Bowgart

Common

Bio: "???."

Rare Bio: "???"

Epic Bio: "???"

## Description

The Bowgart is a four-armed humanoid monster. Distinctive characteristics include three-fingered hands, a covering of periwinkle fur, two horn-like protrusions on the top of its head, feet with permeable membranes, and a tendency to bite its lower lip.

Bowgarts' feet are strongly connected to the growth of their horns. Water and soil are drawn in through the membranes on the soles of their feet and are combined in an internal process to produce thin, flat horns. As they mature, a monster's horns begin to curl backward, resembling the scroll of a cello complete with tuning pegs.

Once the horns have grown to a considerable size, they shed. Scavenging strings from its environment, the Bowgart stretches them along the length of the instrument, attaching them to the knobby tuning pegs on one end and creating fine tuners on the other. Finally, it crafts bows from the remains of its old instrument.

The Plant element is shown through its wooden instrument and horns and shown through its ability to absorb water, the Cold element is shown through its furriness, and the Water element is shown through its blue fur.

When this monster is idle, it stays in tempo by steadily holding its instrument and tapping its bow along with the beat. When this monster is playing with its lower hand, it stays in beat similar to when it's idle by tapping its cello with its upper bow.

The Rare Bowgart has white fur with golden-colored spots. As with the Mammott, which is affiliated with Cold, the Rare Bowgart's fingers and eyelids are pink. The Rare Bowgart has additional spiky horns along the sides of its head and upper arms, and claws on its toes. The typical Bowgart horns are darker, with golden tuning pegs on them, as with its instrument.

The Rare Bowgart can also be identified through the fact that it doesn't bite its lip, but leaves its mouth open from time to time. A close examination shows that the top hairs on the Rare Bowgarts are slightly more elevated.

When a Bowgart plays in ice cream instead of mud the **Epic Bowgart** is formed!

Unlike its Regular and Rare counterparts, it has hooves, ears, buck teeth, and 4 twig-like horns. Its fur is a caramel brown with orange red spots, while its fingers and eyelids are pink. Its cello is purple with two spikes on the bottom, and an extended crooked top.

## Breeding

Bowgart can be bred with the combination of Plant, Water, and Cold. The combinations are:

* Furcorn + Toe Jammer
* Oaktopus + Mammott
* Maw + Potbelly

## Song

The Bowgart's contribution to an Island's song is the equivalent of the upper and lower bowed strings, but evidently plays cello primarily and loudly. The Bowgart plays its instruments with a spice attack, to give it a somewhat staccato sound. Its top two arms are responsible for the bowing and fingering of the upper string part, and its bottom two arms, the lower part.

## Matchup

Bowgart would be weak against Plant and Air, and resist Cold and Earth.

## Name Origin

The Bowgart's name may be a combination of the monster Boggart (or "bogart") and a bow, the stick used on string instruments such as the one it plays. It could also possibly come from the surname of actor Humphrey Bogart.