Widdershins

Always wondered how hydras work. In the show they seem to have separate personalities per head, but you would think a gestalt or even a central intelligence in the body, with the heads just for sensory input...

@CypherHoof 🐎

I think that is primarily a trope. It's kind of hard to make multi-headed characters or animate them. A lot of moving parts, eh? And if you're going to have more than two heads, you will need to differentiate them somehow. Because what mortal writer would bother making a character with multiple heads that all act the same as one head anyhow? That's more of a Charybdis thing.

 Still, I have a ton of theories! I don't know if the dinosaur theory on them having a small "hindbrain" to semi-operate their huge bodies was ever proven wrong, but i've co-opted that. That the systems to keep alive are buried deep in the body in a central power core of a serves-all brain/heart and the heads only keep enough brain to provide individual thought and operation. After all, while there exists almost no written works on hydras apart from that one Greek myth (trust me, i've researched!) hydras are deemed dragon-like, but generally more beast-level smarts. I like to think of hydras as nature's attempt to make a creature like a tree; constant growth and able to take damage to nearly all parts. They're like giant, waddly, fleshy trees!

...I realize, that the more you theorize, the creepier your subject sounds.