About Konomushi

Konomushi is a Gacha Creature in Creatures of Sonaria. It is a Tier 4 flying creature that has a carnivore diet. It currently holds a trade value of 2k-3k with medium demand and is considered stable in the trading market. It was added to the game on January 6, 2023. In the Trade Realm it sells for 1.8K on average.

Price History

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Appearance

The Konomushi is a six legged, two armed creature that resembles a praying mantis with an additional pair of legs. Its pair of arms are long and heavily plated at the ends, and each have three long claws. It has wing-like fins at the base and near the end of its tail, which splits in two. A large pair of insect wings sprout from its back, with a smaller pair at the base of the aforementioned pair. The Konomushi has a long pair of antennae which sprout from a small, pointed, elongated head, whose most prominent feature is its insect-like, giant ovoid eyes. Spikes rise from its shoulders, and hexagonal symbols adorn its plates. **Males**: Males have a small, wing-like "sail" on their backs, 4 plumage-wing-like decorations at the base of its head, with similar decorations at the tip of its antenna; and the shoulder spikes are truncated (cut). Males have a small, wing-like "sail" on their backs, 4 plumage-wing-like decorations at the base of its head, with similar decorations at the tip of its antenna; and the shoulder spikes are truncated (cut). **Females**: Females have 2 pairs of spikes on its head (one pair at the base of the antenna, the other and the biggest one behind their eyes where the upper wing-like decorations of males would go), and their shoulder spikes are pointed. On the other hand their antenna tips are decorated with three far smaller spike-like decorations each. Females have 2 pairs of spikes on its head (one pair at the base of the antenna, the other and the biggest one behind their eyes where the upper wing-like decorations of males would go), and their shoulder spikes are pointed. On the other hand their antenna tips are decorated with three far smaller spike-like decorations each.

Lore (non-canon)

• Konomushi have two different regional variants: those in the temperate forest, and those in the dunes. While the temperate Konomushi are more frilled and fanciful, the dune variant looks much larger, harsher, and spinier.
• Both variants are solely female and reproduce through parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction. Due to this, there are no male Konomushi in existence.
• When encountering others of their species that are different variants, they tend to fight with each other or chase the other off.

Trivia

• Concept by torviin. The Konomushi was inspired by mantids and animals that show parthenogenesis, such as whiptails and/or many other insects. Its name is meant to be read as "コノムシ (konomushi)", which is a fictional name that derives elements from "木の葉虫 (konohamushi)", the Japanese name for leaf insects.[1] The Konomushi's name, when put in Google Translate, means "this insect". Konomushi was originally shrimp based and intended to be all-terrain, but was switched to be flier due to it not maintaining its older semi-aquatic features. It was first named Ikhegani and was intended to be Nimwit's developer creature, but was later redesigned to remove its personal developer related features.[2]
• As an all-female species, Konomushi's in-game gender differences are meant to represent its temperate and arid regional variants.
• In Legacy, Konomushi has turquoise blue blood when bleeding. Due to this, when killed, the Konomushi drops a turquoise carcass in Legacy. This is an actual color in some Earth creatures, from those that use hemocyanin, a blue oxygen carrier that replaces hemoglobin in some invertebrates' blood.