Mchtik

The Mchtik, also known as Complete Waste of Space, is a two headed creature found in just about every forested area of Ximizhlum.

Being herbivores, the mchtiks will go out to munch on any soft vegetation in the early hours of the day until around noon, after which they will spend the rest of it being lazy and useless.

At around 140cm tall and 90cm wide, they are considered an average sized creature. Mchtiks live up to a maximum of 9 years.

The pink to purple coloured bulbs on its heads is used to attract mates. The brighter the bulb, the more likely the mchtik male is to find a female. Mating is very important for the mchtiks, as many of them die during the harsh Ximi winters, leading to the females laying dozens of eggs a year. Their shell grows with them, and they will change about 3 shells in their life, all during the first two years of growth.

When threatened, mchtik packs will team up and mass rush the attacker. They will scream really loudly and headbutt it until it gives up and runs off. This can sometimes backfire and lead to more mchtiks dying than if they just ran off and let the individual to die.

The screaming of the mchtik sounds a lot like kitten sounds. They will stay away from human settlements as humans considered them to be an annoying pest and will kill them or chase them away.

Despite being born two headed, mchtiks heads will sometimes fight one another for dominance of the body. While the fighting can become bloody, they will never kill their other head, as it would inevitably lead to the death of the other head as well.

Mchtik meat doesn't taste good, their skin is fairly worthless, their shell isn't very useful or sturdy, they are lowly intelligent. The only thing good about them are their eggs, which taste about the same as chicken eggs, albeit slightly larger. That alone is not good enough to warrant domestication and so the mchtik continues to be an annoying part of countryside life.