#anthro flatworm

Visually they look a little different as an Ikeda-Taenioides-like.

It's not just the recolor and the stripes. Notably they have ears and a nose now, as well as eyes that move around. Even if they do sense the world in the same way as before.

Their tail and its tip are functionally different, even if the visual aspect doesn't change much itself. Essentially the under part is just folded inside, just like on the arms and legs. We've seen that before but now the tail does it too. Functionally it acts less like a grasping hand now, and more like a meteor hammer, though the tip hides a stinger that can root into the ground. This was present in the original but it lacked its own strength, making it more of an aesthetic than a tool. Now it has a function, a sign that Val is learning an evolving.

There was some debate over whether Valentine was Girardia Tigrina or Schmidtea Mediterranea. Truth is he's neither, he's a common ancestor of both species. That's the product of the DNA experiments in his creation. This was eluded to in the plot but I think it confused people. We don't have a name for their theoretical ancestor in science, since we can trace both species back to the Cambrian explosion. You can basically consider him a hybrid of the two similar species.

I will be posting a large quantity of flatworms.