#gourmander

[opashoo]

Rain World Groovin pt 2, btw

[forgetmenautical]

rainworld slugs! :V I put way too much thought into this

other notes under cut cause I thought about it a lot

their skeleton isn’t normal bone, it’s actually a mix of normal and prismatic cartilage! this keeps their bones light and flexible while still giving them the ability to tightly grasp and bite things. they all have prismatic cartilage for their jaws except for spearmaster, which discourages them to eat using their mouth since it’s extremely time consuming and uncomfortable given that their diet otherwise isn’t intended to be small plant particles and plankton.

spearmasters spines/spears from its tail are also full of digestive enzymes. this won’t kill prey by itself, but once downed spearmaster can just chillax as the enzymes do their thing inside the body and the visceral mush is returned to spearmasters digestive system for processing.

all of them have some sort of internal shell in their mantle except for saint. Rivulets is vestigal and very thin to allow for more complex movement but they do still have it. In the evolutionary timeline of scug—>furred scug, at some point it became more efficient to develop thick, dense fur that could deal with the cold while simultaneously protecting them. saints pneumatostome is also almost entirely gone and is more just an unusually soft spot on their back.

I interpret artificer, gourmand, and watcher to be apart of a “future” generation of scugs far beyond survivor, hunter, and monk—though obviously not as far into the future as saint is. they developed cerata to mimic lizards, since a lot of organisms will think twice before messing with a lizard rather than a slugcat, which is (typically) much less deadly.

hunter, artificer, and spearmaster are all malnourished, which isn’t super noticeable in the way I drew them but I’d just like to point it out cause it’s important 2 me lol.

[0hmanit]

Reminiscence

[hammythehanner]

DP SLUGCAT ICONS REDRAW WOOOOO its been almost 2 years. wtf.

anyways enjoy feel free to use as pfp with credit ok byeeeeeeee

[egg-on-a-legg]

decided that watcher dropping was an excuse to touch up my old scug designs! the wawas of all time

[focshi]

One last comfort.

[reyreyggg]

WWWWAAAAA.

[mildeleef]

Day 28: Rw 8th Anniversary

HAPPY 8 YEARS OF SLUGGIN IT 🔥

[thetrueressii]

i fully redid/redesigned the slugcats in my rw anthro au, this took way too long

one day ill have to like properly do a comic or maybe an ask blog for these goobers

the ones with significantly lore/story changes are surv and monk which ill try to summarize a bit below this cut

surv and monk are from a different smaller colony/family than gourmands and only really passed by gourmands colony while they were migrating

surv and monk are generally teenagers when they get separated and lost at some point during this migration and spend most of their teenage years in the wilderness

eventually they find each other and also join up with gourmands colony after yknow finding outer expanse which when gourmand gives surv his title survivor for his pretty crazy feat of survival

in gourmands colony the two are almost treated like heros/celebrities, especially amongst the kids and ESPECIALLY surv

surv feel undeserving of this treatment and is very socially anxious and maladjusted to social living which leads to him appearing either very stoic and collected or just weird

surv is only ever really socially active with his older sister monk and hunter who he connected with much faster with than anyone else (besides monk) due to similar stoic dispositions

surv is a mess lol

monk has handled this much better as she was able to join a scav colony for a period of time (until a certain red slugcat passed by) so shes way more socially adjusted plus shes also older by like give or take 4 to 7 years

she just chills at the outer expanse gardens/farms for the most part and tries to help hunter with their rot in ways they can

if i were to do an ask blog i would either center it around arti, hunter, and saint or surv and monk since those groups have the most story rn

[casver-w]

The treetop in Outer Expanse

[pineapplethemilk]

Redraw

[tapewires]

Arti and Gorm human designs

[nnomsu]

saint makes great loafs but gourmand...

[snailfen]

first watcher drawpile!!! i ended up drawing them with every slugcat because i missed drawing everyone 💔

[raintemper]

Downpour gang

[fantampulse]

slug tower

The scug that has arti pups on them is surv and monk sibling