[SPECIES DEVELOPMENT] FLEXINS

[skinstealer]

FLEXIN

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ORIGIN

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• Originated in ????
  
• Created by ???? in [year]
  
• First morph: Anatomy Model
  
• ????
  

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CULTURE

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• Flexins are not as prone to illnesses as other species, though some do heal slower than others, and require longer term patch jobs.
  
• Patches can be as simple as duct tape, but many obtain reusable fashion accessories that hold wounds together until they heal, and clean them up for use later.
  
• Flexins enjoy soft beds, and as a general rule, avoid pointy objects and surfaces.
  
• Flexins do not generally require education unless summoned by preteens/teenagers due to their absorption of knowledge, and the summoning ritual required to spawn them is too complicated for young children to grasp. Those who need it however often seek out less formal education due to their species being a fairly recent addition to Morbit.
  
• Flexins are highly adaptable when it comes to housing, so long as their environments are kept safe.
  
• Flexins are not ideal for combat in any way, shape, or form, and ideally choose to flee.
  
• ????
  

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APPEARANCE

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• Balloon animal species, typically “balloon dog” shaped
  
• Little to no natural markings, any natural markings are simple a la stripes or polka dots
  
• Voices are squeaks
  
• Balloon tails typically present
  
• No hair
  
• Range from 3’0-5’0 for "normal" adult height range.
  
• Digitigrade legs
  
• Standard arms
  
• ????
  

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BIOLOGY

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• Composed of deceptively flexible and strong balloon-like material, extremely resistant to puncturing or damage
  
• Internals depend on morph, but most have some degree of gel, fluid, or slime filling
  
• Expressions are typically on some sort of internal structure (such as a skull) or drawn on, able to animate via unknown means
  
• Flexins do not consume matter through any known means, and seem to subsist off of social interaction alone (much to some individuals’ annoyance)
  
• Energy levels depend on the energy of the people around them, with parties and high energy social gatherings leading to manic states.
  
• Balloon ears
  
• Puncturing a flexin requires them to patch it quickly lest they potentially bleed out, leading to many carrying quick patches on their person, just in case.
  
• Flexins are capable of holding things against their hands and manipulating them as if they had fingers, though no one is sure how.
  
• ????
  

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LIFE CYCLE/FAMILY STRUCTURE

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• Spawned through specific, consciously done rituals conducted at social gatherings, typically large parties. Spawning a flexin must be done under specific conditions, and the resulting flexin will take on both the theme of the party as a morph, and an approximation of the cumulative knowledge of the partygoers. Knowledge itself will be muddled, faces and names will be forgotten and not easy to hold onto, but it’s typically enough for a flexin to enter society upon forming.
  
• A flexin’s age is something they can tell you inherently, and is typically the average of all of the ages of the ritual that spawned them’s participants. They live to be 80 years old and hit maturity at age 18-20.
  
• Flexins will often try to fit into the lives of the people they spawned around, with friendly ones making friends at the party they arrived at and ideally making enough connections to secure short term housing.
  
• ????
  

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GENETICS

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• Morphs inspired by different party/celebration themes
  
• Mixed morph flexins exist in the sense that mixed-theme parties can exist, but not through reproduction.
  
• Flexin hybrids do not exist, as they do not reproduce.
  
• Common horror mutations include size increase, energy increase, restlessness, membrane thickening/thinning, internal toxicity, organic matter development (such as meat, bones, slime, eyes, etc)
  
• ????
  

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MORPHS

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Anatomy Model
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• Inspired by horror/spooky party themes
  
• Contains (inaccurate) cartoon skeleton model
  
• Sometimes has cartoony bat wings/horns
  

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RULES

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This is a species development thread! Here you can have discussion on the species presented, and offer suggestions/ideas for developing them- thus directly contributing to the species! Anything is fair game so long as it follows the restrictions (if any are listed). This main post will be updated as we go, allowing for people to always have an up to date resource on the species.

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Restrictions/No-go's

• Keep it SFW!!!!