A picture or my two babies Hope and Bellus when they first meet >w cain-hurst.tumblr.com/ please check them out their art is FANTASTIC-So here’s a little spiel about them!Hope is an albino bat in my world (basically a vampire) whos very friendly and optimistic. (More info about her here)Bellus is what’s called a “Skintaker” which in my world is a mindless, simple beast. They start as worms and maggots and then grow and mutated based on what they eat. As they grow they become larger and more ferocious. However, Bellus just by pure chance early in life developed a human/elf-like mind and basically started gaining the thing other skintakers lacked, empathy and self awareness. He has tried his whole existence to avoid killing things unless absolutely necessary and even then it would be animals, never a sentient creature. When he has to eat, if he can’t find a humanlike corpse he’ll try to eat herbivore or docile animals so he won’t grow to be more aggressive... or at least he tries.the bigger her gets the more he needs to eat and while he can’t talk, he wishes he’d stop growing.Skip to a dark snowy night, Hope is wandering about when she sees a skintaker in the woods! Knowing them to be deadly she hides and hopes it didn’t notice her. Being curious she peeks out and sees it looking at a small bird. She silentlyly worries it’s about to eat the poor bird!... However she watches as the Skintaker just stares and sniffs the bird before letting it fly away...Distracted, she steps and breaks a twig. At first she panics as the creature catches sight of her, but suddenly... he just turns and backs away like a deer on alert. Now curious, Hope steps out and starts talking to him. While he never ANSWERS her, he responds physically and with strange noises as if he still understands her. While he looks no less scary then he did before, it’s become clear to Hope that this skintaker is different... he has no intention to hurt her.and I’ll leave that story there for now ;3Zodiac, out.