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Weird Fairy Thing

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I'm too anxious and have nothing to do/can't sleep, MUST DRAW INSTEAD. Have a random concept that's been swimming around in my head. The creature/species has no name as of yet, and may also change if I decide to keep the concept. D:

PREPARE FOR UNORGANIZED THOUGHTS.

In some forests, there are strange trees with strange fruit. Orange with bright magenta swirls and spots, round, and about the size of a tennis ball at its largest. The fruit itself is bitter and will make one foam at the mouth. In the center of the fruit lies the large seed.

When fruit falls from the tree, it often splits on contact with the ground. Over the next couple of days, the fruit grows soft, and the seed will show signs of a different sort of life. From the thin outer casing of the egg bursts a small creature somewhat resembling the fruit-- orange and magenta, with long ears, antennae, and a tail.

Once the creature is free from the fruit and dry, it grows a peach-like fuzz all over its body, as well as wings. The hair is moss-like; soft, yet fragile. The tips of the antennae will grow a single leaf, which browns and drops once temperatures drop. The tip of the tail blooms into something resembling a flower in the summer-- this one attracts insects that the tail will close up on but not eat directly. By this time of year, the tail is much longer, and the fairy can pull the tip of the tail up to its mouth and feed on its captured prey.

Much like plants need sunlight to survive, so do these creatures. They absorb sunlight in a photosynthesis-like behavior to create necessary sugars, but also feed on insects for proteins.

The creature reaches sexual maturity by the next early spring, just before the flowers are in bloom. When they mate, both creatures are impregnated-- there is no male or female, they are all the same gender.

The trees themselves don't take to normal pollination, nor do they have a smell that attracts insects. The creatures must deposit their eggs inside of the flowers for the flowers to fruit.

When a mature fairy dies naturally-- most often while hibernating underground during the winter-- it just might grow a new tree entirely.

Sometimes, if a tree is near enough to a body of water that fruit can fall into the water, the excess water causes the fairies to grow webbing between their fingers and toes, which they never entirely grow out of.


So, which came first: the fairy, or the tree?
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SeductiveAngell's avatar
awh its adorable x3