#the indo

[indornaga]

my entry for #sparkleserendipity! i decided to go with the indo for it, since i was already pretty glamorous as a goddess.

[indornaga]

Swamp Indoraptor - a Variation

History:

Unlike in the movie we are familiar with, InGen and Jurassic World did not fail--whether this be due to successful continued containment of the Indominus Rex, or successful recapture or termination of the breached asset. With the successful creation of the Indominus Rex, came the next step of Dr. Henry Wu's experimentation at behest of the Military: "That one, a fraction of the size--deadly, intelligent, able to hide from the most advanced military technology. A living weapon unlike anything we've ever seen."

With greater funding from the Military and InGen behind him, Wu was able to perfect the Indoraptor. Highly intelligent, trainable with incredible situational reasoning, and easily handleable, the base Indoraptor proved to be an unmatched weapon on the battlefield.

Funding was provided to create new variations for a variety of battlefields. Prototypes were kept at Jurassic World for observance until their genomes were perfected. Well composed specimens were put on display--the weaker prototypes were kept in pens away from the eyes of the public.

Physical:

Based on the success of previous prototypes, as shown above, a water-based Indoraptor was designed for missions that took agents into marshy, muddy, and wet environs. Starting with the base genome, the swamp Indoraptor came in at 9 feet tall and 25 feet long, and weighed just under 1 ton. It retains it's faculative bipedalism, able to run and walk on either all fours or two legs, depending on the situation in order to maintain balance at all times. Specimens were shown to be able to leap it's length in height, and climb with ease using it's large killing claw as assistance--even on the slipperiest of surfaces.

The swamp Indoraptor's genome was bolstered with ancient crocodilians such as sarcosuchus to supply the animal with a stronger and more effective paddle tail, and crocodilian-shaped head, complete with a comparably intense bite pressure to either immediately crush limbs, or to grab and drag targets to a watery grave. Similar to it's contemporary crocodilian counterparts, it had bullet-resistant scales and scutes--a must-have for any battlefield.

This prototype was given chromatophores like it's Indominus Rex predecessor to test it's lethality on an ever-shifting battlefield. Primarily dark in color, it's infamous "racing stripe" was purple or blue, though able to shift due to its chromatophores. It had quill-like protofeathers, but these may have been an unintended result as they didnt seem to serve any tactical purpose--though they seemed to be a communication tool to portray body language.

Personality:

The swamp Indoraptor had a large range of vocalizations, from roars and barks to honks and chirps, including subsonic range in order to communicate long distance and through water. Curiously, they seemed to have mastered a non-vocal set of communications as well, observed by tapping their killing claw on rocks, trees, concrete, metal--anything that could transfer sound. Prototypes housed in pens adjacent to one another were found to share what could be considered "language". Handlers reported similar in siblings raised, trained, and deployed together--these teams boasted the highest mission success ratios.

Various prototypes displayed extreme tenacity, and varying levels of ferocity, with the most violent having to be terminated due to repeated escapes to kill other prototypes. Swamp Indoraptors were trained with pulse lasers and a sonic cue just like their earlier counterparts were. They react similarly to a cat with a laser pointer, and interactive displays were set up for guests to play with the prototypes in said fashion. Live prey was often used to test prototypes' abilities, and as a show to the public.

Today's specimen in particular displayed cold, calculating curiosity, able to be handled, but only if treated with respect--dignity even. Standard viability testing gauged her intelligence to be extraordinary, though her keepers reported they felt she was.. hiding more. She displayed exceptional curiosity at the sounds outside her pen, even the ability to mimic--to a certain extent--the sounds of other dinosaurs within the park. Test subjects introduced to her pen were met with intrigue, at points even adopted before their untimely expiry--due to their own flaws, not her violence.

[indornaga]

I found your essay really interesting! I love hearing about others experiences with canon divergence. In the second paragraph in the personality section the language shifts to say she/her instead of swamp Indoraptors as a group. Is the hidden intelligence/curiosity/mimicry a trait in general of the species or of a specific individual? When it comes to being curious about other test subjects, does it involve an emotional connection? Or more of a neutral "you're interesting" vibe?

The language shift to refer to a single specimen by “she” is my individual experience, yes! I fixed some wording and moved information around in hopes I can make that clearer. o/

I currently don’t have any memories or noema of hearing/meeting other indoraptor prototypes specifically, but the fact that I recognize an indoraptor “language” leads me to believe that there were others I had communication with.

The “adopted” bit refers to a connection noema I have to Triceratops. They feel too familiar in a familial sense to be a ‘type of mine, but also too much so to NOT have had some sort of emotional connection to them. They’re not even a particularly favorite dinosaur of mine in this life--this leads me to believe I had an emotional connection to a trike in that life, and i absolutely would not put it past JW staff to “recycle” poorly experiments, or “test” prototypes’ strength and abilities against other dinosaurs (re: you can make fighting pits in Jurassic World Evolution). That’s the only one I have noema of currently, but its not out of the realm of possibility that it was the only one, or NOT the only one, I adopted.

[indornaga]

indoraptor speculations

figured I should start putting down my personal findings on the indoraptor in one place, and while most of them are about speculations of the canon one, because i’m noncanon it’s really only a jumping off point, a reference for me--but at the end of the day i’m an indoraptor, and those that came before me still influence what i am.

