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Some folks from the ROTG/GOC fandom may remember my shadow child oc, Maghnus. He often took a small dragon form and was rather mischievous. I am bringing him back into the ROTG verse, however his age has been raised a little. Maggy still has a human form he can take, I’m currently redrawing it for the rotg verse.
Shadow Beings: Taking Shape
Maghnus belongs to a subspecies of shapeshifter known as Shadow Beings. His kind can “copy” the shadows of other living creatures to mimic their body structure. For example, if a Shadow Being were to copy multiple human shadows, in time they could combine their varying traits to form their own unique human forms. The oldest and most skilled Shadow Beings can even take the forms of plants, but they are ancient and allusive.
Shadow Beings are typically allusive creatures that prefer to blend into crowds. They are curious and mischievous. Some are known as pranksters, playing tricks on other living creatures and then disappearing, for they turned into something else to escape, such as a mouse or a bug.
A malicious Shadow Being is near unheard of, but not impossible. They live in a society known as Hive Mind, sharing emotions, thoughts, and feelings among their fellow Shadow Beings. The largest colony of Hive Mind extists in deep space, far from the light of stars. Smaller colonies of Shadow Beings traverse the universe and form kinships among others of their kind. These smaller groups are less structured, free spirited, and can cause more trouble and lead to malicious intent depending upon who’s minds they are connected to. A Shadow Being that has been wronged and hurt is likely to share these strong emotions in the smaller groups and influence the others to have malicious intentions.
Lone Shadow Beings are the rarest, their numbers ranging from 1 to 4. The further they travel from one another, the more alone to their own thoughts and feelings they become. In such cases, some Shadow Beings lose instinct to use Hive Mind and close themselves off completely, making them highly individualistic.
A little more recent doodles, 2016. This was a child muse I had that came from a species called Shadow Beings. The second doodle is Maghnus in his late teens.