#just slapped a whiteish background on because this fucker is meant to live in pitch black darkness

[transingthoseformers]

Welcome to the Whalesnake Leviathan!

At a whopping 136 meters, it's pretty fucking big (admittedly it is mostly long rather than big considered how skinny it is), with a large head containing somewhere around 58 needlelike teeth.

The two long sensory crests help it detect chemical changes in the water, as it's highly sensitive to changes in the water quality. I suggest this as both a cool little ecology thing and something the player can use to scare the Whalesnake leviathan away from their ship with a toxin attack (like the gas balls in the first subnautica game!)

The Whalesnake leviathan is primarily an ambush hunter, lying in wait in the pitch black darkness. I like to think it's capable of short bursts of incredible speed thanks to the disproportionate wing-fins but relatively weaker tail, and that in a hypothetical situation the player's ship might be able to out stamina it.

I'm very tempted to suggest that it eats prinarily smaller leviathans / large leviathan adjacent fauna. Also tempted to suggest the bioluminescent spots and sensory crests only glow when it's getting ready for a charge or in "hunting" mode as a visual indicator for the player.

Considering how fucking itty bitty the eyes are, I'm imagining it has very poor eyesight and hearing, mostly hunting via a very strong sense of smell and smell adjacent senses. It glows because glowing seems to be a ancestral trait on planet 4546B