluid body is going at any given moment. She's got tentacle-like arms that are capable of stretching further than they should for good ol' kaiju dust ups, and the only feature on her that isn't black or grey is a perpetual grin that looks just close to humanlike enough to seem wrong less like real teeth and more like cartoon teeth, perfectly flat and square. I'm tempted to give her a bite later...

Also she makes just... atrocious noises, I haven't decided what flavor of atrocious yet, but I know whatever it is it's just awful. I'm leaning toward a weird ululating howl, and maybe something that sounds like someone tried to recreate laughter after only being given a verbal description of it as her victory cry.

The name is just a nickname given to her by the indigenous tribe that used to toss things into the volcano she 'slept' in as offerings, so the task force might have a different name for her or might just use that one. I would imagine they would call her something like Infophage/Infovore given her proclivities.

That second one works well I think, I was thinking either she's only recently been awakened when her supply of sacrificed secrets [written on ceremonial parchment with charcoal-based ink, a wonderful snack] stopped, she would be intensely curious about something being able to call to her of all things. I'd imagine most people thought she was just a locally-sacred tar pit in that dormant volcano until one day the whole thing just... got up and started screaming in rage and hunger.

I never even thought about the Lovecraftian angle, that's definitely true. More or less sapient but alien in thought and motivation, capable of advanced thought but still animalistic in nature, impulsive, instinctive.

I'm tempted now to go change one of my design decisions, because I was initially going to give her Burrow, which would make her evading the KTF all the more plausible.

No worries!