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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2017-06-04 04:03 pm

[ SECRET POST #3805 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3805 ⌋

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Re: Fictional creatures and their wonky anatomy

[personal profile] junee 2017-06-04 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I think dragons could work if their body plan was more pterosaur like, especially azhdarchids like.

But, yeah, six limbed, flying vertebrates make no sense.

I actually have a speculative bio idea about dragons being venom spitters like spitting cobras. Apparently, cobra venom burns like hell when it hits the skin. Humans being humans, I don't think it would be a stretch for burning venom to be retold as fire.

Re: Fictional creatures and their wonky anatomy

(Anonymous) 2017-06-05 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
This is why I liked that they gave Smaug only 4 limbs in The Hobbit movies.

6 limbs is also nonsensical in a world where all other vertebrates are 4-limbed. I remember the Pern novels solved this by having few indigenous animals on Pern and what there was were 6-limbed like the fire lizards, while the 4-limbed animals came from Earth.

Re: Fictional creatures and their wonky anatomy

(Anonymous) 2017-06-05 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
The Smaug thing bugs me. They turned him from a dragon into a wyvern. Dragons have forelimbs plus wings, wyverns have forelimbs which are limbs.

Re: Fictional creatures and their wonky anatomy

(Anonymous) 2017-06-05 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
I can see why that bugs people, but it would bug me more the other way.