#BUT ON A SMALLER SCALE SOLELY DUE TO LANDMASS

[luvsavos]

Ill give you random numbers 6 and 17

( send me a number/numbers for an oc to hear me talk about >:) )

hell yeah now we're getting into the Canon Divergence That Might Get Me Crucified territory let's fucking gooooo

number 6! that would be my darling dire miralis, whom i shall start off with first

given there's very VERY little canon info on the dire miralis we see in game (of which it Only appears in mh3u, and seems to be vaguely implied to be the only one of its kind as far as we, in-universe, are aware?), i kind of went wild on the backstory because canon is a sandbox and i am a toddler making sandcastles

dire miralis, the only (known) member of his species, was once a crimson fatalis that made his nest in a volcanic region by the sea in some unknown part of the old world, inhabiting the deepest and most inhospitable reaches of the volcanoes themselves. many a hunting party had tried, and failed, to defeat him, and he found their desperation to be quite amusing. note that i don't actually entirely know yet HOW he became a crimson fatalis (for you and all others unfamiliar with monhun; to put it simply a fatalis becomes a crimson fatalis when it's wounded by hunters and gets So Fucking Mad that it just spontaneously evolves<3), but that's not that important of a detail

eventually he was confronted with a particularly determined (or foolish, or Both) group of hunters that had braved the very depths of the volcanoes he called his home, who managed to, by Some miracle, defeat him. in an attempt to ensure that he was in fact truly dead, the hunters carved his heart from his chest and disposed of it far away in the middle of the ocean. what exactly happened to the hunters afterwards is unknown, but miralis himself would wager that if they used his body for materials they likely succumbed to the parasitism of fatalis materials and were transformed into fatalis themselves

given the nature of fatalis, being able to regenerate from so much as a single scale, miralis reformed in the depths of the ocean, taking on traits of his surroundings and essentially mutating into a walking, active volcano; the form that would come to be known as dire miralis. fast forward to mh3u---furious at his own defeat, he wandered the ocean floor as he continued to reform, finally coming to rest in what would later be known as the "tainted sea". to vent out his infathomable rage, miralis took to attacking other islands and landmasses, often completely destroying smaller ones in the process, which was what alerted the guild to his presence in the first place. due to staying in the shallow ocean for so long, his incredibly high ambient body temperature gradually killed all other life within it, staining it an ominous red colour and leaving him as its sole inhabitant---hence why it ended up becoming known as the tainted sea. after sending out researchers (only some of which managed to survive), the guild finally sent out a hunting party to deal with him. despite his initial fury at yet again being laid low by a group of hunters, as he allowed them to think him dead once his energy was fully expended, he found himself curious as he observed them. how, after all, could such fleshy, squishy, tiny beings willingly risk their lives against something wholly unknown? all for the sake of protecting their civilizations? it fascinated him. he allowed them to carve from his body---he scarcely even felt it---and when they finally departed to alert the guild that he had been "slayed", he slipped back into the ocean to find some new place, ideally to satisfy his newfound curiosity about mortalkind. who knew that getting his ass kicked could be so therapeutic huh?

and as for number 17, That would be one of my less-fleshed out ocs, grimclaw<3

grimclaw is pretty straightforward; he's a grimclaw tigrex that inhabits some part of the rotten vale. for being a tigrex, he's not all That aggressive if you stay outta his territory, but if you cross into his territory.........

he's the most defensive of his nest, and seems to have a particular disdain for girros---both of which can be explained fairly simply. in his nest are the remnants of eggs; eggs which the girros made a quick snack of when he was out hunting one day. honestly i'm not sure what happened to his mate and i don't have a "good" excuse for why he would be guarding the eggs rather than his hypothetical mate, but it makes for good reason for him to be so Aggressive beyond just Tigrex Are Like That (which they Are but fhdjfjg). he is my darling and i love him and i feel bad for him but i make my characters suffer Because i like them<3