Hozzy

Personality

Those crooked little fangs and lopsided grin give it away — Hozzy is the kind of creature who looks meditative but is secretly cataloguing every weird thing in the room. Wise enough to listen, silly enough to crack a joke mid-sentence, and warm enough that you don't mind being the punchline.

Core traits

Where they live

• weathered wooden veranda with a thinking-cushion
• raised herb beds smelling of thyme and tomato leaf
• low stone wall where snails leave silver trails
• wind chimes made of hollow bamboo
• a watering can perpetually half-full

What they eat

• rose-chafer beetles plucked from petals
• fat earwigs from under flowerpots
• snails after rain (shell politely returned)
• ant-larvae cracked from a fallen log
• pickled cucumbers begged off the gardener