#flower urchin

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Flower urchin (Toxopneustes pileolus)

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[autism-wolf]

Flower Urchin stimboard for anon! What a lovely request! 🐚🐚🐚

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[evolutionsvoid]

When one speaks of war, they imagine legions of soldiers fighting across broken battlefields. Battalions of warriors crashing into each other like the waves high above. If only war was so simple... If such violence remained on those plains, if soldiers were the only ones who had to be sacrificed to the cause. To think of it that way would be a luxury, something that this world cannot tolerate. The Mantle Bearers know this, as do the Rough Skins. Sometimes the greatest victories are found in silent halls and shattered slabs. Where the momentum of the battlefields balances delicately on the envenomed spine. Where a single corpse within a sacred temple can mean more than a dozen slain soldiers. That is the world she lives in. Not in the bloodied, churning waters, but in chasms and gorges left untouched by spine and tendril. Where those who sit on high, in fact, watch from deep below. What better way to stop a hundred blades, then silence the single voice that controls them? Though she moves slowly and silently, her results are instantaneous. Those who have found the poisoned bodies can easily attest to that..

[explosionsoflife]

Flower Urchin (Toxopneustes pileolus)

Diameter: 15cm

Location: Tropical Indian and central/western Pacific oceans