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When the depression hits hard and you gotta draw your OTP with their lovechild to make you feel better.

Anyway, have some quirrelmon with Qi, my lovechild for them

It's been a hot minute since I've been able to do anything as far as either writing or drawing, so I'm gonna toss a doodle I did a while ago of me and my stream companion Enigma as Bug Fables characters ♥

Have some bird sketches. Because my boy needs some love.

Headcanon: Monomon, Queen of the Oomas/Uomas

Monomon is the “Queen” of the jellyfish creatures that inhabit the Fog Canyon, but not in the traditional sense. She does not have a monarchy that she governs—She is the “Queen” that her “hive” serves and protects.

Like normal jellyfish, the oomas and uomas are like a bundles of nerves. They cannot see or hear, but they react to changing stimuli in the environment. The only one among them able to think independently, to see and hear the world around them: their queen, Monomon.

Before the rise of the Pale King, Monomon was incapable of higher thought. However, she was clearly more intelligent than the primal beasts that roamed the depths. She had a very strong sense of curiosity, which the King learned when he’d found a hidden stash of tomes and journals in her possession. Inspired by her desire to learn, he granted her higher thoughts along with the other bugs of Hallownest.

With her mind expanded, Monomon began to learn as much as she could about the world around her, including the nature of her jellies. She knew that they would respond to her mental state, but she didn’t know the specifics. There was clearly a pattern they would follow depending on her emotional state:

When she was happy or excited, they would gravitate to her and cling to anything around her. Her theory was that they wished to partake in whatever was causing her joy.

When she was upset, they would grab anything around them and bring it to her. She believed they are trying to cheer her up by presenting her with gifts.

When she is scared/angry, they turn hostile and attack anything that draws near. This seems to be a primal instinct to protect the queen when she senses danger.

It wasn’t until she took on her apprentice, Quirrel, that she was able to learn more about their behaviors. Since they behaved in response to her, there was no way for her to see how they reacted without her presence. But with Quirrel able to study them away from Monomon, he learned that the strength of the reactions that the jellies had was entirely dependent on their distance from Monomon. The further they were from her, the weaker their reaction. This has led Monomon to believe that she is unknowingly emitting pheromones out into the environment that they are sensing and responding to.

With this knowledge in hand, Monomon began an experiment to see if she could teach any of the jellies to ignore her pull or think somewhat independently of her. This would eventually lead to the creation of Uumuu—a being that was created solely for security purposes. It would be able to ignore her pulls so that it could remain vigilant, and had been taught to identify threats without Monomon having to identify them as such beforehand.

When Monomon became a Dreamer and was sealed away, it turned the Oomas/Uomas completely docile. Without their queen to guide them, they merely drift aimlessly, awaiting the call of their queen once more. The only exception: Uumuu, who still spends their days guarding the sleeping Monomon from any intruders who dare try to wake her. But with the infection slowly overcoming it, and without Monomon’s guiding tentacle, Uumuu has lost the capability to differentiate friend and foe. Even in the presence of a familiar face, it can only follow what it was trained to do:

Protect Monomon at all cost.

Time waits for no bug, and Monomon has become desperate in her search to free Quirrel from his fate. Yet Quirrel sees that this unhealthy obsession has begun affecting her in the worst possible ways. Though she means well, Quirrel cannot let his teacher tear herself apart like this, especially not for his sake. But with Monomon no longer willing to listen to his pleas, Quirrel is running low on options. Desperate times truly call for desperate measures.

Come check out my next fanfic of HK, this time featuring Monomon and Quirrel! Hope y'all are ready for some angst and pain >:3

Throwing my hand into the hk gijinka ring with my human version of Monomon~!

I think a lot about how Monomon in her normal form would perform mundane tasks (such as writing at a desk), and I thought it would be fun to translate that to a human form. I love to imagine that she intentionally doesn't tell people about the missing arms because she likes to see their shocked expressions when they see her for the first time.

Might tweak the clothing a little bit at a later time, I like the idea of Monomon in a hanfu-inspired dress, though I didn't think about it until I was done with this piece about how she puts the belt on... We can say for now that Quirrel puts it on for her, lol

“Born from the sea and the waves, from the cosmic arrays!”

I was recently inspired by the song Goddess by Cepheid to draw myself as a deity. Behold! Mystery the Goddess, High Deity of chaos! You must appease her with Cherries, lest you incure her accident-prone wrath!

loll, but in all seriousness, this gave me an opportunity to fiddle with some new brushes I haven’t used. Love how it helped give that ethereal look~

Rito snuggles~! 🦅🦉💕 because who doesn’t love a peck on the cheek from a Rito?

The ULTIMATE betrayal from my mod XD

Bruh, I absolutely LOVE love children. I don’t think y’all understand how badly I NEED them in my life. I must know all your cute headcanons about a child of your favorite ships! That stuff breathes LIFE into me!

I beg you, please feed me so I won’t starve ;A;