🌻🦎 Solgama - Summertime - Creature suggestion 🦎🌻

ida92 • 17 March 2024 at 11:15 AM

Art:
All stages: https://www.deviantart.com/idusiek/art/Solagama-all-stages-1032353384
Egg+baby+teen: https://www.deviantart.com/idusiek/art/Solagama-egg-baby-teen-1032353933
Adult: https://www.deviantart.com/idusiek/art/Solgama-adult-1032354632

Description:

Egg: Look at that giant sunflower seed! It must be delicious inside! Wait...it's strangely warm to the touch. And did you just feel something moving inside? Maybe you should leave it alone...

Creature: The Solgama are closely related to the Saurogapi, but they inhabit different territories and display different physical and behavioral traits. Firstly, the Solgama's actually begin their life inside sunflower buds. The plant "hatches" from the Solgama's egg, carrying the developing lizard inside. The plant provides nutriens, shelter and warmth to the developing baby. Once the Solgama is ready to live on it's own, the plant opens up and releases the young lizard. The now empty sunflower continues to grow and it even develops edible seeds later on (actual sunflower seeds, not Solgama eggs!).

Native to the Northern Plains, the Solgama are very territorial lizards. They are not blindly aggressive though, so if you wish to pass through a Solgama's territory, you should ask them politely for permission. The answer will usually be positive, but don't expect anything more than politeness from a Solgama. Be respectful to them and their land.

Solgamas are not easy to befriend. However, if you are patient enough to gain a Solgama's trust, you can be sure that you have made a friend for life.

Solgamas, just like the Saurogapi, extend their flowery neck frills as a defence mechanism. They are much larger than their cousins though and are not afraid to run and snap at any predators or threats. They can also scratch painfully with their long claws!

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Weight: 3 kg
Length: 1 m
Gender Profile: Standard
Habitat: Northern Plains

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shirothekittehlover • 17 March 2024 at 12:19 PM

@ida92
Ooooh another flower lizard :0
(Also, your art has improved drastically holy moly-)

heatherm19 • 17 March 2024 at 12:31 PM

@ida92 Omg that adult, I love it! The pose, the large frills, perfect!

aardbeix3 • 17 March 2024 at 4:14 PM

@ida92 well done again, Ida! Great artwork!
It kind of reminds me of a less scary and MUCH cuter version of this dino from Jurassic park: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/jurassicpark/images/e/ef/Dilophosaurus_Render.png/revision/latest?cb=20220425014454

ida92 • 18 March 2024 at 11:33 AM

@shirothekittehlover @heatherm19 @aardbeix3 Thank you all. ❤️

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prairie • 18 March 2024 at 12:34 PM

@ida92
I looooove seed eggs!! And Gosh Bearded Dragons are adorable, we definitely need one on the site.

megamisama90 • 18 March 2024 at 12:54 PM

@ida92 Yikes the last stage is scary! But otherwise really cool and I like how you included Saurogapi in your text. Really liking that it's a seed and then a seedling. We don't really have anything else as Saurogapi here so it would be a nice addition. ^^

anarchy • 19 March 2024 at 1:47 AM

@ida92 ooh this is a really cool concept! the idea to use sunflower petals as a lizard's frills is really inspired. also i was totally thinking it reminded me of jurassic park too haha ❤️ thanks for the ping!

ida92 • 19 March 2024 at 2:12 AM

@megamisama90 @prairie @anarchy thank you all. ❤️ I actually based it on a bearded dragon and a frilled lizard. 😊

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chihiro_sang • 22 March 2024 at 12:05 AM

This is a very cute take on a frilled lizard. I like the idea of it being a plains relative of the more wetlands Saurogapi.

ida92 • 22 March 2024 at 12:53 PM

@chihiro_sang Thank you. ❤️

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lunacharm1037 • 22 March 2024 at 1:10 PM

@ida92
I love it, especially the last stage ❤️ I really do hope this gets made. It's so unique and I for one would love to see it in my cove 😊 ❤️ lol

opalquinze • 22 March 2024 at 1:22 PM

i’m all in for getting a beardie based suggestion to be real at one point!

dragrawr • 22 March 2024 at 1:54 PM

@ida92 somehow I never saw this and I’m so sad I didn’t. Because this is amazing. I’ve been WAITING for more reptiles on the site and imma need so many of these dudes. 😫😫😫💕💕💕

sartre • 22 March 2024 at 5:27 PM

I love the idea of a sunflower and lizard put together. It looks so cool.🌻🦎

silvia • 22 March 2024 at 5:58 PM

noman15 • 23 March 2024 at 12:38 PM

This is adorable and oddly seems like a very logical related animal to some of eggcave's fauna.

ida92 • 5 April 2024 at 12:55 AM

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Thank you all. ❤️