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Description
Abilities:

-Atomic Acid: Fluids generated by Atomoth are highly corrosive and can melt straight through metal in a matter of hours. Only the strongest alloys can resist, but none are impervious. Even Unum's nanomachines have difficulty coping with the corrosion. Also, after its battle with Solenara in Miami, Atomoth's body fluids were found to be highly reactive and mutagenic, and for many years was the headline material used in Vulcan Incorporated's Genetics Department, leading to the creation of monsters like Turk E. Rex and The Florious Five and later the TEAM Initiative.

-Savagery: Though temperament is rarely considered an ability, in the atomic arthropod's case it has been granted an exception. There are few monsters that fight Atomoth twice simply due to its raw anger and ferocity at opponents, often beating, burning and slashing opponents within an inch of their lives.

-Hot-Wings: An iconic ability of the insectoid creature, Atomoth can generate powerful amounts of light and heat from its wings, generating a powerful glow reminiscent of a pair of heatlamps. This can cause 2nd degree burns in kaiju sized targets, which heal very slowly compared to flesh wounds. Atomoth seems to thrive under this intense heat, so there is no perceived backlash. When flapping its wings, the heat can produce, to an extent, thermal columns, allowing its body to leave the ground far more than its undersized wings would normally allow. When held aloft parallel to the sun, they can even focus the sun's rays much like a magnifying glass on an anthill, only furthering its fearsome reputation.

-Scale Storm: The scales of Atomoth's wings resemble jagged shards of stained glass half the size of a grown man, and when flapping its wings they are often shed in billowing clouds of orange dust catching the light of its wings, which can disorient and irritate kaiju, even causing internal bleeding when inhaled, and kill people via thousands of deep cuts.

Noted Weaknesses:

-Soft Insides: Though its exoskeletal segments are indeed hard as rock, breaking through them can cause excruciating injuries to the kaiju, and much like what is often considered its eastern counterpart Megoki, armed forces exploit this, often targeting the same spots repeatedly.

-Simple-Minded: Atomoth is an abomination of nature and its sense of instinct is highly distorted from its source material. Thus, the creature knows only aggression and is rather easy to manipulate because of it. There are numerous accounts of Kaiju terrorist cells like STOMP baiting the atomic terror into attacking the mainland, as well as the military's knowledge of how to maneuver it into a trap.

B.C.D.E.- Recommended Method: Capture Subject known for aggression and tendency to lash out at anything that moves, distance attacks with focus on immobilization such as Loki Bombs recommended. Mecha Deployment deemed ineffective due to extreme financial losses.

Description: One of the most famous monsters in the Western Hemisphere, Atomoth, an angry customer often called the Big Man on Campus of the containment facility Isla Monstruo, has a great amount of story behind it. The Americana have had numerous struggles with the creature, with members of the TEAM Initiative losing their lives and even a close call with both Unum and Zacromas suffering brutal injuries at its claws, wings and teeth. People in the East have endured hell under it as well, especially during the Giganuuk years when the Organization known as Helix held kaiju tournaments in their Japan arena, earning it a gruesome reputation all around.

But its origins are not terribly well-known, surprisingly enough. The IDC developed a theory not long after its first appearance based once again on Cold War Speculation, but public acceptance and knowledge of this hypothesis is still small all these years later. According to them, in the years after the incident in the 60's involving Dystrov and Vosk, the Soviets collected what remains of the alien monsters had left. Dystrov's mysterious (at the time) Salvarran Power Core was taken to Chernobyl for further study, which led to the well-known meltdown years later. Vosk's only remaining samples were found in the splattered mess of its initial attacks on many Russian towns, though exactly where they were taken is unknown. The IDC believed at least some were taken to Central American Ally Cuba, where they were studied at a remote underground facility, possibly in effort to determine the true nature of the alien terror that none who had witnessed had forgotten.

