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A rough draft of a fakemon for my dex. Just posting before I carry on so I can get some feedback on anything I could improve.
>Ghost/Grass
>Sap Sipper/ (HA) Long Reach
Its body is composed entirely of sap. It travels from tree to tree in search of more sap to consume and replenish itself. Its stretchy hands are able to latch onto things from a distance- it takes great joy in dangling them down from treetops to frighten passersby.
A hybrid of two similar mythological creatures, with some other elements mixed in that I think work well. Based primarily on the Yara-ma-ya-who from Australian Indigenous folklore- a creature described as a frog-like man with a large head and red skin, with suckers on the end of its hands and feet. It lives in fig trees and drops down on unwary travellers, draining their blood through its suckers. Combined also with the Akateko, a yokai taking the form of a red hand dangling from a tree. I’ve mixed these 2 together, along with giving the hands a “silly hand” quality. I think the tree sap idea works well as a G-rated replacement for the blood-sucking, as well as fitting with the red colour scheme of both creatures and explaining the sticky silly hands.