🦀 Carson

Carcinisation: (English) In evolutionary biology, carcinisation is a hypothesised process whereby a crustacean evolves into a crab-like form from a non-crab-like form. The term was introduced by L. A. Borradaile, who described it as "one of the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab".

Personality: Artistic, Obsessive, Snippy, Loves Repetition

Likes: Crabs, Drawing Crabs, Sculpting Crabs, Making Crab Music

Dislikes: Being told they're not creative

Design Notes:

• Five glowing orange arrow-like markings going up each leg
• Always keeps tail curled
• Single large spiky crest on their head + symmetrical smaller spines along their neck and behind their eyes
• Beefy arms with coarse spiny hairs around the elbows
• Long, flexible porcelain crab antennae coming out behind their eyes
• Blue crab-like carapace on back
• Pale grey, almost-white eyes
• Medium sized with a compact build
• Can be drawn with stylized anatomy or with more realistic Parasaurolophus anatomy!

Character Notes:

• Weirdly talented at creating nigh-infinite variants of the same basic thing (drawing the same scene in different media, remixing the same song in different genres, etc.), especially if it relates to crabs
• Mouth bubbles/foams when they're excited, angry, or concentrating deeply on something
• Aromantic