>>528103467
Cope. DEVICE_FRIEND is a squid-cat creature that's like the real species, Vampyroteuthis infernalis (vampire squid from hell).
>FRIEND lives in the DEPTHS and is covered by a shadowy mantle (what squids have as skin that covers most of their body)
>Vampire squids even look like they have cat ears
>Vampire squids eat marine snow, and FRIEND has major ties to Weird Route and Snowgrave
They even have an IRL fucking bullet pattern:
>If highly agitated, it may eject a sticky cloud of bioluminescent mucus containing innumerable orbs of blue light from its arm tips.
The arms thing in the back of the FRIEND graphic in Chapter 3's opening is also probably tied to Lemon Bread, and thus Shyren/Shyra.