Bile-ridden backbiter
Born from toxic tongues of the discontented the troubled creature known as the Krareen thrives in a festering pit of malice, exclusion and bitterness. It's main goal in life is to seek revenge on the betrayal that birthed it.
They can spawn from a malicious school-yard rumour, a slight on a family member or, most-commonly, a cutting remark of a work colleague or friend without justification. Each unfounded disparagement, each bile-ridden backbitten comment summons forth these grotesque amalgamations of fury and trepidation.
Krareen knows only two emotions, fear and anger. The former causing the latter. It's large stalk-like eyes swivel constantly looking for imagined threats. If it detects danger it will spin revealing its armored carapace and vicious maw while it retreats.
It's anger it directs at its creator and it uses its poisonous, elongated tongue to inflict a form of vengeance on whomever cast it into its cursed life. The tongue is coated in venom and can lash out 15 metres faster than a blinking eye to strike its target.
Those unfortunate enough to encounter even a droplet of its venom find themselves ensnared in a deluge of grievances. They become compelled to lament over trivial inconveniences in a chorus of dissatisfaction, desperately broadcasting petty woes, usually incorrect or easily solvable, to any unassuming listener nearby.
In these turbulent, modern, social-media soaked times, the Krareen has infiltrated most social circles. People are quicker to judge, quicker to snipe slander in person or via social media channels. Unchecked, the Krareen wreaks havoc upon families, severing ties that once seemed unbreakable; friendships decay into obscurity, engulfed by its chaotic presence.
To liberate oneself from its insatiable thirst for strife, one must advocate for open dialogue, forge safe havens for discourse and have courage to confront those who wrong us head on.
The key lesson from the Krareen is to not speak ill of others from the shadows or behind the protection of a screen and keyboard.
Words, especially backbite, has a habit of cutting those who use it the most.