Thanks for all the advice! The two options I liked most were lammergeier and deer (thanks, @Doephin!)... and then I remembered I was already intrigued by perytons and their glorious fake-ass origin story*, so I split the difference and went with one of those.

* https://offbeat.fandom.com/wiki/Peryton

I think I'm calling her "Eusebeia" (ef-SEV-ia, Gk.: "piety"). It's got etymological roots in "fear of the gods" and "flight from danger." I like that in this context: a monster who has to eat (and otherwise deal in) human entrails for nutritional, cultural, and devotional reasons, and is very devout and unashamed of those practices, but REALLY tries to do her dirty work as gently and humanely as possible.

Hence the necromancy... so she can get "humanely sourced" organs when possible... check on her prey after the deed... make sure they get where they're going okay... and maybe arrange new corporeal digs for them if they had important living-person business to finish.

I think this might be a good headfriend for me. I'm trying to come to terms with the last two years, and the fact that I am a difficult person, with some ugly neurological burdens I can't always snap myself out of. This is someone who's pretty much permanently saddled with an unpleasant nature. She can't stop it and will no longer apologize for it-- but she's going to show the world just how good a monster can be, ravenous or not, if she sincerely keeps working at it.

She's just... gonna snap and eat someone if you don't feed her a dwarf heart every couple of days. *awkward cough* She'll try her best to make sure it's someone who was being a jerk.

Granted, that kind of friendship's not for everybody... but if you happen to know where to get a pile of spare dwarf hearts, hell, she's a pretty good friend and ally. (What's up with that shadow, though!?!)

@zebratron2084 She sounds fantastic. :D

@Balina I'm still tryin' to pick a good native era and genre for her, but I think she's a LITTLE young, given she was just created today, for RCGs...