Muttation Contest 2.0

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Attention Members! How would you like to contribute to the 56th Hunger Games, from a Gamemaker's standpoint? Here's your chance to contribute!

Come up with a "muttation" or genetically altered wild beast using the following form, and reply to this thread with your finished product. The best mutts may be included in the 56th or other future Hunger Games. There is no limit to how many mutts you may submit, so feel free to post more as they come to you (although remember to edit your post rather than double-posting if someone else has posted before you)

If your muttation is used, you will receive credit for your little beastie on the Muttation Directory thread that will be present during the Games. Note that the Gamemakers (staff) reserve the right to make minor changes to your creations.

Notes: Mutts involving humans will not be used, and mutts created initially "to kill people," "to destroy people," or "to torture people" will also have to be explained very well to be used. Be more creative than that!

[b]Name of Mutt: [/b]
[b]Species of Animal used: [/b]
[b]Habitat: [/b]
[b]Description: [/b]  (include "Real World Uses")


[Skylar]

Name of Mutt: Tree Bearwhal. definitely change the name if this is picked, I'm completely clueless as to what to name this beast

Species of Animal used:

Sloth Bear*
Tree Kangaroo*
Narwhal*

* link will be provided soon

Habitat: They'd be in the Pillars, in my opinion.

Description: With the horn of a Narwhal, just made proportional, the Tree Bearwhal, or Bearwhal for short, is of the size of a small canine. Roughly knee height when on all fours, and as tall as the middle of your thigh when standing on both of its hind legs, the size of it can make it very underestimated. That is, if you don't catch the horn on its forehead first.

The Bearwhal has the head of the Tree Kangaroo, the Narwhal horn sprouting from the fella's forehead. The horn is roughly an inch at the base of it, with the diameter gradually decreasing as it travels outward.

The body of it is loose-skinned, the color of an agouti hue. It's quite plump, so that if it were friendly, which is the exact opposite of what it is, it would be the type of thing that you would love to wrap your arms around and squeeze, the type of thing that would help you go to sleep at night, but unfortunately, it's vicious.

So vicious in fact, that if something edible comes near it, which is any meat, it will definitely attack, the horn going out first. The Bearwhal though, if it feels threatened by a larger animal, or something that they know they can't take down, it will raise up on its hind legs and spread its arms, sending a shreak only audible to certain things and people. The scream will cause a very severe case of dizziness, which the Bearwhal would take advantage of, if the shreak were to be heard by the item of prey.

If it was heard, the Bearwhal of course would continue with the usual, the horn to the leg, or neck, or whatever it may be, and after that has happened, and the horn is still lodged inside, the Bearwhal will release its real weapon, the venom. You see, there are small pores on the horn, that are activated only when certain liquids make contact with them, such as rain or blood. The beast will then send out a small emission of a pastel yellow ooze, that contains bacteria that infects whatever liquid it was put into, whether that be water or blood or whatever. The bacteria contains small, smaller than microscopic, imbeciles that are able of deadening limbs.

Just watch out, if the Bearwhal were to attack you, prepare for death.

"Real World" uses: The Capitol scientist genetically altered three exotic species of animals that were capable of great things and combined them to cause an even greater thing.

The Capitolites and government placed these beasts close to bodies of water all across Panem, and they put plenty of them.

They were mainly to prevent overpopulation of certain species and to punish those certain people that liked to disregard rules, but once the waters became polluted, they immediately removed them, making modifications and bringing them to the point of Hunger Games Muttation Material. Or HGMM. (Hehe, I made that up.)

Name of Mutt: Zingers.

Species of Animal used: Monarch Caterpillars and Wasps.

Habitat: The Oak Forest place in the Arena. Just a deciduous forest otherwise.

Description: The looks of the Zinger are that of an ordinary caterpillar that a child would love to pick up and play around with. Little did they know, a wasps stinger was hidden inside of the body, ready to release it's venom into whatever was bothering it. After the Zinger flips it's stinger out and penetrates the skin, the venom inside causes hallucinations of the worst kind. Causing traumatic memories to be brought forth from the darkest depths of your mind and cause attacks to be made. The result is dead and/or angered allies and a targeted self.

