Midari

Midari is a monster of an unknown species created by T1GREXHUNTER. It was first introduced in Monster Hunter Advance.

Physiology
Midari takes on two forms. One acts more like the Frenzy, afflicting monsters in combat. The other appears as a standalone monsters. The common feature is the ability to harden. This allows it to create armor of sorts and even make blades and fangs. When unarmored, even a blade with minimum sharpness will cut it. Hardened parts, however, require blue sharpness minimum to cut through.

Parasitic Form
This form takes over a host monster's body and sends it into a constant state of starvation. It appears as an amorphous black mass that usually covers a monster's head and back. Occasionally, they will take over the monster's arms and/or wings. This mass can shift it's shape and hardness. It may transform into horns for the monsters to charge with, or it may transform into a pair of wings, granting flightless monsters the ability to fly. There are many other things this form can turn into. Some examples are:
 * An extra set of arms
 * Scythe-like blades for close combat
 * Bladed tendrils for long range attacking and climbing

'True' Form
It takes the form of a flying wyvern, almost looking like a Khezu. You can tell how many jaws the head will split into by the red slits that appear during the morphing process. It's front half (Head, chest, wings) is entirely covered by the black mass. It's head is somewhat conical in shape, with a rounded snout. It seemingly completely lacks basic sensory organs, like nostrils, ears, and eyes. Heat sensitive patches found on wyverns like Gigginox are not present either. The head is capable of various degrees of morphing. It can split into as many as eight jaws, with a row of teeth on each. Their neck is quite flexible, stretching like a Khezu's or a Gigginox's. This allows them to reach hunters that would be out of reach to other monsters. Their wings are large, and covered entirely in the black mass. The talons of the wings have been replaced with two serrated blades on either wing. The final part that is covered in the black mass is the upper torso. The midriff is clear of the mass, and is almost certainly a Khezu's lower half. In fact, both the legs and the tail are exactly like those of a Khezu.

Behavior
This monster appeared suddenly one day, and began infecting any monster that it's spores got caught on. The behavior of this monster is a complete enigma, since it mostly stays hidden. What is known is that it spreads spores that catch onto monsters and reproduce, eventually taking over the monster. What is known is that they will harden parts of their body if the part is consistently attacked.

Abilities
In both of it's forms, it is capable of morphing parts of it's body to create extra weapons for it or it's host to use. It is also a very flexible monster, it's entire body almost being like elastic. They tend to fly quite a bit, but not as much as monsters like Rathalos.

Rage and Tired States

 * Rage State: It will split it's head into eight jaws, each jaw with a bladed tip. Blades will also form on it's neck, and end at it's lower spine. It's wings will also completely morph into massive blades. At this stage, it will start moving more like a Pseudowyvern. The parts covered in black mass will begin to emit steam.


 * Tired State: Black mass will drip from Midari, sometimes leaving a puddle after it attacks. The Midari will then have to stop to 'mop up' the puddles.

Mounts
The hunter mounts the monster on it's lower spine, just shy of the black mass. Instead of thrashing like normal, Midari will keep attacking the other hunters normally (if you are in a multiplayer hunt) and the mass will try to throw you o

Attacks

 * Bite: A quick bite forwards.
 * Coil Chomp: Midari will flex it's neck, just like Khezu, and bite. It will do this twice.
 * Wing Slash: Astalos' wing slash attack.
 * Full Chomp: Midari will fully open it's head and slam it's jaws down. If it misses, it will follow up with a headbutt.
 * You Are Food: Midari will attack with both wings. If it hits, it will hold it's victim stationary for a few seconds, while slowly opening it's jaws. If it fully opens it's jaws, it will bite forwards, and trap the hunter in it's jaws. The hunter that was consumed will take damage if the Midari is hit in the head. they can be freed with a Dung Bomb, but the Midari will eventually spit the hunter out.
 * Carried Away: Midari will form a bladed tendril from it's shoulder and swing it around twice. This causes bleeding if it makes contact, and it's damage is doubled if you are hit while already bleeding.
 * Lion Killer: Midari will morph one of it's wings into three bladed tendrils and quickly slash. This attack causes bleeding, and hits a mounting hunter if they don't hold on before it attacks.
 * The Long Blade: Midari will aim one of it's wings towards a hunter before turning it into a long blade. Not only does this attack do incredible damage, but it also causes bleeding.
 * Counterattack: Before an attack, the Midari will rarely morph a bladed tendril from it's shoulder and harden it, usually deflecting the attack. If the attack is deflected, the Midari will then make a quick slash while the hunter recovers. However, if the weapon is too sharp, the tendril will be cut, and the attack will hit Midari.
 * Feign Limp: The monster will act like it's limping and leave to it's lair. Once it lands, it will act like it's asleep. When a hunter gets close, it will quickly snap them up and enter the pin attack from You Are Food. An easy way to see through the feign limp is to check for sleep bubbles when Midari goes to it's lair. If there are none, it has used this attack.
 * Flying Kick: Midari will kick forwards twice while flying.
 * Flying Chomp: It will perform an attack similar to Coil Chomp, but it will end the attack by creating a bladed tendril and swiping the area below it.
 * Razor Slash: Midari will rear back while flying then slash forwards with it's wings.
 * Double Blades: While flying, the Midari will morph two bladed tendrils from it's shoulders and swing them around underneath it.
 * Division: Midari will temporarily split part of itself into a smaller monster. The two can attack simultaneously, but they both use the Midari's HP. Eventually, the split monsters will join back together.

Breakable parts
Back- It's back will be scarred.

Wings- Both wings can be broken. When broken, one of the blades breaks, and the wing looses some webbing.

Trivia

 * Midari is based off of parasites from the anime and manga series Parasyte. Three of it's moves (You are Food, Carried Away, and Lion Killer) are all direct references to the manga's first volume.
 * It's name is a combination of Migi and Hidari, which mean Righty and Lefty respectively. These were the names of the main parasite in the two versions of the manga.