Board Thread:Fan-made Monsters/@comment-26545936-20170811201915

Family/Type: Golem/Undead

Habitat: Wonderland, graveyards, abandoned ruins

Dispositon: Loyal, poor at expressing emotions, aggressive (with husband) docile, meek

Diet: Men's spirit energy

The seemingly random skeletal mamono can be found in the chaotic area of Wonderland, as well as serving in the Demon Lord's army.

The Shambles's creation came about when a lich without her phylactery and therefore emotional, felt bad at the fact that there are many random old bones and skulls that just don't fit into the making of a regular skeleton, and therefore don't get to experience the 'life' of pleasure other mamonos lead. So in a fit of insanity, the lich went about her ways in her workshop to create a pieced together abomination of bones and magical cloth strapping the entire thing together. She pumped the creation full of her frozen demonic energy... and it responded. The more undesirable areas had demonic energy 'flesh' formed around it or perhaps transmuted altogether and thus the first Shambles was 'created.'

Due to the fact most Shambles are made with random bones to make up a general body, it is not possible to describe one's appearance completely, but there are at-least one thing all Shambles have in common. The magical cloths that bind up one's body, these bindings are infused with a sort of frozen demonic energy that allow to use a form of frost spells to aid them in combat, but like most other skills at a mamono's disposal, it doesn't kill and instead it freezes up one's magic and body if too much is taken in by a target.

However, despite the fact a Shambles can be made up with any type of bones, most that attempt to make a Shambles follow the appearance of the first Shambles that the insane lich had made, documents have been made detailing how to make the Shambles with the exact bones required for that specific one, as it appears to be quite iconic. Skulls for kneecaps, three toes that are clawed, one arm to be made with a leg bone, the other with regular arm bones, both arms are supposed to have jagged bone shards for fingers, make the ones from the leg bone extra long to make up for less flexibility. Two arm bones jutting out of the back of the creation. So on and so forth, that is generally how most Shambles are made, with the magical cloth being applied to keep the thing hanging on long enough for one to pump it full of demonic energy.

Most of the time, Shambles are made for protection of certain locations or individuals, what a lot don't know is that due to the process of creation that the Shambles go through, they are a bit... mentally unstable. While they are still quite loyal to those they call creator more then a few pick up a odd quirk here and there, on the kinky side of things no doubt, but make no mistake they are not called for. This unstableness can result in a Shambles abandoning their post as soon as they bring down a man to what they might call a husband. Those husbands to a Shambles do make it better for the undead golem as the constant source of spirit energy quells the unstableness of their magic and body making them a bit more docile so to speak. But at first it will be quite janky due to the countless bones and their hidden insanity making them lust with fervor to the first man they see and attack with equal ferocity.

Seemingly as a last ditch effort, if a Shambles is disassembled usually by being defeated, the cloths binding it together overload with magic and explode outward into frost. Damaging all those in the blast raidus with a intense internal cold and loneliness, while the Shambles can and will reassemble after this like most skeletons, this takes a lot out of them, including their previous viciousness is gone and they only stare blankly forward, grasping at the man they desire but cannot have. Disassembling them now at this point will surely destroy them. Though perhaps because of the explosion before, most men who see this and succumb to their loneliness and stay with the Shambles, who at this point is much more gentle due to their aggressiveness essentially exploding out of their bindings. Women on the other hand who experience this sensation can turn into mamono themselves if they were weakened enough in the fight, making it dangerous to fight a Shamble in close-quarters for just about anyone.

As a note, Shambles are never naturally created, demonic energy on its own doesn't know how to make a Shambles and therefore all Shambles are created by a powerful necromancer or mamono of similar magical prowess, however like all other mamono. New Shambles can be born from a mother, this always results in the newborn Shambles to have the same exact bones as their mothers did in their creation, so there are wild Shambles just not created from wild demonic energy. These 'wild' Shambles are loyal to no one, but generally stick with their mother and father for long periods of time, before being drawn out to the graves and abandoned areas where plenty have died in the past. They seem to be drawn to these areas for unknowable reasons, perhaps their instincts think it familiar? Whatever the case, they defend these areas as if they were ordered by a master.

The reason why Shambles can be found so easily in Wonderland is because the crazed lich that made the first Shambles had moved over there after becoming bored with the regular realm and was personally invited to the realm of madness by the Queen of Hearts herself, seemingly interested in the Shambles make-shift nature. Thinking them perfect for some reason the Shambles were allowed to stay as they were and thus Shambles were added to the crazed roster of mamono in Wonderland. Though generally the Shambles made in the realm are much more unstable and less likely to follow orders then if they were made in any other realm. Perhaps the Queen of Hearts wasn't satisfied with them after all. Whatever the case, the randomness of their form is ever present.

As for the Demon Lord's army, the Shambles made in the material realm are generally more order-following and some even don't take in a husband after defeating a man, so they are sometimes useful when they are needed for extra fights and missions, like the Dullahan in a way.

Speaking of Dullahans, some Shambles can be created without a material head or arm, in this case, more demonic energy must be pumped into the 'body' for it to animate. When it does, it forms a ghostly head of demonic energy similar to a ghost, also similar to a ghost, these Shambles are much more lewder and filled with indecent thoughts as their mind is literally made up of sex energy, they think nothing but of it, and are the least likely out of all of them to follow orders. However, placing a head upon the Shambles will displace this effect and turn them into a complete one, though perhaps a tiny bit lewder then before. Those with out a arm function the same, and if given a skeletal arm it will attach and not much will change. Though they accept anything boney as a substitute. 