Focus Strae

**Focus Strae** are Variants of the Strae that reside in the Defunct Factory.

## Aesthetic Differences

Focus Strae have an orange cytoplasm with a red tint, their body is light grey and contains on it a dark blue heat organ and a black brain. Cyan colour heat nerves go around an eye stalk longer than its body ending in a large eyeball with compound pupils, each able to fire a laser drawn to focus by the main one at the centre.

## Behaviour

Focus Strae alongside their standard counterparts in the Defunct Factory act as a means of defence in the locale. If they see an intruder they will look at them immediately and begin building up power to the eye. Should they not leave, they shoot a beam from the eye to burn them as their way of attack. They lack any form of threat of anything that may intrude on the mechanical grounds, as such emotions hasn't been implanted into them, even still trying to attack if its eye is destroyed.

They usually stay in one place in one area, but on occasion they will move around the map and search out for things.

## Rage State

If a hunter remains in its sight for enough time, its glow will brighten and it'll shoot beams faster. This also allows one to do its signature pin attack.

## Attacks

* **Eye Zap**: An occasional alternative version of the Eye Beam, where it will quickly release a quick flash of fire from its eye at hunters. Usually done as a warning shot or after it realises a damaged eye cannot fire beams. Signature to the Variant, several weaker zaps will also be shot in different directions all thanks to its multiple pupils.
* **Charged Eye Zap**: It draws focus to its centre pupil and fires a more damaging flash that is able to inflict knockback on a hunter.
* **Eye Beam**: Stares at its target with it's eye and keep it on them as it concentrates heat to its centre pupil. When it flashes with an ember it fires a beam of scorching light that for hunters will inflict gradual Fire damage and for other monsters will likely cause them to flinch if they don't have a resistance to the element. The Focus Strae has significantly better tracking with the beam than the standard Strae.
* **Focused Eye Beam**: With focus on its target it draws all pupils to the centre with near perfect tracking, the beam that is fired is thicker and drains health faster than the standard beam. A hunter is advised to evade right before the beam fires, as the tracking becomes very slow during the actual attack.
* **Beam Cage**: Its eye will briefly shine brightly towards the target. With them focused in, the Variant leaps onto the victim and attaches onto them. Immediately the Cytoplasm's heat does minor damage via Life Drain and then a minor chip as tiny beams identify the essential part of the head. For hunters, they have but four seconds to get the Focus Strae off them before it activates the eye's beams that close in on the head like a laser cage. The danger is that for a small monster, the damage done during the duration of the laser vice rapidly drains away health in large chunks at a rate enough to cause a faint in the two seconds it's active. The Focus Strae then detaches and remains on the spot momentarily while its eye steams. During the entirety of the attack including the aftermath, the monster can be destroyed in a single hit by anything other than its victim. While hunters can get clear of this pin, small monsters that can also be affected by it are very unlikely to get free of it and the attack will cause certain death once completed.

## Breaks

Focus Strae are small monsters, but like their standard counterparts they have breaks relating to their eye.

* Eye Stalk
	+ Heat Core (Instant Kill)

## Trivia

* This Variant's eye will still be broken if it is attacked while firing beams, though it requires two strikes to cause it instead of one like the standard Strae. Attacking the body after destroying the eye will rupture it and kill the Strae outright in a small bang, dissolving it to boiling liquid.
	+ If attacked while it does its Beam Cage, the Focus Strae will be instantly destroyed in one hit, going straight to the Heat Core break.
* The only two monsters that Focus Strae will not attack are Kraysawis and Mustanae-muhan, the two main monsters in the Defunct Factory.
	+ Both monsters utilise them in their battles, with the Mustanae-muhan having actual control over them in the mechanical abomination.
* Focus Strae was the final monster Chaoarren created for FanonMonsterHunter before he was banned.