ignore the journal, but how monster is monster? my anime roots are showing, but i've been looking to play a demon fox-- sentient, but humanity-hating, and he's actually huge and whatever, but i can play him less gigantic. he's got the whole king of the beasts thing going on thing, too, and he's definitely got more ~mythical origins than anything easily explainable, lol.
otherwise i'm down for incorporating the fox thing into a human container so it's a feral-tendencies-but-it's-not-a-literal-animal... or mix of both with there being stages of shifting between man/animal? either way, let me know if this is up your alley. :)