i was curious about your pressure oc brothers! specifically, what sea creature DNA was used for their mutations?
(i am trying to make an experimentee pressure oc myself but i have been struggling with making a design, so i have been looking at others' experimentee ocs to try and get some inspiration! and your work is peak so here i am)
That was one of the first things I wanted to tackle when designing Beni and Beau. It was honestly really fun looking into research for it. Here is their DNA:
-██████ (this is the fun thing that makes him change color and some other stuff)
-██████ (reason he has strange spikes and horns…among other things)
Some of these have been changed as I’ve developed them. Beau used to have both frilled shark and crown of thorns starfish dna until very recently because I found it didn’t suit him/was redundant. I also didn’t want to go above the amount of dna that was listed for Seb as a personal rule/guideline.
To clarify, the anomalous dna I used for them acts as sort of ‘a glue’ to keep all these traits from collapsing on eachother/making the body blow up. It’s not scientifically accurate but neither is turning someone into a fish monster, and with magic or anomalies you can stretch the rules a bit.
I also know precisely what redacted dna they have and what it does to them, but I think it’s more fun to let the viewer try and guess at what it is. In my opinion it also gives a bit of intrigue when you realize this character has abilities that are not possible for the listed creatures sequenced..making the anomalous dna just as important as what is known.