The Dobhar-chú, like many Celtic, water-based creatures, are things you don’t want to mess with. Totem otters are usually nice, though. The dichotomy of Otter.
The Dobhar-chú, like many Celtic, water-based creatures, are things you don’t want to mess with. Totem otters are usually nice, though. The dichotomy of Otter.
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Dobhar-chú: Someone will die
Otter totem: Of fun!
The Totem Otter’s shirt reminds me of when the Bon Marche was still around and would partner with Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle and Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma for Mom and Me at the Zoo every Mother’s Day. Each year had a theme, and one year the theme was “You Otter Be There.” Ah, I kinda miss it…
I love seeing your take on folklore I’m familiar with cause you always make them look so cool!!! if you want something extra spooky I’d love to see your take on the nuckelavee the most messed up one I know of from celtic(? With nordic influence) culture. Not much to do with the comic though at least I HOPE the nuckelavee is too messed up for the skindeep universe
So basically
Otter
Giant river Otter (they are terrifying roaming gangs of violence in their natural habitat)
And zoos,a group at a Netherlands zoo killed a police officer
The “dich-otter-my” you might say.
I’m also very fond of otter-like depictions of ahuizotl
I wonder if there are a lot of celtic water-monsters for the same reason as Kappa… Scare kids away from water because a monster is scarier than the risk of drowning.
I want to pet Dobhar-chú, but I don’t think I otter
Dichottermy.
And then there’s the whole ‘Nessie is just a string of otters’-thing
“Otter space” reminds me of the webcomic “Orbit: Encounter”, it’s about an uplifted otter exploring a derelict spaceship. But given what’s left to encounter on the ship in question, it’d probably be better to send dobhar-chù here… (It’s a horror comic, there’s gore and monsters.)
Yes! Poor Oscar was not at all properly prepared for the slavering horrors he encountered, but he’s surviving!
What happens if a species goes extinct when there are totem people alive when it happens? Do they just die? D:
They die.
https://www.skindeepcomic.com/archive/greetings-from-dogpatch-14-feh/
Okay, so theres otter based critters.
How about badgers?
Brother Badger of the Native American lore of the southwest comes to mind.
So dobhar-chú and otter totems exist, but what about the Kawauso?