Terramimi

Common

1 week, 11 hours (Epic)

5 days, 14 hours, 15 minutes (Epic)

Bio (Common): "Before we begin this biography, we would like to reassure all fellow Monster Handlers that this seemingly dying Edamimi is actually far from its elder stage and not even an Edamimi to begin with, but rather an Edamily member that mysteriously came into being sometime inbetween a Harmonious Adventure's endpoint and some Magical Mayhem scheming. How this happened though is an enigma, some believe that a few Edamimi eggs accidentally fell through an X-shaped portal into the newborn Xipper Dimension, while others theorise that it was caused by the "Clavaviral" event that occurred during that same time period, where a big gathering of Clavaveras came together to clap simultaneously, in order to form a portal of their own to the Xipper Dimension in order to send a few curious spirits there to enjoy an afterlife in a "home away from home", which led to a few reincarnations here and there afterwards.

Although the latter does sound more believable, the Terramimi much prefers to keep such big things to itself and the little things private. One thing we can however state about the wither-thriving Terramimies, is how they seemed to of taken many dance classes during their youth when they were still mostly mobile plantsters, but now maintain only their charming rattling tunes that they use to make non-stop with every single move or sound that they made during that time in their lives. At least they can still appreciate things both big and small and give us adorable tiny smiles to let us know that they're still enjoying life regardless of their immobile status... Wait, how does a hole inside of a terracotta head move anyways!? We may never know, in all honesty, yet another enigma to this Edamily member's existence."

Bio (Rare): TBA

Bio (Epic): "It's somewhat surprising how much a flame compliments with a plant. Each cycle, the previous head will tend to its headless body until it grows a new head, then when the new head feels like it's withering, the flame inside of that head frees up, and tends to the body, continuing the cycle. If you ever feel like the Epic Terramimi doesn't recognize you, or behaves somewhat differently from when you've last visited, this is why."

Bio (Extravagant): TBA

## Description

Terramimi is a somewhat plant-based humanoid monster that looks a bit like Edamimi. Its collar, head, peas and hands are all made out of clay. The eyes and mouth are hollow holes, though it has purple irises and black eyeshadow. It lacks feet, instead having a black flowery dress over a dull green torso. It has a beautifully bloomed white flower and a few mildly withered leaves on top of its head, forming something of a bun.

The Rare looks like a sarcophagus with a mummy inside. The vases appear more stylized, and the head, vases and torso are coloured gold and sky blue. It also has a bit of an exotic blue flower on it, and the head has a different hairstyle. It has yellow eyes and a rather "exotic" mascara on that's coloured dark orange.

The Epic is a headless being. Despite that, it appears more alive than its common cousin, with its more saturated green colour, as it is tended to regularly. The head is a blue flame, which is its previous incarnation. It has blue eyes with pink eyeshadow, and a dead-looking lily flower. The body has two purple flowers as its hands, deep pink flowers as the sort of "sleeves" as well as in place of the pods its distant relative has. It has an iridescent blue and yellow-tipped, open lily flower with three long thin golden strands containing pollen at the top (shown by the lighter yellow with black-green in the centre at the strands' tips) standing out from inside of it, about to be another head, and the torso transitions from velvet red at the top to a sort of crimson pink at the bottom, instead of flower petals at the bottom of its body, it rests upon an almost-flat lush green mushroom cap with black-green spots on it.

The Extravagant is the antithesis of every other Terramimi variant, appearing fauna-eccentric rather than flora-dominant. It has an overall burnt reddish brown colour with jet black diagonal lines on both sides of its head, jet black on the sides of its torso and a jet black abdomen with thin segmented yellow lines through it. It appears like a hybrid between a queen ant and a hornet, with the head of an ant with the antennae, eyes and pincers of a hornet, it has a small ant-like torso with a pair of desaturated yellow to hot orange wings like those of a hornet and a pair of lanky thin arms that end with each of its hands inside of a snow white ceramic vase, said vases have a deep indigo leaf-like pattern on them and broken-off gold-brown handles, the wrists and shoulders notably have fluffy vanilla white hair covering them like clothing and it has a fluffy vanilla white and black-spotted hairy collar around the bottom of its thin neck.

Instead of a dress-like lower half, the majority of its lower half is comprised of its large and oval-shaped queen ant-like abdomen which is separated from its torso by yet another fluffy vanilla white and black-spotted hairy collar, to compliment its large abdomen, it has six thin and long dark blue stick-like legs with three small black hairs along the knees, a common leg shape for most insects. Lastly, it wears a bronze upside-down V-shaped crown that has three confettite snowflake-shaped crystals in the crown, one in the bottom left corner, one in the bottom right corner and one in the centre top of it, each crystal's shape is based off a different kind of snowflake formation.

## Breeding

The Terramimi can be bred with any combination of Dirt, Fungus, Spirit. The combinations are:

* Tikiceps + Spectrob
* Banjomb + Fungong
* Mistoar + GneiKo

## Song

It plays a terracotta rattle similarly to how Edamimi plays a tambourine. It notably doesn't have any peas to shake with however, though the clay pots can rattle to compensate, emulating the sound. When it hits its hands together to clap, it emits the sound a rattle makes when someone hits the main part (the top) of it.

## Name origin

Terramimi is the portmanteau of terracotta and Edamimi, taken from its resemblance to the Edamimi, being a member of the Edamily, as well as Edamimi's overall appearance.

## Notes

* The new design is based on Edamimi, a black swan ballerina, a Haniwa (a Japanese statue that is buried in graves), and a rokurokubi, a youkai with notably a long neck.
	+ As a contrast, Epic Terramimi is somewhat based on a nukekubi, though has some aspects from an onibi.
* The technique Epic Terramimi is doing is based on deadheading. It's when you cut off the head of a dead flower in order to encourage a new one to grow.
* The Epic is also loosely based on its original design, with the blue flame and the detached head.
* Terramimi is the second Xalaikhan Monster to be based around an occupation humans can have. The 1st being Choirina.
	+ Ironically, they're both based on the exact same occupation, a ballerina.
		- They also complete something of a life cycle with TooToo; The Student (TooToo), The Teacher (Choirina) and The Retired (Terramimi).