Talk:Mindflayer/@comment-44238526-20191117043343/@comment-27045866-20200209231015

I don't think it's semi solid. I'm pretty sure you are an actual solid creature that can secrete and control mucus like she does.

in making of it mentions:

"at first I had considered having the male become the rubber suit. However, given the "tickling" attack I decided to instead have the Night Gaunt appear to tickle it's victims, when in fact it was coating them in a fluid which would reshape their body. Given that the male would become a Night Gaunt himself, I decided that he should change to have the same abilities as the female."

He had the idea of a more liquid symbiote like form but decided to go with:

"The Night Gaunt females transform their mates into a set of massive tentacle-like appendages which attach to their body from behind. The only female portions of the body are the body itself and the horns, with the tentacles, wings, and tail belonging to the male."

instead.