Monsters/Beast Monsters

Beast monsters usually appear to be alive and animalistic in appearance. They are the most common type of monster, due to their high fertility rate and tendency to have large families [40]. They and boss monsters are the only ones that can bleed [1]. Further, they share the same dietary limitations as their non-monster counterparts [36]. Their ability to digest human food is likely vestigial, but may also have stuck around as a means to prevent starvation [2]. They also have some of the traits of the animals they resemble, such as growing winter fur in some cases [3]. Most of them bleed blood and some of them can make the noises of the animal they look like when surprised [47]. Their tears are primarily water [50]. Those monsters whose appearance corresponds to a venomous animal does not possess that venom and instead has access to a spell that approximates this effect [70]. Many reptilian monsters make laser-like chirping noises when infants or shortly before hatching, much like baby alligators [71].

These types of monsters feel a sense of kinship with animals that they resemble like when humans see a glimpse of themselves in the expressions of apes [82].

It is rare for a monster to be able to be indiscernible from a regular animal, though some can do a good impression of one [42]. Most beast monsters retain many humanlike qualities that the animals they resemble do not possess. Such qualities include secondary sex characteristics like breasts, the ability to emote their faces as a human would, bipedalism, and opposable thumbs.. Mammalian monsters are the only ones who can have breasts capable of lactation [86].

### Basilisks

**Known Monsters:** Bruce Trice

Basilisks only inflict petrification or harm with their gaze if they choose to and it only works with direct eye contact [56].

### Bear Monsters

**Known Monsters:** Safety Bear

Many, but not all bear monsters hibernate at set intervals. Most of those can be woken up mid-hibernation in the presence of immediate danger, but are sluggish and less lucid and will fall back asleep when the danger has passed. The Kingdom of Monsters has a variant of paid leave for this time. Monsters with bear monster ancestry may also hibernate [64].

### Cat Monsters

**Known Monsters:** Burgerpants, Catty

Cat monsters have historically had a rivalry with dog monsters [46]. Their bodies are significantly more malleable than one would expect, even outpacing regular cats in this department. For example, Burgerpants was able to squeeze his head into the Mettaton mask despite all evidence that it shouldn't fit [84].

### Chameleon Monsters

**Known Monsters:** Axel

Chameleon monsters change color to either express themselves or hide. When invisible, they can always be physically touched even if they cannot be seen [55].

### Chimera-Manticores

**Known Monsters:** Snake Eyes

Chinchilla Monsters

These monsters take what they call an ash bath, which is functionally the same as the dust baths regular chinchillas take, but the name is changed because of what dust means in monster culture [77].

### Conjoined Dog Monsters

**Known Monsters:** The Hellhound

These monsters are functionally dog monster conjoined twins.

### Cyclopses

**Known Monsters:** D.D. Nile,Senica, Iris [6]

### Dinosaur Monsters

**Known Monsters:** Griff

The going theory for why these monsters exist is that poltergeists possessed fossils and then mated with beast monsters and lost their undead typing over time, eventually resembling actual dinosaurs [54].

### Dog Monsters

**Known Monsters:** Greater Dog, Lesser Dog, Shizoodle

The first known dog monsters may have come about from poltergeists possessing either dog corpses or forcing the souls of living dogs out of their bodies [8]. Interactions between dog monsters and regular dogs generally consist of a lot of barking and wagging tails, and if they get along, play bows may follow [9]. They have historically had a rivalry with cat monsters [46].

### Elephant Monsters

These monsters have very long pregnancies [76].

### Fauns

These are goat-humanoid monsters. Some of them are considered Fae for cultural reasons, but not all qualify [57].

**Satyrs**

Satyrs are a race of faun originating from Greece. They do not count as members of the Fae and have their own culture, possibly one that worships Pan and other Hellenic gods. Satyrs have an outwardly masculine appearance, with most identifying as male. Occasionally, a female satyr is born, but these are generally indistinguishable from their male counterparts at first glance. They were also some of the first monsters to discover how two males could procreate together, with a dryad or naiad being used as the surrogate in ancient times [57]. It is possible that Satyrs, along with demons inspired how the Church portrayed biblical demons [66].

