Scaphandrier

A deep sea creature resembling a humanoid wearing an armored divers suit. these extremely strange creatures form families composed of parents and children.
The Scaphandrier, or Scaphander communicate by uttering haunting sounds similar to that of whale calls or communicate with low, inhuman grunts and roars.
== Appearance ==
Scaphanders walk upright like most bipedal beings, adults are physically imposing standing roughly 1.6 meters tall, though the females are slightly taller and slimmer than the males. Some giant specimens exist, with specimens being well over 20 meters tall. 
== Biology ==
The adults have no mouths, and can only be fed by their young injecting them with extracted fluids from their prey. 
=== Head ===
The main difference with humans are their heads, who resemble diving helmets filled with bioluminescent fluids that indicate their mood. Green indicates the Scaphander is friendly. Yellow indicates awareness but indifference to his environment, however, will react to things coming too near by shoving them, roaring and taking threatening poses, if this continues the Scaphander will become enraged. Red indicates rage towards assailants.
=== External Stomach ===
They also possess stomachs on their backs, which the young stab and inject the sludge they extract from living creatures to feed the adults.
== Family ==
=== Adults ===
Scaphanders who become adults are incapable of feeding themselves as during metamorphosis they lose their mouths and the needle appendages become the large drill like paws they use to hunt.
The primary purpose of the parents is to protect their young while they escort them around while searching for food.
=== Children ===
The children of a family are food gatherers, they have drill like appendages to extract fluids from prey and feed it to the Male via injection as they have no mouths.
=== Metamorphosis ===
When the children are old enough they go through metamorphosis to become adults, during metamorphosis the Scaphanders mouth will seal, and the needle appendages will become drill like and more akin to hunting prey. Once a child undergoes metamorphosis, the adults will leave the chrysalis and make more children. When the adult emerges, his first priority is to find a mate, as it cannot eat otherwise. Fortunately the adults metabolism is slow, and will only starve to death after a few months. 
=== Reproduction and adoption ===
The adult will then use its mating call similar to whale calls to find a mate who has also recently emerged from its chrysalis. However it has been observed that some families with several children will give children to single Scaphanders or couples with no or less children than them, similarly, Scaphanders will adopt orphans. This makes sense as their survival depends on children.
== Subspecies ==
There are several types of Scaphanders, depending mostly on their environment. The children have no specific details that allow to differentiate which adult they will turn into.
=== Charger ===
Capable of extreme accelerations underwater to stun the enemy, usually killing the prey outright by stabbing the creature with its drill. These are noticeably more rotund than the Lancer subspecies
=== Lancer ===
This subspecies is more humanlike being taller and broader than its charger counterpart.
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