Amber the Lagonomegopid Spider

## Amber

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" **Tyuke, you are my one true friend. That... THING, on the other hand... I hate him**"
—Amber to Tyuke, talking about Alakai
"**In a way, life is like web-making. Every day you're building a mystery!**"
—Amber
**Amber the Lagonomegopid Spider** is an original character designed by Frostybites16. Amber resides in the Dinosentria universe.

Amber is a Lagonomegopid Spider who lives on Tyuke's crest and doing her best to survive the harsh Island of Dinosentria

## Biography

Amber started out as a little spider with humble beginnings in the northern lagoon of the island. It was a pretty normal and quiet life, trapping insects, making webs, sucking their blood rinse and repeat and she was happy and content as a spider could be. One night on the edge of the lagoon, she spotted some neat-looking branches and thought it would make the perfect spot for her new home. She climbed up to the branches and began work on her new web. In the morning she woke up and everything was moving, and the lagoon was nowhere in sight! She looks around to see she wasn't on branches like she thought, she was on the antler-like crest of a dinosaur!

Next thing she knows a loud-mouthed alexornis has landed onto the dinosaur squawking at her to get lost. she clapped back at the bird with her own remarks but he insisted her to beat it. But the dinosaur, a lambeosaurus named Tyuke, didn't mind her being there, and so told the alexornis, whos name is Alakai, to let her stay.

Since then, the past few months have been amazing. Getting to know Tyuke, as well as Alakai (to her dismay) and the most exciting part is that she's gotten to travel around the island, go farther beyond what she new existed, and see things that no other spider of her kind has seen before.

## Appearance

Amber is a large prehistoric-looking spider, who has a small cephalothorax compared to her much larger abdomen with a hunched position, a lower jaw under her chelicerae covered with teeth, an amber and orange colored body with distinct white spots, eight purple eyes, and eight long legs covered with sharp tips.

## Personality

altruistic, helpful, and loving, but also sassy and snarky.

## Abilities

* **Webbing:** As a spider, Amber is capable of shooting webs out of a gland on her abdomen and even has the ability to shoot webs out of her mouth to trap her prey. If used against a similarly sized opponent, her webs can either wrap enemies in a cocoon or stick them into a certain surface. Her webs also act as bungee cords.
* **Strength:** Amber is capable of lifting objects larger than herself with just a single one of her claws.
* **Resilience:** Similar to a cockroach, Amber's exoskeleton is durable enough to withstand brutal hits from potential danger, showing great resilience.
* **Venom:** Amber is venomous, though her venom isn't very potent and is really only useful for killing insects. Though it does have an effect on small and even medium sized creatures, it mostly just causes sensations of pain through the vains but it is not lethal to any creatures above her weight class. Green droplets start leaking out of her fangs when she's about to use her venom, which indicates she's about to strike.
* **Poison**: In addition to be venomous she is also poisonous, and her poison is much more potent, able to kill most small creatures and make medium sized creatures terribly ill if ingested.
* **Swimming:** Amber is semi-aquatic species, able to swim proficiently and remain submerged for prolonged periods of time due to the silk-based structure she constructs in order to retain an oxygen supply. When submerged in water, an air bubble is trapped by a dense layer of hydrophobic hairs on her abdomen and legs.
* **Ballooning:** Ballooning, sometimes called kiting, is a process by which spiders, and some other small invertebrates move through the air. Amber will release a parachute-like gossamer thread of web to catch the wind, causing her to become airborne. She can use this airborne dispersal to move between locations.

## Relationships

### Allies

* **Tyuke:** True friend and mobile home
* **Alakai:** Rival

### Enemies

* **Afval**
* **Pepper**

## Trivia

* Amber was created on January 18th, 2024
* Amber's design was inspired by araneus ivie, black widows, and reconstructions of real lagonomegopoid spiders of course, the mega spider from primal, and Charlotte from Charlotte's Web. In fact when designing her I wanted her to look like a prehistoric Charlotte.
* Initially, Amber started it out as nothing more than an accessory to Tyuke's design, but slowly became a full fledged character as time went on. She's still a minor character though, usually just hanging around Tyuke's crest and quietly observing or tucked away in the crevices of his crest, but will pop out here and there to say a line or two, or to have another bickering session with Alakai
* Amber's theme is Sarah McLachlan - Building a Mystery.
* A question one might have is why don't Alakai and Amber just eat each other? well, there's actually a couple reasons, for one, Amber is just the right size where she's too big for Alakai to eat, but too small to really pose a threat to him either, so eating *him* isn't really an option either, Not to mention she's also poisonous. Not only that but they share the same symbiotic partner, so they are kinda forced to be on the same team whether they like it or not, though that doesn't stop them from bickering and getting back at one another.
* Amber's name is in reference to the many amber fossils that lagonomegopid spiders have been found in. The name Amber also simply means amber-colored” or "jewel, and is a feminine name of Latin origin.