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[-] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

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

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 1 year ago

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

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

He has not yet attained his final formlessness.

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I always thought he looked like a half filled balloon

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