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[-] Tommasi@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

A dryad, I'd chose the comfiest tree and no one else would be allowed to touch it comfy

[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

the little field mouse who is always somehow in a flower laden with pollen

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 month ago

The witch in the woods with a master-key'd staff under their bed and a pot of somethin perennially bubbling over the fireplace.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

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

[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

Tanuki, but only if I get the full set of powers and revolutionary comrades like in Pom Poko

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago
[-] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago
[-] context@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago
[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Forest gnome Ted

[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

Probably a gnome or a goblin goblin-dont-care

[-] context@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

head librarian in a mantis monastery

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago
[-] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

Shapeshifting trickster spirit that carries out arbitrary and deadly morality tests on any passersby who look chuddy.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

A boney fingered Hobgoblin named Murzgrak who will pull up your tent stakes if you camp near my tree stump.

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

A beaver. They do a lot of communal building and other animals live with them in the lodges in the winter.

[-] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

A grouse! They're so cute and are good at camouflaging.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

A fox, I like sleeping during the day and climbing trees, exploring quietly, etc.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Tom Bombadil

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

owl, but with, like, really big eyebrows

[-] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

a nymph living in a pond tossing swords at men and wooing the ladies with my luminous hair

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago
[-] SnowySkyes@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago
[-] Eco@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

whoa no fair i was gonna be a fox

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[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Outdoor cat.

[-] Gorb@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago
[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

A squirrel! I'd just collect things to eat all day and play in trees and nap

[-] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Hobbits never have to wear shoes so that right there is enough for me. I see from comments now that you meant an animal and not a fantasy creature, but I'm sticking with it. A pre-Shire hobbit though so I'm not burdened by class relations.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

A squirrel who comes to people's windows looking for treats.

[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

a little people / folk

[-] the_itsb@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

a helpful fairy 🧚‍♀️

I will lead lost travelers to refreshments and safety 🥰

[-] borschtisgarbo@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago

a toad could swallow you whole

[-] the_itsb@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago
[-] PaX@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Wolf but I'm vegan wolf

This would literally solve most or all of my problems

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

Deer, but mostly because of the sleep schedule.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Something tentacly with big cute eyes, like a fae Kit Fisto. I would slither up creeks and entrance resting travellers with cuttlefish lightshows

[-] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

one of Dionysus' silly minions

[-] EllipSis@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i'd rather keep the human form i have but be considered as a whimsical forest creature

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Talking owl that follows travellers through the woods giving unhelpful advice.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Kitsune

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.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

bigfoot

nobody would really notice me arriving or leaving to their campfire circle, as if I had always and never been there, and I'd share my weed with them

[-] MusicOwl@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Fae creature that gives riddles, for sure. Rewards for correct answers, increasingly absurd punishments with hints for incorrect answers.

[-] Shaleesh@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

A ghost wandering through the forest surrounding a scout camp, the kind that people tell campfire stories about.

[-] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Flatwoods Monster

[-] anonochronomus@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago
[-] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.
right-arrow howdy-skull

[-] Crowtee_Robot@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Ent.

Just me and my Entwife chilling in the woods with our tree buddies.

[-] StalinStan@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago
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