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shaggy: like scoob that’s incoming enemy missiles!

They look like this

(fishing out this image as an example made me realize how long it’s been since I properly painted a dryad, since this image of Renwick is from 2016 - this will do for now until I draw something newer though)

They have fairly standard mammal style pregnancy and birth. Despite being creatures that rely deeply on magic for survival they are still fairly biological and are born the boring old fashioned messy way. Their infants are not born covered in bark and just have chlorophyll in their skin making them look like fat little green beans.

Their one weird thing is that they experience obligatory embryonic diapause. That’s fancy for “doesn’t matter when this egg was fertilized, implantation is happening ON SCHEDULE” - which is how they don’t have a breeding season but still all end up being born on the first day of spring anyway.

They take wild octos every year and put them in a conjoined tank that is separated only by a plexi glass wall full of holes big enough for them to put arms through but small enough that their beaks can’t fit through. Each octopus is given food, healthcare, and enrichment, and the opportunity to get to know each other.

As Valentine’s Day approaches the marine biologists that specialize in octos make assessments of their interactions and judge if the two are compatible for mating or if they are still aggressive toward each other.

If the octopuses have been witnessed being friendly and seem interested, the gate is lifted and they have their day of romance.

But octopuses engage in cannibalism in the wild and any smaller octopus is wary of getting eastern by a larger one… So yeah, if they haven’t been friendly the possibility of cannibalism is very high. And as a program designed to help save the species they aren’t going to risk it. So the octopuses are released (not together) back into the wild and the Aquarium sets about finding a new pair to play match-maker with.

Hi everyone!

My series “FANGS,” a love story between a werewolf and vampire, has reached its halfway point. The story is free to read and will update twice a week until July, but the entire story is available if you opt to unlock it!

*takes 3000 Psychic damage*

*closes book*

She’s scratching an itch.

This is a SFW edit. The full NSFW image can be found on Newgrounds or Twitter