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spearxwind · 2 years ago

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idk if youve answered this before since its one of the coolest eel facts, but does talas have a pharyngeal jaw? 👀

He does not! The pharyngeal jaw mechanism in him is replaced by the tentacle hell in his chest (since he has that, having a pharyngeal jaw would be really redundant since the tentacles serve the same purpose and have an absurd reach)

Fun fact, when I first made him and first tried out the eel vibe for him but couldnt really give him a pharyngeal jaw I gave him the mask as a design wink to the ones eels have. So legally his mask is like his second jaw :]

#ask #anon #in case u didnt know his whole chest is filled with massive coiled up tendrils (roughly 10-13 of them or so)#because he does not have lungs since he breathes through gills. and so his chest is tentacle storage mostly #they are really long like roughly twice the length of his neck. they get squeezed out to grab shit he cant normally reach and drag it back #I have a diagram I drew of that nonsense that I never posted bc i dont want weirdos being Weird about it #pharyngeal jaws have that function that they grab things in the mouth and drag it down. the tentacles serve the same purpose #except they are 100x more traumatic for the victims involve and are deadlier overall thanks for coming to my ted talk

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