#thingies

moon-touched

You know these guys? Sure you do. They're the eel and newt demons, obviously. But. I've been thinking. Cuz like.

You've heard the whole "dragons couldn't exist because a six limbed vertebrate doesn't exist" argument. Most people take the artistic liberty to give their dragons wings anyways because fuk biology or something. I'm a person that does this. Because. I liek traditional four legged, two winged dragos :3

But this brings me to my predicament here.

There's never existed an animal that can breathe air and underwater. You have marine mammals with either blowholes or sealing nostrils and the like. Or fish and other underwater creatures that have some form of gills. But never a crossover. The closest I can guess of a crossover is the occasional amphibian that can breathe through its skin.

So. Idea.

Eel demons have traditional gills along their ribcage. The way I understand gills is that fish swim with their mouths open to allow water to pass through their gills (which are connected to the mouth/throat kinda). Since I want the eel demons to also have lungs, I'm not gonna connect the gills to their mouth. We're gonna put two openings right around the collarbone area that feeds water into the gills :) the lungs will be connected to the nostrils (not the mouth, still gonna try figuring out how they speak without that) the nostrils are sealed constantly and need to be forced open consciously and kept open for them to breathe air. This way, water breathing is their usual method, breathing air is their "no choice" method.

Newt demons are different. They have axolotl gills and skin that can absorb oxygen passively. Something something maybe more energy efficient since they live in really deep ocean caves n stuff and there's an oxygen deficiency in that water. Maybe. Idk science. The gills works as both gills and kind of ears? Or antenna. They do like. Echolocation or something idk. But their skin. Has ridges. That can catch tiny air bubbles. And that's how they absorb the oxygen from the water. Outside of water, they still need to be moist in order for their skin to be able to absorb oxygen from the air. Luckily, they don't go out of the water often so it's not much of a problem.

Also, neither one can, like. Really suffocate. Since. The only way they can die is if you like. Destroy their heart. So. Idk what the point of this was, exceeeept- they are still affected by suffocation and will pass out until they can breathe again. So like. It's still. Relevant. Or something. I'm leaving.

as soon as you sent this ask actually the sickness lifted like an evil fog from my body and dissipated, ty hazel my love my darling my heart <3

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