Real World Uses: Hopefully, just hopefully, this doesn't sound too generic. I tried to go for creative, but whatever:

The Zingers were originally created in the Rebellion to turn those who were stung into warriors for the Capitol without actually hand doing it. For the camps that were made for the rebels, the children would find these Zingers and play with them, only to be stung by the things and sent into a frenzy. The child would either commit suicide if no others were around, or take out the fear and anger on those that were around them. They frothed at the mouth, and it made the whole event scarier. The frenzies would last around 20 minutes or so, but were finally contained by a concoction that counteracted the venom. Don't think they were only used on children though, because Zingers stung just about everything they could sting.

And still do.

[chaseee]

Name of Mutt: That's up to you
Species of Animal used:
||Horse
||Lion
||Different species of poisonous spiders (partially)
Habitat: Scattered around the Open Forest.
Description:
The was made by the Capitol during the Dark Days for two reasons. 1) It was a messenger to the other Capitolites/Peacekeepers who were stationed in other areas and 2) To punish those who rebeled.
The is particularly fast, due to it's horse genes. It can run long distances and it does not tire easily. Due to it's lion genes, it is a fierce predator. It hunts it's prey with a dangerous effeciency, almost never losing it. And, due to the spider venom injected in it's veins, a few bites can cause a very nasty death.
The looks sort of like a Gryphon, out of fantasy stories. It has the head of a horse (with a bushy mane wrapped around it's long head), and the body of a lion (with the exception of it's heavy hooves). It's teeth are longer than those of a normal lion (for reasons uknown) and it's venom practically drips from it's teeth.

[shrimp]

Name of Mutt: Flying Rabbid
Species of Animal used:

- Rabbit
- Vampire Bat

Habitat:

- tropical forests
- Dead Trees (56th Arena)*
- Oak Forest (56th Arena)*

*It could honestly be either or. Or both. They're adaptable.

Description:

The "Flying Rabbid" has the wings and teeth of a vampire bat, and the body of a rabbit. So basically, it's a rabbit with wings.

A flying rabbit.

But this is no ordinary flying rabbit. These Rabbids have rabies, and they are genetically altered, causing the rabies to spread an uncountable amount of times as fast. A tribute that is bitten by one of these Flying Rabbids will have twelve hours, tops, before they develop classic symptoms of rabies.

Normally, Rabbids only attack to feed. Like Vampire Bats, they need to drink the blood of another animal to survive. Without blood, this Rabbid will die easily.

The average lifespan of a Rabbid is a month and a half, or seven weeks. The first two weeks out of the mother's womb are spent growing, and drinking blood. These young Rabbids are perfectly safe to eat; that is, if you don't mind an angry mother Rabbid flying after you.

After the second week, the virus that causes rabies is activated in the body by certain hormones that are released during growth. Around the third week, the Flying Rabbid's meat is not safe to eat, for consumers will develop rabies as well.

Around the fifth week of life, the Flying Rabbids start to mate. Mating occurs during all seasons. The babies grow inside their mother's womb for one week.

For a female Rabbid, the sixth week on earth is when the baby rabbids are born. The average sized litter of offspring for the Rabid is 2 - 4 rabbids per mother.

On the sixth week, both parents care for the children, watching them like normal human parents would, keeping them away from danger, etc.

The Flying Rabbid parents die the seventh week, leaving the babies unattended for one week without the protection of the disease or their parents.

The gamemakers have used the ability of rabbits to live in deciduous forests, and the bat's ability to live in tropical forests to create a dangerous animal that can live in a wide variety of areas.

Real World Uses:

Flying Rabbids were initially used in tropical forests. They were created so they could bereleased into certain areas of the rainforest that were populated, unleashing chaos into the population. Therefore, the people would either flee or die, and the area could be chopped down and industrialized. However, the Flying Rabbids began to kill off all of the wildlife as well, causing many species to become extremely endangered, including other muttations, and certain plants that thrived due to pollination by other animals.

Due to their "consume everything" lifestyle, Gamemakers decided to remove this animal from the wild, and reproduce them to be used in future Hunger Games.

