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WIP - Terra-2 Matrimonal Spiders

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Hey there everyone! Sorry for being EXTREMELY late on my New Year's Greeting, I've been so busy during the holidays that I had NO time for myself! I think I finally appreciaite how precious "personal" time is, because I was SO inkling to just DO something for myself, but I knew I had obligations, a lot of them was college and family (I had to complete TWO whole animations around the same time). I probably won't be able to even make a short journal entry until later (it's midnight here in Jakarta).

Now enough personal stuff, I just wanted to show a WIP I'm making about one of Terra-2's arthropods, more specifically a spider from the island continent of Lakerta, a US colony and Jovis' home. It's a WIP because I haven't done their kaiju forms yet AND I need to add finer hair on their bodies.

They're the Matrimonal Spiders (Their kaiju names will be different of course), famous for their extreme sexual dimorphism and unlike spiders from our Terra, they mate for life and have abnormally long life spans. They both contribute to hunting and defending their home (usually a former rat den with a large amount of vegetation for the male's rather large web system).

The male is thin, sleek and brighter than most parrots... a hint that it's being so toxic that it can kill several people and even the Goliath Land Crocodile is cautious! Its venom is the deadliest of all spiders, be it from Terra-2 or our Terra. He's the specialist hunter, almost always using a large system of webs because he can't camoflauge at all. A lot of his prey have venom-resistance, hence his disproportionate toxicity.

The female is big, hairy and armed with amongst the biggest fangs of any arachnid, beaten only by a few. She's as drab as the bark of trees and the forest floor, her usual hunting grounds. She's the muscle, she roams around and hunts for fattier, less venom resistant prey (usually worms) and drags them back to her lair. She's not too worried about leaving her home, after all, her mate is one of the most feared creatures in the land

Sometimes they even work together! When a particular large mammal or reptile that happens to be it more resistant to her venom for her liking (those fangs aren't invicible ya know) happens to come close to home, she can wrestle it down and let "the husband" do the rest.

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I made the Matrimonal spiders to highlight Terra-2's familiar yet strange nature compared to regular earth. Not only do reptiles still rule an entire continent, but even their spiders behave MUCH differently compared to our own. True this species of spider is unique even by Terra-2's standards, but it's still odd to see a male spider living for anything else besides reproductions or even working together with the female.

The idea of the male being super venomous was the combination of my obsession with really, REALLY colorful orb-weaver spiders and the Platypus... the males have venomous spurs so... I made an equivalent in spider-terms. The female was inspired by Tarantulas... with the eye-sight of wolf and huntsman spiders, and their both my favorite spider types so...
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