Family/Type: Emblem/Heartless
Habitat: Shard of Darkness, practically anywhere
Disposition: Lustful, simple, inquisitive, helpful, clingy
Diet: Hearts, Men's Spirit Energy
One of the Boss Emblem Heartless, the Pot Centipede as their name suggests share much in-common with the much weaker Emblem Pot Spiders. Pot Centipedes frequent desert regions like their spider-like cousins and while not as intelligent as say a Trickmaster or Behemoth they are quite capable of leading raids filled with Emblem Bandits and Emblem Fat Bandits all the same though they are particularly good at causing stirs within groups of Pot Spiders.
Crawling her way out of the desert city alleyway, this pale-skinned blue-haired woman skitters from wall to wall glaring at you with her glowing yellow eyes. Two twisted blue and black antennae can be seen sprouted from her forehead, crackling with electricity, along with the Heartless Emblem between these antennae. Her arms and hands are covered in bluish-black chitin and her hands end in four-fingered claws. Chitin covers her well-endowed bust and privates, beyond that, where the beginning of her legs start are the first of eight large red-pots which each sprout out two black spider-like legs from its side which are reminiscent of a Pot Spider’s legs and the pot itself looks exactly like a Pot Spider’s pot. At the end of this long-line of leg-sprouting pots is an insectoid end covered in blue-chitin with openings in the middle of it revealing nothing but darkness. Two spear-pointed tails can be seen sprouting out from this end with darkness magic seemingly igniting the twin spear-tips.
Unlike the other ‘Boss’ Emblem Heartless, Pot Centipedes aren’t exactly known for their tactical intelligence and while they can lead, it is more to say they are ahead of roaming hordes of Heartless mamono rather than really giving out any orders or the like. Though their nature that leads them to being curious is pretty much what drives these hordes across the vest deserts they appear to inhabit specifically being rarely found elsewhere in the Shard of Darkness and pretty much nowhere else… though of course exceptions always do arise, a Pot Centipede’s natural curiosity allows this exception to be sometimes frequent.
The pots that make up the middle-part of this mamono’s body don’t naturally form with them when they mature and actually are incapable of much movement without them. A Pot Centipede’s innate magic can cause pots of any size around them to suddenly enlarge and take the shape of the red pot that looks exactly like a Pot Spider’s ‘shell.’ These pots when close enough spring out spider-like legs and move on towards the main body or the end of the Pot Centipede and attach before bring themselves over to the end and attaching again. Once attached, only breaking the pot or herself separating from the pot will make her lose any of them. The main-portion of the Pot Centipede’s body the only part that’s actually vulnerable and destroying any of the parts or attempting to destroy a Pot Centipede’s end deals no real damage to the mamono in-question. A Pot Centipede can only have ten pots attached to them at a time and while it is easier for them to find pots to turn into ‘legs’ a Pot Centipede can naturally make more pot-legs though it takes time and certainly cannot do it in the middle of a fight.
Strangely enough, a Pot Centipede’s curious nature lends itself to a form of helpful mindset. These mamonos with or without hordes at their beck and call will sometimes help out villages or travelers within the area simply because they can. Whether it be forms of protection, to helping gather food, or taking travelers to locations while under their comfort. Pot Centipede can store objects or people within their pots without much trouble and without discomfort to the person in-question due to the fact that each of these pots are an extra-dimensional space that a Pot Centipede can enter to either have ‘fun’ at their leisure or to cool off hot and tired travelers within. When a Pot Centipede enters their ‘space’ their top-half disappears into the pots and can still move without trouble even if they do become a little blind and have to rely on seeing out of any open holes to do and they naturally aren’t inclined to do so unless there is a person within one of the pots in the first place, even for a combat.
Speaking of combat, while a Pot Centipede can use the weight of their body to smash into attacking foes or potentially spear them with their heavy-legs. This Heartless mamono will often use their electrified antennae to subdue and induce intense pleasure into their opponents and will use it when in the presence of their lover or recent catch to make them quickly orgasm inside of them. They will also use their two tail ‘whips’ that are often shrouded in demonic energy to spear at foes or simply quickly pushing them away while pouring lust into their bodies for a time. Other than that, a Pot Centipede relies on their rapidly reconfiguring body to confuse foes and get them surrounded when a second before that wasn’t the case. A Pot Centipede can dislocate their pots to move about and charge at targets at the cost of their legs, though if there are other pots nearby this loss is rendered negligible as more and more pots start growing larger and sprouting sets of legs.
Pot Spiders which are usually quite timid within their pots become bolstered by the presence of a Pot Centipede and will usually come out without warning when in their presence, inspired. Unless a Pot Spider is already married, the Pot Centipede will quickly cause Pot Spiders to swarm to their locations and cause quite the amount of chaos and quite the few husbands have been made because a Pot Centipede has inspired a city’s hidden population of Pot Spiders to sudden action. Though Emblem Bandits and Emblem Fat Bandits will often join a Pot Centipede’s horde, it is the Pot Spiders that make up the majority of these hordes to say the least.
While Pot Centipedes are quite good at rallying up these hordes, the overall purpose of this is in the mamono’s mind to more easily gain a husband and when they do so the horde will quickly disperse as the woman’s body clings tightly to their chosen man in delight. Like a wurm, when a Pot Centipede spots someone they want they won’t stop as they and their horde charge onward like a veritable sandstorm avalanche that won’t stop coming for that one specific man till the Pot Centipede gets what she wants. This overrides curiosity or their helpful nature and they’ll bulldoze just about anything if it’s in the way. The longer the man tries to prolong the inevitable, the much worse it will be for the surroundings and for himself.
Pot Centipedes are quite easy to ‘tame’ like a wurm in that regard as well and they’ll gladly let their man take the charge in-bed after the first rough encounter and will than basically be just like a sort of puppy for them though a man will have to keep in mind that their electricity can change positions really quickly if they let it.
While Apophises may not mind the emergence of a Pot Centipede horde, Pharaohs certainly do and are quick to dispatch groups of their servants to sometimes disperse a horde or bring the Pot Centipede under heel with the power of her kingly voice. While most Pot Centipedes fall under their magic and become obedient, ones that were chasing a man or some true exceptions resist this effect and either ignore or drag the Pharaoh along to help find the man with them and likely make them drown in pleasure as well.
While their extra storage-space is nice, it takes a bit of ‘training’ to make a Pot Centipede a competent wife in the regular sense. They will definitely try, especially if ‘tamed’ beforehand but it will certainly take a bit of time before that happens. If nothing else, Pot Centipedes don’t mind harems all that much, especially if it’s with Pot Spiders, so that’s nice.