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[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looking more and more like the thing from Pan's Labyrinth every day...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm a marine biologist. It's obvious he's moulting.
Its his radical final moult, metamorphosing from an aquatic nymph to a winged adult

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that why he must consume the souls of all the children? For energy for the metamorphosis?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, that's silly.
He consumes souls to power the deep machines in the darkness.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, I see. And who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm just a humble marine biologist.
The sea was angry that day, my friends!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

He has not yet attained his final formlessness.

[–] killeronthecorner 3 points 1 year ago

I always thought he looked like a half filled balloon