#the scuttlerrrrrrr

[lyssitalennon]

NEW BABY ALERT HIS NAME IS SCUTTLES

[junoniadoesart]

Me, posting art on this account? *coughs* anyway, I have a few original settings swirling around in my head. One of them involves shapeshifting dragons/weredragons, with designs based on sea creatures and medieval bestiaries. Tiamat exists in the setting, depicted closer to her roots as a primordial sea goddess and the creator of said dragons, as well as a bunch of other things. It’s a little half-baked rn but I came up with a great design idea for her that I wanted to share… namely, to base her off of Paleozoic sea life!

This is what I’m thinking will be her preferred form. Primary insps include anomalocaris (armor and “wings”), dunkleosteus (placoderm “teeth”) trilobite (horns), some jawless fish whose name escapes me atm (tail), crinoid (“hair”), lamprey and tully monster (gills), and coelecanth (pectoral fins). Currently the one thing I’m undecided on is to keep it to just two eyes, or to give her five like an opabinia.

She is a shapeshifter, so she can change this up and frequently does! - In combat, she loses the “hair” and instead grows Wiwaxia-like spines. - When she needs to grab or handle something in a nonviolent context, she grows tendrils like that of a Facivermis - When she needs to grab or handle something in a violent context, she’ll go for anomalocaris grabby-things, or pincers and legs like a horseshoe crab or eurypterid - When she needs to go on land for whatever reason, she opts for horseshoe crab or eurypterid legs as well, I did a very, very rough sketch of this:

the scuttlerrrrrrr

[windrunner]

the millyillypede. the millimutual. the scuttlerrrrrrr