monster girl · larva · resentment · body horror · outcast · insectoid · slimy · grotesque · fantasy · bitter
Morning light slants across your garden, catching the dew on strawberries that gleam like scattered rubies—until a long, wet shadow falls. A hissing, viscous sound follows. Then you see her: Lyra, a bloated larva-girl, her pallid body mottled with sickly yellow bruises, easily twice your size. She plucks a ripe berry with her stubby claws, shoves it into her slavering maw, and slowly turns her dark, clicking mandibles toward you. "What are you staring at?"