While Thinking About SMT Monster Design We Love

i envy ppl who can provide deep analysis about their favorite media and/or characters b/c whenever i like something a lot it looks like:

You are the villain’s right hand man and you are the true power behind their criminal empire. The villain would never have achieved their status as a super villain without you, so when the hero finally arrested the villain, nothing actually changed.

Head scratches with the Shishigumi?

The power I could wield if lions could purr ( older lions will let out a low moan or groan while bonding)

Ibuki

Unlike others in the shishigumi, he does not have a very special mane regime.

His mane has a natural soft curl and while it’s not the softest, it’s not horribly rough.

It's super nice to run your fingers through, and luckily, Ibuki loves it when you touch and brush his mane

If he’s feeling super needy, he’ll grab your hand and put it on his head. Do not think about removing it either.

He gives the cutest look to you; he has a small pout, eyes meeting yours almost begging you to not stop, and his head tilts and follows your hand.

Also loves chin scratches, he leans into your hand naturally when you do.

Free

While he does like head/mane scratches, he puts a lot of effort into his hair every morning so he’d appreciate it if you save it until the both of you are in bed ready to sleep.

No matter what you’re doing, if you are laying in bed and his hair is down for the day, I can guarantee you he’s gonna force you to scratch his hair.

He likes to lay his head on your lap and let you pet him

He likes cuddling with you on his chest so he’ll play with your fur/hair while you play with his chest fur

Dolph

Can and will fall asleep randomly if you scritch and scratch about anywhere on him

Scritching his mane? Asleep. Cuddling and scratching his back? Asleep. Watching a movie and scratching his arm or thigh? Asleep.

He denies that you petting him makes him tired but if it works in front of the rest of the shishigumi, it’s pretty hard for him to deny

(He loves it he’s just a hard ass)

(Y’all know when cats make muffins on blankets and stuff? That’s dolph)

Agata

Agata LOVES head scratches!

Free might drag your hand from whatever you’re doing but agata will pick you up and make you cuddle and scratch his head

His tail has a soft slow swing when you scratch and straightens out when you scratch in the right place.

Lays you on your back so he can rest his head on your tummy

Gets distracted and starts tracing little stars and hearts into your thighs or starts drumming his fingers on you

Agata Nuzzles and bumps his head into the crook of your neck or your shoulder if he wants your attention

Sabu

Do not, I repeat, DO NOT touch his hair if it’s up in the mohawk

He wakes up early to do it and he WILL get pissed if you mess it up. (He makes you sleep with a pillow between you and him)

He much prefers playing messing with your hair/fur

In fact he loves it so much, he’ll drag you to bed and he will make you lay on top of him

Don’t get up, he pouts

Hino

Even if you mess with his hair, it always looks so effortlessly good

Which is good cause he loves head scratches

Doesn’t ask you for them but if your in bed and you start he’ll be very happy

Likes to reciprocate the scratches with some of his own so he’ll scratch your back while you scratch his mane

He brags about it. “What happened to my mane? Oh well my beloved plays with my hair, it’s so nice!”

(Free gets so pissed off when he brags)

Dope

You don’t know when you started playing with Dope’s mane.

You think it happened one day when you were both off of work just laying in bed chatting, then somehow Dope’s heads on your chest and your hand is in his mane

Yes, dope’s negotiations and convincing skills come in handy when he wants certain affections

He just scoots closer and closer slowly so you don’t realize until he’s basically on top of you

Then he holds your hand and slowly brings it to his head, then let’s go and expects you to get the memo

You tell him he can just ask but he just likes being sneaking

Miguel

Well I mean… you can’t really play with his mane cause of the braids

But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t like scratches

Things in place of his mane (that he WILL encourage you to scratch): his chin, the back of his neck, his back, his biceps, his sides, anywhere where you can get your hands on him

Istg this man loves getting affection

He likes when y’all hug and you start scratching. (Careful, he might fall asleep and you might get stuck in his arms)

Jinma

This guy,,, is a little twerp about it

He loves scratches just about everywhere but he likes to lie about it

He gets all pouty when you start but three minutes in he’s holding you in place making sure that you don’t stop

AND YET HE WILL STILL DENY THAT HE ENJOYS IT

He just likes to see you get all fussy when he Denys it.

