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Okay, so I'm back home from college... Which means I have no scanner. Thus, I had to "scan" this bad boy via a phone picture. I got the idea very recently and really wanted to put it to use in 's contest. So yeah, here's Myceos, the mutualistic fungal-bat monster.

Name: Myceos
Gender: Male
Type: Mammal
Alignment: Aggressive
Color: Mane is dark brown, regular hair is light brown, and fungal coverings and hyphae are a pale white.
Size: Average, not especially large or small
Biography: Originating from the mountainous regions of Tarrun, this strange creature is actually two organisms living together in a bizarre form of obligative mutualism. The first organism, Myceos, is the large bat-like monster. The second organism is the white fungus that seems to be infecting him. In reality, the two act in tandem with each other and both benefit from each others presence.

Being a bat-like creature, Myceos is capable of flying at incredibly fast speeds, and is very acrobatic in the air. Unlike traditional bats, he actually has rather good eyesight, but due to his obnoxiously large nose, he is only capable of tilting his head to look for prey (usually from high in the air). Instead, he uses echolocation as his main sense. He is capable of sending out damaging sonic waves with a high pitched screech, causing moderate damage to most monsters but incredible damage to machines. While he is not the most physically strong monster out there, he can easily hold his own in a melee battle, especially thanks to his fungal partner.

While the fungus normally doesn’t do much but share energy from the bat’s food intake, it plays a key role in battle. Multiple hyphae sprout from the bat’s body, and all are capable of providing defense and increasing in length to attack. In particular the wing hyphae can extend to grab foes during fly-bys, while the foot hyphae act as a grasping toe for Myceos to pick up prey. The fungus can also release two different kinds of spores. The first kind is released from the wings, and can be blown onto foes. These spores cause major irritation and pain. The other spores are actually released onto Myceos and cause major irritation, throwing the bat into an incredibly dangerous berserker state.

Myceos is a very aggressive monster and actively hunts all forms of life as prey. For the most part, he hunts the smaller creatures that live across Tarrun. He is not picky to attack cities either, and enjoys the taste of human flesh. However, while he does attack cities, he tries to make the hunts quick; he does not enjoy navigating around human structures due to his echolocation. He cannot be communicated with, more than likely due to constant interference from the fungus and bat “communicating” with each other.

Trivia: Myceos was inspired by White Nose Syndrome in bats, a horrific fungus that is wiping out bat populations. The fungus irritates the crap out of the bats, waking them up constantly during hibernation, resulting in starvation for the bats. This is reflected by the fungus releasing spores to cause Myceos to go into a berserker mode.

Description
Okay, so I'm back home from college... Which means I have no scanner. Thus, I had to "scan" this bad boy via a phone picture. I got the idea very recently and really wanted to put it to use in 's contest. So yeah, here's Myceos, the mutualistic fungal-bat monster.

Name: Myceos
Gender: Male
Type: Mammal
Alignment: Aggressive
Color: Mane is dark brown, regular hair is light brown, and fungal coverings and hyphae are a pale white.
Size: Average, not especially large or small
Biography: Originating from the mountainous regions of Tarrun, this strange creature is actually two organisms living together in a bizarre form of obligative mutualism. The first organism, Myceos, is the large bat-like monster. The second organism is the white fungus that seems to be infecting him. In reality, the two act in tandem with each other and both benefit from each others presence.

Being a bat-like creature, Myceos is capable of flying at incredibly fast speeds, and is very acrobatic in the air. Unlike traditional bats, he actually has rather good eyesight, but due to his obnoxiously large nose, he is only capable of tilting his head to look for prey (usually from high in the air). Instead, he uses echolocation as his main sense. He is capable of sending out damaging sonic waves with a high pitched screech, causing moderate damage to most monsters but incredible damage to machines. While he is not the most physically strong monster out there, he can easily hold his own in a melee battle, especially thanks to his fungal partner.

While the fungus normally doesn’t do much but share energy from the bat’s food intake, it plays a key role in battle. Multiple hyphae sprout from the bat’s body, and all are capable of providing defense and increasing in length to attack. In particular the wing hyphae can extend to grab foes during fly-bys, while the foot hyphae act as a grasping toe for Myceos to pick up prey. The fungus can also release two different kinds of spores. The first kind is released from the wings, and can be blown onto foes. These spores cause major irritation and pain. The other spores are actually released onto Myceos and cause major irritation, throwing the bat into an incredibly dangerous berserker state.

Myceos is a very aggressive monster and actively hunts all forms of life as prey. For the most part, he hunts the smaller creatures that live across Tarrun. He is not picky to attack cities either, and enjoys the taste of human flesh. However, while he does attack cities, he tries to make the hunts quick; he does not enjoy navigating around human structures due to his echolocation. He cannot be communicated with, more than likely due to constant interference from the fungus and bat “communicating” with each other.

Trivia: Myceos was inspired by White Nose Syndrome in bats, a horrific fungus that is wiping out bat populations. The fungus irritates the crap out of the bats, waking them up constantly during hibernation, resulting in starvation for the bats. This is reflected by the fungus releasing spores to cause Myceos to go into a berserker mode.