They can be further broken up based on what animal went into their lower half, provided they are similar enough to goats. For example, Debbie, one of the Pit's announcers has the features of a white-tailed deer [79].

### Fish Monsters

**Known Monsters:** Undyne, Twinkie (Jonny)

*The Little Mermaid* film is popular with fish monsters [59].

### Frog Monsters

The variety of frog monsters is as great as the number of different frog species. Most are small, but all are significantly larger than a normal frog or toad and have impressive jumping length. They have the innate ability to create magical flies to attack foes [58].

##### **Froggits**

**Known Monsters:** Froggit, Final Froggit [10]

Froggits and Final Froggits are the same species, with the latter being older and more battle-hardened than the former [69]. They start as tadpoles and develop into froglets [74]. They developed primarily beneath Mt. Ebott, which could explain why they weren't depicted in human folklore [75].

##### **Ogama**

Ogama were japanese toad monsters that are distantly related to Froggits sharing a common ancestor [75].

### Goat Monsters

Goat monsters look like goats and would not be mistaken for a Dreemurr [12]

### Griffons

Griffons have historically had a rivalry with horse monsters. Breeding with one will produce a hippogriff [46].

### Grimalkin

These are similar to cat monsters, but smaller and actually seem to like wearing clothes [13]

### Honey Bee Monsters

**Known Monsters:** Derbee

Bee monsters reproduce by building a honeycomb and laying between 1 and 5 eggs in individual cells. They cap off the cells with wax and wait for the eggs to hatch [61].

### Horse Monsters

Horse monsters have historically had a rivalry with griffons. Breeding with one will produce a hippogriff [46].

### Hydras

Hydras have multiple heads, but one consciousness and therefore one soul. They begin life as a collection of snakes that eventually fuse into one and become a hydra. They can think about several things at once, which is helpful to solve problems, but can also be prone to arguing with themselves [14]. Hydra blood is much like normal monster blood in that it quickly evaporates leaving behind dust and cannot be used to coat arrows like in myth [67].

### Kangaroo Monsters

These monsters have a short pregnancy duration and give birth to undeveloped joeys just like a normal kangaroo that remain in the mother's pouch until they grow fur [76].

### Kitsune

**Known Monsters:** Copycat

These monsters are capable of possessing humans by entering through the eyes and mouth [15]. and puppet them around in a manner similar to ghosts [37]. There is an ancient rivalry between the kitsune and the tanuki, going back further than anyone can remember, likely starting because both species focused on swindling and pranking humans and accidentally doing so to each other while in disguise. In modern times, the rivalry still exists, but is less openly hostile. Kitsune and tanuki from the Underground had to make nice during their imprisonment and it is now not uncommon to find members of either species from the Underground with ancestry from both groups [46].

### Krakens

These monsters are enormous, far larger than any octopus monster [52].

### Lizard Monsters

**Known Monsters:** Alphys, Otto (RG02), Tippy

Lizard monsters that can detach their tails temporarily lose HP if they do so [16] and some have the ability to regenerate limbs [41]. "Lizardfolk" is a generally accepted term to refer to their race, some Surface monsters even prefer it. However most will confuse that with the dnd race, the terms they prefer are "lizards" and "lizard monsters" [85].

### Mammoth Monsters

**Known Monsters:** The Mammoth

These monsters are significantly smaller than true mammoths and as such do not overheat nearly as quickly, allowing them to survive in the modern day [60].

### Merfolk

**Known Monsters:** Freja, Shelly [17], Rivino [43]

Merfolk can appear mostly fish with some human features or have a clear divide between their humanoid and fish halves, but the majority of them have more a gradient between the two halves, with one gradually transitioning to the other with fish traits sometimes appearing on the upper half [78]. *The Little Mermaid* film is popular with merfolk [59].

### Nagas/Lamias

The original Indian monsters initially looked like large, multiheaded snakes, but upon interbreeding with gorgons, some of them now look like the more widely known appearance of a humanoid with a snake tail for legs. The lamias are nagas that moved to the Mediterranean and developed their own culture. For some reason, male lamias are rare [19].

