Mei
2 January 2019
Date of Creation
Base Info
Gender: Female
Height:
5 ft 2 (158cm) (Bipedal)
2 ft 6 (80cm) (Quadruped)
Weight:
40 kg (88 lbs)
Personality
Mei as an individual is fairly open and approachable, despite her appearance perhaps suggesting otherwise. She is the type that is happy with her own company but doesn't mind social interaction every now and then. She really doesnt like murder or violence and restrains her natural predator instinct, despite this being really unhealthy for her. She is reletively cautious and very cagey toward new things, she really doesnt like to step out of her comfort zone too much.
Design traits
Mei is a creature known as an "Arachnarekos" and has 3 venomous stingers (two on the end of her arms, and one at the end of her abdomen), and 2 hidden fangs located behind her cheeks, her chest fluff also has poisonous spines.
Her legs can comfortably swivel 180 degrees to allow her to traverse webs. when this happens, her sensing tufts on the back of her arms prickle up to help her sense trapped prey on her web.
Mei is covered in a hard carapace exoskeleton which is enough to resist damage from most things in the natural kingdom. She is also able to fly with her 4 wings which make very little noise as she is flying allowing her to sneak up on unsuspecting prey.
Believe it or not mei (aside from her fangs) does not have any teeth, arachnarekos rely on pre-disolving their prey with the venom and then sorta biting into them and sucking the prey from the inside out after about 30 seconds.
History and inspiration
The arachnarekos race is one of my own, It was partially inspired by the manga "Kumo desu ga, nani ka?", basically where the main protagonist is turned into a spider and dropped into some kind of video game, its quite fun to read, I recommend it!
The arachnarekos race was first designed on the 13th of july 2018
So mei specifically is not the first arachnarekos that I designed, but she is the first to be assigned a personality. The design mostly came from my head as I really wanted to try making an insect/ arachnid looking creature, So I took elements of a moth, wasp, spider and put the elements in a bipedal form, I added additional elements that I thought the design called for, such as the scythe picker arms, point feet and generally a sharp and kinda jagged appearance, which people often associated with insects, And hey presto the arachnarekos race was born!
I did attempt to try and give them 8 limbs initially, but they looked a little too much like a spider and made the design look kinda awkward and clumsy, so I removed 4 of the legs to give a more nimble and less clumsy appearance.
