Something has been bothering me for a while, but what exactly

>>54378361

They'd probably start carving off their other eye tentacles on account of how imperfect they are, resulting in the most terrifying of threats: THE UNIHOLDER

Paranoia doesn't require the presence of other people. It could think others are plotting against it without ever seeing evidence that these "others" exist at all.

>>54380124
>Paranoia doesn't require the presence of other people. It could think others are plotting against it without ever seeing evidence that these "others" exist at all.

That's a pretty thoughtful insight, Anon.

First, it would deal with all of those pesky animals plotting against it. Then it will ponder whether it is paranoid enough to be suspicious of plants and react accordingly. I'd give it 50 years minimum before it either suspects that it is plotting against itself, which could lead to all sorts of mad shenanigans, or it goes full circle and begins craving the company of intelligent life. Anyone who finds this sad creature will first be welcomed as an honored guest before slowly realizing that their host has no intention of letting them leave.

>Beholder delights in solitude
>Begins to have nightmares of other Beholders coming to its lovely world and trying to take it, other, ugly, horrid things, not worthy of such joy
>New Beholders are born

>>54378361
They do what all biological life does. They reproduce. In a few centuries there'd be a small colony of beholders madly plotting against each other.

>>54380365
What about convincing it to come along then?

>>54380124

> literally /pol/

>>54378361
Periodically, the beholder finds a spherical object and uses its laser beams to lovingly craft the object into a rendition of the beholder's own perfect form. Eventually it forgets about the object, finds it again, and destroys it for being a grotesque mockery of the beholder.

>>54378361
>>54380124
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>>54380869

Are Beholders autistic or schizophrenic?

>>54380920
The impression I got, somewhere, was they were so dramatically xenophobic that they hate everything that isn't literally them, including other beholders. But I'll admit I haven't read a monster manual recently.

>>54380920
Paranoid schizophrenic with some hefty sides of narcissistic personality disorder and OCD

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>>54380818

The more I learned about them, the more I began to think that Beholders had almost a disturbing amount of qualities in common with many "over-thinking" stylized self-insert anime/manga characters and that the only thing preventing more people from relating to them was their appearance.

>>54381018
It's not a bad quality when it's meant to be a monster.