Phenno

Every Grodotian dreams of the day they can be accepted into the Shadow Hero Alliance, or SHA. It’s a grueling process to be selected, but if you make it you can join Grodot’s finest warriors, professional heros that set off to other planets—and their own—to combat against the universe’s biggest foes.

These warriors are called Shadows, and every good Shadow deserves a Phenno (Feh-no). These blubber-like creatures can stretch, squish, and slither around like a spherical snake. Because of their stretchy qualities, they are next to impossible to kill, not to mention regrowing limbs.

Phenno have a stomach that can be characterized as its own dimension, the space inside it is just that big. Obviously, you can’t tell just from looking at it. This is weird, as they only require water, no food. The water sits in a separate organ in their body, and so the stomach is rendered useless.

Shadows, however, have found good use for this vestigial stomach. These Phenno can be used as infinite guess storage, like a backpack but inserting the hand into the mouth to grab things. Do not worry, the Phenno love this, aren’t harmed, and readily consume anything to keep it in their ‘stomach’. They commonly travel with their Shadows like a backpack, hanging by the shoulders.

Phenno can also change their structure, although it’s not really shapeshifting because…well you can still tell they are Phenno. Each type of Phenno can shift into one creature, and purple ones can shift into a wolf-like creature commonly found in Grodotian forests. In these forms, they pick up the qualities of said creature until they return into their usual globby forms.