### Nekomata

A cat monster with two tails that can puppet around a human corpse by jumping over it. They can assume human form, but can't get rid of their ears and tails.

### Octopus Monsters

These monsters are too small to ever be mistaken for a kraken [52].

### Owl Monsters

When these monsters have digested nonmagical food, they regurgitate a pellet [83].

### Rabbit Monsters

They tend to have a lot of kids [21]. Rabbit monsters are born hairless with their eyes sealed shut. Their fur comes in within their first month, and they go from crawling to hopping before they start walking [68].

**Known Monsters:** Flowers, Nicecream Guy, Cinnamon [22], Owen (RG01) [23], Chad

### Reindeer Monsters

**Known Monsters:** Noelle Holiday, Rudolph Holiday [79]

These monsters are largely found in a secret refuge created by Santa Claus in the North Pole. They assist him in his endeavors [24]. They do not lose their antlers with the seasons [25].

### Sasquatches

They resemble large apes and wish to be left alone [26].

### Shark Monsters

**Known Monsters:** Valorie

Shark monsters do not become aggressive at the smell of blood [62].

### Snail Monsters

**Known Monsters:** Sam Byool [48]

Most snail monsters are hermaphroditic [27].

### Spider Queens

**Known Monsters:** Muffet

Spider Queens give sentience, longer life, and greater strength to regular spiders so long as they are near them [28]. This newfound sapience also results in increased empathy in the spiders [72] and drastically cuts down on cannibalism [73]. The Spider Queen has influence over their culture due to their place in their life, and because the spiders inherently know the queen is the reason they can really think, they want to make her happy and make themselves useful to her [72]. Should they stray from their queen, they will gradually lose their abilities [29]. They also seem to prefer to have those who die of natural causes be eaten, even if that includes themselves [73].

Their standard attack method is to summon purple threads that act like magnets for purple souls and then turn the prey's soul purple to keep them from getting out [30].

Male spider queens, known as spider kings exist, but are noticeably smaller than their female counterparts [39]. The females do not eat their partner after copulation [65].

### Tanuki

Tanuki are capable of possessing humans in a manner similar to ghosts [37]. There is an ancient rivalry between the tanuki and the kitsune, going back further than anyone can remember, likely starting because both species focused on swindling and pranking humans and accidentally doing so to each other while in disguise. In modern times, the rivalry still exists, but is less openly hostile. Tanuki and Kitsune from the Underground had to make nice during their imprisonment and it is now not uncommon to find members of either species from the Underground with ancestry from both groups [46].

### Unicorns

**Known Monsters:** Blue Cottoncandycuteness Pink Cloud Jr., Mintchantment Magnifico [31]

Unicorns hold a belief that the younger and more feminine a human is, the more trustworthy they are, considering how dangerous humans can be. As such these people, they reason, are less likely to try and capture them to cut off their horns. Such an act would be pointless since the severed horn would turn to dust and doing so is usually lethal. As such, humans would scam each other with narwhal horns [80].

There is no in-universe reason for the convention their names come from [81].

### Wendigos

Wendigos do not exist in the world of Ask Frisk and Company [33]

### Werewolves

Werewolves are born, not made. They can disguise themselves as human but lose this ability during a full moon. They commonly marry humans, and wizards born from such unions gain the ability to turn into wolves when the moon is out [34]. They take the form of wolves the size of wild grey wolves of an age that matches theirs [51]. The idea of them only being able to be killed by silver came from the concept of silver being a pure and holy metal and werewolves being impure, unholy creatures and that because of this, silver could kill werewolves. In reality, silver has no additional effects on werewolves [38]. Contrary to human belief, werewolves and vampires have historically gotten along, particularly in the United States, likely bonding over shared issues [46]. Their babies are fed monster milk and eventually graduate to regurgitated meat [49].

### Winged Horse Monsters

**Known Monsters:** Pegasus

The only known winged horse monster, Pegasus, supposedly killed Perseus in revenge for the death of Medusa.

### Wolf Monsters

**Known Monsters:** Ulrich Cuniculus, Ice Wolf

Similar to werewolves, but lack the ability to hide their appearance [35]. Their babies start with monster milk and move up to regurgitated meat from one of the parents as they age [49].

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