Mono Mondays: Fire Fox

On Mondays, we like to support our resident artist, Mono!  They're an up-and-coming scribbler of things dark and weird, and we consider ourselves lucky to have leeched onto— er, formed a mutually beneficial relationship with them.  You can watch Mono hard at work creating various pieces on their YouTube channel.  For those who don't feel like watching digital paint getting splashed around, we'll be showcasing a different piece of theirs right here every Monday.

This week, despite the title, we aren't discussing internet browsers.

The critter above is a "fire fox," and it lives inside geothermic walls.  Per Mono, it has adapted to superheated environments and doesn't like to leave them.  When forced to, usually for food-based reasons, it uses its small hands to rapidly climb.  They're said to be related to the axolotl-cats from a few months back, and the two animals would probably get along if it weren't for the fact that the fire foxes are temperature-sensitive and thus dislike water.

When not hiding in cracks or scurrying up superheated rock faces, fire foxes are apparently quite docile.  They especially like being gifted heated stones, but you should know that temperature-sensitivity also applies here.  Give them a stone that differs too much from their preferred habitat, and they'll become irritable and throw it back at you.  Normally, being pelted with a small stone is more embarrassing than anything else, but Mono helpfully pointed out that if the stone was only a little too hot/cold, you're about to be smacked by an object several times hotter than boiling water, "possibly burning your face."