Naitomea

Naitomea are a humanoid species from an unknown planet.

Appearance
Naitomea are black humanoids with white heads, necks and hands which creates an illusion of clothing. Their fingers are sharp and almost claw-like and, while generally not used for defense, would cause painful wounds. Normally they have no visible features on their heads. They have a set of four black retractable tentacles which can sprout from their backs.

They also appear to be slightly neotenous as their heads are slightly larger than expected in a human of equivalent size.

When they have captured prey a large glowing eye with a bright honey-orange colored sclera, a dark orange iris, and a dark orange, nearly brown, pupil opens across the center of its face. A jagged mouth also appears at the same place as a mouth of a human and opens slightly larger than a typical human's could.

Powers and Abilities
Naitomea have four retractable tentacles which can be used as legs to walk, to stab, or to restrain. They can stab with them at a speed at the very edge of human vision and thus a human would be able to see it but would not be fast enough to avoid it.

Naitomea can put prey and opponents to sleep and lock them into nightmares. They restrain their opponents with their tentacles and bring them to its face which then forms a line across the center of its face which opens into its eye followed by the appearance and opening of their mouth. By staring into the eyes of its prey, they are put into a coma-like state in which they experience nightmares of their deepest fears. The sleep will only end when the Naitomea decides to end it although this is a rare occurrence.

Appearance
Evolved Naitomea look almost identical to the regular Naitomea with a few notable exceptions.

Evolved Naitomea mouths extend from what would be ear to ear on a human.

Evolved Naitomea tentacles are in three sets totaling at twelve tentacles which gain sharp spikes all over them.

Powers and Abilities
Evolved Naitomea can use its tentacles to restrain prey as well as as incredibly fast stabbing or cutting weapons.

Evolved Naitomea can learn the deepest fears of its prey by starring into its eyes and can then materialize said fears.

Etymology
The name "Naitomea" is a romanization of the Japanese word ナイトメア which means nightmare.

The species name "Somnum exterreri semihominis" comes from the Latin words somnus, meaning sleep, exterreo, meaning strike with terror or scare, and semihominis, meaning half-human(in reference to its human-like appearance).