I've just had a sudden brain wave of new reaper leviathan head cannons that I just need to share. Prepare yourself this could be a long rant. Bare in mind I made up excuses for their glitchiness in game.
So my main one, is that they are like seals, but not at the same time. Like these guys are jokesters and pranksters but for the sole reason (most) life on the planet won't tell them they can't do that. For me, these guys decide to hunt whatever creature was near them at the wrong time, just to follow them to their den and do something as petty as bury them in a lot of sand. Just not even to hunt them either, just because they got bored and saw them, then decided it was a good idea.
Another one, is that when they glitch through the floor in game, it's not because they're being buggy, but because that's where their dens are. These dens will most likely be very deep and open caves and can be found all over the crash site and zones (not in the mountains for reasons I'll explain later). They'll probably be where all the juvenile reapers hide and/or where the reaper eggs are as you can't find any in game. Reapers will probably have 'shift changes' and when it's their time off they bury themselves in sand to sleep.
My favourite one and by far the most adorable one (for me at least) is the baby reapers and really old adult reapers train their mandibles or the claw/talons on the ends below or on the island in the mountain biome. The baby reaper will most likely be on the island using the loose rocks to 'shed' the baby talons for adult ones, like eagles do when their talons aren't sharp enough to hunt. They'll be up on the surface where it's safer as these guys are basically ginger cats when they're younger and don't even know they're alive, so they're up there to make sure they don't get hit by falling rocks. The really old reaper will need to do this but with the bigger rocks that fall down. All this is just to maintain a chance in survival, which is why there won't be any dens in the mountain biome.
The reaper vision though is also very unreliable. They can only see a few meters in front, but I guess a perk will probably be that they have full rotational vision and where they can't see, you're probably closer enough to their body they can sense your their (as I imagine they have sensitive skin for some reason?). They hate light of any sort which is why they stay in deep waters unless they're chasing after food/prey, but it doesn't affect them when they're younger as they haven't spent enough time in water to be solely adjusted to the dark.
They probably also attack the players equipment and vehicles for the light reason. But I feel the seamoths in particular will be attacked maybe because when the baby reapers get their 'new' mandibles they test them out on anything they see, which could be seamoths fragments. They might see seamoths in the open and think back to their childhood and decide it would be funny to be a child again and test their mandibles out on it, but then ending up breaking it.
My final one I can remember at the time of writing this is that the juvenile reapers won't attack the player (if they were in the game) as they wouldn't even know that's how the others get food for them. Since they're young, the little roars will probably be high pitch and slightly mumbled, as they haven't yet achieved 'vocal cord control' to the degree the adults have. I'm thinking their roar will sound like Blue's (from Jurassic world) but more broken up and louder, maybe they have the same cry as seals? But I haven't decided yet.
Edit: I realised I forgot something and that was about a reaper mother. Even if the babies are a bit brain dead and don't mind the player and won't attack them, the mother will definitely mind. They'll most likely get really defensive and become more persistent in their attacks and chases. If the baby was on the mountain biome island, the mother will mostly stay near the surface, and use the horn on its head so that the baby can see where she is. After chasing you across many biomes before losing interest as you are no longer a threat to her baby, she'll very easily return back to them as they are very swift swimmers. She probably stays even closer to the baby, and if in the dunes or crash site, she'll probably hide them under her front two fins and use them as distance keepers so the baby is always in sight and therefore protected.
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