Cano the Minmi

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"**You better get yo crusty lizard-looking ass away from me before I dropkick your ass straight back to the Mesozoic era**"
—Cano taunting a deinosuchus
**Cano the Minmi** is fan character designed by Frostbite Carno. Cano resides in *The Isle* universe.

Cano is a juvenile Minmi who is doing his best to survive and adapt to the harsh and unforgiving world of The Isle.

## Biography

Cano like all dinosaurs, started as an egg with his mother protecting him. A few moments later, a T-Rex attacks, and during the commotion, Cano's egg rolls out of the nest and flows down the river. Just then, an Oviraptor steals the egg and hurries off into the brush. It attempts to eat the egg, but then another Oviraptor swipes it, and the two start beating each other's asses over the egg. As they fight to the death, they drop Cano's egg back into the river. As it is swept away by the current, floated up between a pair of quarreling ankylosaurus; moved towards the river's center by a herd of drinking Pachyrhinosaurus. It is then almost eaten by a deinosuchus but is finally picked up by a Pteranodon at the last moment, much to the croc's dismay.

He is carried hundreds of miles, before some pterodactyls start pestering the pteranodon and the egg is dropped. A juvenile subneuro spinonyx finds the egg, and is about to eat it for breakfast, but it soon hatches, and Cano imprints on the weird-looking spinosaurid, immediately clinging to him like family. Not being able to bring himself to eat the little guy after that, the spinonyx, who's name is Arrow, befriends him instead, having had lost his own family recently too, and the two were brothers ever since.

## Appearance

Cano is a pretty typical looking Isle Minmi, with the only notable feature being he has upward-facing nostrils instead of the usual downward-facing ones. Cano is brownish black and adorned with red to yellowish-orange radiating patterns of lines, blotches and dots. His eyes are red with a white rim around the pupil. Cano has water lettuce, duckweed, algae, moss, and other small plants growing on his shell.

## Personality

Energetic, playful, and fierce.

Cano is very cheerful and determined to be just as cool as his adoptive brother Arrow. He's also bold, regularly taunting predators and is a bit of a hothead, often acting quickly and without thought or care. Emotion usually gets the best of him, as he can be short-tempered and stubborn at times. He's also very accepting, as when he became old enough to become well aware of what Arrow really is and that they aren't biological siblings, he did not care. Cano also picks up the occasional weird spinosauridhabit by watching and copying him, as young animals tend to do with family members such as a parent or older sibling. Some of these weird habits include occasionally eating fish, and while he can't walk on two legs very well, and he doesn't need to, he does stand like that sometimes (More-so than most minmi) just because Arrow does, too. Cano has no qualms about having a *Spinonyx* for a brother, but he does get creeped out by Arrow eating meat, even so this doesn't stop his caringness towards Arrow.

## Abilities

* **Thick\_Skin:** Cano is covered in elaborate armor, including belly armor, that is impenetrable to small carnivores.
* **Venom Resistance:** Cano is resistant to venom
* **Burrowing:** Cano is a speedy digger that can tunnel through earth relatively quickly, though his tunneling can often lead him to not see what he’s heading towards on the surface.
* **Semi-Aquatic:** Cano is semi-aquatic, and feels most at home in and around water. He is a phenomenal swimmer, being able to swim fast, dive beneath the surface, and hold his breath for extended periods of time.
* **Sharp Beak:** Cano has a sharp beak that he can use to give a very nasty bite.
* **Night Vision:** Cano has night vision
* **Camouflage:** Cano’s coloring may seem bold, but it  makes it easy for him to stay hidden among fallen leaves and debris in the water.

#### **Unique Abilities**

* **Autohemorrhaging:** As a last resort against large carnivores, Cano can shoot an aimed stream of pressurized blood from the corners of his eyes, and the chemicals in the blood cause irritation. This foul-tasting liquid deters many predators, giving Cano just enough time to escape.

**Skills**

* **Withdraw:** Cano can switch to a defensive stance, where he lays down, curls tail close to his body, and positions himself so his armor plates cover as much surface area as possible. This stance seemingly makes him impenetrable to most small carnivores, and heavily resistant to damage from some medium ones. In addition, he has the ability to immediately get up and either flee or attack the opponent, catching them by surprise. This defensive maneuver also has the advantage of preventing him from being flipped, and even then, if he was it wouldn't be that much of a detriment considering he also has belly armor.
* **Tail Smack:** Cano may not have a club at the end of his tail, but that doesn't stop him from batting things around with it.
* **Fishing:** Cano is pretty good at catching fish
* **Bilingualism:** Cano has learned to understand and speak baryonyx/spinosaurus
* **Prehensile Tail:** Cano can use his tail to grasp things.

## Trivia

* Cano’s color scheme was based off of eastern box turtles
* Him being able to shoot blood from his eyes was inspired by artwork by Ronaldchannnn, which itself was probably inspired by Horny Toads
* The idea of having a bunch of aquatic plants growing on his shell came from this cool picture of a turtle I found.
* **Character profile page for my The Isle characters**