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Custom Ragkhlar
🕑 Added 2020-04-10 23:04:27 +0000 UTCHey guys, sorry for quite a silence, I've been working on an unusual commission for https://www.furaffinity.net/user/arkonderwolf
Their ragkhlar has a "glass skin" condition combined with calloused albinism spots (ragkhlars' skin can't be pure white due to a pigment within cells' walls, yet it can become almost transparent in some cases, thus is the name for the glass part (turquoise on this one's belly, neck, tail and legs) )
Here I have some answers to the questions that they had regarding the species:
- Ragkhlars are hermaphrodites in some sense. Each of them has male parts between their hind legs and female parts down their throat. In a desperate situation they also can self-reproduce by literally bending and taking themselves. Their offspring will be their exact genetic copies if made in this way. Soft eggs gestate within their chests and when the time comes ragkhlar will "spit them out" via mouth (just the way it came in the first place);
- they have no lungs, thus they do not breathe/require oxygen in order to exist. Instead they have a gas pouch connected to an acid gland that releases excess gasses after food is dissolved within their mouth and energy delivered to the whole organism with additional pressure;
- the entrance (refers to the female part) in their throat is almost near their shoulders, so the male's part is pretty... long, so it will not interfere with food consumption process (in means that their throat has a pretty solid muscle that allows them to pray on bigger animals and swallow their limbs releasing acid that separates those limbs from the bigger body pretty easily (think of this acid as of xenomorphs' blood, it will be a close example) ), and indeed, the egg sack is in the chest, this way the eggs will be most protected (it may be a little bit uncomfortable for a ragkhlar just a few days before giving birth, for the eggs will be pretty swollen and gooey);
- originally they were able to spit out acid from their "teeth", just like snakes spit venom (like here: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/live/624_351/images/live/p0/3x/p2/p03xp2vp.jpg but imagine hundreds of teeth doing that), yet gas combination will work too, instead of a "directed shower" it will disperse like a cloud and stay in the air for a few more seconds before settling down;
- the mouth is their stomach basically, yet they have hybrid guts, i.e. they looks like guts, have their function and, at the same time, are an extension of the mouth with dissolving properties, and the end of the journey there are only a few pieces come out, ones that could not be dissolved and ones that are processed waste;
- regarding gulping whole: if it fits in the mouth and not heavier than they can carry, then sure. They usually bring pieces of a larger creatures to their mates when they are expecting babies.
