CLOSED SPECIES ○ NUDIBRAT

Posted 8 years, 22 days ago by u__wo_

 

Nudibrats are a small bipedal cat-like slug creature that generally live in shallow waters along rocky cliffs and shores. Banding together in schools that can range from three to hundreds of bodies, they are unfortunately small in stature and use large numbers to confuse and thwart predators. 

Curling their tails up and secreting an adhesive fluid from the pads on their palms and soles, they climb along the sides of steep rocks to feed on their main diet -- sea snails and freshly formed barnacles. They have small, sharp teeth and are primarily carnivorous, however in areas where food is scarce, they're known to feed on seaweed. 

They are fiercely protective of their school and often work together to take care of any less able bodied or sickly members. Schools are not very competitive with each other, in fact many schools simply pass each other by or band together in order to maximize proper food collection and distribution.

 

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT NUDIBRATS
 ○ Because of their increased vulnerability on land, they often curl their tails up while feeding to minimize their size and avoid getting snatched by predators.
 ○ In the end, they work and function socially very similarly to other humanoid species, having a spoken language.
 ○ Nudibrats birth eggs on land in clutches of six to ten. The eggs are perfectly circular, and pearlescent on the outside.
 ○ They are all intersexed upon hatching, however as their bodies mature they can choose a role to take in parenthood as the inseminator or child bearer. The body's chemicals adjust to the role chosen and thus either egg or sperm production multiplies while the other decreases.
 ○ Their homes of choice are usually damp caves along the water's edge or small islands.
 ○ Because they have short slick fur (similar to an adult seal) they can spend quite a long time on land simply lazing in the sun, which they often do.
 ○ Their capes barely have any nerves in them, and can expand up to twice their actual size when stretched. Parents generally carry their newly hatched young in their arm capes while swimming on their backs.

TRAIT/OWNERSHIP INFORMATION ABOUT NUDIBRATS
 ○ When editing traits on a design, they can only be changed to traits of a lower level. RareUncommon, UncommonCommon.
 ○ They can have any body type, but do not exceed 4ft in height nor do they grow breasts, because they don't breast feed or have live births. (this means they also don't have nipples.)
 ○ All edits to designs must be run by me, and follow my general editing rules in my adopt ToS.
 ○ Their feet started out like stumpy paws, then were changed to frog feet, then digi paws, and now frog feet again.. but you can really draw them any of those ways, it doesn't matter!

 

 

 

 

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Yep you can stack them!

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Hiya! I was deliberating this, and I think I'll just remove the height mention. You're free to do whatever \o/

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I also saved the base I made for my myo if anyone wants to use it for theirs! The zip file contains PSD and CSP formats.


Link to base:  https://sta.sh/01kr0dlsyy1c


Link to brush used (1st brush, at the top): http://fav.me/d64pbpu


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I made a nudibrat base if anyone's interested /o \ ! I made one for my friend and I but thought I'd share (hope it's ok!) since there's no base for myos yet

it's in PSD but the brush I used is from the original brush beau got available from the dreamy base /o/ !!! 

https://sta.sh/02fjmn024zhu

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Ah, I hadn't thought much about it, buuut in the spirit of sea creatures that live forever, probably about 120-150 years average, provided they live their life where they can stay in water frequently.

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That is totally up to you! Buyers are always free to design the back of their adopts.

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what lovely lineart ahhh CHINHANDS.

Oh mai gosh, LOVE LOVE!!

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oMF THEY GOT EVEN CUTER----- clutches chest because how to deal with this cuteness chOKES

OH MY GOODNESS THESE ARE SO PERFECT WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

o<-< aashhnnnggg /forever screaming at how cute they are hnnngg/

oh my goodness they got even cuter

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at one point you made cute frog-toed ones (??? i think, idr they weren't cat feet tho)

are those an actual trait or just a retconned feature now? :V (those were my favorite iterations of nudibrats and i'm low-key on the hunt for one tbh)

There were only two frog feeted ones I actually sold, and I forgot to write about that but it's in there now -- people are free to draw the feet either way, but this is the canon appearance!

cool, thanks mang B) now i don't have to be limited to the frog feet ones at least if i can just draw them howevs

I love these lil dudes so dang much. Thank you for writing more about them! :)