#podsicle

[llatimeria]

Icypods are a common, harmless Creature found in tundras, glaciers, and mountain peaks. To defend themselves from predators, they curl up into a defensive ball - a behavior known as conglobating. The texture of their carapace is uniquely capable of collecting layers of ice, so when curled, they appear as an inanimate lump of snow.

Icypods are typically harmless to humans, but they can sometimes pose a minor threat to mountainous communities. Under the right conditions, they can curl up into a snowball and roll down a slope, accumulating more and more mass. When they get big and fast enough, they've been known to take out small trees and fences before being stopped by a boulder or an unfortunate mountain cabin. The icypod always emerges unscathed, if disoriented.

They're about 9 inches long, with a diameter of just about 3 inches when conglobated - about the size of a baseball. Icypods are larger than any currently known terrestrial isopods, leading some Enthusiasts to theorize that they may have a bit of deep-sea dwelling Giant Isopod in them, but modern DNA analysis techniques suggest they were formed from your regular backyard roly-poly, Armadillidium vulgare.

Podsicles are a larger variant of Icypod, formed when an adult Icypod is exposed to subzero temperatures for extended periods of time. Their carapace begins to form dense icicle-like structures, making them even more unpalatable to most predators. Podsicles have much more control over their snowball avalanche, deliberately rolling down ramps to fling themselves at high speeds to injure potential aggressors.

[twenty-one-horcruxes]

So me and some of my friends do an art stream and I have my own little corner if that stream where I'll do Photoshop and during isopod hour, these were some genms I made.