Shankabob

is a Complien that fires surface-to-air homing missiles. Its element is Earth. It has no growths.
==Appearance==
Its body is flat and rectangular, with eight stubby legs and four beady eyes. Its tail, which is much larger than its own body, has three large bulges and a sharp keratinous point at its end. The tail is held up by a ninth arm sticking directly upwards from the Shankabob's back.
It is about 1.6 ft (0.5 m) long, from the tip of its tail to its butt.
== Information==
===Habitat===
It can be found in the badlands of Dornae.
===Biology===
Shankabobs are carnivores that primarily prey on flying Compliens. Though they themselves are slow and clumsy on account of their top-heavy body, Shankabobs are very deadly to anything above them.
Their tail contains three spherical organs. One generates a cone-shaped "shell" of keratin, one fills the shell with Earth-element complixonox goo, and one readies the shell for launch. When a Shankabob sees something flying overhead, it aims its tail and fires in the general direction of the target. It doesn't need to be particularly accurate, because the shell has enough sapience to seek out nearby airborne Compliens and explode violently. Shankabobs can store up to three shells in their tails, generating a new one every 30 minutes or so.
Their natural prey is the Dust Cropper, as their shells navigate using complixonox detection and are thus unfazed by the Dust Cropper's chaff. However, their anti-air capabilities are strong enough to deal with almost anything. Even Übernovas retreat when they notice the explosion of a Shankabob shell.
The Shankabob is helpless in a fight against a terrestrial creature like Spearpion or Ferrumet. However, when they die, Shankabobs immediately detonate all of their stored shells. The blue stripes on their lower tail serve as a warning to other creatures not to mess with them on threat of mutually assured destruction.
===Behavior===
They are territorial towards other Shankabobs. When a Shankabob sees another Shankabob of the same sex, the two will try to gnaw at each other with their fangs.
Female Shankabobs lay clusters of 5-6 eggs and hide them under rocks for a male Shankabob to fertilize. Since Shankabobs are somewhat uncommon in the badlands, unfertilized eggs can remain viable for several months. The eggs are protected by a rock-like coating to dissuade opportunistic ovivores, but Ferrumets chow down on them just fine.
They ignore Kohirs, and Kohirs ignore them, due to their disjoint ecological niches.
Where their habitats cross, Shankabobs are often killed and eaten by Flechebbs, who use their long-ranged projectiles to avoid the Shankabob's revenge detonation.
==Growth==
==Origin==
Some insights on 's origins.
===Name===
Its name is a pun on shank and shish kabob.
===Design===
It was based on an insect, a shish kabob, a flak cannon, and a waffle.
==Trivia==
*They have four types of eye cone and can see in the ultraviolet spectrum.
==Spells==
Category:Compliens
Category:Earth Element
Category:Orange Compliens
Category:Bug Compliens
Category:Compliens that don't grow
Category:Uncommon Compliens
Category:Power Compliens
Category:Least Concern Compliens
Category:Animalistic Compliens
Category:Carnivorous Compliens
Category:Badland Compliens
Category:Unisex Compliens