Here’s some of that ultraman fanfic stuff I mentioned
Ultrawoman Nova is a 70 meter tall ultra who is a kaiju researcher who loves infodumping and works with a science team to manage an island kaiju nature reserve. She has an adopted pestar Scrungus and a shin Gabora capsule kaiju.
The ultra setting she lives in is one where almost all Ultraman series has happened to an extent, but in a cohesive timeline and mostly follows after the original continuity.
Almost all the kaiju both are and aren’t native to earth’s biosphere. They aren’t in that they descend from various aliens that ended up on earth, and are in that these aliens eventually naturally integrated into the biosphere.
Notable residents of the reserve:
A baby Gatanothor Nova also adopts. Initially Nova had a heart attack when she found it had crash landed on the island because Gatanothors are known world enslavers so she wondered if it’s evil by nature… until it fell on its side and started crying and pooping on itself. Whenever Scrungus goes and plays in the water with a baby takkong and gesura, the baby gatanothor gets upset because it can’t swim and play with them.
An Eleking that chills under a waterfall. He helps feed the Neronga and helps provide power to the island or cities that experience power outages.
A Neronga mother who has cubs (adults look like the shin incarnation while babies look like the showa version). One time it misbehaved and got in a fight with Nova. Kids on a field trip were at the reserve at the same time so Nova took the opportunity during the fight to pin the mom Neronga down facing the children and talk about its teeth while it flailed its arms around. Children may or may not have been traumatized.
A Gubira from the deep sea who keeps trying to move into the burrows of subterranean kaiju on the island despite not being a burrowing creature itself and gets into fights. Nova constantly has to patch up its tube feet.
An Empowered Bemular who sits in a lake and is learning to behave and not be evil. If the space faring abelisaur is good for a week then it’ll get a boat for a toy, but it hasn’t behaved that long yet.
An elderly Red King couple. These Rauisuchians have sexual dimorphism, with males being red (like the powered incarnation) and females having massive forearms (like red king EX). The male is a little weak for his age and is missing numerous scutes and has burn scars from entering burning mode too much. The female also has a few scutes missing, as well as a leg, some fingers, and her tail tip (which like alligators it grew back but it’s mostly connective tissue). Her mandibles were also completely obliterated at some point in her life so it healed kinda wonky.
A pod of Gesura live around the island, and there’s a lot of cocoa trees Nova planted for them. The whatcheeriids love fruit so they occasionally come onto land to eat the cocoa beans. Scrungus plays with the babies in the pod.
A Gimyra. Specifically THE Gimyra defeated by Ultraman 80. He lives in and is confined to a cave due to his evil behavior. He basically sits in a prison while being studied. He’s allowed to take harmless amounts of blood from kaiju on the reserve during night to sustain himself. Lavras and Daron also came with him, but they’re harmless and quite nice and often work with the local science team or babysit Scrungus.
Neronga are a formerly extraterrestrial kaiju species. Adults look like the shin incarnation while babies look like the showa incarnation. Mothers give live birth to a few Cubs that can already clumsily move around. The mom then charges some of her back plates full of electricity and detaches them. This will be the first meal for the babies. Whether or not the mom takes care of the babies depends on the conditions of the environment. The Neronga at the sanctuary is a mother who’s looking after her Cubs. The fat reserves of the babies can also serve as fuel for their budding electrical abilities when they feel threatened. Individuals have male and female parts and mating involves jabbing their incredibly long thumb claws into each other, which function like needles and deposits sperm. They fight over who gets impregnated much like marine flatworms. Using their electrical powers they can bend light around their body and become invisible. To make up for their lack of a tongue their gums also function as taste buds.
Red Kings are big Rauisuchians and are massive predators known for their size and strength as well as their impenetrable full body covering of scutes. They also have some big saber teeth as well. Males look like the male red king in powered and females have big arms like the EX incarnation. They have a dome head much like pachycephalosaurs, and they have been known to swing their heads around, which are backed up by their long overly muscled neck. Their saber teeth are long enough to go past their jaw line and are positioned near the back of the mouth. This makes them useless for biting but instead useful for cutting when they swing their heads around. Their bite is also very powerful. When under significant stress they can enter a burning mode that turns their skin black and makes the spaces in between their armor glow with thermoluminescence, but this is a last resort that not only completely exhausts an individual, but also injures them greatly. Sometimes even dying. Red king will mate for life and heterosexual couples will lay eyes every few years. The eggs are guarded fiercely, but once the young are born they’re on their own. Individuals can be identified from their scars not unlike great whites.
Dorako are aliens that aren’t one of the many species that has integrated into earth’s biosphere, making it a proper invasive species. Their wings are large and able to fold up like some more advanced insect wings. Their arms are more like the powered incarnation. Dorakos have both an endoskeleton and exoskeleton and are surprisingly powerful for their size. Their respiratory system is in their abdomen (tail) and there are many spiracles as well. Take off is assisted by a massive exhale from the spiracles. Over their life as they grow in size they do have to molt, but their exoskeleton comes off in pieces and doesn’t require them to do a full body shed. Once they’re adults they don’t molt again. Initially they were thought to come from comet Tsuifon, but after more information was brought to light thanks to the ultras it turns out that their original habitat is unknown and that they have evolved to become an interplanetary invasive species. The find a planet that has an atmosphere they can breathe and then assert themselves as an apex predator. They then reproduce asexually until they reach the threshold that the ecosystem they’re occupying can support, after they reach that threshold they engage in mating to diversify the gene pool and then most of them leave to find other planets and start the cycle again. Dissection of Dorakos that have come to earth has revealed that the spike on their forehead can be launched like a bullet, but doing so kills them since their brain is right behind. So it’s inferred that they only start using this after reaching a certain population size.
