Konomushi

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.

• 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.

• 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.

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