Arachne Liminal

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## General Information

### Habitat

* Spacious Areas
* Dark Forests
* Caves
* Caverns

### Subspecies

* Small Arachne Liminal
* Long Leg Arachne Liminal
* Tarantula Arachne Liminal
* Jorogumo Liminal

## Meta-Physical

### Reality Type(s)

* Manga (Originally)
* Anime
* Video Game

### Media Source(s)

Monster Musume: Everyday Life with a Monster Girl

### Creator(s)

Takemaru Inui

The **Arachne Liminals** are a race of Liminals from the manga and anime series, Monster Musume: Everyday Life with a Monster Girl.

## Physiology

The Arachne Liminals are carnivorous, mono-gendered Liminal race that have a beautiful female humanoid torso but are attached at the hips to the body of a giant spider. They are physically strong, agile, and fast.

The average Arachne Liminal has six eyes but the number can vary between individuals, albeit rare. Arachne Liminal bodies are covered by a hard, though light, exoskeleton. They possess sharp claws on the ends of their fingers which are used to cut open prey, and as such can easily cut human skin. The Arachne Liminals have two set of lungs. One set of lungs are similar to a humans as they draw oxygen into their blood cells as well as separate carbon dioxide. Another is something that all arachnids have, that absorb oxygen into the body from the environment without the Arachne Liminal needing to "breath" in or out.

While typical spiders use their pedipalp limbs (the two front-most limbs) to assist in eating like typical human hands, the Arachne Liminals do not reach their mouth, plus they have actual hands for holding food. So it is believed that the primary purpose of the pedipalps is to hold their mate in place during mating. While possessing a primary spinneret at the rear of their opisthosoma, from which they are able to produce and emit silk like a typical spider, Arachne Liminal also possess spinnerets in their wrists which can emit silk in a similar manner. It is unknown whether the different spinnerets can emit different types of silk, at different lengths, thicknesses and strengths, or if they possess the same capabilities and the Arachne Liminal simply opts to use whichever spinneret is convenient. An Arachne Liminal's second abdomen is large and strong enough to hold substantial weight, but doing so appears to be rather uncomfortable for the Arachne Liminal, so they cannot be ridden on.

Arachne Liminal silk is a rare and valuable commodity. While it has been shown that Arachne Liminal can produce and gather enough of their silk themselves to sell, it has been demonstrated that Arachne Liminal can also have their silk "milked" directly from their spinneret by machine. The process of having their silk milked out of their spinneret is demonstrably pleasurable and arousing for the Arachne Liminal. That area is very sensible. As their silk is mainly composed of protein, Arachne Liminal requires a protein-rich diet to maintain their silk production. Although they typically wear a loincloth curtain to offer modesty and bikini styles do exist to offer effective "coverage", Arachne Liminal do not effectively wear underwear to cover their genitalia or bras to cover their breasts. Whether this is a cultural aesthetic or a personal choice is unclear. They can also produce variants of the silk, ranging from sticky, to stretchy, to tough, to suit whatever situation is required. While most commonly used to catch and bind prey, Arachne Liminal can also use their silk to form a network of threads to sense vibrations and even outright listen in on conversations at a distance and through windows.

Like spiders, anything with a certain amount of caffeine, such as coffee, in it is like alcohol to them. They can get drunk on coffee pending on the amount of caffeine and the type of coffee.

## Pre-Apocalypse

Before coming into contact with the Japanese government in Monster Musume, they lived in dark forests, deep caves and caverns as they live in "community nests". They were known to abduct humans by using their webs for entrapping men and women and killing them through either eating them whole or biting into their skin and sucking out their bodily juices like a spider. This cause them to have a bit of a negative reputation, as an all-female species, they capture men in order to mate. Groups of the Arachne Liminals are also known to participate in groups if they have one male or have groups of them. Additionally, it is unknown whether the Arachne Liminal that captured the male has first rights to mating with/owning them or if men are caught to be shared by the nest or if the leader of a given group gets first rights to him.

After coming into contact, they released many males that were captured against their will as part of the Cultural Exchange Between Species Bill. This did ended the abduction of males that were held against their will, and to be forced to mate, but it does have a bit of a negative consequences on the Arachne Liminals' side as their birth rates were starting to decline. This force their culture to evolve to become "more open" as many nests send in "expeditionary forces" via the exchange program for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not Arachne Liminals and humans can coexist as equals despite the Arachne Liminal's intimidating appearance and generally reticent behavior and humanity's tendency to vilify anything different from themselves. However, they do go after males that have a "bondage" fetish just like they do.

Some of them, however, use their silk threads to create clothing and garments such as stockings, underwear, shirts, dresses of all types and even kimonos. Sine it is more durable than steel and more elastic than nylon, they last longer than normal clothing. Some of the Arachne Liminal silk is also used in creating kevlar and cloth body armor. Others are also used as medical suture threads.

## Post Apocalypse

When the apocalypse came, many of the Arachne Liminals left to join other Arachne Liminals to form new nests on other worlds with plenty of males for them to abduct and have them mate to expand their community nests. But they also abduct females as well to increase the number of males to reduce the chance of having their new nests being discovered. Despite being open to other Arachne Liminals and certain Arachne species that don't eat their mates, they aren't fans of the Arachne Mamonos. For the Arachne Mamonos often steal human males from their nests and selfishly keep them for themselves. As a result, both species refuse to get along that often lead to strife among the two Arachnes. Even lead to bloody battles and possibly cannibalism.

Others, however, do find some comfort in making clothing with their silk in fashion companies. Some of them are even fashion designers themselves to promote their own styles. Although, they still have their flaws when it comes to seeking a mate.