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Need a long Elmo of my own

Monster Hunter Wilds Spoilers below and in tags. You were warned.

Post made around March 2.

With the release of the game and it being out for a bit now, it shows that they were not very willing to hide a few more monsters from us in the trailers, though the few things that wasn’t shown makes a interesting case on fictional biology, with one monster in particular showing how secretly frightening adaption works in the Forbidden Lands.

The one I referred to aren’t the Wylk beasts or the final boss, but Nu Udra's smaller friend who hides much more underneath .

The guy's name is Xu Wu and there is a lot to go off here.

An eyeless octopus with what look to be teeth on its head, something resembling a ponytail behind the “teeth”, markings on it's “face” that either looks like a beard or teeth, tentacles that leak a yellowish fluid that hardens into blade-like crystals, and a mouth less like an octopus beak and more like a very toothy starfish.

It feels less like a monster and more like either a walking fungus, an alien, or something eldritch, something that I adore. I always loved the monsters at actually look like the word monsters and not just big animals like Gigi, Xeno, and Goss.

Even it’s name tells a tale, as while in English it does mean much especially as two words, put it together and you get a Chinese word 虚无 Xūwú (pronounced Shee Wu), which translates to nothingness, emptiness, or just void.

With how the monster is small, speedy, favors ambush and hit & run tactics, it seemingly considering most creatures, even humans in two cases(you & a villager) as prey, how it has a false face and a maw of teeth, and how the armor with a Middle East motif and weapons named after famous assassins, you have a monster that, when It’s in the area you pray it doesn’t “see” you before you do lest you vanish.

But the most weird thing is it’s diet and how it adapted to it’s prey.

For one thing, it’s s prey isn’t even natural, or shouldn’t even exist, though some people suggest that they are attracted to strong bioenergy carrying monsters.

The guardians are artificial monsters born of the living mass knows as the dragontorch, basically gene manipulation by the ancient civilization to create homunculi.

And these guys aren’t random monsters, they’re dangerous in their own ways, Doshaguma may be the easy to make grunts that could have a leader, Rathalos are the eyes in the sky, Ebony the patrolling sentry with speed and violence to act on, Fulgur the brute to deal with big problems, Arkveld the unpredictable due to monsters or problems having no defenses against an extinct monster, and Zoh Shia, who might as well be a man-made god of hate.

All of these guys (an argument for Doshaguma) are basically apex-elder tier threats. Something a foolish person thinks would work well for defense.

And Xu Wu basically wins every “turf war” with the guardians. Calling them turf wars feels wrong as 3/4 of them starts after Xu Wu knocks its prey over and starts eating them until they escape.

Ebony gets at least a fight, but ends up skewered and thrown away.

Arkveld might tie with a few hits from Xu Wu until the chains get him, and he isn’t elder level enough for Zoh Shia, but it’s still an interesting thought.

Think it this way: you are a scientist who created powerful artificial life forms to prove you are a god, but nature outdid you already with a creature that was born to prey on the strong, energy rich monster, which your creation fits the bill.

It then proceeds to turn your work into a snack with the only things that could win one of a kind monsters you aren’t willing to lose.

You tried to play god, but nature one upped you without effort. You can never surpass the natural world because it already found a biological version of what you thought of.

You lost a fight to the natural order before you even got started.

Furina's Vision (and my delusion)

Ya know around tumblr, when one of your posts hits maybe 4 digits, people start panicking about the attention, but people like me see satisfaction on when at least 5 people like or reblog anything I make because it tells me that people are willing to listen to me and my nonsense.

An abyssal looking shadow seen while throwing out trash at night

Was at the beach in Florida as I saw something burning flying upwards. Was too slow to get a picture of the fire so here’s the trail.

ok so for those of you who don’t know, there’s this twitter account of a japanese local hero mascot named dentman who went viral recently due to this tweet

but yeah he saw the tweet. and his response went viral as well (which is how i found his account)

and he just has like. hourly posts reminding you to brush your teeth

oh and his rival? his name is mr. mutans. whenever dentman posts he makes a post of his own, ofc

but THAT’S NOT ALL. literally while making this post i found a THIRD ACCOUNT that’s all about taking your meds

safe to say i’m losing my mind

anyway the point of all this was that people are ALREADY beginning to draw them ship art 😭

and the reactions are everything

I CANT ADD ANY MORE IMAGES BUT TRUST ME THIS IS SO FUNNY

toxic one-sided dentman yaoi wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card but it DEFINITELY IS NOW!

As a newcomer to tumblr antics, especially to actually posting things, I don’t know the holidays this culture celebrates and only could tell from small bits from outside sources before entering this place.

That said, today seems to be the day of Dracula daily or something, where a part of the novel is sent to us every day until the story finishes.

Having never read the original novel (not saying this as a joke of time loops as some posts I saw said, genuinely never read it), I plan to celebrate the story alongside the rest of you Hellsite inhabitants and subscribed to Dracula Daily to join in.

Let’s see where Jonathan Harker ends up going.

I’m too lazy and tired to go outside to trick or treat so digital with have to do.

If you want you could stop here and I could give you whatever I could find

Happy Hollow's eve peeps!

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