#alitta

nereid worms (Alitta sp.) prowling the tidal mudflats

nereids and other predatory polychaete worms (such as bobbit worms) are related to earthworms but have a more complex brain, leg-like parapodia, eyes, antennae, and sharp retractable jaws for grasping prey. I think of them as marine centipedes.

normally they stay out of sight buried in the mud, so I was a bit surprised to see these ones crawling out in the open, various smaller invertebrates scrambling out of the way to avoid becoming the worms’ next meal.

Pile Worm (Alitta succinea) 

WORM RIGHTS!!

caer name is Alitta!!! and cae’re a king ragworm!! 

cae use cae/chem/caer/caeself pronouns!!!

i gotta redraw cae because i was Struggling at the time to draw chem at the time [pensive fist]

anyways!!! 

cae’re a long bastard here to cause problems on purpose njkGBHNK

one time almost killed a man but in caer defense he kept teasing them with the promise of vienna sausages only to not give them to cae and they got mad

the guy was a scuba diver and cae kept trying to bite their oxygen tank but it didn’t work and instead cae got cattle prodded to go away skdbfjds

cae have hidden teeth in caer mouth!! that cae can invert caer mouth to reveal big ol pincers!! like normal ragworms!!

big ol dummy and im love them

cae live in a reef and are just Vibing

big appetite and for some fuckinf reason keeps trying to steal human food even though it upsets caer stomach everytime cae eat it but never learns from that

actively keeps trying to attack small boats but it hardly ever works because cae’re too iffy about being around motors so cae dont always do that dsjhfcds

cae!!!!

chem name is Alitta!!!

cae use cae/caer/chem/caeself pronouns!!!

tries to >:) but typically ends up :)^

cae have hidden teeth in chem mouth!! that cae can push out! like regular ragworms

fuckinf big dummy

makes me Yearn

big appetite 

for some fuckinf reason keeps trying to steal human food even though it upsets caer stomach everytime cae eat it

actively attacks small motor boats

the only one that has intentionally tried to kill a human

it was a scuba diver and cae kept trying to bite their oxygen tank

Yeah!!!!!

heres some stuff on all of them djkfjsd

Persici doesn’t like fresh water all that much but she’ll go up river on occasion but only because people in the river are less aggressive with motor boats

Navis likes to stick closer to the surface of the water! he likes looking up at the sky :)

Proten has poor eyesight, then again you don’t really rely on sight when there isn’t much to look at all the way down in the twilight zone djnkfjd

Macula spends a lot of her time trying to teach Album how to hunt lil things like crabs and fish

Album keeps trying to pick up featherduster worms but he doesn’t understand the whole worm lives in a tube 

Mutatio is mad her ink is dark brown as opposed to black like octopi (cuttlefish ink is just naturally brown dsnfjs)

Diablo gets startled easily and se will burry symself in the sand to hide

Sleek likes to scare scuba divers by hiding in rocks and crevices where he can fit and letting his eye shine reflect just enough light from flashlights of scuba divers to make it look like hes some spooky sea monster

Borea is my arctic skate! hie like to find bottle caps and keep them all in a little hole where hir can look at them again later

Merim is my shovelnose ray! ae aren’t super chatty but ae will enjoy nice talk from time to time!