This isn’t the first time someone has suggested that the platypus is a weird gryphon, but I think it is much more interesting that they are normal, mundane animals! No magic needed to produce this little weirdo.
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Haha, But what if they were griffon and paired up with mallard duck?
Or vulture/Hyena
Bearded vulture and striped hyena would be my combo of those two. The patterns and mohawk would be fantastic.
And Bearded Vultures aren’t naturally red, they like to paint themselves red with pigment, so it’d be neat to know if their griffins would be inclined to some sort of related hobbies or interests.
Yep!
We did have a beardie a while back…
https://www.skindeepcomic.com/reader-questions/2023-reader-question-109/
But, yeah, a hyena / beardie mix would be nasty, considering both have fun with bones…
Pairing up a platypus with anything seems to make something like the weird gryphons that bats seem to make… a new type of monster entirely.
What a cutie? Oh, you know what would make this platypus even cuter? A little brown fedora…
Just don’t let it near any pharmacists.
heres the real question is a platypus actually a magical creature or not?
It’s clearly it’s own kind of magical.
Could we get a platypus that’s been magically given an education, so that we can have a magical platypus too?
Maybe with a wizard hat that looks oddly similar to a fedora?
An avalon of hat-wearing totem beings that bust international bad actors, perhaps?
And there’s a very tall, lanky troll who was raised by garden gnomes who tries to invent new ways to take over the TRI-AVALON AREA! Also, his brother is a “mayor” of one of the avalons.
Okay, now we need a platypus griffon.
For the bird part, I’m not sure. What would be weirdest, a rhino hornbill or an inca tern?
We actually had a platypus/kookaburra… 6 years back?
https://www.skindeepcomic.com/reader-questions-storyline/2018/page/13/
And they glow under blacklight. (:
What does blue mean!?
I understood that reference.
Would platypus and springhaas be friends in the mistaken for chimeras club?
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were something like a Totem Platypus though
I’m more interested in if there’s still a Totem Thylacine….
I can see some of the magical critters being *absolutely unable to cope* with the idea of the platypus being a mundane natural critter.
“Someone MUST have done magic on it!”
Platypuses are shown to have split (from echidnas) “19–48 million years ago”. Unless it’s a fact that magic was not yet around back then, how would you disprove it having been involved?
Time to request a Pokemon griffin whose competitive viability is only surpassed by its cursedness: Blaziken/Incineroar.
Was the Lady of the Lake a nixie?
Am I making this up or was the platypus basically considered a cryptid until there was concrete evidence found of their existence?
Technically no, because the taxidermied platypuses brought back to Europe were concrete evidence but the scientists were so incredulous that they kept searching them for those “apparently amazingly fine” seams where the taxidermist had “sewn different animals together”; hence, they were considered cryptids/fakes well beyond that point.
They are already special in their own unique way