a helpful fairy 🧚♀️
I will lead lost travelers to refreshments and safety 🥰
a toad could swallow you whole
no u
Talking owl that follows travellers through the woods giving unhelpful advice.
In Japanese folklore, kitsune (狐, きつね) are foxes that possess paranormal abilities that increase as they get older and wiser. According to folklore, the kitsune-foxes (or perhaps the “fox spirits”) can bewitch people, just like the tanuki they have the ability to shapeshift into human or other forms, and to trick or fool human beings. While some folktales speak of kitsune employing this ability to trick others—as foxes in folklore often do—other stories portray them as faithful guardians, friends, and lovers.
Some sort of fae that will force Hexbear to get math degrees and become polycule graph theorists with riddles and oaths.
That or long elk.
Flatwoods Monster
Ent.
Just me and my Entwife chilling in the woods with our tree buddies.
Wisps seem pretty cool
Gwragedd Annwn, just chilling in a lake, guiding travellers to the lower world, fucking up farmers as punishment for mistreatment of animals. If my exploits spread far enough amongst the fearful townsfolk they may even build a statue of me.
elf or dwarf
A dryad, I’d chose the comfiest tree and no one else would be allowed to touch it
the little field mouse who is always somehow in a flower laden with pollen
The witch in the woods with a master-key’d staff under their bed and a pot of somethin perennially bubbling over the fireplace.
A hedgehog. I know everyone else is going for mythical ones but please try and fail to convince me that hedgehogs aren’t whimsical. They’re tiny adorable waddling grumpy balls of spikes what could be more whimsical than that