Board Thread:Fan-made Monsters/@comment-44089681-20200903143943

Family: Chimera

Type: ‘It’s Complicated’. (Provisionally classified as Demon Beast.)

Habitat: Variable, typically cave systems, mountains, and wastelands.

Diet: Variable, depending on the traits of the Mamono. Disposition: Variable, typically lonesome, stoic, and dour. Destructive, ferocious, and protective when bonded.

Aberrants are a rare breed of Mamono, formed when multiple Mamono attack the same human woman in a short period of time. The result is a much more rapid and unstable transformation, with the resultant Mamono typically gaining traits from each species involved. As an example, a Vampire may bite and begin to transform a human female, only for a Werewolf to attack the two and bite the woman in the process. In this event, the victim may gain the Vampire’s fangs and ability to feed solely upon blood, while also gaining the heavily-muscled limbs and claws of the Werewolf.

Due to their rarity and the unique circumstances behind each transformation, no two Aberrants are exactly the same in appearance, temperament, habitat, or diet – some may subsist entirely on spirit energy, while others may be omnivorous or carnivorous in nature. Some may be mechanical or Slime-like in biology, while others may resemble anything between simple Centaur-like hybrids of one human and one bestial half, while others may display significantly warped forms. However, in general, a few things remain static: the arms and legs of the individual are almost invariably affected to a greater or lesser degree, height is dramatically increased, and the mental state of the victim is invariably altered in some fashion.

In general, many care nothing for politics, frequently appearing to shun any interaction with others outside of the Chimera family, and will fight only in self-defence. Aberrants have little interest in actively seeking out a partner, sexual or otherwise; many simply prefer to lurk in their lairs until forced out by some external event, or by a direct threat to their lair such as an encroaching Mamono of a different species. Despite this frequent apathy, Aberrants are often ferociously territorial and protective of what they consider their home, and their eclectic biology makes each Aberrant a unique threat – rare is the adventurer or Mamono brave or foolhardy enough to challenge an Aberrant in her home, and rarer still are those who speak of it afterwards without a wary look around the room and a request for at least one stiff drink.

A major contributor to this isolationist attitude comes from the Aberrants’ nature, or rather, the reaction of others to it – many ‘pure’ Mamono consider them to be inferior to other monstergirls due to their unnatural origins, with some considering them an error or mistake in the Demon Lord’s plans for the world. Similarly, due to their many and often-clashing traits, all but a few humans consider them hideous monsters that no amount of sexual appeal or lewdness will counteract, frequently reacting to their presence with horror or hostility that forces even the most benign Aberrant away, lest they be injured when this hostility inevitably overrides the human’s reason.

On the extremely rare occasions when an Aberrant chooses to seek out a mate, they prefer not to stray far from their lair – oftentimes, the monstergirl in question will opt to conceal herself on a road or similar path near the lair, before observing passers-by in the hopes of finding one who meets her standards. In the case that a worthy partner is found, the Aberrant will frequently ‘attack’ with extreme ferocity and speed, exploding from the undergrowth to overcome their chosen partner with their massive strength, natural weapons, and (if they have any) venom.

Despite their apparent ferocity and bestial aggression in their actions, this is less the result of any malice and more the result of a deep-rooted fear that their partner will escape and leave them alone once more, along with the general difficulty of socialising with those outside of the Chimera breeds – many Aberrants often have rather eloquent speeches designed to convince the prospective mate to accompany them home lined up in their head, only to find their minds going blank from panic at the thought of meeting and then losing or otherwise being rejected by their mate.

Upon capturing a mate, the Aberrant will swiftly retreat to their home with the mate in tow. Once there, the Aberrant will work to seduce the mate via fulfilling their every whim and will, actions that are often bolstered by their eloquent manner of speech and willingness to converse with the chosen mate, explaining the reasons behind their actions and attempting to sway the mate’s sympathy to their side. Many Aberrants will never have sex with their chosen mate until consent is wilfully given: part of this can be ascribed to finding the rape many Mamono use to claim a mate distasteful, though the effects of sex with an Aberrant act as a second factor – upon finishing a sexual encounter with an Aberrant, an extremely large quantity of Demonic energy is involuntarily released into their mate’s body, which will rapidly re-shape the mate’s body into an appropriately-gendered version of the Aberrant’s.

Aberrants that have found and bonded to a mate are completely devoted to the mate in question, working hard at all times to please their partner and defending them against any perceived threat. While they are willing to allow other women/men to approach their mate, they will often carefully watch any exchange between the two to ensure that the mate remains faithful, intervening in the conversation to ensure this should they think it necessary. A mate under threat will send an Aberrant into a protective fury; willingly injuring an Aberrant’s mate is one of very few things that will drive the Mamono into a full-blown berserker state, violently attacking the responsible party until the threat is driven off or otherwise rendered incapable of threatening their mate further.

To the few willing and able to deal with Aberrants for an extended period of time, they are valued as bodyguards (and, more rarely, mercenaries) due to their highly protective attitude and tremendous physical prowess. Subspecies of Aberrants are theoretically possible, but their highly variable biology, solitary natures, and general rarity make claims of identified sub-species tenuous at best and little more than a madman’s rantings at worst. 