Board Thread:Fan-made Monsters/@comment-24701421-20140918125056

 Serpentmen 

Species: Serpentmen Species

Habitat: Human Settlements, Ruins, Wastelands

Disposition: Cunning, Devious

Diet: Carnivorous

An unusual race of mamono, they possess the characteristics of a snake but do not belong to the Lamia family as their bodies are more similar to that of the Lizardmen. However, unlike Lizardmen, Serpentmen do not possess tails and have human ears rather than the typical ears of a Lizardman. In addition, Serpentmen favour sorcery and stealth over direct combat.

Capable of disguising themselves as human women, they can easily mingle with humans undetected as long as no one realizes that their “Spiritual Energy” is not the same as that of a normal human woman. They also possess hypnotic eyes which allow them to temporarily gain control of a human who looks into their eyes, a useful ability for not only gaining information but also making a human forget what had recently transpired. Combined with their natural cunning and deviousness, their abilities make them very dangerous as spies and “assassins”. They can also be opportunistically dishonest and rather smug, which unsurprisingly makes them disliked by most mamono. As for other Serpentmen, such traits are considered perfectly normal hence why Serpentmen tend to prefer the company of their own kind over other kinds of mamono, especially mamono of the Lizardmen and Lamia species who dislike them strongly.

Their favoured tactic to obtain human men is to seduce them while in their human disguises. While they can hypnotise human men, they would rather refrain themselves from actively using that ability to seduce them as the effects of hypnotism is only temporary and is “not romantic at all” even by their standards. Once confident that her victim is in love with her human self, a Serpentman will reveal her true form to him, mostly because she cannot hope to maintain her transformation while having sex. If the human man adamantly rejects her, she will use her hypnotic ability to make him forget about her and move on to another human man, often with a heavy heart. If he is willing to accept her instead, she will gladly claim him as a husband. In contrast to their conniving ways, Serpentmen are exceedingly honest and full of love when making love with their husbands.

Once married, a Serpentman and her husband may either choose to stay in a human settlement or move on to a location where a she would no longer need to hide her true form while in public. Despite having a dishonest streak, a Serpentman will not cheat on her husband although she is not above being dishonest if it would allow her to get more attention from her husband, especially if she has rival wives to deal with. On the other hand, they will willingly, if begrudgingly, admit their faults and dishonest acts when asked by their husbands as they do not want their beloved husband to ever hate them.  