Gomora are large predatory ceratopsians and very distant relatives of psittacosaurus. Their stomach scutes are derived from feather quills and they are solitary in nature.
Zambolars are large omnivorous solitary squamates that are part of a unique squamate family (informally known as the slurpasaurs). They’re generally subterranean and reside in the hollow earth tunnels. Under normal circumstances their metabolism is fairly sluggish, but when aggravated (like say a territorial dispute) or during intense activity they can drastically spike their metabolism. Their large intricate series of crests helps them regulate their temperature during bouts of activity, and hot blood is pumped through these crests to cool off. (Taking a cue from powered zambolar’s design) these crests have multiple grooves and folds that increase surface area. Sometimes they get so hot that they can set fire to their environment and even use this as a thermal attack. Damage to their own body is mitigated thanks to heat resistant proteins.
Backacoon is a rather strange creature and not much is known about it since only one has ever been encountered. Multiple theories exist as to why the defensive form looks the way it does. Theories range from convergent evolution with vertebrates, horizontal gene transfer from vertebrates, magic, or some other odd phenomenon. It has a rudimentary internal skeleton made of chitin, and its teeth, claws, and horns are made of chitin too. Much like the unrelated cordyceps fungus, backacoon needs to parasitically infect arthropods to progress its life cycle, but is incapable of infecting anything else. Inhaling the spores can make you sick though.
Gudon is another former-alien-become-natural-species. Much like Dorako, Gudons have both an endo and exoskeleton, but their endoskeletons aren’t as extensive as you’d think. Only appearing in the limbs, limb girdles, head and neck, and back. Also their biomineralized exoskeleton isn’t able to be shed in pieces, so a full molt is required. They’re an aggressive predatory species and the main predators of twintails, which a population of the ancestral species of twintails came to earth with the ancestral gudons on their tail. Their jaws and teeth are pretty weak so in order to tear apart prey for consumption they impale them on their spikes and horns and tug at them with their arms until they get pieces that can be swallowed. Leftovers are also skewered on their spikes as well. They smell things with their one nostril and their sense of smell is pretty strong too. Their whips can taste and they’re covered in microscopic metallic barbs that make picking up scraps of meat easier. Reproduction is carried out by their whips. One of their whips starts to fill with gametes and detaches. It then seeks out another detached whip and the two fuse together. Then a bunch of baby Gudons hatch from each segment. Most don’t reach adulthood.
The evolutionary history of Telesdon can be traced back to planet Boris. The ancient ancestors of telesdon resembled worms with five tails, but over time four of those tails became limbs and even grew bones. Their head also evolved through the fusion of their first two body segments. With the first segment forming the cranium and the second segment forming the mandibles. Their body is covered in small studs that aid in their burrowing. While they can dig with their limbs, they normally dig using rhythmic muscle contractions and relaxations. The studs grip the earth and pull them forward during this movement. Despite being predators, telesdon fall prey to many other kaiju. If fighting isn’t an option they will attempt to dig away. If they’re getting pulled out, their spike will dig into the soil and hook them in place. Telesdons are hermaphrodites much like actual worms, and their reproductive organs are located in their torso segment.
Kemular are another former extraterrestrial species. They spend most of their time burrowed in the dirt with only their two back plates exposed for photosynthesis. They also absorb nutrients from the ground through folds in their skin. Occasionally they need to resurface and eat food though. This is accomplished by flooding an area with toxic gas and scooping up the dead wildlife with a long prehensile tongue. Their tails can also shoot arcs of electricity as well, but this is weak and it seems like the organ is becoming vestigial as its no longer necessary since the gas they produce has become increasingly toxic. Their brain is flat and located on their back. Because of the placement and the relatively long and flat anatomy of their brains, it gives the appearance of their brains being far larger than they actually are. Damage to the brain can actually cause severe neurological problems and can often cause death. Because their brains aren’t in their skull, their gas organs are located there instead. Reproduction is carried out by spores, which are fired from groves in the brain on the back. These spores settle down and eventually grow into new kemulars.
Pestars are former extraterrestrials and have become an incredibly successful abyssal species complex and predators. They are very similar to echinoderms anatomically, and there exists a great deal of individuality when it comes to appearance. Pestars initially start life gorging on petroleum and other sources of hydrocarbons before switching to meat and only occasionally consuming hydrocarbons to fuel their fire breath. They are important predators of takkongs and gubira, which they sneak up on in the abyss and physically pull apart with their powerful arms and clawed tube feet.
Gubira are a former extraterrestrial species. They’re bottom feeders who eat creatures they stir when sifting through the seabed. They use their drill zooid to break through tough material. It’s legs are giant tube feet that are fed water through a sieve plate on its forehead that can also shoot water in self defense.
Magular is another slurpasaur
I’d reinterpret Geronimon as a maniraptorian
