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What about the other symbiotes?

I didn't really plan on it having Flasprouts, but I don't have anything against them having Flasprouts either. I actualy am working on a Crystank Crystalworm to be one of the major consumers of their fruit jelly.

Do you think you could draw the threads? Even just as a close up if necessary?

Like this?

QUOTE (kopout @ Dec 5 2021, 08:00 PM)

Like this?

Is that how it would look?

I'm not certain how viable having two distinct bodies connected by strands of fungal-flesh would be. Have you considered making this just two sexes, with one at the head and the other on the back, and the connection is how they fertilize the offspring?

I think it can work out, they're photosynthic and heavily reliant on their host, so each piece already can power itself.

My biggest interest is how they grow, the threads would be artifacts of this.

Where are its segments?

QUOTE (OviraptorFan @ Dec 5 2021, 07:22 PM)

QUOTE (kopout @ Dec 5 2021, 08:00 PM) Like this? Is that how it would look?

Pretty much, there is a lot of phenotypic plasticity in that part.

QUOTE (Nergali @ Dec 11 2021, 08:53 PM)

I'm not certain how viable having two distinct bodies connected by strands of fungal-flesh would be.

Its not exactly two bodies its just that they have two major lobes outside the Creab walker. Its kind of like how some trees have more than one trunk growing from the same root network. It might also make sense to call them a colonial organism with just two zooids. Definitions can get a little fuzzy with flora.

QUOTE (Nergali @ Dec 11 2021, 08:53 PM)

Have you considered making this just two sexes, with one at the head and the other on the back, and the connection is how they fertilize the offspring?

That's pretty close to one of the early ideas for them, they would have had a ‘shell’ gender and an ‘eye’ gender with each walker having one shell and multiple eyes.

QUOTE (colddigger @ Dec 11 2021, 09:01 PM)

My biggest interest is how they grow, the threads would be artifacts of this.

I’m going to add a bit more to the description about their development

QUOTE (TheBigDeepCheatsy @ Dec 11 2021, 10:17 PM)

Where are its segments?

It doesn't really have them. I think its ancestor looked segmented because of the way it attached to its symbiont. Sense the two external pieces are so distinctly separated it doesn't look segmented.

Edit: Edited

This post has been edited by kopout: Dec 12 2021, 05:51 PM

Added further clarification and a supplemental image of them with their symbiont.

Approval Checklist:
Art:
Art Present?: Y
Art clear?: Y
Gen number?: Y
All limbs shown?: Y
Reasonably Comparable to Ancestor?: Y
Realistic additions?: Y

Name:
Binomial Taxonomic Name?: Y
Creator?: Y

Ancestor:
Listed?: y
What changes?: Main body divided into two pieces connected by thin filaments that pass through symbiont body, reproductive method
External?: Y
Internal?: Y
Behavioral/Mental?: Y
Are Changes Realistic?: Y
New Genus Needed?: Yes, Significant body morphology change, reproductive change

Habitat:
Type?: 1
Flavor?: 3??
Connected?: Y??
Wildcard?: ...

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: N
Within range?: N
Exception?: N

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: N
Reasonable changes (if any)?: Y
Other?: Clarifying

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Transition Rule?: Na
Reasonable changes (if any)?: Na

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: N
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: Y
Other?: Clarifying

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?: N
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: Y
Other?: Clarifying

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: N
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: Y
Other?: Interesting choice, I like that it facilitates spreading the complex to new areas

Description:
Length?: Okay
Capitalized correctly?: Y
Replace/Split from ancestor?: Split
Other?: Could use more description of activity of the connecting filaments.

Opinion: Pending(why);

Listed size falls outside guidelines without explanation of selective pressure or set up, alternatively external size is listed hidden total length needs to be mentioned to be within guidelines.



"These eyes produce electrochemicle signals"

Misspelling

"three codominant alleles producin six phenotypes"

Misspelling, I suggest the word resulting instead

"greater dispersal but also in creases the odds "

Misplaced space

"exact placement and size of which very between individuals. "

Vary

Alright, changes made. Its surprising that flora have an exception for growing but not for shrinking.

The shrink was past 4x I thought