#nautilis

[smallerdelusions]

February Sketchbook 1/1

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Cephalopods

Sepiida. This order is made up of cuttlefish, which have an internal shell called the cuttlebone that is used to control buoyancy.

Nautilida. This order is made up of nautilis, which have a unique planispiral shell, and move via jet propulsion. They're morphologically veyr similar to their ancient relatives, and are often called living fossils.

Which clade of animals is better?

Sepiida

Nautilida

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Voting ended onMar 14, 2024

[fluff-and-such]

Angels of Fate (Part 1)

I started to type out longass descriptions for them, and got exhausted by it. So here's some. Facts.

Catilus:

Gun Angel

Rotary-Canon can shoot bullets or fire. Or whatever else Cat wants it to. Its powered by his wings see.

Big Soldier boy, gruff and tough. Good sense of humor though.

Married to Nautilis

Assigned to their ship during battle, that's how they met.

Maundevir's first friend

He/Him

Nautilis:

Space-Ship's Captain. Bcuz Angels have Space-ships. Bcuz I said so.

Unsure if it's a Star Wars situation or more of a Treasure Planet thing. Either way, Naughty runs a warship and absolutely wrecks shit with their anchor.

They exist coz I thought it'd be fun for an angel to just. Wrecking-Ball things with an anchor.

The Calm-Collected to Cat's Excited-Punchy.

Married to Catilus

Friends with Maundevir through Cat

He/They

Catilus and Nautilis are part of the (particularly small) militant branch of Itherael's Aspect of Fate. Outside of battle though, Nautilis catalogues star charts and maps routes to distant worlds. Catilus mostly either goes with them, or hangs around the library with Maundevir. He's mostly posted as a guard when not actively killing things, and is also usually bored out of his mind by this.

Maundevir:

Itherael's small pathetic son-boy.

Son in the sense that during a public lightsong, for some reason an angel was born that is distinctly resonant with the Angel of Fate. If Maundy were born earlier, they might've been considered more sibling-coded, but something about the twang in their chords makes them more of a parent-child type relationship.

Not that this matters a whole lot to either of them.

Really bad at using a sword.

Even worse at using anything else.

At least with a sword they can just point the pointy end and pray.

Pretty good at organizing the library, at least.

Pretty bad flier too tbh

Friendly for an angel. Watch out though Catilus will stomp out anything he decides Maundy's stupid innocent ass shouldn't be hanging around with.

Part of the Shorty-Squad, along with Nepherah and Endarius.

Andonra fucking hates them lol

He/They

[mokerjan]

the season, of burning sky and saltwater

[cvenet]

an old piece from MICA! gouache on paper

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Cephalopod Finale!

Octopoda. This order is made up of octopuses, predatory marine creatures with eight limbs. Their soft body allows them to squeeze trhough small spaces. They are capable of camouflage and are among the most intelligent animals.

Nautilida. This order is made up of nautilis, which have a unique planispiral shell, and move via jet propulsion. They're morphologically veyr similar to their ancient relatives, and are often called living fossils.

Which clade of animals is better?

Octopoda

Nautilida

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Voting ended onApr 21, 2024

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Cephalopods

Sepiolida. This order is made up of Bobtail squid, which has a round mantle. They have a light organ inhabited by bioluminisecent bacteria, which it uses to provide light below them to obscure its sillhouette.

Nautilida. This order is made up of nautilis, which have a unique planispiral shell, and move via jet propulsion. They're morphologically veyr similar to their ancient relatives, and are often called living fossils.

Which clade of animals is better?

Sepiolida

Nautilida

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Voting ended onFeb 14, 2024

[radiophd]

nautilis -- epatre