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re "watching" (listening for background noise) to a jp youtuber and the first video on the playlist is a speculation of what the Indoraptor is, having come out before JW2. he says that if the indom had an emphasis on the rex dna for size and power, then speculatively the indo would have an emphasis on the raptor for intelligence and quickness.. now, taking into account the indo from JW2 is a prototype, there werent a lot of opportunities presented for the indo to, if it had it, display a high level of intelligence.

if it had raptor, or beyond, level intelligence, we dont get to see it other than it using a raptor handle to open maize's balcony door--but we've seen raptors use that level of intelligence and greater. was it, because it was a prototype, far less intelligent because of the balance of dna in it's genome? imo it shouldnt have. the indominus rex was extremely intelligent--it figured out it had camouflaging abilities, baited a trap, and used a power it should never have been able to know how to use because they didnt feed it live bait thus never naturally learned to hunt for gods sake. the indoraptor, being MORE raptor than the indominus, should have had far higher intelligence than it's predecessor.

could it be the indo was, developmentally and medically speaking, mentally retarded because of the way it was kept? in a tiny cage with no social, parasocial, or enrichment activities? if we take into account a deleted scene where the indo breaks the lightbulb in its cage and subsequently kills the maintenance worker that goes into it's cage to fix it, had it been in the movie that could very well have developed how much we know about the indo's intelligence! but instead we're left with a theme park monster that destroys everything in it's path because violence is what we as the viewer is all it is assumed to know.

it could very well have been that it was of low intelligence because it IS a prototype. something in it's genome could've been fucky. we know it can be ""trained"" for lack of a better term for being inflicted with a violent pavlovian response. ((it's hinted and speculated that the indo was TRAINED to respond to the ultrasonic targeting system with stun batons)) but that doesnt.. speak for it's level of natural intelligence.

and it's bothering me.

not to mention that the indoraptor was created for the army as a weapon. we know this, because Hoskins in the end of JW1 says "take that, and size it down" @ the indom.  they wanted to emphasize intelligence and trainability ((and loyalty but we're not talking about that bc fuck ingen lol)) (re, needing blue's DNA to make it "Tameable") in order to have the most astounding and destructive animal possible for the battlefield.

where was i in all of this. what was My role? i want answers.

the speculation that i have is that i was genetically altered to be more of a water unit, thus the more crocodillian form. that leads me to believe that in my canon, the original indo testing was a success, and they were seeing trainability and use on the battlefield. that leads further to believe that i was FAR more tame than previous iterations--or at least, they wanted me to be. to lose your animal in murky water is a nono, they had to have some guarantee they were getting this creature back. i feel like i was intelligent as an indo. angry, feral, but intelligent enough to know that displaying my anger was a detriment except in deployment.

the thing that throws me is that i dont feel like i ever actually saw battle. was i the prototype for my iteration? i feel more contempt for humans than downright all-or-nothing destructive like the canon indo. i feel like i remember lush forests with water features. was that my permanent enclosure? a testing enclosure? was i part of a park? was that because i escaped? i dont know..

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i'm almost certain i had a triceratops friend as an indoraptor. their movements are too familiar, like i've watched those majestic but horrifyingly dangerous horns from an outsider's perspective. they dont feel like they're MY movements so i think trike isnt a 'type of mine of any sort. but i cant... help but feel like they're intimately familiar.

was it a failed experiment? as in, the animal didnt live up to expectations, AND was given to me as live prey? or was it simply given to me as live prey? and i didnt eat it? or was it put in my pen in order to test ME? and we were just like "nah bro".

this has been haunting me for a while, but i dont know i'll get an answer.

i see it [as a] [really cute and sweet type of bonding/clan type thing, especially if they were also an experiment]. especially if my suspicion of me as a goddess bouncing to the familiar form (reptilian) of the indo is true bc it's def a Me(TM) thing. overriding killer instincts to be matronly as the goddess would, that is. but if i bonded with the trike, i would never have let them take it away. Mine.

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the movie indo was kept in a cage all its life and look at the amount of destruction it was able to make. can you imagine if it was healthy and fit?

if i was kept in an outdoor enclosure (and the green space i know wasnt just where i escaped to) how in the gods damned hell did InGen keep me inside LOL i know climbing and high leaps were def a thing for me. i dont think a wall even as high as the Indom's would keep me in. i had to want to be there... I feel like i was ... waiting. biding my time... but why.

[indornaga]

[indornaga]

i've been wanting to draw how i feel as an indo, and i feel like i've gotten close! i've always felt like i had a blue stripe, but ever since they introduced the white/blue one in jurassic world alive, i've been swaying between what base color i felt was closer. then i realized, if i'd had more croc dna, the indominus had sarcosuchus dna in her genome. what if i was more indominus than the canon indo? had the camouflaging abilities that the indominus did? i wantd to do arts showing off the color shift!

that end of the tail is a little large, just because my perspective was off when i was finishing up, but hindsight is always 20/20 :P

[indornaga]

I am dark as the night, and furious as the primeval nightmares that have haunted the hearts of Men.

I am the Dragon that plunders virgins and touches their deepest desires, I am the Killing Shadow that haunts dark corners of untamed power.

You birthed me. In sterile white with glowing electric light and noisy machinery and artificial wombs. You gifted me killing claws, sawing teeth, shivering quill-barbs.

I am Perfection. Bulletproof, fast, flexible, intelligent, with echolocation and sharp eyes. I can outpace any silly machine, outcompete any apex predator, decimate any foolish hunter.

I am Free.

I am Indomintable.

And I am Hungry.