The trail runs cold for many, many years after this, but 3 years after Megoki's initial attack on Japan, Atomoth was first introduced to the world in a blaze of bloody glory. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was highly unlikely the facility was maintained as top capacity, and it was not in the realm of impossibility that it was abandoned at one point and left to nature. The cells of Vosk, kept in safe containment, likely affected the mutagenic process, but others also theorize that atomic runoff from Soviet nuclear research played a part. All we can conclusively state is that a giant insectoid creature, at the time less than half its current size, emerged from the remote Cuban jungles, and began attacking villages, towns, even ravaging Havana for a time, the military efforts to stop it not nearly being enough. Distressed, the Cuban government reached out for help, something long believed they would never do. The United States responded at first without terms, firebombing the creature, but of course that wasn't enough either. If anything they just seemed to make it angry.

Angry enough to pursue its attackers all the way to the mainland, Atomoth began attacking the Florida Keys in its path and eventually reached the Everglades. The top Pentagon Brass convened on how to deal with the creature most effectively. The creature had proven as difficult to kill as Megoki had with the Self-Defense Force, and it seemed to only be growing bigger by the day. They launched a strike force, hoping to bombard the creature into submission before it reached civilization, but like their first effort in Cuba it seemed to only aggravate it. Conventional Methods were not working. Bullets seemed to bounce off of it, tanks were nothing but targets, and heat seeking missiles, though successful in drawing a reaction, ultimately did not seem to injure the beast. They needed something new.

Of course, they weren't expecting a second monster, the perhaps even deadlier Solenara, to emerge from underground not moments later, hot on Atomoth's trail. The nuclear Solenodon and the Atomic Moth sized one another up and began battling one another, the focus diverted from mankind but at the same time uncomfortably close to the vicinity of Miami. The Pentagon was absolutely flabbergasted, there were two monsters now! It felt like they had regressed to the 1950's and they were embarrassingly incompetent just like the military often was in the monster films of old. Then, Douglas Pryor, an entrepreneur turned away by the military multiple times for his unconventional ideas, appeared on the scene with an idea for exactly how to stop the two creatures.

By that point, the two monsters had already reached Miami and were causing a lot of collateral damage from their conflict. Citizens had been evacuated for the most part, several drug cartels were all that remained and they were, strangely enough, firing on the two monsters, which was about as effective as bees trying to stop a bulldozer. They didn't even notice a small, lone metallic shell, a tank of very unusual shape, enter the vicinity. This was Douglas Pryor's brainchild that would become the first successful kaiju deterrence weapon, the Banshee Tank. Without warning, Atomoth and Solenara were bombarded by a powerful column of sound far stronger than anything the military would use on human targets. A second one showed up shortly, then two more, all four of Pryor's prototypes developed under his PMC, Vulcan. And looking at how much of a success they were in paralyzing the two monsters into unconsciousness, Vulcan was about to enjoy a new era of prosperity.

After that incident Atomoth was carted to a secure location under Vulcan's custody, with the UN's permission. Alongside a counterpart study with Megoki in Russia, mankind figured out many aspects of giant monster physiology from the two, and most notably developed the first Kaiju Mutation serum. After Giganuuk shut down most of Vulcan's systems, Atomoth fled southward out of the cold and settled on the recently detached Florida, codenamed later Isla Monstruo, where it has lived comfortably ever since sans its kidnapping by Helix for the kaiju tourneys. It seems to be boss there, and no monster there crosses it at risk of their own safety, with perhaps the only exceptions being Turk E. Rex and Zacromas. Its hard to tell if Atomoth feels anything, but looking at it some believe it is genuinely happy living like this.

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Some of you might remember this name, but none of you recognize the design. This is Atomoth, who I mentioned in a past sketchdump but had a very different design. A bland one as far as I'm concerned.

I wanted to prove to people that even though Lepidopterans are one of the most iconic types of kaiju, that its more than possible to do something fresh with them, and because of that this guy's design wound up looking like this. He has elements of both imago and caterpillar stage, and traits of things like mayflies and tarantula hawks in him, combined with some mammalian/reptilian features. Combined they make a pretty solid monster, I think. I tried to evoke a little bit of the old school giant bug film motif as well, which is something more people need to try for. Although mostly, he's like a combination of Mothra and Godzilla, now that I think on it.

As you can see, there's some chronology to these designs, these are all the monsters that emerge prior to Grorn, though there aren't too many left before we get to the big guy.

Next up after this guy and Solenara is a familiar Grorn Face, but I'll be posting some KAS stuff before him, unless of course I feel more like doing the bio instead.

Crim out.

