#the tiktik isn't infected btw

[atlantic-grave]

Hollow from my au cleaning out their kill

Mm yummers

[voidsiblings]

Ok ok speaking of monomon she really fucking bothers me, you know why?

Cause there is no one else like her in the game.

There is never shown to be any jellyfish settlements or structures within fog canyon aside from the archives, the jellyfish are treated like an anomaly by the hunter and I have also heard the theory that they are artificially created. They do not wear masks and do not seem to have complex thoughts when dream nailed implying that they are on a similar level of intelligence as tiktiks, so is monomon the only intelligent jellyfish? If so why? Were did she come from who are her parents.Did the mask maker just give a normal jelly a mask for shits and giggles and monomon was created? Why do jellyfish weird out the hunter so much?

Are they not native to Hallownest? But they can't not be or else monomon wouldn't have written that whole elegy because she would have know that the whole "Hallownest is the only civilization" thing is bullshit. I mean that's why the weavers don't respect the pale king cause they are not native and therefore know that the pale king isn't as big of a deal as he pretends he is. So WHAT THE FUCK IS MONOMON, why is she so different, why does she wear a mask, just???

ok you're so right and have obviously had Thoughts on this before. unfortunately I don't have any personal headcanons about Monomon (except the fact that she does seem to be organic, even though she's apparently the only one of her species, and is obviously of a different one than the uomas / oomas / Uumuu) because I ignore the parts of the game that I don't want to mentally wrangle.

HOWEVER. I've been reading through Ghosts that We Knew by NurgleTWH (good fic btw, though it has Ghost/Quirrel so I understand if anyone's uncomfortable with that; I'm neutral about it) and it's got the best explanation of Monomon that I've seen so far. (any inaccuracies in this summary are my fault, I only read this part once and haven't gone back to find it again.) basically she says that Monomon is the last member of an extinct species that was endemic to Fog Canyon before the establishment of Hallownest. the Pale King discovered the unique, previously sealed-off biome of Fog Canyon while commissioning tunnels constructed for the kingdom's highways. unfortunately, Monomon's species was in the grips of a plague (separate from and predating the Infection) and Monomon's egg was the last to be laid. she was kept apart from the others to avoid infecting her and reintroduced to her native habitat after the last of her species had died out.

this adequately explains (to me) why she's the singular example of her kind, why the other species there are like and yet unlike her, and why the Hunter seems perplexed by the entire jelly family.

(also another thing I ignore about this game is the Mask Maker. because what the hell.)