what's your favourite most ominous scary species or OC you've created and why?
OH I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO ANSWER. Obviously like... I have my big main ominous guys (Adri & midas, who are scary as fuck) but I'm always talking about them
BUT AS FOR SPECIES...... I think about my bloodworms a lot.
It's quite an old concept, from a dream I had years and years ago (in which the infection happened to me). They are basically like.. parasites that live the initial phase of their life cycle in the hosts blood stream. They infect a host by leaving around very small, flat shells with a hook on them, in places with tall/thick grass, and these shells stick to the host upon passing, if the contact is with skin the juvenile worm inside the shell will burrow into the host and into the bloodstream.
Upon reaching adulthood, once they start clogging the veins of the host, they will violently rip themselves out using a spike on their front. If the host only has a few of them, then it's no big deal, but the worms tend to all leave at the same time and all at once, so if the host is riddled with them (as I was, in my dream), all of them will violently spike out of wherever they choose to exit, completely decimating the area (it is very painful)
here's some old ass art of it I made way back when (2017):
I honestly miss this concept SUPER often cause it is so fucking cool and literally lives in my head rent free, but I never really found a proper place to put them in. I might actually have one now though!!! So I might get to use these sometime in the future :]
