my Proteus, Hippocamp, and Nereid designs
rambles beneath the cut :]
In my designs, all of Neptune's moons are merfolk.
Proteus is a leopard seal,
Hippocamp is a seahorse Hippocampy (self-explanatory)
Nereid is a humpback whale because of its eccentric orbit (Nereid has one of the most eccentric orbits of any known moon), the distance the moon travels (15 times farther from Neptune than the next closest known moon, Triton), and the moon's mass (Nereid also accounts for about 98% of the mass of Neptune's entire irregular satellite system altogether (excluding Triton), and as of my research about two-thirds the mass of all irregular moons combined, again ignoring Triton).
So I felt that one of the largest and furthest traveling migratory animals was fitting.
Triton is a Sailfish
A few random notes
Proteus and Hippocamp are nearly in a 11:13 mean-motion resonance
There is a hypothesis that proposed that Hippocamp may have originated from debris ejected from Proteus by the cometary impact that formed its largest crater, Pharos. Making Hippocamp a third generation moon.
Also Proteus has a large impact crater named Pharos, which has a diameter around 250 km more than half the diameter of Proteus itself (400 kilometers). That's why I gave Proteus that scar on his face and also why I drew Proteus and Hippocamp together.
I try to incorporate the planet symbols and their numbers somewhere in all of my moon designs though specifically for the moons of Neptune i make it really prominent, in part to help me keep track of them when drawing, there are so many
This has been in my drafts for literal months aaaaaaaaaaaa
There is so much i need to post on here its not even funny
+ bonus unfinished thing from 2024
am i ever going to finish this? no,
i might remake this but probably not
thank you for reading this :]
i know its been a solid minute and all
