Creepy Character Models

Another School Project for the course was designing a creepy character of some kind. I took inspiration from anemones, and figures that I'd be creeped out to see at night or in dark hallways. And so, the "anenemies" were born.

They have some backstory for extra substance as well. It gets a little weird and lengthy but take a read if you'd like...

Despite the elves and humans holding a strained cooperation with each other exploring the cosmos as fellow scientists, one persistent trouble they began to share was the rare sight of exotic-looking alien species everywhere they examined. They assumed that they just haven't landed at the right place, or that masses of civilizations were simply ready to jump off the radar and go into hiding as soon as something foreign approached them like a school of fish seeing a hand dip into the water. Time and time again, teams were unable to find any sentient land lifeforms, so instead, they decided to become a little braver and backtrack to the planets they'd been through to check for any life in the seas. Within a matter of a few years, they found one new species in a very primitive state, but their best quality was that they occasionally went up to the surface to haul rocks to the ocean floors to weigh themselves down to deeper levels for food and new shelter. They were solitary by nature and only grouped together when there was plenty of food or when the mating season arrived.

The elves were not impressed and were quick to abandon the planet's life, hoping they'd meet something more technically advanced like them somewhere.
The humans were excited beyond belief. Maybe it's the closest connection they have to these kinds of roots that gave them some strange connection to them and quickly tried to put their foot down to advance their way of life. They goaded them into moist caves to teach them fire, how to communicate with the groans and gurgling sounds they make, and use tools. However, all their attempts were seen as a waste of time by most of the scientific community, and this human team was constantly being forced to shut down their activities. They were labeled as "Wannabe G's" because they wanted to say they were playing God while remaining somewhat secular.

In one last ditch effort, they began secretly taking these anemone creatures into an underground research facility before being fully shut down, so that while the community stayed certain that they were banned from the planet, they could keep a healthy 300 specimens around to interact with. Though it was safer to say only 200 were actually put to use for the objective of making them people-like. A hundred were physically examined to understand how they functioned. Just as they figured, they're no different than bipedal anemones: They at first had no eyes, no brain, or hearts. They essentially just existed knowing where food was, how to reproduce, and where to stay away from harm. more members lost their patience and left silently. The remaining team, with their leftover specimens, were soon starting to lose a few of their creatures by the day due to being unable to keep up maintenance.

Then suddenly, help arrived at their doors. Aurora Tech came in, almost totally aware of their actions, and reconstructed their facilities underground so the aliens would thrive. The founder Aurora also came to give them extra funds and discreet transportation to the planet to gather more survival items for the sake of their project, in exchange for one other request. She wanted special sentries based on these simple creatures and argued that to make these things have their own cavemen era, they need to force their adaptation to the modern world faster. So these humans raced to do just that, starting with using their new funds to craft new eye organs to plant into the aliens so they could see, spent years rewiring their nervous systems to be akin to humans by implanting people cells and miniature brains into their lower bodies, and finally bulking their legs so they'd be better at carrying themselves on land. The first generation of these rebuilt aliens, while awkward and short-lived, were able to make tools and, the Wannabe G's even managed to make them do simple tasks like pick up a camera phone and communicate to another of its kind across the screen with bioluminescence to tell where food is. They were clearly skipping a few steps with the phone but if they were able to start understanding simple tasks it was a dream come true. If they stayed the way they were, spare for the scary feature they have of opening up their upper bodies to eat, they could start showing these off to somebody that would be impressed.

However, the second generation and onwards became irredeemable monsters. An investigation occurred in their area due to all the suspicious flights to that banned protected planet they got their resources from, and they were getting closer to them, until one day, a group of officers found one of the Wannabe G's underground entrances. They went deeper into the corridor until they found an open room with one of their test specimens with the scientists. It saw the officer enter, and with a few bursts of light from its exposed tentacles two others of its kind tackled the investigator with its stingers until it died, and swallowed it whole, soon they decided to let all of the aliens loose to find whatever officers remained, but all the stress and trauma that came after eating these human threats and moving to a new environment made the third strain extremely hostile, and quick to mature as well. The window to calm them became shorter and shorter until a time came when it was too dangerous to approach them without special suits mimicking their skin and glowing tentacles (made from the aggressive kin they had defended themselves from). Additionally, they started to tire much more quickly and went back to being stationary or taking slow, lumbering steps until prey entered their line of sight, where they would immediately bumrush their victims with their stingers in a straight line due to the tunnel vision they get while entering the sprint. Soon, more participants left the project entirely once the new goal seemed lost, and the population of the original aliens went extinct due to their constant seizures, stress-related deaths from trying to escape humans, and sickness. Those that stayed to salvage their research were eaten, and the lab was empty for months as they ate either each other or the remains of any carcass they found.

Aurora returned once they came to be what they are now and reconfigured the place to be a nest for them to breed in as she collected this new species to play the role of her new guards for her most confidential projects. With a few modifications, she taught them how to identify all the workers she had in her workplaces by sight and the weight of their footsteps. Aurora even gave them a new way to feed by providing the creatures with a nutrient they could absorb in their skin to fill their bellies. Of course, if there were any trespassers, there is still a violent way of eating their prey, if need be.