Elephants and Monsters

Elephant Fact # 17: Elephants are symbols of wisdom in Asian cultures.

Still in a rotten mood.

Drew this.

Most people are often surprised when they chance upon my past sketchbooks and find it filled with monsters—it’s just something I like to do when I can’t think of anything else to draw. There’s no set anatomy with them except for what you decide to give them—which is probably I like drawing them so much.

A Little Background I Thought Up

This one was born of a dream of a French coal miner’s daughter (before they closed down all the coal mines in France, of course), stemming from her fear of the darkness of the mines. The eyes resemble the lights at the top of the miner’s protective helmets. It was born from her nightmares but did not remain there; its presence gradually infected the dreams of the other children in her village before it finally clawed its way into conscious thought.

They called it the ‘J’imagine’ (I imagine) but it is also known as ‘the Thought’. It was given its name because it will appear every time one imagines that it is there, which is why its main haunts are in places that are often feared by children—the basement, under the bed, behind the door, etc.

It normally attacks kids, as they are more susceptible to their own imagination than adults. Furthermore, because it feeds on fears that are set in the fantastical (rather than the rational worries of an adult), as it was of these that it was born from.

The Physical Side

The Thought consists of a tough, white exoskeleton that resembles a distorted human skeleton and is wrapped with tattered sinew and muscle. Its back legs extend over its head and act as its front legs on which the majority of its weight is distributed.

It uses these legs to attack and defend itself as it is made of a considerably stronger material than the rest of its body, save for its head, and because its ‘claws’ are located here.

 Its front legs (technically the back) are the Thought’s weakest part of its body as they are quite brittle. This is why it is covered by the back legs as a defence. Its fingers are grotesquely elongated as it uses this to pin down/grab its food (children).
Its spine can rotate a full 360 degrees for each vertebrae; in the drawing above it's in mid rotation.

Its eyes resemble lanterns. It does not blink.

How to Kill

You can kill it by not thinking about it. Tricky, huh?

The Unlucky Elephant