This lack of information has not stopped the shumondrin from appearing in a plethora of visceral media (some bordering on the obscene), however, which paint it in a wide range of depictions – from the elemental and ghost-like, to the highly (and some would say, repulsively) anthropomorphic. These otherwise fictional depictions do share one conclusive detail from remaining notes, however – there was only a brief window after the stranger's slit-like eyes opened up, and before the shumondrin's tissue paper skin broke apart. It is during this time that the stranger was considered at its structural apex, as was the "crushing silence" of its shed.