🐾 animal of the week: Clione limacina
aka. naked sea butterfly, sea angel, common clione. a sea slug that lives in the Arctic Ocean and cold regions of the North Atlantic Ocean.
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Predator mode of the Sea angel by Alexander Semenov
Via Flickr:
Clione limacina in all its glory
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Hello there, sliding an ittitbitty idea thats been in my head since I finished Apex Polarity (fantastic read).
AP, everything starts and ends the same, just that when Orclips transforms Photographer they turn into a sea butterfly (Clione limacina). If Eclipse was possesive with them as a normal size human, he'll probably go ultra feral and protective with his little pearl-size wanna make mate.
That'll be all from me at the moment. Thanks for writing such incredible fics, all of them. Kisses and have a good day <3
That is such an adorable thought! Eclipse is still so possessive and the photographer is just having the worst day of your life (so far) but you're just so cute and tiny! Look at one!
Also, I love this little tidbit because I didn't know where these creatures live but!!
It fits!! Y/N becoming a tiny sea butterfly siren is so lovely!
Eclipse would always have you in his palm. Everywhere he goes, he's cradling you close and gently protecting you from waves and ice flow, which would be sweet if it weren't for how you became this. He especially adores your beautiful colors and how diaphanous you look. It's difficult for you to wrap your head around how you became so small and, well, admittedly, pretty. Eclipse loves your wings matching your birdie nickname but he also begins calling you sea angel.
You're not thrilled by any of these developments, of course. It's frightening how vulnerable and tiny you are. You have to cling to Eclipse's thumb to not float away. Once or twice, you slip between his fingers in some bid to escape but Eclipse scoops you up and reminds you in a low snarl why they can't leave him. The ocean is so vast and full of dangerous predators, and you have to stay with him.
How can you tell an apex predator no when he could eat you up in one bite?
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Cannot believe I've gone my whole life not knowing what sea angels look like when they're feeding.
Look at this cute little dude, you've seen them around, they're the adorable little ocean kitten butterfly, Clione limacina.
But did you know that when they find prey (planktonic sea snails) they SPLIT THEIR 'HEAD' OPEN AND EVERT THE CHITINOUS HOOKS FROM THEIR HOOK SACKS?
And those are just to hang on, they hold the snail up to their radula (kinda like a barbed or raspy tongue) and scoop the whole soft body of the snail out of its shell with that, and then gulp it down whole.
What a supremely cool little dude!!
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Saimyō-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan by Clione Limacina
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WHAT THE FUCK. SLUG ATTACK
POCHWOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BROROWOOOOOO NEYOOROOOOOSHOOOOO
MY BABIES!!! TY FOR THE SLUGGIES THEY BRING ME THE JOY!!!!
also because I'm a nerd here's all their names :3
Leaf sheep (costasiella kuroshimae)
Blue Glaucus (Glaucus Atlanticus)
Naked Sea Angel (Clione Limacina)
Sea bunny (Jorunna Parva)
Willan's Chromodoris (Chromodoris Willani)
I can't completely tell who the last friend is, but I think it's Tryon's Risbecia (Hypselodoris Tryoni), but if not, then it might be Goniobranchus Kuniei :3
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ohh heres another thing i drew before downpour that i never finished! this is my slugcat oc Courier ^_^
their campaign would probably take place a bit after Rivulet
inspired by my favourite animal Clione limacina
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