Talk:Basilisk/@comment-27144834-20160311143851

Time for Making of Basilisk!

Key words: [Mask] [Beautiful face underneath] [Lamia with bird parts] [Mysterious]

It's the snake-girl with the instant death eyes (inevitable incubization), Basilisk-san.

In lore, the Basilisk is a "serpent king", taking on the appearance of a snake, or sometimes a lizard, or with chicken features, being combined with the cockatrice, or even as some kind of strange chimera entirely. Basilisks have had a variety of apperances.

For the Monster Girl Encyclopedia, I immediately decided on making her a lamia-type. In fact, 9 years ago, in the book "Echidna's Happy Family Planning", a Medusa worked as a maid for the Echidna, succeeding a retired Basilisk. Even as just a name, she's existed for a long time.

Not only their appearance is based on mythology, but also their abilities. Mythological basilisks have an extremely potent venom in their body, they can kill a human with just their gaze. Sometimes their gaze will cause petrification, or they might even have a poisonous breath, or petrification breath. They may have venomous stingers that can kill with a single sting... Sometimes, they can kill just from you hearing their voice. Generally, they have been treated as horrible monsters.

Due to this horrible origin, and them having magic eyes with a very potent venom in the Encyclopedia's world, I decided on them hiding their faces behind masks.

In addition, maybe their other senses have been amplified due to their vision being sealed, or them simply being shy, but they have a weakness against human men's voices and smell. The inspiration for this comes from the mythological Basilisk's supposed weakness against the smell of weasels, or a rooster's cry.

From the initial sketches, I quickly settled on the final design.

I used a lamia as the base. As the Basilisk and Cockatrice often get mixed together, I decided on adding bird scales and feathers to her arms. The tips of her robes, and the metal piece around her neck follow a motif evoking a bird's beak, and her mask's design includes both the element of the eye, as well as feather-like decorations.

For her color scheme, I decided on poisonous-looking shades for her hair and snake half, suggesting the potent venom coursing through her body. The gaps in her snake body underneath her groin, and her chest area beneath her breasts are glowing red. In fact, they are constantly emitting a light (magical) toxin from their body.

To get a form of contrast, because they don't wear anything on their lower bodies, I wanted to dress their upper bodies in more concealing clothing, including their masks of course.

...On second thought, while I expected the result to look like a sort of mysterious robe, with how high up those cuts go... I'll admit this wouldn't hide her nipples.