Monsi

Name: Singular: Monsi, Plural Monsi, Adj: Monsian

Home world: Vehinia (Local language direct translate to “our home”)

Physical Appearance:

Standing at an average height of 8 feet tall, with common variations going as low as 7 feet and as tall as 10 feet. Their appendages are thick due to a layer of scales that cover the entire body. These scales are overlapping and range from soft and flexible to rigid depending where they’re located on the body with areas of friction having softer scales and high impact areas like the shoulders and back having the thickest scales. Monsi scales are blue, contact with the sun can make their scales lighter or darker depending if they get less, or more sunlight.

Monsian heads are more or less spherical, with large black eyes, a large wide mouth, a short nearly flush nose and ears internal parts of the head, with only an external hole. Monsians teeth are sharp and they have many of them.

Monsians have two long arms with two elbows, and a large hand with 8 digits, including two thumbs. Their legs are considerably wider than their arms, and only have one knee. Each leg has three ankles that lead to three separate feet, each foot having 3 digits. This gives Monsians unmatched movement on uneven terrain, and can be used as a sort of thruster when in the water with their ability to “open and close” their feet with one another. When closed, and all digits pointing inward, their leg resembles something like a tentacle.

About Monsians

Climate

Monsians can be comfortable in nearly any climate, this is in part by gene editing technology commonly used in the modern age, but traditionally prefer tropical areas near natural bodies of water. Not because they need water to survive, they do, but because they are just as agile in the water as they are on land. While Monsians are required to breathe air, many Monsians are known for living as much of their life as possible in the water.

Reproduction

Female monsians will lay eggs in a body of water, a male will come along and fertilize it. An egg is not ready to be fertilized as soon as it’s laid, the egg is too small and underdeveloped when its laid, it needs a substantial amount of water in order to grow. Once it’s absorbed enough water the egg will turn a very subtle blue tint, then it’s ready to be fertilized. Once fertilized it will begin growing until it’s nearly 4 feet long and ovular. During this time the egg needs nutrients, not just water. Parts of the shell will fall off, allowing food to drift into the egg where it will find a thick fleshy wall that absorbs the nutrients of whatever comes into the shell. The shell also emits a smell that attracts small waterborne creatures to getting trapped in the egg. Once the Monsi inside the egg is fully grown, it will burst open by producing more oxygen than it needs. The sudden water on the Monsi is supposed to wake it up, and make it try to find more oxygen. The typical time from being first laid to first landfall is 2 years.

In the modern age, female Monsi are required to take gene therapy that prevent them from growing eggs, and males have gene therapy to prevent the urge to find and fertilize eggs. This gene editing is done while the Monsi is still in its egg. Occasionally Monsi do not receive this therapy and are pre-selected before birth to be parents to more Monsi where the eggs are taken, and males semen is taken and later combined in artificial habitats that perfectly take care of the eggs through their lifespan. The creation of life is carefully managed, since Monsi do not die of natural causes.

Advanced Gene Editing

Monsi before gene editing had quite long life spans, and once they unlocked gene editing the few issues the Monsi body had were corrected. This gene editing is now done while they're in the egg, and this practice has been around long enough that any Monsi that doesn’t want to live forever has already died.

Diet

Monsi are omnivores, with a preference for plants. Monsians have a quite slow metabolism given their size. Monsians tend to hold community feasts daily, however a Monsi typically doesn’t attend every day but will attend every 2-3 days to eat only small snacks in between.