#givanology

-the nictitating membrane is left majorly unused, as they blink with their actual eyelids, but when feeling threatened/watching something Real Hard they stop doing that and start blinking with their membranes instead as it doesnt obstruct their sight

-see in the dark just great, but their eyes are sensitive to light and sudden flashing can go as far as to temporarily blind them (your sign to take a flash pic in one's face if you're about to get mauled i guess)

-their scleras and secondary pupils glow in the dark

-eyes start off fully green, and it fades out as their body sets everything straight, but some more sloppily made cases don't grow out of their green scleras phase. their dead eyes are also green for a while

-all gvthings produce tears in the same manner as us (and like all land mammals) and serves the same purpose (lubrication, protection from irritants). only sentients have the cognitive complexity to cry emotionally

-Banban can do that white eyes thing because his nictitating membranes are white tinted. as for why... dont ask because i Don't Fucking Know Either He's Just Like That. basically its just this

CHARACTERISTICS //

-almost all mammalians are facultative bipeds with a preference for quadrupedal movement, but some are obligate bipeds

-fur is often very thick and plays a huge part in thermoregulation, and with it disabled (say, getting really wet) they can go into shock or just hypothermia. this also goes for avians and their feathers. their body heat averages at slightly lower than ours, about 33-35 celsius (91.4-95 fahrenheit??? im an uneducated european idk)

-characteristics are not taken dead seriously and pretty much all you need to be considered a mammalian is fur and teeth. if a case had, say, 5 digits on each talon or an altered internal plan, they could still easily be considered a mam

-don't think this part needs further explanation

-would mythical creatures count as morphic? probably

(the animal-adjacent example lad belongs to @ratonthemoon)

INTERNAL ANATOMY //

SKELETAL STRUCTURE //

-fairly durable, but they are prone to back discomfort when on two legs (when it comes to facultative bipeds). their spines and hips arent really built for supporting so much of their weight over long periods of time

-eyes face forward

-foreleg distal phalanges mutate into claws

NERVOUS SYSTEM //

-brains are very developed, sentients generating the same level of sapience as a human

-great skin sensory abilities despite their fur. their palms and underside are most sensitive

-have a tickle response lol that belongs here i guess

RESPIRATORY SYSTEM //

-pretty good lung capacity + stamina

-their nostril veil made of thin fur strands also filters out dust and protects their nose from other irritants. they have a great sense of smell enhanced by their jacobson's organ, often while smelling they slightly open their mouths and press their tongues to the roof of it

-sentients can freely form speech with no issue but their vocalizations also include roars, hisses, growls and purring similar to a big cat's (happy motorcycle noises). they may also whine or chirp

CIRCULATORY SYSTEM //

-no notes idk

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM //

-odd, minimalist digestive system mosty just for a more lifelike facade given they don't need to eat or drink

-due to only having a single-chambered stomach and nothing else (lacks intestines, anal opening, liver etc anything else associated with food) their stomach acid has an even lower pH than a vulture's, allowing them to destroy almost any organic material and whatever is truly indigestible is clumped up into an owl-pellet like formation (chemical waste is crammed into this aswell) and hacked up

-due to lacking a liver or anything to neutralize toxins they also have a dramatic defensive reaction to things like alcohol, larger amounts of caffeine, capsaicin, tartaric acid (from say, grapes) etc. in which the stomach cramps together and forces out its contents through their mouths, a generally. not very pleasant experience but effective. they are very hard to actually poison but easy to get sick

HUSKLESS //

-first actually living being to be created with Givanium, and the least developed for it basically only giving the substance enough structure to make it be able to move and stuff

-not sentient or conscious to any extent, more like some kind of weird supernatural moving fungus

-GV's notorious need to hog and occupy as much physical space it can leads them to grow out their little tendrils, useful for slowly crawling around at best

-they are unresponsive to mostly anything and everything on account of having no sensory organs. blind, deaf, doesn't smell or taste, does kind of feel through its cold rubbery skinstuff, doesn't react to things that would cause pain in a more developed organism or temperature changes

-generally pretty useless to GV studies. they were just there, but atleast it was good to know what was 100% crucial for a lifeform

NECROHUSKED //

-second type to be created, after some ethical debates, and yielded very interesting results

-cognitively changes nothing in the animal, retains intelligence and general conscious, but they lose their instincts to nourish themselves or rest

-appear to operate solely on their nervous, circulatory and respiratory systems, with the other organs becoming still usable if triggered but otherwise vestigial. their digestion becomes obsolete but they can still eat and drink.

-the most interesting part was when they started removing these vestigial organs to see if it would disrupt the prior organic animal. through trial and error they came to conclusion that they can, but this is also where Givanium's tendency to mutate became apparent. aside from that lots of necrohuskeds started to show visual alterations such as sharper teeth and claws, and gigantism.