Name: Ginny Greenteeth (Elizabeth Landry)
Type: Monster/Devourer
Motivation: A taste for flesh focused on children. Her appetite is never satiated.
Powers: Monsterform, Bond (children), Great Strength (in monster form)
Weaknesses: Reflection prevents changing into monster form, Binding Magic can trap her (Big magic)
Attacks: Slashing fingernails- 3, Bite – 4 harm intimate
Armor: 1 (monster form)
Harm capacity: 8
Description: In human form, a Ginny Greenteeth looks normal, except that close inspection reveals a green tint to her hair.
In monster form, a Ginny Greenteeth has a pale green skintone that is patched with mosslike fungus. This helps her camouflage in bogs and underwater. Her teeth and fingernails are greyish black and are sharp like little knife blades. Her hair is black with a greenish tint to it, that is almost imperceptible unless the viewer is close. Her eyes are black like coal unless she is angry or in the throws of eating, in which the coal eyes seem to glisten like a fiery ember.
Custom move: Soothing words
A Ginny Greenteeth can exhale an oxytosin-rich fume that causes children to instantly bond and trust her. She uses this to trick prey, or to initiate a new minion. She regularly employs children as minions to bring prey to her lair, removing much suspicion and keeping her whereabouts secret.
Custom move: Monsterform
Ginny Greenteeth can only transform into monsterform when either submerged in water, or when water is poured onto it. When a Ginny Greenteeth in human form can see it’s reflection, it cannot transform into monsterform (which is it’s most powerful form). Any reflection, including mirrors, or calm bodies of water would suffice to prevent the change. When a Ginny Greenteeth in monster form is exposed to it’s reflection, it will flee from the reminder of what it has become.
Origin: Ginny Greenteeth are made as part of a pact-curse, usually made voluntarily, but in rare occasions, against the victim’s will. The usual story is that a parent’s child is dying and the parent seeks help from a local witch or shaman to save the child’s life. The desparate parent agrees to give up his or her own life in order to save the child’s. What the parent rarely realizes, is that the process will not end their life, but change it into a ghastly creature, immortal and condemned to live as a creature of the water.
When the life force is drawn out of the parent and into the child, the void of the soul lies dormant for a moment, before the spellcaster replaces the void with a water demon. The water demon empowers the body and binds with the mind of the host. However, the water demon spirit is not a proper fit for the soul of a human, and thusly there is still a void to be filled. That void can only be filled by consuming souls like that which the parent gave its soul to protect, namely children. It is because of this that the being that the parent becomes after the ritual is ever-craving the souls of children. It obtains the soul by eating the flesh. But it is never enough, and the hunger always comes back.
And special thanks to Sarah Richardson who introduced me to the Ginny Greenteeth legend!
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