The almighty ROBAT! ⛓🦇⛓ . Thanks @retrosaurushamilton for this crazy ko transformer! . Robat is from 1984 and made by Select under the toyline Convertors-Defenders of the Earth-Avarians! . Originally made by Mark in Japan for their Bird Robo line and sold as “Bat Robo” then released to North America vis Select and renamed “Robat” for the Convertors line. . Re-released in Japan later by Jam as candy toys in a line calked Mekabad, and then again in 1999 by Jam under the toyline Metal Force! . Knock offs have exhausting histories! Lol 😂 . #robat #1984 #80stoys #knockofftoys #convertors #transformers #robots #birdrobo #avarians #batrobo #select #mark #jam #bat #metalforce #mekabad #retrotoys #vintagetoys https://www.instagram.com/p/COV9syXgZdd/?igshid=m34e9xodjj5z
Avarians are a mostly humanoid race with skin colors ranging from blues to reds and purples. The most strikingly non-human features are their long ears, four eyes, and tails covered in a soft fuzz ending in a plume of fur. They have three variants.
Zarrin avarians are blue skinned, light haired avarians. They are believed to be the origin of the race by other races, though they tend to think of themselves as the lessers to the zenithians. Zarrin have a natural arcane ability that enabled them to build quickly and efficiently, as they could use this to almost have an extra set of very powerful arms.
Dracon avarians are known for their red skin tones that are usually speckled with small scales, darker hair color, and horns. According to some of the older writings, dracon avarians used to be normal avarians, but were gifted these attributes along with a natural ability to wield fire by an ancient draconic. To most other avarians they are strange looking, and it is believed that in that time the blessing was seen as a curse by the other two races. Dracon avarians may be the sole reason others can wield the element of fire in the first place.
Zenithian avarians are the most vividly different from the other two, featuring large wings on their backs and feathers in place of the plume of fur at the end of other avarian's tails as well as atop their ears. These wings are most commonly half feathered and half skin, but can be fully feathered hiding the bat-like qualities. Very rarely will they have no feathers at all, and those with this are usually outcast by zenithian society. They have blue skin like zarrinian avarians do, and usually lighter hair as well. All records of their strange feathered and winged features origins are either burned or kept hidden by the zenithian capital's government, as they believe they are at the top of the evolutionary tiers. Zenithians also have a natural arcane affinity, though they learn other elements and magics very quickly as well.
Mixes of all kinds exist, usually showing most prominently in skin tones and extra features such as horns, feathers, and wings. Zenithians that mix with dracons for an extreme example can birth children that have dark wings and feathers with a set of horns and dark blue or purple skin. Sometimes the other race won't show very strongly in the child, maybe a zarrin and a dracon will mix to birth a child with no horns and light enough hair that its not too noticeable, but the skin will be a lavender color with a few scales speckled along the shoulders like freckles. There are all sorts of possibilities, and with a few zenithians becoming more progress and less xenophobic, mixes are becoming more common. The biggest issue faced is racism from zenithians, as they believe themselves to be the most perfect and pure form on Zarrond, and they tend to drill this into children and adults alike.
Avarian kind and draconic kind evolved at roughly the same time, helping each other in the early years. This developed into a bitter relation, though at what point has been lost to the ages. Though tensions have since been relieved, neither race like it being known they evolved at the same rate, nonetheless that they may have even helped each other. The zenithians tend to be the most sour about this, and the dracon to be the least bothered.
