Mindfire
Istar
So, long story short, in my world there are these creatures called the makari. A makari is a spider woman. No, not that Spider-Woman. Closer to this, but slightly less human-looking. Humanoid female upper half, spider-y lower half. The spider half can change into a slender pair of humanoid legs. (Not as in *poof* magically changes, mind you, but more like physically reconfigures itself. If you don't see how that works, you clearly haven't watched enough Transformers.) Makari have venom, spin webs, and basically do whatever a spider can. Makari are self-aware and as intelligent as humans, but they don't speak human language or think the same way humans do, as their minds are quite alien. They also don't have what we could call for the sake of convenience "souls". According to legends and folklore, they occasionally fall in love with and kidnap human men, whom they then marry- and subsequently eat. Whether this is true is unknown. But probably not.
The potentially squicky part is that I'm considering having my protagonists encounter a makari, which falls in love with a member of the group. Its mind starts to become more "human" as a result of this encounter and it eventually starts to wish for a "soul". Where that subplot might go I haven't decided. Opinions? Is the monster/human pining thing too "squicky"?
The potentially squicky part is that I'm considering having my protagonists encounter a makari, which falls in love with a member of the group. Its mind starts to become more "human" as a result of this encounter and it eventually starts to wish for a "soul". Where that subplot might go I haven't decided. Opinions? Is the monster/human pining thing too "squicky"?