Guide on Novels and Games - FANTASY - MONSTERS - JELLY

APPEARANCE:

This type of monster appear like... "jelly"... for put it into another way, think of it as a mass that is not liquid or solid and that can have various colors... some jelly monsters are described with a structure that in a way are similar to puddings so think that this monsters are basically puddings that are a little more seethrough is not wrong.

The most famous monster of this type is the slime.

BIOLOGY:

Roughly speaking, various type of this monsters are more similar to a cell.

There are mainly 3 types of this monsters that are:

* Multy-Cells, this is a type that is a multicellular being. In this case every cell of the body can assume various functions, an example of this can be give by the fact that usually jelly/slime monster are said to envelop their prey and dissolve it and this work because the cells around it start to work like a stomach digesting the "food".
* Core, in this case the monster have a solid or a more dense and dark colored core that is basically both heart and mind of the monster. Being like this have this core as their main weakness but this don't mean that the density of their body is so low that it is easy to hit the core.
* Only core, in this case the real monster is not the jelly itself but only the core while the jelly is just something make by the monster for act as body.

Given this traits this monsters have high regeneration abilities to the point of regenerate lost portions and absorb lost parts for "heal" themself but they are not limitless so don't be deceived and start to think things like that they are the strongest one.

Another point to take into consideration is that most of the time this type of monster is treated as stupid but given the points I listed before is even possible to exist very smart slimes since they basically can become a big brain.

LIFESPAN:

In none of the works I saw till now I was able to found something about the lifespan of a slime or any other type of jelly monster... probably no one ever though about it is even possible that a slime can even live forever if something or someone kill it.

In a manga I follow a slime is tamed by the MC of the story but 3 years later is dead but it wasn't explained how it died or how old was the slime so I can't say nothing for sure infact is even possible that thanks to their particular structure they don't suffer of old age like us.

REPRODUCTION:

Given that they are cell like beings, they don't need a partner for reproduction but they simple use a process called mitosis.

In the case of jelly monster that have a solid core what I think is possible is that a new core is formed inside the already existing one and than expelled out with the new core that take a small part of the jelly body that then become independent and free to eat and grow as it like.

From what you have saw here is easy suppose that slimes and jelly like monsters are basically genderless for nature... but this don't mean that they can't develop one via external stimulus.

VARIATION:

This part is a little difficult for the simple reason that if we put together all the various variations that already exist we can come with the conclusion that slimes are basically chemical laboratories and that each variation is a specialized lab.

Some examples of them are acid, poison, adhesive, various type of gas like sleeping one, etc