Brainstorming Frens
Inspiration: Palworld, possibly call the monsters "Frens".
Sexual Dimorphism: Focus on being able to tell at a glance if a Catch is male or female, be it coloration, movement, or different parts like horns and fur.
Stun Period: While whittling down a Catch's health, if they go into a critical state they show it. You can still take out a Catch, but there might be some things you can do with KO'd Catches.
Ecosystem: The caught Catches do affect the ecosystem. Taking out prey Catches will cause the predator Catches to become more desperate, while taking out Predator Catches will make prey Catches flourish.
Fren Ideas
Lava Cactus: A cactus that eats lava rock and essentially paves the way for other animals and plants to florish.
Mushroom Ant/Bug: A bug fused with a mushroom. It grows the mushroom for its main food, sort of farming it to a degree.
Floaty Friend Cabbage: A Jellyfish-Like creature with a strong algae presence. In the daytime, it roams around following the sunlight, and in the night time it dives down to absorb nitrogen. A peaceful, passive species. Probably translucent.
Iron Giant: One of the largest Frens, a mechanical creation. It possesses a sword often and wields it with great skill. A holdover mechanical soldier.
Hornberry: The Males have berries weaving through their antlers, while the females have them on their backs. They drop their horns when defeated or captured, and their meat is a pleasant combination of berry and whatever beast they are.
Rock Crab: Crab-like Frens that at a distance resemble ore deposits which can be mined, but when attacked, they unfurl and retaliate.
Lure Sphere: Whatever this is, it mimics the Spheres/balls used to capture Frens. As expected, the stronger the Sphere being mimicked, the stronger the Lure Sphere behind it. They always drop a sphere of their lure when captured, and probably not much if any sexual dimorphism.
Shambling Mound: Possibly robotic or created, or just unusually bolstered by lightning. These Shambling Mounds live up to their names by resembling piles of vegetation and otherwise at a glance. When lighting struck, they are bolstered instead of immediately catching fire.
perhaps an older, junked form of robot or a robot designed to camouflage well.
Easily Mutable: A Fren with multiple forms based on its environment, with one designated type but several subtypes.
Fruit Hedgehog: Following an old scientific belief where Hedgehogs used their quills to impale fruits for hunting.
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Types
Type Overview: Special characteristics at a glance. Interact differently with each, some positive, some negative.
Possibly all forms of magic that have been mixed
Berry Type: These Types focus on processing the sun's energy and growing new things.
Shroom Type: Similar to Berry Type only instead of focusing on life, it focuses on death. It eats waste and scavenges to reprocess and begin anew the cycle of life.
Mech Type: The main if only artificially created Type. These are robots or cyborgs from precursors.
Fossil Type: These Frens were revived from rock.
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