#raptin fossil fighters

[cat-dragron-arts]

Couldn't resist drawing Raptin after drawing Duna hehe. Decided to made some stylistic choices such as adding in MORE FLUFF because more fluff is always good.

[viridiszombabe]

Dunaria! My fursona based on Duna from Fossil Fighters! Everyone's been loving her I'm so happy! Duna cosplay? Maybe.

https://www.instagram.com/viridis.zombabe?igsh=YTQ2c3U0OWtxdzA1

[hydrias]

[davidbyrnemspaint]

He might look like a grandpa but Dynal would have only been 22 in human years when Raptin was born

[peptobismolultra]

Fossil fighters fans, come get yo food!!

[hailthedragonmaster]

idk why but as a kid i thought duna and raptin were dynal's kids and that's why they were doing such important things despite being kids? while i don't subscribe to that train of thought anymore i do think it's interesting. 8yo me had good ideas

[captainmvf]

Idea originally penned by @zestyderg.

[indragonsaur]

The perfect crossover doesn’t exis-

[aggressively-crying]

Fossil fighters turned me bi and was probably instrumental to realizing my whole nonbinary situation

[ochrearia]

👀 What’s a Dinaurian?

IM FUCKING GLAD YOU ASKED!!!!!!!!!!!! WELCOME TO UNSKIPPABLE CUTSCENE HOUR

Okay so I make mention of a thing called "Fossil Fighters" a lot which is a 2000s-2010s era DS game that is essentially kind of like Pokemon but with dinosaurs specifically (or really creatures from the Triassic-Cretaceous periods with a select few even before or after these intervals) so you go out digging for fossils and if you find a Head fossil you can revive the dinosaur and it's yours. You carry them around as dino medals when they aren't in battle mode (I like to think you can summon them out whenever to hang out :333 dino pals) and they come in 5 elemental types being air, earth, water, fire, and neutral.

In the first game (literally just "Fossil Fighters") you play on an island where every chapter or so you level up your rank from beginner to master fighter by taking part in ranked battle and such, but along with that you explore different digging sites and start finding ancient technology scattered around than you eventually learn comes from an alien race called the Dinaurians. It's because of these guys that you can clean fossils and revive dinosaurs to begin with due to their technology. Originally they had their sights on Earth to be their new home planet due to theirs being eaten by a giant space monster (THE DESIGN OF THIS MONSTER IS GOOFY AS FUCK BUT ANYWAY). They were mainly in stasis-sleep for millions of years waiting for the life they planted on Earth to evolve into Dinaurians like them, but that life died out ages ago and HUMANS evolved instead. Their computers summoned the planet-eater to destroy Earth because the original plan failed and you team up with them to kill the planet-eater before it gets there.

The only distinctive Dinaurians in the series are Duna, Raptin, and King Dynal, the rest are cookie cutter NPCs but oohhhh child me latched onto these fuckers so fast.

Because like serious question who WOULDNT want to be a cool ass dinosaur alien who can transform into a full dino and fight. I fucking do god bless

All of their dino forms can be sort of traced back to a basic dinosaur you can revive in the game, so they get referred to as "extraterrestrial ______" for each so like. Duna looks like a Delta, Raptin a V-Raptor, and King Dynal sort of looks like an Angato. Which are these guys:

So they basically have custom features and colors off the base. Now if it were ME, I would personally make my Dinauriansona be an Extraterrestrial Lagia which is also a raptor type guy, but only added in the 2nd game Fossil Fighters: Champions (which sadly Dinaurians don't show up at all, there's a completely different story) but they added some pretty cool new guys into it and improved the style so I have 0 complaints. We don't talk about Frontier though. That game isn't Real.

But yeah my thought process:

For custom features I would think an extra curled-tail would be funny, like it curves even more up and even back around a little. Couple of back spikes too. Nothing too fancy. Put a crayon in my hand, something silly.

BUT YEAH I REALLY LIKE... DINAURIANS AND ALSO THIS GAME FRANCHISE I WISH THEY DIDN'T RUIN IT WITH FRONTIER (I'm a hater) BUT THE CHOICES THEY MADE FOR FRONTIER ARE SUCH A FUMBLE AND AWFUL AND EW. THERE WERE STANDARDS!!!!!!!!! AND YOU VIOLATED ALL OF THEM

[itsadragonaesthetic]

Link to preliminaries masterpost

[hydrias]

they euthanized him

[one-ptera]

tag yourself gamers

[peptobismolultra]

Hi!!!! *Reverts you back into an amoeba for shits and giggles*

[samissimo]

Finished playing through the main story of my replay of Fossil Fighters the other day, here’s some pen doodles I did some time after.

[captainmvf]

🚂 King Dynal?

Sure!!

He's the Electra of the Fossil Fighters universe, I say, so he gets to be an electric locomotive. :> He's very masterful of controlling lightning and has some magnetic control but can only pull one train at a time towards him. A very dramatic leader of his train and eventually joins the yard where Hunter and Rosie live.

Oh and Raptin too:

He's kind of the Caboose (CB/BV/CN/CV/whatevercabooseidk) but his personality doesn't match the cabeese from Stex so he's Dynal's Track Geometry Car instead.