For day 2 of my monster showcase for Halloween here's another creature from Stanton Fink.
Here's the description from his Deviantart entry:
"The so-called Fortress Goddess, or 'Toride no Megami', is a gigantic fish that swims in watery regions of both the Spirit World and the Underworld. 'She' behaves as though she were a normal fish, sucking up potentially tasty morsels, and ignoring everything and everyone who does not catch her attention. Her myriads of followers, and divine and infernal children, though, all claim that she is very sentient but detached.
Even so, a clique of marine demons, calling themselves the "Love of the Goddess," or 'Megami no Ai', use the Goddess as a fortress, making their lair within the hollowed out, reef-like dorsal spines. Of course, the demons have no ability to control their Goddess' movement, not that they care, of course."
As a big biology/ecology nerd, I love the varied forms that symbiosis can take in nature, so a gigantic fish with commensal demons living in a stacked pagoda-reef on her back is exactly my kind of monster.
Fun fact, Toride no Megami's design is based off of Bajaichthys
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