Finally happy with how to draw my Splat Bio AU's "Shrimp" and "Crabs". It only took four years and staring intently at unboxing videos of a very expensive articulated coconut crab figure to figure out what the fuck is going on with their faces
Since it's been a while the Splat Bio AU's main goal is to consolidate the number of different lineages evolving into sapient land people. The biggest group of truly terrestrial crustaceans in the Mollusk Era are descended from the humble coconut crab, Birgus latrans. There are two sapient species from this lineage, colloquially referred to as Shrimp and Crabs. Which is confusing, because neither of them are either of those things but that is a common theme of the Splat Bio AU. It's fine.
They grow pretty slowly compared to a lot of the other people because molting over and over again to big size takes a while. They probably have a very different way of conceptualizing age and life stages accordingly but I'd have to think about it later.