Open Source: Hoarding Sewer Skud

The Hoarding Sewer Skud
First Appearance: Deviantart (10/29/2019)

Origin
(---"A creature that is known for not only it's aggressive attitude, but it's unrestrained greed as it steals whatever catches it's fancy, taking it back to it's lair and add it to it's massive pile of other stolen goods. The Skud is so protective of it's hoard that it will know if even one piece of it's hoard is taken from the pile. The Sewer Skud is also known for traveling to different settlements and even the lairs of dragons to steal just about anything that it can grab and stuff it in it's backpack, plowing through whatever gets in it's way.

When it needs to defend itself or it's hoard, it can reach into it's backpack and pull out objects like a large, wooden mallet which it uses as a melee weapon; a blacksmith's anvil which The Skud throws at an enemy; and finally a coconut cream pie which it eats to heal it's injuries. When it is on the verge of defeat, parts of it's body start to change to a fiery red color, becoming even more aggressive then before as it uses it's backpack as a weapon by taking it off and swinging it around like a massive club.

These creatures are so aggressive and greedy that they don't even share between others of their own species. This is perfectly exemplified when two or more Sewer Skuds spot each other and attack each other on sight, which usually ends with the victor Skud ripping the head off of the loser and stuffing it's trophy in it's backpack to add to it's hoard.

All of these factors make the Skuds a worthy target for hunters that want to make a name for themselves and also raid a fallen Skud's lair. Though if a Sewer Skud does fall, other Skuds will come to the fallen one's lair to raid it themselves, resulting in a massive brawl which will result in the deaths of many hunters looking for treasure.

Fortunately, Sewer Skuds are few in numbers and all the Skuds currently known are all males, so the chances of the Skud population increasing is fortunately low. If one is so daring to actually hunt a Sewer Skud and bring back it's bountiful treasures, most of them are found within the sewer systems of The Ever-Changing City, however there is one that can be found in The Forest of the Austro via in a large fetid cesspool that has an open sewer line in the center of the pool that leads directly into it's lair."---)

This is kind of my piece of satire about Disney. Such has how Disney is known for buying companies and their IPs to hoard them for itself. Then those IPs are either milked and heavily modified until the IP becomes an empty, desecrated husk of it's former self, recent examples being both Marvel and Star Wars. Or Disney just locks up the aquired IPs in their vault and doesn't have them be available to the public for years, such as what has currently happened to Fox films like Patton, The Fly and The Omen. Then there is the fact that it was Disney that lobbied to extend the copyright term limits via The Copyright Term Extension Act so as to prevent Mickey Mouse's first appearance, Steamboat Willie, from falling into the public domain and in the process, making the first version of Mickey Mouse himself public domain. Though since it looks like Disney's not going to try and have another copyright extension lobbied, we should have Steamboat Willie available to us in the year 2024. And you can bet that I will make use of both Steamboat Willie & Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, the later becoming available to us in 2023.

Though part of the inspiration for this creature was The Rajang from the Monster Hunter series. A monster who is THE nightmare of MH veterans and newbies alike. A creature so aggressive that even an expert player will have a terrible time even hitting it. And that is before it, and I kid you not, goes Super Saiyan and become even harder to fight.

This character was made using Hero Machine 3.

The Hoarding Sewer Skud is an open source character created specifically for use by anyone. Feel free to use it any way you wish. You must also give creator credit.

The image is copyright AFD Studios/heromachine.com and is posted here as a fair use reference.