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sketches of what i think guhnash's skull and mouth anatomy is like. going to be honest i dont know anything about the anatomy of eels and sharks and deep sea critters but i took a biglarge amount of inspiration from them and their skulls. i just think they are neat !!!! thoughts under the cut

hello! im gonna be sharing some thoughts and headcanons on genetic diversity in vivosaurs, featuring carchar, and the two extremes of its biology :]

(and yes im gonna be using a redesign of frontier carchar for this)

believe it or not, i can totally imagine frontier carchar and FF/FFC carchar coexisting, and even being members of the exact same species!

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first off, yes this is so frontier and FF/FFC can be in the same universe. second of all, i think that vivosaurs as an entire species of their own are extremely... malleable. i cant think of a better word HBAHGBAH but that's canonical!!!! at the beginning of FF, diggins talks about how vivosaurs take on an appearance influenced by the environment around them. first, i think that this can mean that every vivosaur has the potential to be entirely different from the standard of its species, if one desires to manipulate that. and second, while i feel like the possibilities could be endless to vivosaur designs, and that each vivosaur is unique in one way or another, i do think that every vivosaur is limited to the shape of its basic anatomy, and maybe some other loose rules. IE: sauropods stay sauropods. spinosaurs keep their sails, etc

heres a diagram of frontier carchar's and FF carchar's differences, and core similarities. most of these (not all!!) core similarities are traits that have to be shared by all carchar, and the rest is free game. since vivosaurs are practically magic there can definitely be some alterations to its biology. floating parts, glowing insides. a vivosaur could be full of molten magma and be fine.

i think that there's way, way more vivosaur variations than the games could EVER demonstrate. it wouldn't be that uncommon to see a "pyramid" (FFF) carchar variation in caliosteo, or another vivosaur variation that isn't specific to the area its currently in. this would be particularly common in massive tournaments, when people from all over the world come to one place to battle. i imagine boasting about how rare your vivosaurs variation is is rather common.

also, referring to FFF carchar as a "pyramid" variation, i like to imagine that there's nicknames for more common vivosaur variations :] FF/FFC carchar could be known as a... "pharaoh", or an "emperor" variant, and its the most common variant for carchar. vivosaur designs from FF and frontier are probably the most common variants to find.

so... this being said... and the flexibility of vivosaur variations having been discussed, i present to you

but i still think that dynal could have totally like. straight up ended the pcs life right then and there if he really wanted to continue with project mother planet. so could have raptin and duna if they wanted. they are dinosaur people and you are a fleshy little mammal. but they didnt.... i think their whole culture is heavily honor based. even if you have a good argument its probably looked down upon to continue even after youve been bested in combat. fucked up a little but your claws are sharper than your words

the grey skin-tight part of his suit though... that is easier to explain HFBSHDBDHD its something thats temperature regulating and SUPER flexible, keeping him cool on hotter planets and warm on colder ones. downside is that its way more easy to rip and fuck up than the other peices of armor on him. its naturally probably warm to the touch because i like to think dinaurians prefer hot and humid climates.... off topic but which just so happens to be what vivosaur island is HFJDBDUDBDJDJDJD