It's a monster that feasts on pregnant women's buns in their ovens. But in my canon, that's purely propaganda used to outcast Aswangs, particularly the type in this story is the Manananggal, who are judged for how they act, which includes stimming, lack of social boundaries, intensity of emotions, and deemed monstrous by society simply because of possible dissociative episodes, but the main character is the most civilized individual in the series. I have autism and hypergraphia, and this character instead has hyperlocomotivity and hyperprecision. He is civilized because despite of how awkward and disruptive he is, he is radically kind to anyone, even horrible people who want to destroy everything he is, and desire to censor what he is. Oh, he can also divide his body and reattach body parts, like in myth. What makes him unique is that his faith allows for this magic system called Usog, powered by faith, but Aswangs usually cannot use such a power. Furthering his isolation, making him borderline delusional rather than faithful.