(I feel like a biologist now)

[semper]

[/b] Hyord
Species of Animal used: Fjord horse; striped hyena; bloodhound.
Habitat: Fall trees.
Description: The Hyords that live in the fall trees are much like everyday fjord horses that live in the Districts -- the only thing different, however, is the the coloring, teeth, ears, and vocals. Along with the sandy color of a fjord, there are faint -- but still noticeable -- scraggly black stripes running vertically. There is a sort of black "mask" on its face, and its ears are wider than normal and also black. Their teeth are sharp and jagged like a hyena's, hinting at their love for flesh.

Hyords were created solely for the purpose of tracking down resistance groups, which is where the bloodhound comes in. Because the mutts travel in herds, the Capitol was sure that the mutant equines would keep the number of uprisers down; they circle around their prey, "dancing" -- or more like prancing -- giving eerie cackling laughter before shrinking the ritual-like circle. Hyords, though, prefer to track at night for unknown reasons.


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[-Z-]

Forgive me, for I feel this may be rather uninspired XD

Name of Mutt: Pumpkiller

Species of Animal used: Pumpkin, Venus Flytrap

Habitat: Pumpkin Patch (Duh)

Description: Pumpkillers are a fusion between the Pumpkin and the Venus Flytrap. Physically speaking, they resemble a Pumpkin when dormant, which allows them to remain camoflauged when mixed in with normal pumpkins in a pumpkin patch. However, when meaty-type creatures get a little too close it... Well, you know those lines that run down the sides of pumpkins? A Pumpkiller can split open down these lines, revealing 'petals' of sharp, gnashing teeth. Also, the vines of this plant muttation can be considered 'alive' and are capable of rising up to trip and snare prey to be consumed. For the most part, Pumpkillers aren't fatal for humans, but can do some vicious damage to feet, ankles, and legs. Falling near one would definitely prove bad, at the least.

As for real world uses, the Pumpkiller was designed just for what was mentioned above. When allowed to grow with other pumpkins, or even near fields of food grown by the rebels, they are able to open their figurative jaws and cripple and maim those responsible for Rebel food-gathering.

[peanutpie]

Name of Mutt: Dangerfish
Species of Animal used: Trout, electric eel, viper
Habitat: Any moderate river
Description: A normal looking trout in appearance, has a much more impacting bite. At the first bite, shock will set in and could kill on impact. If it dosent kill (It kills about ten percent of the time) the lethal poison will set in and kill half of the people that injest it, and if not, send them into a daze of confusion and make them pass out for hours.

They were developed because the rebels in D10 and D4 were catching fish that was supposted to be for the capitol, so they implanted these fish that the only difference between the normal trout and these trout appearance wise is that these have a red stripe on the back of their fins.

[Misty]

Name of Mutt: Dougar
Species of Animal used: *Freshwater Dolphin
*Cougar
Habitat: Lakes and rivers
Description: The Dougar is a deadly creature, even if you are just judging by appearance. The front half of its body is that of a cougar with a blow hole on its head while the bottom half is that of a dolphin. Metal razors line its tail, as if that was not bad enough the razors have a paralyzing poison.
"Real World" Uses: The Dougar was made to stop people from sneaking out and swimming or fishing in lakes and rivers. At least it was until the Dougars starting mating with cougars that came in to the water producing cougars with paralyzing poison equipped razors for claws and webbed feet. While the Dougar had a taste for human flesh it was trapped in the water while there hybrid offspring could come on land and where starting to attempt to get in the districts. Due to this the capital captured the Dougars and there Offspring and saved them for the hunger games.

