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[vryfmi]

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this chapter of «Catachresis»? chef's kiss, love these creatures, especially @banyanas's lore for them

bonus sketch and links under the cut

marcy loves her company a lot

chapter 5 of Catachresis: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43679544/chapters/109837338

other works for this au: character redesigns | comic | @brushbanditarts​’ illustration

[holycolordreamertree]

Ok so i just finished reading the new chapter of @banyanas lenguage barrier au and i loved it so i made a quick drawing. Character designs by @vryfmi

[thekingofwinterblog]

Birds, Mammals and Mossmen

So, one thing i've always found interesting about the local fauna of Amphibia is how... Alien several creatures seem to it.

More speciffically, it's birds and mammals.

Amphibia's birds are enormous monsters, almost all of them are true Apex predators, and even the ones who aren't, are still huge, monstrously strong and dangerous.

They are mostly just oversized examples of their respective animals, but they also temd to possess one or two features not found in their Earth counterpart(be it teeth, a second set of eyes, or hair).

That part isn't too unusual. There are plenty of animals in Amphibia who are simply bigger versions of Earth Animals, and in several cases they feature additional extra additions.

But Birds are a bit different than these in several ways.

First off, is that Amphibia has another kind of birds, one that fits into the environment far, far better compared to the other things that are living there.

These insects that very much look like birds.

They are numerous in diversity, a common sight, and again, fits into the local eco system far, far better than the giant, feathery, "normal" birds, who stick out drastically compared to their amphibian, reptilian, and insect companions.

And they aren't the only ones.

Amphibia has very few mammal species, but the ones that they do have, are very much like the birds, huge, oversized apex predators that don't really seem to fit into the local ecosystem.

Then there is the fact that despite their enormous size, strength and power, these animals are nowhere near as numerous in diversity as you would expect

On earth, just to give one example, we have dozens and dozens of different kinds of different predators species just within one category, which isn't the case with these guys. When Amphibians talk about herons, they talk about one single kind of bird, not a class of birds.

Frabkly speaking, just from how powerful they are, these birds should be dominating the ecosystem and have dozens and dozens of various subspecies. Instead they seem to be very limited in number, and isn't doing as well as you would expect for such powerful creatures.

And then of course we have chimera like monsters like Chicka-lisk the Stormbringer and... The wolf... manticore thing.

Animals that might be natural, but frankly look like someone stitched together different species with magic(Chicka-lisk in particular explicitly being a magical being), that stick out not only because of their chimera nature, but also because they are composed of at least one of these animals that don't seem like they fit in with the rest of the animals on the continent.

On their own, these animals would be unusual, but not completely out of the ordinary given Amphibia's bizarre creatures.

But then there are two other species that suggest a much, much different picture regarding these animals.

The Mossmen and the Shadowfish.

Both of whom were kidnapped/enslaved by the Amphibian Empire from their original homeworld, experimented upon, and then used for the betterment of the Amphibian ruling class.

They are completely alien, and frankly do not fit in with Amphibia's local ecosystem at all.

Just like birds, Bats, and the rest of the animals I've covered above.

In other words, i think that all of these, birds, bats, etc. Are what remains of species that were kidnapped from their own homeworlds and brought to Amphibia long ago. Whereupon they were experimented upon, grew enormous in size as well as mutated in various ways, while certain animals were the result of magic being used to create hybrids between local amphibia animals, and these imported species, creating monsters like the Chicka-lisk.

It would explain the lack of variety in these animals(As only a limited number of species would have been brought to the homeworld compared to how many existed on Earth), why there are two completely different sorts of birds on the continent that have nothing to do with each other, and why all of them just don't fit in at all with all the other creatures that call Amphibia home.

[baroqueandmstie3k]

Here’s a collection of some baddos

[justinjmoss]

Moab Road Trip 2011 #tbt #roadwarriors #mossmen

[justinjmoss]

Hard to beat a round of golf at Hobble Creek on a Saturday that includes perfect weather and deer #mossmen #hobblecreekgolf #latergram