Requacy's Clan

Imagine a version of Khezu where it's a snake wyvern, or maybe a really creepy frog, or something else, I know there was a leech leviathan in Frontier, so something kinda like that maybe, or they could've gone full bloodworm with it

I do like flower mouths too, when they actually make sense and function how they would realistically function lol

I always thought Giggi was like a refined design for Khezu, not that Khezu can't exist but it doesn't feel complete in a way, if anything it doesn't look specialized-enough for what it should be(a sedentary cave-dwelling ambusher who uses electricity to stun and then swallow prey whole), like the mouth is too small, it doesn't feel like it can stick to walls, seems to large and bulky to move in deeper regions of caves and yet it has no eyes(something you would expect from something that never breaches the surface but Khezu regularly exits caves), etc., I always preferred the gecko leech XD

Yeah that makes sense, as I said, it's the creature designs that use the thing without considering how it actually works in nature and having it do things it shouldn't is what annoys me

Also a bit of a hot take, but I like Gigginox's design more than Khezu's, because besides Khezu's head I just feel like its body is too big and awkward for a cave dweller(also the wings feel way too small to take off, but then again most of MH's flying creatures are like that), unless its skeleton can collapse I feel like it would get stuck in tighter spaces, also not sure how it sticks to ceilings, Giggi has sufficient toe pads like a gecko for that but Khezu is considerably bulkier, but again that's also just me

For me it's usually a matter of if it looks anatomically correct and the creature's ability and use of said jaws is unrealistic/overblown, I am tired of people designing creatures to look scary but they don't make them look effective, like think the Demogorgon from Stranger Things, you cannot tell me that thing's mouth can shred somebody, the claws maybe, but that mouth out at worst give you sandpaper burn, there's so little muscle, it looks more like it would be used to hold a victim in place but in the show that's not how its used, and I have problems with designs like that because if you're familiar with animal morphology, at a glance you can gauge if a creature can actually do what it's doing or not, hence why I tend to be annoyed with triple mouths, I don't hate them! I just don't like it when they're designed carelessly

I think the thing that annoys me is how the jaws split sideways, as I've always seen that in monster design but it always feels weird, snakes have that yes but they have skin over the mandibles and specialized muscles and tendons that sit between the splitting points, it isn't like two separate pieces splitting, and whenever they make a creature like that the creature still has very strong jaws, despite clearly not having the musculature to enforce that, since having moving parts like that would reduce bite strength without the proper musculature and skeletal structure to also make it robust(think the Quakens, how on earth do those things eat rocks with those jaws, they just don't look right at all), granted in that respect Narwa and Ibushi are okay because they don't use their mouths like that and if they're snaring airborne prey that's alright, it's just personally not my thing because I haven't seen it done well in most places

Hot take, I personally dislike Narwa and Ibushi's heads, they feel almost too cartoonishly "evil fish" to feel functional, I know there are fish with those mouths but I just don't like them much

Yup.
Hope Laura's doing well and having fun in her new Monster WWA career

Yeah good for her!
Though it seems she and Camilla broke up sometime in the 1900s.

hello i have recently been reminded that this Castlevania enemy exists:
https://castlevania.fandom.com/wiki/Laura

And then you start writing a thing and then its suddenly like 5am we've all been there