#MissHalloran Writing

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[misshalloran]

Doom Lobster

So here's a creature I came up with in bed when I couldn't go back to sleep and remembered about the Leviathan in Atlantis The Lost Empire, which only gave more fuel. Also, sorry if it's shit as yeah didn't get enough sleep really, and I have only been up for like 3 hours now. (I have been struggling to write things too for a while so that doesn't help lol)

Name: Terraforming Leviathan (Commonly nicknamed by humans as Bob the Massive Ass Lobster of Fear, among other such names)

Lifespan: True lifespan is unknown and greatly varies on ocean ecosystem they are found or put in

Length: Ranges from 200 feet to 7500 feet once fully grown

Width: Ranges from 35 feet to 2100 feet

Description: A large ocean base creature that most would say is a lobster mixed with an isopod for its general appearance towards the face, limbs for the lobster parts while an isopod for the shell.

In first glance, they look to just be a rather "peaceful" creature when viewed through above water. But they are in truth quite violent once you see one attack their prey, much less try to eat it while it is still slightly alive, at least.

As they use their claws to disable their prey before grabbing them with their mandibles to eat. While their legs are used to hold other prey, if they captured any others, to keep them from getting away before they turn their attention on them for eating next.

They are however quite messy eaters as at least 10% of their food ends up randomly in the ocean for other life to eat. With other animal like life eating it unless the meat has digestive fluids on it, which point plants will eat it instead.

Which gives them the main reason they are helpful for terraforming as they help out the smaller and weaker life to spread as time moves on replacing the larger more dangerous creatures over time or to live alongside them depending on the desired end result.

Yet despite their aggressive nature when hunting, they're otherwise rather peaceful for a leviathan. As they tend to more often than not to just float within the depths of the ocean. With weakly swimming towards a random direction if they wish to move instead.

Though, they almost never visit the ocean floor to use their legs for walking, except for laying eggs. It isn't fully understood why this is the only known case of them despite their body is more than suited for it with regard to having anywhere from three dozen legs to several dozens in spite of their love to swim.

On the note of their legs, when swimming they tuck up into the sides of the leviathan to seemingly act like another layer of armor. Alongside, preferring to use their tail and jets of water to swim when not hunting. Only ever using their legs to aid with swimming when hunting to create as little motion as possible to alert prey.

Like lobsters, they do shed their shells as they age to allow them to grow. Yet unlike lobsters, they slowly shed pieces of their shell over a period of a few months to several years, depending on size and age. Likely to protect themselves from other leviathans that would be quick to eat them if they shed their whole shed at once, similar to a lobster. (Just as powerless, too!)

This does mean they can be immortal, as long as they eat enough to keep up with their energy demands.

Oddly, these leviathans almost never mutate regardless what world they are point on, much less the ecosystem(s) they live in.

However, there was one case of a leviathan that mutated where the digestive fluid pouch near their mouth was replaced with that of superheated plasma.

Making it harder to eat their food raw as a result, but believed to be little issue, as what little data ever gathered about it shows that it used this plasma to not only hunt but even cook its food.

The how and why this mutation happen is unknown as even attempts with test subjects to develop this mutation even with gene editing never results in the mutation, if any mutations appear at all. Leaving only theories to come up to explain once in a multiverse chance.