Doriteverse/Mobians

Within the Doriteverse, mobians are the humanoid counterpart to mobini. Every mobini species has a mobian counterpart and vice versa. Mobians almost always have human-like sapience, with the only known exception being tasmanian devils. A mobian human is commonly called an "overlander", while most other mobian species are referred to by the same name as their mobini counterpart.
==Habitat==
Mobians live in a wide range of habitats, as their sapience allows them to improvise for anything. However, when in the absence of civilization, they generally have a slight preference for the habitat of their mobini counterpart's origin.
==History==
Mobians have likely existed on Mobius for as long as there has been bilateral animal life, with the earliest trace evidence of mobians being dated somewhere between 550 and 580 million years ago. This seems to also line up with the arrival of Chaos Energy to the planet. They have evolved in parallel with their mobini counterparts and have gone through countless rises and falls of civilization throughout history.
== Biology ==
Mobians all have large craniums and prominent eyes. They usually have defined mouth and cheek areas, with the exceptions being flat-faced mobians such as overlanders and pugs. They are almost universally bipedal and those that are not are at least facultative bipeds. They have soft flexible lips and round flexible tongues to facilitate speech, with beaked species such as birds and turtles often having an additional lip-like pad behind the beak to allow them to make sounds that require it. Arthropod and jawless mobians speak with a speaker-like voice box, though it is often very difficult for them to speak the languages of jawed mobians. Mobian hands and feet are fairly large.
Mobians can "hybridize" with any other mobian species. Most combinations result in infertile offspring much like hybrids in real life, but somewhat related crosses such as wolves and foxes or chickens and peafowl seem to be an exception at least half the time.
Mobians can come in nearly any visible color imaginable, but this is largely genetic; the mobian saturation gene completely controls how bright a mobian's colors can be. Without it they are restricted to the natural colors of their mobini counterpart plus easily-mutated colors, but with one copy they can take on a variety of unnatural colors. Two copies allows these colors to be highly saturated. Throughout mobian history, the gene becomes more common the more advanced mobians are at the time but extremely rare when there is no civilization; this is because the gene is bad for camouflage in the wilderness, but manages to persist and rise again because the bright colors are considered incredibly attractive.
Mobians are deeply dependent on chaos energy, which is integral to their biological functions. They share this trait with Mobini, and the two groups are forced into meta-homologous evolution as they are dependant on forces caused by the other's existence. There are many theories as to why these forces exist; a notable recent study indicates that mobians and mobini run on different types of chaos energy which stabilize each other and will begin to bleed out of a species when their counterpart goes extinct. A drop of even 10% of expected chaos energy in the body is fatal to infants, and an adult mobian cannot survive below 50% of their expected chaos energy.
Mobian taxon names are the same as their mobini counterparts, but with either an infinity symbol or a Mobi- prefix to indicate that it is referring to mobians specifically (i.e. ∞Felidae or Mobifelidae). Regardless of how it's written, it's pronounced with the Mobi- prefix.
== Design Guide ==
This is a personal notes section for new characters of established mobian groups in the Doriteverse. Sorry for poor readability, this is meant mainly for Dorite to reference.
∞Mammalia should hold their tails at a 45 degree angle by default; unless the species is known for dragging its tail, the tail must be held off the ground and the angle may be changed as needed. ∞Mammalia are the only mobians which can have breasts.
∞Ornithodira should typically hold their tails perpendicular to rest of their spine. Related non-∞Ornithodiran ∞Avimetatarsalians may be depicted with either a 90 or 45 degree tail angle depending on what works for the design of the species in question. Although real Ornithodirans cannot pronate their wrists, all ∞Ornithodirans can except for those in ∞Pterosauria and ∞Maniraptoriformes, the latter two cases being that their wings prevent proper rotation of the wrist.
The only exception to the perpendicular tail rule within ∞Ornithodira is ∞Ankylosauridae; due to the weight of the tail club, ∞Ankylosaurids cannot hold the tail perpendicular to the rest of the spine for extended periods of time without damaging their spines and instead unfortunately have to drag their tails. However, the tail should still be raised and preferably held perpendicular while the ∞Ankylosaurid is on alert or in combat.
∞Maniraptoriformes should be depicted with full wing feathers unless proven otherwise for the specific species or clade. Flight feathers grow to where the second finger begins, but not all the way to the tip unless the species grasps with a different appendage such as a foot, therefore making those such as ∞Aves and ∞Enantiornithes the appropriate exceptions. Although Sonic game canon seems to show members of ∞Pygostylia with their tails pointed straight down, within the Doriteverse they should be held perpendicular to the rest of the spine the same as their longer-tailed cousins.Category:Species
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