When I was coming up for ideas relating towards what it was that I wanted to do for my digital storytelling the main idea that I liked the sound of was cryptids. After this I looked through some of the cryptids. I looked at some of the popular ones such as Bigfoot, Nessie and the likes. And I also looked at some of the more obscure ones, such as Momo, Ogopogo and so on. After looking at a few I finally decided upon one, Mothman.
I looked into some of the theories surrounding Mothman, the main ones being about his arrival. There are two main theories about why he shows up, the first one is that he arrives at nexus points these being points in history that consist of large quantities of death to consume the energy that the deaths creates. The other theory is that he is the cause of these events, and he uses them to still gain energy.
After getting both of these theories I started hatching a story around them, I thought “If he’s a interdimensional being, why would he only show up in the present. We don’t know how old it is or how old it even can become.” Hence the futuristic theme used in my idea.
The reports of how Mothman looks can vary from a large owl/moth like creature to something more humanoid similar to that of batman. Though no matter what there is a recuring feature that repeats in every encounter which is two red eyes that seem to always watch you. Which is the main part of the mothman that I will be using making it so that you never see the mothmans body but you do see his two red eyes watching the death happening and then once its done looking at you instead.
