A Shoggoth from the writings of H.P. Lovecraft can grow whatever organ it needs when it needs it. Must be nice being a protoplasmic ball of what can arguably be called flesh. That’s probably super convenient.
Of course I’m willing to bet that if the average person could grow organs at will most of the time they would just sit there growing a wide variety of weird genitals. Humans are kind of gross that way.
The fact that Shoggoths don’t sit around all day growing a disturbing amount of naughty bits speaks very highly of their character. Maybe we could all learn a little something from these misunderstood eldritch horrors.
They certainly won’t help us with our vocabulary though as they only know one word…. “Tekeli-li!”
That sounds dumb right? That’s because it is. Maybe Lovecraft thought that “word” was terrifying, but no one else does. Still “At the Mountains of Madness” remains one of my favorite stories.
Especially not scary when said after breathing in Helium.
Almost anything can become much funnier after breathing helium.
I find it funny that the zombie, not the living, much less durable human, is the one who is more afraid under these circumstances.
Well to be fair, Carmilla’s actually a vampire. I just haven’t got to her story arc yet.
I would rate them currently as the same level of toughness. Where they are really different at the moment is that Sheila, the zombie, is really not into tentacles and Carmilla is.
>>They certainly won’t help us with our vocabulary though as they only know one word…. “Tekeli-li!”
That sounds dumb right? That’s because it is. Maybe Lovecraft thought that “word” was terrifying, but no one else does.
I’m sure Tekeli-li sounds absolutely pants-wetting when you have some inkling what it means. I don’t, but I assume if it’s something they picked up from the masters who created and enslaved them, it amounts to some kind of dominance-posturing, if not an outright threat. Most threats in most languages wouldn’t sound especially terrifying when randomly shouted at foreigners. If I walked up to someone in Japan and said, “I’m going to suck your head off your neck and lap the blood out of your ruptured jugular,” they would probably smile and nod, unless I were fifteen feet tall and covered in random eyes/mouths/appendages, in which case they wouldn’t care what I said.
>>The fact that Shoggoths don’t sit around all day growing a disturbing amount of naughty bits speaks very highly of their character.
I will pass this along to my Eldritch abomination alter, who saves that stuff for special occasions. Such a romantic. <3