Description
Abilities:

-Atomic Acid: Fluids generated by Atomoth are highly corrosive and can melt straight through metal in a matter of hours. Only the strongest alloys can resist, but none are impervious. Even Unum's nanomachines have difficulty coping with the corrosion. Also, after its battle with Solenara in Miami, Atomoth's body fluids were found to be highly reactive and mutagenic, and for many years was the headline material used in Vulcan Incorporated's Genetics Department, leading to the creation of monsters like Turk E. Rex and The Florious Five and later the TEAM Initiative.

-Savagery: Though temperament is rarely considered an ability, in the atomic arthropod's case it has been granted an exception. There are few monsters that fight Atomoth twice simply due to its raw anger and ferocity at opponents, often beating, burning and slashing opponents within an inch of their lives.

-Hot-Wings: An iconic ability of the insectoid creature, Atomoth can generate powerful amounts of light and heat from its wings, generating a powerful glow reminiscent of a pair of heatlamps. This can cause 2nd degree burns in kaiju sized targets, which heal very slowly compared to flesh wounds. Atomoth seems to thrive under this intense heat, so there is no perceived backlash. When flapping its wings, the heat can produce, to an extent, thermal columns, allowing its body to leave the ground far more than its undersized wings would normally allow. When held aloft parallel to the sun, they can even focus the sun's rays much like a magnifying glass on an anthill, only furthering its fearsome reputation.

-Scale Storm: The scales of Atomoth's wings resemble jagged shards of stained glass half the size of a grown man, and when flapping its wings they are often shed in billowing clouds of orange dust catching the light of its wings, which can disorient and irritate kaiju, even causing internal bleeding when inhaled, and kill people via thousands of deep cuts.

Noted Weaknesses:

-Soft Insides: Though its exoskeletal segments are indeed hard as rock, breaking through them can cause excruciating injuries to the kaiju, and much like what is often considered its eastern counterpart Megoki, armed forces exploit this, often targeting the same spots repeatedly.

-Simple-Minded: Atomoth is an abomination of nature and its sense of instinct is highly distorted from its source material. Thus, the creature knows only aggression and is rather easy to manipulate because of it. There are numerous accounts of Kaiju terrorist cells like STOMP baiting the atomic terror into attacking the mainland, as well as the military's knowledge of how to maneuver it into a trap.

B.C.D.E.- Recommended Method: Capture Subject known for aggression and tendency to lash out at anything that moves, distance attacks with focus on immobilization such as Loki Bombs recommended. Mecha Deployment deemed ineffective due to extreme financial losses.

Description: One of the most famous monsters in the Western Hemisphere, Atomoth, an angry customer often called the Big Man on Campus of the containment facility Isla Monstruo, has a great amount of story behind it. The Americana have had numerous struggles with the creature, with members of the TEAM Initiative losing their lives and even a close call with both Unum and Zacromas suffering brutal injuries at its claws, wings and teeth. People in the East have endured hell under it as well, especially during the Giganuuk years when the Organization known as Helix held kaiju tournaments in their Japan arena, earning it a gruesome reputation all around.

But its origins are not terribly well-known, surprisingly enough. The IDC developed a theory not long after its first appearance based once again on Cold War Speculation, but public acceptance and knowledge of this hypothesis is still small all these years later. According to them, in the years after the incident in the 60's involving Dystrov and Vosk, the Soviets collected what remains of the alien monsters had left. Dystrov's mysterious (at the time) Salvarran Power Core was taken to Chernobyl for further study, which led to the well-known meltdown years later. Vosk's only remaining samples were found in the splattered mess of its initial attacks on many Russian towns, though exactly where they were taken is unknown. The IDC believed at least some were taken to Central American Ally Cuba, where they were studied at a remote underground facility, possibly in effort to determine the true nature of the alien terror that none who had witnessed had forgotten.

