If a horn breaks mid-growing, there are a few outcomes: Growth can presume as usual, though lagging behind the normal horn, resulting in a "dwarf horn". The horn may also off shoot in different directions, depending on how it was broken. Finally, the rarest outcome is a different style of horn sprouting from the stump — often a result from a gene dominance flicking on/off.

Their horns were used in fights for dominance and to showcase health and fitness. Nowadays, their horns are rarely used outside of fighting tournaments. In fact, most view it as a canvas for personal and artistic expression — carvings, shavings and even cutting them off and replacing with caps or different models (often made with clay, but metals and synthetic keratin are also popular) being common modifications.

They're more agile on water than outside of it, and can reach high speeds if needed — but most prefer to take it leisurely, in the same way most of us prefer to walk than run everywhere.

Their feet have specialized membranes that retract outside of water and expand on it, allowing hanasei to swift between the normal (a) and paddle feet (b). The fingers tend to curve a bit naturally, compared to the splayed diagram on top.

Two hanasei wrestling — a common activity done during breeding months. There are many ways to win a wrestling match, such as holding down an opponent immobile for 30 seconds, knocking them out of the designated fighting area, or have the audience assign a loser — the latter is only done if a hanasei refuses to accept a loss, but their fighting quality already declined.

Been a bit... working on koegama again, and I've redesigned my guys!!!! so I want to reintroduce them a bit :)

Hanasei

I've changed them to have fatter body types, shorter arms and their tails connect from their hips instead of the back. Other than that, they keep most of their biology and old lore.

Luminae

Luminae have a more mongoose-esque anatomy (specifically meerkats), with front facing shoulders, and a plantigrade posture. they still have the same underground lifestyle though!

Tajira

Tajira were the ones who changed the most. Based more on softshell turtles, a flat face and arms in a mantis position and more turtle-y hands and feet.

I'll be posting more of their new cultures and sheets soon...! And for fun here's their old designs

a. The egg stages. The embryo develops pretty fast, so the pictures here would be from a 2-week time span. Their eggs are gelatinous, and are quite annoying to break through — larva release a chemical through their skin to break it down and eclode.

b. Early larva, the first month after eclosion. They look like most larva of the Order hanasei are a member of at this point, and can only be recognized by their size and unusual colors.

c. Mid larva, this being the second and third months respectively. The crown is starting to build up, and their legs are appearing.

d. Late larva, though most just start calling them kids at this point. At 4 months old, this is when hanasei change the most: their nostrils finally open, with developed enough lungs to breathe on land, arms start to sprout, and their gait becomes bipedal. Not only that, but their brains start to develop faster, and they can learn from adults and the world around them, instead of relying on instinct. Age counting starts from here — this kid is 0 years old.

e. A young kid, around 10 years old. Their body has developed enough that they look like a small adult, save for their horns who are still in the process of growing. They're being schooled and in the process of building their own social bubbles with friends and peers. Hanasei take a long time to develop socially, rewiring their brains from solitary larva to communal sophonts, and social bubbles are extremely important for that development.

Hanasei have a wide range of body types, but on average they tend to be a bit wider with fat and skin folds. It is easier for a hanasei to gain weight above the average than it is for them to lose it.

Fatter hanasei often keep skin folds on top of body rolls due to fat increase. Skinnier hanasei will have looser, wider and saggier skin folds due to their lack of weight in expected areas. High muscular mass doesn't seem to affect the skin compared to other body types.

In hanasei culture, a large body type is seen as more attractive, whether it be muscle or fat. This is because the main activity in breeding season — also known as aether high seasons — is erotic fighting (or as erotic as a species who do not participate in sexual intercourse can be), and these two body types fit the standards for the two preferred types of fighters:

Oarue — a muscular fighter that focuses on sole strength and heavy blows — and the Alytó — a fat fighter that focuses on resistance and overwhelming the opponent.

Skinnier hanasei are associated with more underhanded tactics in the practice, being agility and evasion. Fights are meant to be matches of strength and stamina, not of "tactical prowess". Thus, the body type is seen as undesirable and ugly by most hanasei cultures. Though those who interact with tajira may call it a tajira-type body instead, associated with a desire to mingle and relate to the other sophonts.

The standard of fatter body types is very desirable to luminae, who prize fatness over anything else, and have a tendency to eroticize the hanasei body.