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"Thunder Shark" Vampire

CLASS: VAMPIRIC

A variant vampiric shark, this variety is unequipped to travel on the ground and spends almost its entire existence on the move, shooting through water or air like a living jetplane. Its snout can generate a powerful long-distance electrical shock, stunning other creatures long enough for the monster to constrict in its wing-like fins and begin draining blood. For unknown reasons, it prefers to hunt in the midst of hurricanes or other powerful storms, and may follow such weather for hundreds of miles. It craves the blood of porpoises above all else, but prefers to avoid the inevitable conflict with Narwight, who tend to be protective of non-vampiric kin.

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He looks like a goblin shark!

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From all of the other Vampire creatures, the fish ones are my favorite. Flying winged blood-sucking fish with cool powers such as electrical shock! :)

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Originally I intended ALL vampires to be aquatic, but I had already created Nosferachuu, the rat vampire, and felt obligated to do one for every major predator/omnivore/parasite group :p

The fish ones still outnumber any others though, and marine vampires are the most common story-wise.
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What's really interesting about the goblin shark is that they were originally named Tengu sharks by the Japanese, but we translated that very loosely into "goblin," and now that's what they usually call them in Japan now :P
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Goblin sharks are easily the coolest (and ugliest) sharks if not fish in the sea. I'm loving this and its strange cyclone surfing behaviour.

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Full view... its natures way.
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Another one that grabs my heart, pulls it out, and eats it messily. Goblin sharks are quite possibly the most Win of all the sharks out there. Also makes me wonder if any die-hard kaiju fans are going to notice a similarity here (especially with the enlarged fin-wings), though I've just about no doubt that Zigra was probably modeled after the goblin shark in the first place.

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That is really interesting...

So there's a youkai called a Tengu that has a big nose?

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Twenty-eight days... Six hours... Forty-two minutes... Twelve seconds...
That... is when the world... will end.


"the world would be a more hilarious place if we used Tanks as rescue vehicles."~druminor
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I think that's even been confirmed, but I forget where I read it.
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You're kidding, right? 0o

I can't imagine how you'd be able to learn the word "youkai" even casually and miss them. Nothing from Japanese mythology is more common in games and cartoons, even in the western world long before the term "anime" was ever coined. I've known of them since first grade because they get an entry in literally every book on mythical beings, sometimes as the sole representative of Japanese monsters at all.

They're usually portrayed as bird creatures, particularly crows, but can also be long-nosed human-like monsters or some combination of the two.

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