The trail runs cold for many, many years after this, but 3 years after Megoki's initial attack on Japan, Atomoth was first introduced to the world in a blaze of bloody glory. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was highly unlikely the facility was maintained as top capacity, and it was not in the realm of impossibility that it was abandoned at one point and left to nature. The cells of Vosk, kept in safe containment, likely affected the mutagenic process, but others also theorize that atomic runoff from Soviet nuclear research played a part. All we can conclusively state is that a giant insectoid creature, at the time less than half its current size, emerged from the remote Cuban jungles, and began attacking villages, towns, even ravaging Havana for a time, the military efforts to stop it not nearly being enough. Distressed, the Cuban government reached out for help, something long believed they would never do. The United States responded at first without terms, firebombing the creature, but of course that wasn't enough either. If anything they just seemed to make it angry.

Angry enough to pursue its attackers all the way to the mainland, Atomoth began attacking the Florida Keys in its path and eventually reached the Everglades. The top Pentagon Brass convened on how to deal with the creature most effectively. The creature had proven as difficult to kill as Megoki had with the Self-Defense Force, and it seemed to only be growing bigger by the day. They launched a strike force, hoping to bombard the creature into submission before it reached civilization, but like their first effort in Cuba it seemed to only aggravate it. Conventional Methods were not working. Bullets seemed to bounce off of it, tanks were nothing but targets, and heat seeking missiles, though successful in drawing a reaction, ultimately did not seem to injure the beast. They needed something new.

Of course, they weren't expecting a second monster, the perhaps even deadlier Solenara, to emerge from underground not moments later, hot on Atomoth's trail. The nuclear Solenodon and the Atomic Moth sized one another up and began battling one another, the focus diverted from mankind but at the same time uncomfortably close to the vicinity of Miami. The Pentagon was absolutely flabbergasted, there were two monsters now! It felt like they had regressed to the 1950's and they were embarrassingly incompetent just like the military often was in the monster films of old. Then, Douglas Pryor, an entrepreneur turned away by the military multiple times for his unconventional ideas, appeared on the scene with an idea for exactly how to stop the two creatures.

By that point, the two monsters had already reached Miami and were causing a lot of collateral damage from their conflict. Citizens had been evacuated for the most part, several drug cartels were all that remained and they were, strangely enough, firing on the two monsters, which was about as effective as bees trying to stop a bulldozer. They didn't even notice a small, lone metallic shell, a tank of very unusual shape, enter the vicinity. This was Douglas Pryor's brainchild that would become the first successful kaiju deterrence weapon, the Banshee Tank. Without warning, Atomoth and Solenara were bombarded by a powerful column of sound far stronger than anything the military would use on human targets. A second one showed up shortly, then two more, all four of Pryor's prototypes developed under his PMC, Vulcan. And looking at how much of a success they were in paralyzing the two monsters into unconsciousness, Vulcan was about to enjoy a new era of prosperity.

After that incident Atomoth was carted to a secure location under Vulcan's custody, with the UN's permission. Alongside a counterpart study with Megoki in Russia, mankind figured out many aspects of giant monster physiology from the two, and most notably developed the first Kaiju Mutation serum. After Giganuuk shut down most of Vulcan's systems, Atomoth fled southward out of the cold and settled on the recently detached Florida, codenamed later Isla Monstruo, where it has lived comfortably ever since sans its kidnapping by Helix for the kaiju tourneys. It seems to be boss there, and no monster there crosses it at risk of their own safety, with perhaps the only exceptions being Turk E. Rex and Zacromas. Its hard to tell if Atomoth feels anything, but looking at it some believe it is genuinely happy living like this.

-----

Some of you might remember this name, but none of you recognize the design. This is Atomoth, who I mentioned in a past sketchdump but had a very different design. A bland one as far as I'm concerned.

I wanted to prove to people that even though Lepidopterans are one of the most iconic types of kaiju, that its more than possible to do something fresh with them, and because of that this guy's design wound up looking like this. He has elements of both imago and caterpillar stage, and traits of things like mayflies and tarantula hawks in him, combined with some mammalian/reptilian features. Combined they make a pretty solid monster, I think. I tried to evoke a little bit of the old school giant bug film motif as well, which is something more people need to try for. Although mostly, he's like a combination of Mothra and Godzilla, now that I think on it.

As you can see, there's some chronology to these designs, these are all the monsters that emerge prior to Grorn, though there aren't too many left before we get to the big guy.

Next up after this guy and Solenara is a familiar Grorn Face, but I'll be posting some KAS stuff before him, unless of course I feel more like doing the bio instead.

Crim out.