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🕑 Added 2022-10-14 11:27:02 +0000 UTCToday's prompt is Beast...
This would have gone better with Monster Under the Bed, however I didn't know what to do exactly and also thought a Patreon Prompt would be really fun here. Sooo...
"Also one final idea id want is a creature from the underside attempting to take a child (violently) to get under the bed in a attempt to bring her to that hellish nightmare of a dimension."
So back to the Underside, that vile dimension of childish delights and nightmarish things that squirm and bite... This is known as a Bed Bug. Sometimes called an Undercrawler or a Snootlebootle by some, and as a Dimension Worm by those in the Dreamlands.
Though when one worries about bed bugs, they think of the small disgusting creatures that inhabit dirty beds, or beds unfortunate to have accidentally become a home from some external source. However when children of old would wish for others to "Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite". They were decidedly not speaking of the ones most people are used to. Bed Bugs are a horrible, massive creature with an octopus like body, with each of it's tentacles tipped with a retractable needle like barb that emerges from the tip of the wiggly appendage. From there the Octopus head would be, extends a heaving, slimy caterpillar like body with small nubby limbs, and it extends into a trunk like mouth that contracts and stretches like a trunk combined with a leech, two slug like eyes extending from stalks along it's frame. In it's mouth extends a long tongue also similar to a leech. Bed Bugs are generally as large as a human man, and can grow to be as large as a car, van, or even a schoolbus in the right circumstances.
Bed Bugs will sniff around with their amazing sense of smell, and can track down children by scent in the realm they're in, however they can sense restless sleep or insomnia through the dimensions, this why people say to sleep tight, as if you do not sleep soundly, they may be able to smell you. They can feel where dimensional boundaries are weak in certain areas, and there they wait attempting to burst free. It may take time and children may hear sounds of growling, sniffling and crawling within their closet or under their bed for several nights before it's able to break free and attack in the night. They slither silently and move with a nimble yet unwieldy gait despite their brutish personalities.
Bed Bugs are beings that exist not only in the Underside, but drifting through the Dreamlands, and in the Ethereal plane as they exist solely as hungry, interdimensional insects. However they have come to call the underside home more often than anything due to their target often being younger people. Bed bugs will impale creatures with their spear like appendages, and inject them with a toxin known in the dreamlands as Dreadwake and in the Underside as Wakey Juice. This toxin causes a creature to suffer a burning sensation through their body, and their body continues sleep, or even begins to enter Rem Sleep, however the target's eyes open and they are afflicted by sleep paralysis. At this point the Bed Bug extends it's snoot, and ejects it's secondary mouth to bite into a creature's head and suck the creature partly into the mouth. When it does so the creature's waking paralysis dreams are experienced as hallucinations and the Bed Bug consumes the thoughts, energy, life-force, and imagination from the creature as they tend to panic badly, drifting in and out of consciousness. As it drains the energy from the target they grow more and more weak as their body begins to shrivel up like a husk, leaving just their eyes darting about forever, lost in a dream and granted a cruel immortality, unable to die and unable to move.
Bed Bugs are able to immediately shift to the ethereal plane, or the Ghost Zone as the kids call it, and often times will feed on a creature where it attacks them unless other creatures attempt to interfere in which case it may shift to the ghost zone. Many children have gone missing without a trace because of this. They may also simply slither back through the rift it tore open and back into the Underside. Bed Bugs are fed upon by Dimensional Shamblers often, with the strange creatures being able to mangle and tear apart a bed bug. In the Underside, Bed bugs often live in underground dens or caves near areas where dimensional travel is possible, and they move where they feel the universal boundaries weakening, often migrating and hiding in damp and wet areas near where the barriers are weak, or hiding in sewers, basements, cellars, and similar areas, usually after eating the children that occupied such locations. Those eaten by a bed bug are afflicted with an unfortunate end, as they are literally kept alive forever by the toxins and left in a painful hallucination for all time. Only through burning the body can the soul be set free. But those left alone for eternity in a Bed bug den will sit for an eternity in their own nightmares.
Other monsters scavenge the bodies of those afflicted by Bed Bugs and use them to create Heartless. A form of zombie like creature drained of it's emotion and life that seek out strong ideas and charisma in others and kill them with the hopes of becoming normal if they do. Only through very specific methods can these be employed, but are famously used by the ruler of the Underside known as the Nevermind.
A Bed Bug is a dangerous foe and is of moderate skill for children to defeat in a group. They may set up traps with beds and use another child as bait to lure one in to it's doom. If children are able to hunt a Bed Bug, often times settlements will be able to sleep better with the knowledge that it is gone. They are able to take teeth from the Bed Bug to make weapons, and sometimes use them or the stingers as weapons as well, with the tentacles being preserved and transformed into whip like weapons. Their eyes are quite powerful, and through tinkering can be transformed into binoculars, a spyglass, or a telescope. This scope allows one to see into the ethereal plane and at a great distance in the dark. In addition the flesh can be used along with some of it's organs to be able to make outfits that allow the wearer to go to the ghost zone and back, and some kids even believe that one could create a weapon or device from one of their organs that allows them to go back to their dimension. They can use toxins found within the Bed Bug to bring an end to the endless Nightmare of their Wakey Juice, and Mix Masters and Kid Doctors can distill parts from the Wakey Juice to use as an energy drink to keep children awake for long periods and give them energy, though it can cause hallucinations, become addictive, transform them into a Heartless if used enough, or send them into the eternal nightmare. As such it's important to check the quality of the Wakey Juice you drink as it may prevent you from ever sleeping well again, attracting more Bed Bugs to you....
Comments
Owen Garrett
Delightful! XD
That's actually what inspired the various pointed tips of this creature's tentacles XD
Owen Garrett
You know, real life bedbugs are pretty effed up, too. Instead of mating the normal way, male bedbugs have evolved a pointed, blade-like you-know-what, and they copulate by stabbing the female with it. That's pretty horrific, and it's not even made up!
Wowthisistoogood!
Daaaayum nice!:0