[sbeeg]

Name of Mutt: Tree Pecker
Species of Animal used:

• Wood Pecker The beak strength
  
• Hawk The size- the wingspan- the braun
  
• Woodcock The thin delicate beak for small "drilling"
  

Habitat: Trees, mostly in temperate zones.
Description:
The Tree Pecker is an advanced form of a Woodpecker. Like woodpeckers, they can peck holes into wood and so on. However Tree peckers are large and strong enough to "peck" entire branches off trees. In a flock they could peck at a tree and take it down. However the Woodcock's thin beak allows it to make very precise holes too. The Tree Peckers in a flock use the stronger blunter pecks while alone they tend to use the smaller functions.
They also have been gifted with strong talons that grip wood well, and can crush smaller branches.
They are able to fly long distances to reach their destination given by the Capitol.
These Tree Peckers are brown in color, though they come in many different shades. The females are usually lighter in color but bigger in size. One trait that separates the Tree Peckers from normal birds found in nature are the red markings. They have red feathers at the base of the beak and in a ring around their neck. Red runs along the top of their wings and colors their talons.
Real World Uses:
During the rebellion, the Capitol dispatched these mutts mostly in the District 7 region were rebels would hide in the trees to take their attackers by surprise. They can peck a hole in a branch someone is sleeping on and never wake them up and send them to the forest floor before they know what happened.
With those powerful beaks these babies can do a number on someone face.
After getting a rebel out of a tree the bird(s) would swoop in and peck at their face and dig their talons into their limbs. Most of the rebels died of blood loss from these attacks, those who lived were scared and there are cases of people even losing limbs.

[Cel]

Name of Mutt: Guardsquirrel
Species of Animal used: Rottweiler, Flying squirrel, chameleon
Habitat: Dense forest
Description:

The Guard Squirrel was designed for one purpose: The stealthy guarding of forest areas. To this end, it is perfectly designed. On the outside it looks exactly like a regular flying squirrel. Except for it's rows of needle sharp teeth, abnormally large size, and unchecked propensity for the consumption of human flesh. Oh, and it's scaly skin that is adapted to blend into it's environment. Yeah, except those.

[Jasik]

Name of Mutt: Lurker
Species of Animal used: lion, komodo dragon, kangaroo
Habitat: Pillars
Description: Lurkers resemble large, hulking lizard-like creatures. They're covered in dull gray scales, have a reptilian face, and have a long, heavy tail. However, they stand upright at a height of about six feet and have a dark brown mane of fur around their neck. Another lionlike feature is a tuft of dark fur at the tip of their tail. They have bulky, powerful legs that, despite the Lurker's heavy body type, can launch it fairly high into the air. The tuft of fur at the end of its tail isn't just for show. It can use its tail like a whip, the fur concealing sharp scales that can cut its targets. Lurkers are extremely hostile, attacking anything that comes near them. It can see very well in the dark, but sunlight hurts its eyes, prompting it to find a shady place and sleep until night falls.

Lurkers generally stay in one area, but roam around it quietly, looking for threats. Once they locate movement, they immediately leap at the prey with its powerful legs, landing near it and either snapping out with its jaws filled with razor-sharp teeth or swinging its tail at the target, using it like a whip. Lurkers are mostly nocturnal, but can be awakened by the drop of a pin. Once awakened, the Lurker will angrily lash out at whatever woke it up, not stopping its rampage until everything in the general vicinity is dead.

Used as guards for Capitol strongholds during the war. They patrolled the perimeter and gates, easily killing any rebels that it caught sight of. Due to their aggressive nature, it was difficult for Capitol officials to easily enter or leave the strongholds, requiring the Lurkers to be tranquilized in order to ensure a safe departure. Eventually, the rebels caught on to this method, prompting the Capitol to discard of the overly aggressive mutt.



More coming soon after I finish Mockingjay!

[wingsonmyheels]

Name of Mutt: The nameless one
Species of Animal used: Orangatang, Grizzly Bear, ferret
Habitat: In only the highest of trees, the trees got to be strong though, this thing has the weight of a Grizzly. Description: So its about 6 ft tall with arms that are 8 ft long each, thats like a 18 ft wingspan! It has the strength of Grizzly, but the length of the ape, and uses this to swing from tree to tree. The ferret was added into the mix, for 3 reasons, 1 it just looks meaner now, its got red eyes, 2 ferrets are actually more aggresive than either of these 2 animals, 3 a ferrets claws are a really long proportion to its body.
Real World Uses: Its nameless becuase it was a black op, so the Capitol can deny the existence of. This was a pure cold blooded killer. But oddly enough it was desighned so well to take on large groups of soilders that it occasionally loses a single enemy. (We actually created and fought against this mutt in the thread after class and worked out good there.