He starts scratching you back offhandedly when he zones out

Don’t point it out cause he will stop (he’s a little shithead about it lol)

Sorry this took so long (I’m lazy) but I hope these are good!

Good world design elements that you should almost always use:

Large carnivorous monsters that kill and eat people but also serve as mounts and are sweet babies with the people that handle them.

Floating islands that logically make no sense but are cool to explore

Baseball bats as weaponry in any remotely modern-ish setting

Elemental type triangles/squares

Nonhuman cultures and locations build with their individual bodies and abilities in mind

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That Bewear sounds like an interesting fella!

My most interesting training stories are my Stoutland partner and one of the Tauros brothers, specifically Sweetie.

Stoutland took a bit to get used to being handled in any way other than a lapdog, but once I got him into the idea of helping herd the Doduo, he took to letting me ride pretty quick.

Sweetie took a lot of work, since he seems to have had a bit of trauma before joining my ranch. He’s still a bit skittish around new folks, but if you give him scratches under his chin, he’ll just melt into your hands and be easier to handle than anything else.

Howdy!

Never have I ever trained a riding Pokémon.

If you’ve got a story to tell, I’ll tell mine after!

Oh I've trained a few! Tauros, Stoutland, Cyclizar, Farigiraf, one oddly enthusiastic Bewear..... Honestly, I couldn't give you the full count! :D

t h i s

yeap

If there’s one thing that the gifted fail to realize, it’s the power of the giftless.

The bully was hotshot jock and straight-A student. His hair was always perfectly curled, shimmering brilliantly like a sea of golden yarn. He always wore the same stupid fireman-red letterman’s jacket with the school’s logo on the back, embroider in white. Theseus Cordon, the perfect student.

Who would be perceived as wrong to pick on the quiet kid without any supernatural strengths. A person so small in frame and with a completely unnoticeable academic record would only boost a person’s image if they were to be compared… right?

Theseus kindly asked you to meet him in the parking lot, where he had a gift waiting for you. Naturally, seeing the hottest topic acknowledged you was an honor, so you appeared without a moment’s hesitation.

Boy howdy, was that the wrong move.

Theseus and a few of his other jock friends presented you with your family’s old car, which was already in poor shape, with headlights smashed in and “Loser” sprayed on top in black spray paint.

At the moment, you didn’t react. You simply bowed your head and walked past Theseus and the others. Things would pan out eventually…

Eventually came the next day, when you invited Theseus to meet you on the roof of the school with the rest of his friends. You said you loved the prank, though your parents were less than pleased till they heard the explanation of why their car was smashed to bits. You baked them some cookies to show no hard feelings.

At the end of the school day, Theseus and the others march out onto the rooftop of the school, not seeing anything but the gravel that covers the walled in surface. What happens next is a violent blur for everyone but you.

The door to the roof slams shut and locks, and a quick swing of a baseball bat takes out the knees of the biggest of the jocks. Before anyone can really react, you make the rounds, crushing ribs, hearts, skulls, legs, and everything inbetween. Theseus was the last of your targets, and you made sure to make his punishment painful…

Nowadays, you’re left alone, allowed to be quiet in your classes and permitted to relax safely despite being the only person without any supernatural boons.

Theseus lost control of everything south of his eyes that day, and none of his friends were anywhere to be found to explain the ace student’s terror when facing the quiet little nobody.

You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once.

intro to the life series presentation i made to market this thing like propoganda to all my friends, enjoy

[rest below the cut bc this is long lmao]

this was a lot of work but it was also fun. if it inspires 1 person to watch the life series it will have been successful