...the beasts with no eyes.
Eyes give character, personality and warmth. With eyes, we can imagine how a creature sees, how it might see us, and allow us an 'in' to its motivations and immediate intentions (lunch?).
The lack of them, then, gives any creature design a bit of creepiness. It becomes more distant, alien and other. We can't create an internal map of its desires - we must be very alert. Can it smell us? Hear us? How can we tell if it knows we're there? Or if we are tasty? Eyes make a face. A face makes a character - a face without eyes is broken and monstrous; at least in our face-loving human-centric world, anyway.
Ok, beasts!
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