A little series of monsters done for each day in the first week of April. I was too impatient to wait for Halloween.
April Ghouls! '20
Dolphin
Life’s a cruel joke, and the dolphin intends to tell the punchline. Everything it does is for its own twisted amusement, even — especially if it harms someone else. Haha, poor drowning human, you want some air? *snicker* Try sucking on that. *giggle* Heh, that wasn’t *chuckle* it totally was — oh you’ve been dead an hour… HAHAHA!
By far the worst form of torture the dolphin’s victims endure is hearing its obnoxious laugh.
The dolphin hopes to die laughing. It’s not suicidal, but since death is inevitable it might as well enjoy it.
(Besides, why should its idiot hyena cousin get all the fun?)
The Manticore can fire its tail spines like arrows. In fact, it has always hoped to enter an archery contest to prove its skills, but the humans always turned it down for not being, well, human. Jerks.
...well, that and also because the manticore insists on using “live targets.” As in, that pig in the next field over, the bird flying overhead, the audience...
A 30-foot monster of the mountains, the Abominable Snowman swears he used to be 300 feet tall but shrunk due to global warming, and vents his frustrations on any human who is unfortunate enough to pass by. Just about everyone disagrees with the Snowman; some claim being 300 feet tall is physically impossible (RIDICULOUS! But their brains were juicy), others reason that he was more likely only 50 feet tall and simple shrunk due to old age (INSOLENT! But savory), while a rare few have a "gut feeling" he used to be 3 feet and has actually grown in spite of what "experts" think (THROW THEM BACK!).
Most, naturally, just run away screaming "AH, A GIANT BRAIN-EATING MONSTER!!" Comforting, that most don't view the Abominable Snowman as 'diminished' in any way.
Agents of the Lord of Chaos Set, the sha beasts will stop at nothing to carry out their master's dark designs.... well, almost. They share Set's crippling love for lettuce, a fact that victims could take advantage of, IF any of them didn’t automatically assume their pursuers were a jackal or a hyena or maybe some kind of dog.
A vicious little vampire, the Chupacabra pretends to be a baby to lure unsuspecting goats in close for the kill. Of course, most of the time the would-be prey isn't fooled, and the Chupacabra is capable of taking them down regardless, but the rare occasions it actually works are totally worth it.
Sometimes a human child catches the Chupacabra in the act and decides to 'adopt' the diminutive demon. The Chupacabra quite enjoys being doted on, but alas must eventually flee since their new 'parent' will attempt to feed it everything but goat's blood. Curse this ridiculously specific diet!
The succubus disguises itself as a human and offers itself as a "friend for the night", willing to do whatever you want. Sounds fun! But there's a fee, and on top of that the succubus will just help itself to anything of yours it finds interesting. Cookies, silverware, your kid's doll, shoelaces (but not the shoes)... 'genetic material' (eww!)
The succubus also occasionally bestows "gifts" to its new pal. The same type of car your neighbor used to have, the name and password for a streaming service, a bucket of dirt, a very special bundle of joy that’ll take 9 months to arrive... that one’s more of a return, I suppose. The friend 'made' half of it, after all.
An intelligence-gathering entity in the service of you-know-who (who "liberated" it from need-to-know), the UFO consists of a mothership and several orb drones which scout ahead for subjects of interest. The large central orb appears to be part of the mothership itself, only leaving the core to evade threats.
While normally nonaggressive, the UFO has a strange penchant for mutilating cows without warning. And its definition of "cow" is rather broad, including such items as hamburgers, leather couches, and TVs playing space bounty hunter anime.
