FOM: Deuterious/Deutalios (Concept Art) (Patreon)

This was the design of Deutalios that was used in the "Firebombing of Davao" illustration. The design is of course half-rat (probably a stowaway on a shipwreck) and half fish, probably something deep-sea, like a coelacanth, or maybe a ratfish (just for the pun). I didn't include an entry for it (yet...), partly because one-off entries were starting to bloat the story a bit and because the origins of this species shouldn't be revealed until the second saga.

Although many hybrid kaiju are created from the primordial retro-viroid YOG, this is not one of those examples. This is a lineage of abyssal creature which is able to assimilate and take on the attributes of its prey under its own power to gain strength, and the appearance of the rat-fish shown here is not at all what they originally looked like, but that's a story for another time...