Dusk Kite

The Dusk Kite is a large cryptid monster purchased by Chopstick Eyes from an unknown (and potentially nonexistent) dealer in order to take her friend Liv, a flightless Gemstone Gardener, for a rideFirst look at the Dusk Kite. - https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4903840.
The Dusk Kite is a roughly circular glider consisting of hundreds of overlapping fractal arms, branches or tentacles, radiating from a central point, with a diameter of several hundred meters. These are very flexible and form odd patterns based on its position and mood. Their surface is extremely light-absorbing, and are as such nearly impossible to see against the dark background of night. It may be a hyperdimensional entity, existing in more than three dimensions of space.
The Dusk Kite has very few other organs. They include:
* An elaborate circulatory-digestive system of some kind, spread out ‘like the tributaries of a river with its mouth in the center’
* A sensory system tied to and possibly synonymous with its circulation
* A jawless mouth of some sort
* A long ‘tail’ to which Chopstick may attach herself
* An array of photonic jet propulsion organs around its core and the inner parts of its arms, which allow it to travel under its own power in a ‘colourful process [that] only illuminates part of the creature’, including the ‘veins’.
The Dusk Kite subsists, as far as is currently known, exclusively on sunlight absorbed through its manifold body surface. It stores solar energy in its tissue, and concentrates and ejects it through its photonic jets to move.
Due to the focused, beam-like nature of Heliopolis, Galbar’s sun, the Dusk Kite does not orbit the sun, but rather orbits Galbar itself on the opposite side of the sun. It alternates between absorbing sunlight beaming past the twilight circumference of the planet, which pushes it further out into the Celestial zone, and avoiding the light in Galbar’s shadow, where it is slowly pulled back by gravity. Due to its distance and impeccable night camouflage, the average Galbarian denizen has no hope of ever sighting it.
During its first flight, the Dusk Kite attempted to catch or enmesh Chopstick Eyes in a web of slender tendrils when she approached its core. Its motive, if it had one, is unknown, possibly self-defense, curiosity, or hunger.
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