[shrimp]

Name of Mutt: Butterbee
Species of Animal used:

-Butterfly
-killer Bee
-aspect of a Chameleon
- aspect of a scorpion

Habitat:

-Fall Leaves (56th Arena)
- Forests

Description:

A butterbee looks exactly like a butterfly, only it contains a stinger near its legs. Butterbees travel in clusters, like their bee counterparts, and are led by a Queen Butterbee. If the queen dies, the butterbees become disoriented, and become easy pickings for desperate tributes. Butterbees are poisonous. Not only is their stinger filled with poison like a scorpion, but their wings and body cause a bad stomachache. Butterbees can sting multiple times.

Normally, butterflies are easy to spot. However, butterbees camouflage into different colored leaves, causing them to become almost invisible. Butterbees are very territorial. Similar to tracker jackers, one can avoid these butterbees if seen from a distance away. But their camouflage makes that near impossible. What's worse, butterbees travel lower to the ground than tracker jackers.

But Butterbees are considerably slower than tracker jackers, so they are actually easy to run away from

Real World Uses:

Butterbees were used to kill jabberjays after the capitol decided to get rid of them. But they soon became a nuisance, so they were captured and used for the hunger games.

[Stare]

Name of Mutt: Evermore Spider
Species of Animal used:
Spider
Mosquitoe
Habitat: Dry Wooded Areas
Description: The Evermore Spider can immediately be identified by thin blue line that runs horizontally up it's black body. The spider is a little smalller than a dime, and has a slender like form, with legs that point more inwards towards the center of it's body, like a mosquitoes'. Also, this spider has a pair of transparent wings, although they only use them when they want to land on something.
Although easy to spot, this creature is almost impossible to hear, unless it's directly by your ear. It's also hard to feel most of the time. This is because when it lands, it inserts it's sharp tongue into your skin, finding the closest vein. Once this has been done, it releases a chemicle into your blood that numbs the area. Once complete, it sucks some blood for a good meal, and then is gone again.
This spider was meant to be a war weapon used by the Capitol, supposed to be huge in size and have a deadly poisonous bite. However, when the Capitol scienists were finished, what came out was the tiny Evermore Spider. The Capitol immediately tried to destroy the mutts, but it was too late. The Evermore Spider multiplied fast, and by the time that the Capitol had come up with a spray that would drive the spiders into extinction, the creatures had proved themselves not a complete failure.
Scientists were able to prove the creatures could be useful, and demonstrated something they had learned from a scientist who had been bitten. The numbing chemicles the spider released also had a trace of the poison that the scientists had tried to incorperate in the bites. Although not dangerous at first, once the numbness went away, it was replaced by an unbearable itching and a bump caused by the poison. As you scratch the bump, it grows, and the itch and poison spread. The more you scratch, the more health threatening the poison becomes. The lump can spread to be over the size of your hand. The poison becomes a serious problem. The first symptom is lack of apetite, followed by unclear thoughts and moderate visions as the tainted blood enters your brain. Next, you either loose the ability to move the limb on which you were bit, or worse, it moves on it's own account. Although rare, a person can die of a bite.
There are only two antidotes for the bites. One is to not itch, and the swelling will go down and the symptoms stop. Some mashed up grass can often soothe the itch, although there are some medicines made in the Capitol that can also soothe. The second cure is to put mix some water and lush grass until you get a slimy gren mixture and spread it on the bite until it goes away.
These spiders were named because although they leave quickly, the bite makes their presence linger longer.

[Cel]

Name of Mutt: Vamp Bugs
Species of Animal used:
Vampire bats,
Goliath bird eating spider,
Mosquito
Habitat: Anywhere
Description:

Vamp Bugs are a horrifying combination of spiders, mosquitoes and bats. They have the same general look as a mosquito, though they are much larger, and have leathery wings and needle sharp teeth. They are typically about a foot in length, and were designed for the sole purpose of sucking blood. After they take all the blood they can (2 quarts to a gallon, depending on size). They burst, spreading the blood mixed with a special toxin. They typically come in swarms of ten to a hundred.