Parents have wishes for their children.
Monster parents tend to have monstrous wishes for their monstrous children.
It is with this in mind that one has to take the name of Tarrasque Gegenees into account. The Gegenees are a family of six-armed beings, the majority of them fairly large giants- not the largest in this or any world, but certainly giants. When an offshoot of their main family started intermarrying with gorgon and lamia (and occasionally stranger monsterfolk) of relatively appropriate size, it was with good nature that the news was recieved- surely adding more monster traits to a monster family can result only in good things!
It did, but not the kind of 'good things' that the elder monsters of the family were thinking of at the time. The diluting of giant blood brought a gradual reduction in size, and the adding of other monstrous traits resulted in different abilities coming to the forefront.
Tarrasque's parents are both more Lamia than anything else, though there are certain advantages to their mixed ancestry, some of which skip generations or even just show up occasionally. Two of these are present in Tarrasque- one being exceptionally tough back scales, particularly on the serpentine part of the body. Extra arms are native to the family, of course. The heavy scales minded her proud parents of the tails of the Tarasque, whose name has since been appropriated by some humans who really should know better- and what better to name their daughter, who would surely be a vicious devourer of men, reminding humans that monsters are to be feared, to be abhorred, and to be fled from on sight!
Unfortunately for Tarrasque's parents, they forgot that some traits are not immediately obvious.
Like stomach acids more suited to digesting prepared food than live prey.
Also, children become teenagers before they become adults, and teenagers often try things their parents don't approve of.
Like making friends with their food.
It takes Tarrasque weeks, at best, to digest people if she eats them. During the first week, at least, of each meal her parents insisted she should have to 'whet her appetite for human flesh', she had the opportunity to discuss with these people. To come to understand that they, like her, were people, who didn't want and likely didn't need to die, who had thoughts and ideas and experiences that were interesting. Electricity, and devices, and buildings with heating, and 'games', and the like. These meals never sat well with her, though she could hardly do anything about it with her parents watching over her. At least, not until she was a teenager, and was sent out to hunt, solo, for the first time.
Being a teenager means being kind of stupid sometimes. Fortunately for Tarrasque, she chose the perfect time to be stupid, approaching a small city in Britain in the middle of the day- specifically, the campus of a small mixed-species high school. Her furtive rapping on the front door eventually yielded a conversation with the principal of the school, soon added to by the presence of the school counselor, the chief of the local police, and after half an hour or so, a few government officials.
Cue timeskip.
Tarrasque 'Tara' Gegenees is fresh out of high school. A relatively quiet girl despite her size and nature, she tends to blend into the background as best she can with her obvious inhumanity, more of an observer of people than anything else. Bright orange eyes watch the people around her, always learning more about their cultures, their habits, the things they do and who they do them with (or to). Not to say she isn't friendly- if approached, she will be open and calm, pleasant and curious. But she never raises her voice if it can be helped, and she goes out of her way to avoid inconveniencing smaller people. Who's smaller? Almost everyone. And most cars.
Her serpentine body is nearly fifteen meters long, though she often coils it up partway to keep it from interfering with the daily lives of others around her. Her scales are a soft, almost grassy green color on the back, though they look quite thick- and they are, enough so to protect her from hazards the likes of which she is unlikely to ever face. The scales of her underside are a pastel shade instead. She typically wears skirts in earthy tones around her waist, from which rises the torso of a woman perhaps six feet tall, maybe a bit more. Her apparent height, naturally, depends on how she's holding herself. Tara's build is a bit on the thick side, likely a result of the perhaps over-nutritive American fare she subsists on now. Her skin is pale, but not pallid, as she spends enough time outdoors in the sun to keep from going bleachy. Her tops, again, are usually in earthy browns or greens- often sleeveless so that she doesn't have to get them custom-made, though she does own a few personalized hoodies with four sleeves for her arms. Tara's face is a bit on the narrow side, though rounded enough to be considered 'pretty' by most people. Her ears are slightly pointed, and her eyes, as noted, are a brilliant orange color. Just for the sheer amusement of it, she's gotten a 'snakebite' piercing- two silver rings embracing her pouty lower lip.
Instead of hair, though, she has a rather large number of green grass snakes, all of them well-behaved and long enough to hang down to her human waist if they decide to- usually, though, they are gathered into a ponytail that hangs forwards over one shoulder, silently tasting the air around the lamia. If she's heavily provoked or extremely nervous, they may hiss quietly, but that's all the sound they're capable of.
Tara can still swallow people, of course. And retrieve them (which she always will if she can). Usually, though, she doesn't, reserving that sort of experience for anyone who she feels especially close to (nobody, so far). She does look rather fondly on most of the people she was fed as a child, since she learned so much from them.
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A note: While Tarrasque is vore-capable, I prefer to use her mostly for not-strictly-vore stuff. Please don't yell at me about preferring interactions or anything like that; the vore elements are an integral part of her character concept, and thus I really [i]can't[/i] use her in many settings to begin with.
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