My monk and survivor are both void returnees since I am familiar with most of the game at the start of my playthrough! I'm currently still doing the survivor unlock run.
More screenshot highlights under the cut!
im not giving IDs to these any time soon srry. ID for art in alt
so, i learned you can turn characters using their ids into their other variants, as they are the exact same personality ish with their ids, I learned that her cyan variant wants me dead, her elite variant wants me dead and so does queen her. BUT. her red lizard variant is so CUTE? LIKE NEVER TRIED TO SNAP AT ME, she is so chill when not a scav where her nervousness is only rivalled by her sympathy scores.
AAAAA shadows cast over luminescent crystals, Look at the baby
So sweet (not in proper gameplay, themes are assholes always, but she will leave you alone if you escape her sight)
i've made a rivulet type slugcat oc... they dont have a name theyre just scuggy. their special hability is surviving despite the empty space inside their head
As part of making Rain World's creatures all look like they came from similar ancestry, I try to keep everything with three toes, etc.
I think another feature that is common in a lot of Rain World's species is hardened heads, usually these are derivatives of the material known as "living metal". This is what iterators are made out of. It is a living structure like skin but is tough as steel, but has a sort of high metabolic cost (partly due to its weight).
So this is mostly seen in lizards, who can afford it because they are (mostly) solo predators, efficient hunters who basically just eat and sleep (and breed presumably?).
Scavs are probably omnivores, and can't eat directly from carcasses. Over time their living metal components devolved into a more natural sort of carapace, keratin-type structure, which forms the "mask" of the scavs. Probably also teeth and such.
Basically spear-defying lizard heads, dark scav heads & horns, and vulture masks are all derived from the same thing (= the Ancients obsession with masks /hj)
Other fun fact headcanons:
- Scavengers have a primordial pouch (think the glob of fat over a cat's stomach. It's for protection)
- Scav quills rattle to make a rustling-esque sound and are used as part of body language.
- Scavs can vocalize but it sounds really dumb. I'm imagining deer sounds. Please listened to deer sounds.
- Scavs do not have external ears, but they have ear holes under where their masks end.
Also realistically slugcats and scavengers could not have a hybrid baby, but I was asked by Kip what I thought it would be like and what I came out with is, basically, a fuzzier slug with ears farther to the sides, more upper body & arm strength, stubbier tail, and probably less pipe mobility but the ability to jump from pole to pole (yippee!!)