Aranea Mulier

*“A special organism found only in Yosemite National Park with strange Refinoc-class Gear attached to her body. This entity, seemingly humanoid in nature, is a dangerous adversary capable of advanced combat and manipulation of artillery. How strange...”*

## *History*

This creature, designated as “Aranea Mulier” is a special organism rumored to exist in the massive cave system located underneath Yosemite. This, however, remains unconfirmed. She is also the only organism with her body type actually visibly seen within Yosemite National Park. She is commonly referenced to as both being named “Aranea” and being A Aranea instance, so her classification can become confusing. It is unknown if she truly has an actual self-designated name or sex/gender.

Aranea was first discovered as a definitive anomaly back when Yosemite National Park was first founded, and has ultimately become an urban legend of the location. As it is often hunted by Refinoc Task forces for strangely acquiring their gear, it seems there might be a logical solution for such an anomaly. Considering the place is guarded heavily by Refinoc Task Force officials such as the Feds to deal with the public outcry of the strange cryptic, Euclidean’s to search for the anomaly, and even Hazzers to search the sighting locations for minuscule details regarding the creatures existence. So far, nothing has been discovered greatly about her.

## *Biology*

#### Daily Life

Apart from the hunting lifestyle of Aranea, she also has an extremely strange lifestyle she meticulously follows in the seemingly same order, demonstrating a capability to think and remember. This proves her extreme intelligence. For starters, her clothing consists of a very old black and white milkmaid outfit, styled to personally fit her and is exceptionally cleaned and sewn, meaning she takes extremely good care of her clothing. It is assumed she repairs It using her webbing-which would explain its natural durability-and yet seems to adorn strange armor piece% related to Refinoc organization armor around the black sections of the clothing on her body. This is most likely due to the fact that she feeds on meat and has incapacitated multiple Refinoc team members before, she simply harvests the armor for later use. With the support of this s theory is speculated that her various outfits are also partially made of the clothes of deceased humans, as this would explain the reason she harvests armor and the phenomena of corpses usually found with ripped and tattered clothing surrounding them. She tends to wash the clothes before taking them down into the Cave Systems. Provided this mostly nocturnal monster will usually hunt, feast, gather items and explore outside the caves at night, it has been reported that during the day she will retreat to the cave systems, dwelling in the darkness. She seems to fear light, but isn’t directly hurt by it and if taught light is harmless, can grow from it.

#### Hunting

The life for “Aranea” as an organism is a rough one, as a creature of her size remains extremely painful. Because of her rather large size for an organism thriving in the wild must require a lot of food. In her case, Meat. The amount of meat she must consume must be 3 to 5 pounds a day-not including the incredible amount of energy expelled from her rigorous daily activities, DOUBLING it to a whopping 6-10 pounds of food per Day. Compare this to a wolf, which would only consume around as low as 2 to a max of 7 pounds of meat a day in order to live contently. Because of this, her extremely extensive diet recommends she must feed on larger prey, not your average little rabbit. This is where the missing person accounts and deceased animal corpses come into play. Recently, in a recent study, it had been shown that over time animal corpses have been found, gradually increasing in brutality and numbers until the very first missing person reports have been issued in the park, reports rising to public eyes while the Refinoc organization began its very first operations. Ever since her steady incline of feeding on humans and animals, she has been an infamous cryptid of the Refinoc team and the National Park ever since they were founded.

#### Sociality

She is an incredibly submissive yet defensive cryptid, as she will often flee at the sight of armed humans and can seemingly tell when her prey is armed and their weak spots, tending to single out her prey or find weaker humans to consume, then targeting the strongest. She indeed can speak human languages, and surprisingly English as well, however is extremely nervous when doing so and will much rather attack her target then try and talk to them simply out of natural instinct. It is presumed that she gained the ability to understand humans by “living” beside the visitors at the park. She tends to remain incredibly aggressive to humans for an unknown reason and will result to singling them out to killing them if they are in a group, and will often use the environment to her hunting advantage. Despite this she has an incredibly childish demeanor, often smiling widely and, when she does interact with people, usually obeying what they say. She also has a younger sister named Corrie.

#### Relationship with Corrie

Corrie is a smaller relative of the Aranea Mulier sharing the same attributes as her older sibling, except she possesses human legs and nowhere near as good eyesight. Corrie is a rather simple girl who tends to act much like her older sister, both blissfully ignorant and sadistic for hunting prey. Out of them both, Corrie is more passive and weaker in nature, however Corrie can be found outside of the Yosemite National Park, hiding away her arms to make her seem human.

## *Physical Attributes*

Despite Aranea Mulier’s nicknames and classification, she is technically not a spider. Aranea Mulier seems to be a strange spider-like arthropod in general, as she seems to possess spider like limbs and pincers like that of a Crab. These strange bodily mutations are nothing, however. Her body physique is generally very slim and built for lightweight agility, and possesses a human-like body with feminine features and golden hair, allowing her to carry around her body with extreme ease. Aranea possesses four rather massive limbs like that of a spider that impale the ground and extend over three times her body width, allowing her to move almost twice the speed of a human and impale her prey with these blade like legs. They can fold together and compress to work like human legs, crouching to her size. She also possesses two pairs of massive arm-like pincers that are located where her human arms would be, each pair attached to her same shoulder joint. These limbs, thinly formed and covered in a strange exoskeleton, are much more durable yet stiff than her thin human body, and will often ravenously attack her prey by slicing and tearing them apart. She also seems to possess a very joyful facial expression when meeting nice people, usually greeting prey with her gleaming golden eyes and an extremely wide, toothy grin. Don’t fret-these teeth will bite. The Aranea Specimen also has various other attributes, including a strange skill in utilizing firearms collected from Refinoc corpses, and a special sensory apparatus located in her mouth underneath her tongue. When using this apparatus, she can release it from her jaws to which it looks like a very small version of one of her pincers, and prick a subject with it. The purpose of it is to release a special pheromone; one that helps them distinguish a target from prey and either platonically or romantically greet them. Basically, this apparatus helps tell her friends apart from her foes. She also has a special sac within her throat that lets her salivate spider-like web fluids that become extremely sticky and durable once making contact to the air outside of the mouth.

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