Carnation Brustlers

See Carnation Mold on my profile for an idea of the environment these are planned around  being used in.

These are low down long reptilian adjacent creatures covered in feathers identical to flower petals, leaves, and stems. A Carnation brustler has two long legs halfway up on either side of it's torso which it may tuck into it's sides to alternatively slither. their eyes barely visible black dots on the sides of their heads while their hood is up but when they reel back their flesh hoods to attack and reveal their meaty pale skinless heads and sharpened beaks underneath those eyes become very apparent large black voids. Built into it's lower jaw (also concealed by the floral hood) protrude two sharpened bones detached from the rest of the creature's skeletal system, under these are strong lung like muscles which build air pressure until bursting a small seem to jet out and launch these harpoon reminiscent bone spikes built to expand slightly after stabbing into a target. Long rope like tendons slick with it's naturally acidic bodily liquids that also serve the use of pumping acid into the target can be latched onto by it's developed throat muscles and reeled in, dragging whatever poor soul was struck by them with it.

Carnation Brustlers are territorial creatures who often form symbiotic relationships with oozes and unless their territory is encroached on are docile. They rarely are found in big groups known as "Bustles" (which typically only spawn when many large oozes grow to a significant size and merge into one) but typically are monogamous creatures found in pairs, usually a brustler preferring to stay with predominantly one ooze and one other brustler to form a family. Brustlers are widely assumed to be untamable due to the dedication they typically have to protecting their nests but on the off chance a lone brustler is found (most likely a child, referred to as a flower snakes) when trained and treated right they can make lovely pets becoming very affectionate and protective of their owner. Bustlers do not naturally coat themselves in their own acid, reserving such for their harpoons so owners of brustlers (although few and far between) seldom need to worry of their corrosive skin if they commonly wash their brustler and keep it away from acidic oozes. When not hunting brustlers typically spend their time sleeping (often close to another creature if they can.). Under a monitored diet a pet brustler will not grow to their full size as seen in the wild, however this is a good thing as typically larger brustlers are more likely to become aggressive as they get older. 

Finally, a brustler will heavily prefer staying with a Carnation Mold over other oozes but they have been found to live symbiotically with almost every species of ooze that resides in the same places as them (even in rare cases two brustlers have been seen transporting and willingly hosting creatures such as Slithering Trackers who seemed to get along greatly with the brustlers despite their nature. In cases like these it is more so the brustler who acts as the nest for the ooze, regardless, the relationship dynamic stays similar.). In the cases where brustlers do make friends with other species of ooze typically their coats will over time change from floral designs to ones that allow for camouflage within or around their chosen ooze.