Devlin Grey, your local Shoggoth Soft Boi
When it comes to the menacing, eldritch horrors known as Shoggoths, most people in-the-know around Felton are familiar with their reputation; savage, all-consuming, massive beings made up of undifferentiated, amorphous cells capable of rapidly mutating to produce organs and limbs as needed. Mostly considered monsters to be exterminated or contained, there is a stigma against them that makes life somewhat...Difficult...For the rare Elder Shoggoths, also known as Shoggoth Lords.
An Elder Shoggoth is essentially a member of the species that has existed long enough to attain full sapience, and in dong so has mastered their body in such a way as to compress and control their enormous bulk, usually by squeezing it into an anthropoid shape. Many Shoggoth Lords will create extensions of their mass, servitor "bodies" with which to carry out their business, while the bulk of their mass remains hidden in some isolated, underground lair.
Devlin Grey, Elder Shoggoth and all-around lovely fellow, uses his compressed anthropoid shape to manipulate a world he finds fascinating, if somewhat ill-prepared for something of his kind. While normally concealing the strangeness of his body beneath clothing, he has some anomalies he can only do so much to hide. Overly large, semi-metallic eyes, a soft and boneless body that makes him squishy and pliable, and a soft grey skin tone all make him stand out as something other than human, and as such he has to live in the Felton Underground to keep from being persecuted.
Even then, life isn't exactly that great at times. The prejudice against his kind is ever an issue, and considering his instinctive drive to consume sapient beings for sustenance and enjoyment, he has to strive to be the better individual in the end. As a card carrying member of Man-Eaters Anonymous, he works every day to improve the standing of his kind in Felton while also trying to control his instincts, which is quite important given his position as an Underground City Council clerk.
He lives in a simple, comfortable second-floor apartment on one of the main subterranean roads leading from Felton to Kingsport, decorating and maintaining a home filled with his nerdy hobbies, from miniatures to video gaming, B-movie posters to collectible statues. He spends his free time either in the company of his boyfriend, a Native American Trickster spirit named Thassal, or visiting the Predator/Prey themed nightclub known as the Hunting Ground, where he's allowed to sublimate some of his desires in a safe, controlled environment.
For reference, the green globe on his belly is one of his true Shoggoth eyes, which can manifest from any part of his mass, and often do at random. They can be subsumed and appear elsewhere, in seemingly random numbers and organization. He also normally has a pair of squid-like pseudopods, though he has them absorbed into his back and flanks for this pose.
Art by the lovely
LunarAesthetic, as part of my Felton shared setting.
An Elder Shoggoth is essentially a member of the species that has existed long enough to attain full sapience, and in dong so has mastered their body in such a way as to compress and control their enormous bulk, usually by squeezing it into an anthropoid shape. Many Shoggoth Lords will create extensions of their mass, servitor "bodies" with which to carry out their business, while the bulk of their mass remains hidden in some isolated, underground lair.
Devlin Grey, Elder Shoggoth and all-around lovely fellow, uses his compressed anthropoid shape to manipulate a world he finds fascinating, if somewhat ill-prepared for something of his kind. While normally concealing the strangeness of his body beneath clothing, he has some anomalies he can only do so much to hide. Overly large, semi-metallic eyes, a soft and boneless body that makes him squishy and pliable, and a soft grey skin tone all make him stand out as something other than human, and as such he has to live in the Felton Underground to keep from being persecuted.
Even then, life isn't exactly that great at times. The prejudice against his kind is ever an issue, and considering his instinctive drive to consume sapient beings for sustenance and enjoyment, he has to strive to be the better individual in the end. As a card carrying member of Man-Eaters Anonymous, he works every day to improve the standing of his kind in Felton while also trying to control his instincts, which is quite important given his position as an Underground City Council clerk.
He lives in a simple, comfortable second-floor apartment on one of the main subterranean roads leading from Felton to Kingsport, decorating and maintaining a home filled with his nerdy hobbies, from miniatures to video gaming, B-movie posters to collectible statues. He spends his free time either in the company of his boyfriend, a Native American Trickster spirit named Thassal, or visiting the Predator/Prey themed nightclub known as the Hunting Ground, where he's allowed to sublimate some of his desires in a safe, controlled environment.
For reference, the green globe on his belly is one of his true Shoggoth eyes, which can manifest from any part of his mass, and often do at random. They can be subsumed and appear elsewhere, in seemingly random numbers and organization. He also normally has a pair of squid-like pseudopods, though he has them absorbed into his back and flanks for this pose.
Art by the lovely
LunarAesthetic, as part of my Felton shared setting.
Category All / All
Species Exotic (Other)
Size 1017 x 1280px
File Size 125.6 kB
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