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My entry for the 's new contest, hosted by

The contest was to design a creature that reflected one of three descriptions.

I chose the fallowing: (filling in the blanks with my given name)
Beptar is a large animal that seems to lack interest in anything it cannot eat. Walking on stocky finlike legs, these monsters lumber about their environment in constant search of food – be it meat, bones, hooves, rotted or otherwise. The short sharp teeth tear chunks of their feed into smaller bites, though they cannot chew. It is of little difference to them if they swallow hard masses; their stomach acid is incredibly powerful and capable of breaking down almost anything they ingest. Females of the species are usually lean and muscular, but the males are nearly three times heavier due to their nearly obese bodies. Males gorge themselves with fatty foods to bulk up and impress females with their size and ability to maintain a massive weight. This not entirely for show, as the adult males genuinely need their lipid storage for the breeding season – females choose larger males because he will have a much better chance caring for his young. Once mated, females will lay a clutch of 3-8 perfectly round eggs; her mate will then quickly swallow them whole to store them in his stomach. The strong acid in his belly help break down the shells of his young over the period of about two weeks, the infant monsters are underdeveloped but immune to their father’s digestive juices. From that point on, anything the male swallows is broken down in his stomach and eaten by his young, since they lack their own acids. Eating all their parent’s food and growing steadily larger causes the male to use up his fat stores to survive, he will usually resemble the much thinner female by the end of his “pregnancy”. Once the baby monsters grow too large and aggressive in the stomach, the male will literally spit them up – they are considered on their own from this point on and left to fend for themselves.

They are sortof.... Lurkers. They hide in the Smog and use the thing on their nose to lure in prey. It's like mimicry or something...

It's part venom because they actually belch soot/smoke/smog. whenever there isn't natural smog to hide in, they create it for themselves.

Took me several days to put this together. Lots of on-off work lol. There are actually scales all over that fish, but you can only tell it on the adult because of re-sizing.

Hope you like it nars

Description
My entry for the 's new contest, hosted by

The contest was to design a creature that reflected one of three descriptions.

I chose the fallowing: (filling in the blanks with my given name)
Beptar is a large animal that seems to lack interest in anything it cannot eat. Walking on stocky finlike legs, these monsters lumber about their environment in constant search of food – be it meat, bones, hooves, rotted or otherwise. The short sharp teeth tear chunks of their feed into smaller bites, though they cannot chew. It is of little difference to them if they swallow hard masses; their stomach acid is incredibly powerful and capable of breaking down almost anything they ingest. Females of the species are usually lean and muscular, but the males are nearly three times heavier due to their nearly obese bodies. Males gorge themselves with fatty foods to bulk up and impress females with their size and ability to maintain a massive weight. This not entirely for show, as the adult males genuinely need their lipid storage for the breeding season – females choose larger males because he will have a much better chance caring for his young. Once mated, females will lay a clutch of 3-8 perfectly round eggs; her mate will then quickly swallow them whole to store them in his stomach. The strong acid in his belly help break down the shells of his young over the period of about two weeks, the infant monsters are underdeveloped but immune to their father’s digestive juices. From that point on, anything the male swallows is broken down in his stomach and eaten by his young, since they lack their own acids. Eating all their parent’s food and growing steadily larger causes the male to use up his fat stores to survive, he will usually resemble the much thinner female by the end of his “pregnancy”. Once the baby monsters grow too large and aggressive in the stomach, the male will literally spit them up – they are considered on their own from this point on and left to fend for themselves.

They are sortof.... Lurkers. They hide in the Smog and use the thing on their nose to lure in prey. It's like mimicry or something...

It's part venom because they actually belch soot/smoke/smog. whenever there isn't natural smog to hide in, they create it for themselves.

Took me several days to put this together. Lots of on-off work lol. There are actually scales all over that fish, but you can only tell it on the adult because of re-sizing.

Hope you like it nars