Fixipuddling

The Fixipuddlings are a species from the planet Fixipuddle.

Biology
Fixipuddlings are unusual in that they possess who different forms. Adolescent Fixipuddlings resemble giant greasy green baby squids. While they possess beak-like mouths they also have teeth, some which are eight inches long, which eventually fall out.

Adult Fixipuddlings resemble giant white gooses or chickens on three legs. They can reach a height of nine feet tall and have three rows of eyes running from the forehead to their belly. Their mouths internally resemble something like a half chewed pizza. Both ages still however retain their belly pouches and tentacle arms.

While the story is not clear, Fixipuddling have three genders: male, female or hermaphrodite. Additionally they appear to be a long lived species as it was mentioned by an adolescent Fixipuddling that they spent centuries in space.

Background
A group of Fixipuddlings crashed in Foggy Hollow, where their scan-omatic pciked up a television Christmas show of Santa Claus. They misinterpreted the jolly red man's actions of breaking into people's house and eating cookies, and the elf workforce as those of a dictator. The group opted to seek out Santa and capture him. Using their technology they created disguises of what they assumed to be the native lifeforms that being elves. Coming across Mayor Grass in a Santa Claus suit they capture him. Mayor Grass attempts to explain he was Santa but his pleas were ignored. However he managed to tell them about the meaning of Christmas, though it only convinced them to take him to Ficipuddle as a museum exhibit. It took Miss Earth's entire class to orchestrate his freedom and diffuse the situation. The aliens left with gifts and toys and a new appreciation for life.

Culture
The Fixipuddlings are a spacefaring race that possess space worthy vessels. Others include various pieces of advance technology like the scan-omatic which can supply a written report on a planet's atmosphere, geology, and real estate value. Their WordSearch dials allow them to interpret any language they encounter.

Another example of their advanced technology is the particle shower that directly pick up the users brainwaves and convert the perfect disguise and transform into another species.

Fixipuddling don't wear clothes in public but they wear sleeping socks at home which are made of paper.

Young Fixipuddlings believe that when their baby teeth fall out that the alien tooth fairy will give them money.

Appearance

 * Five Alien Elves by Gregory Maguire (1996)