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[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[–] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

He has not yet attained his final formlessness.

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I always thought he looked like a half filled balloon