Horrible Wave-Shredder

## Wave-Shredder

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The **Horrible Wave-Shredder** (*Voragodon Pistripolypis*) also known as the Filtering Flesh-Grazer, is a species created by **Frostbite\_Carno** and designed by **ProfessorPuffNadder****.** The Wave-Shredder inhabits the Jonah's Mythical Ark universe.

## Appearance and Anatomy

It has the front end of a shark similar to that of sharks from the genus Rhincodon and the back end of an octopus-like cephalopod, with bulging eyes, a spiny body and 3 rows of rotating teeth in their mouths.

There are two variations of Wave-Shredder, the first possesses a curled prehensile tail to aid them in maneuvering and hunting in addition to their tentacles, and the second is the same but is a little bit smaller and lacks the twisty tail, but it is a faster swimmer because of it.

When they aren't camouflaged, they are usually yellow, possessing yellow skin and scales. They can have either stripes, rings or spots on their dorsal and pectoral fins, eyes with scarlet red sclera with milky white pupils, and irises. They have bright blue rings, spots, and speckles on their tentacles.

One way to differentiate males and females is that male's stomachs are the same as their base color, while female's stomachs are white.

## Ecology

### Behavior and Intelligence

**Official Description** "Also known as the Filtering Flesh-Grazer, the horrible Wave-Shredder burrows through the hulls of ships, eating and grinding anything in its way with its millions of rotating fangs. Wanna know what's worse than getting sucked into a black hole? Getting eaten alive by a Wave-Shredder. If its vacuum-like mouth doesn't manage to suck you in, be sure to avoid its tenacious tentacles, or perhaps its twisty, sturdy tail. You might think this beast is as slow as a whale shark, but it's surprisingly fast..."

Wave-shredders are generally solitary creatures, though they may be capable of forming impromptu social bonds with each other. They are ocean wanderers, simply swimming along with no set destination in mind, and with insatiable appetite, eating any prey that comes in it's path. They don't have the best eyesight, and in addition they are near-sighted, so they mainly rely on their electroreception to navigate their environment.

despite appearances. It is an intelligent animal who demonstrates the ability to learn, with a large brain to body ratio, and are great at problem-solving. their intelligence is on par with some cephalopods and manta rays, but wave-shredders are extremely dangerous, like most Valliera's other sea monsters, and are able to literally shred their victims to pieces, using their three rows of rotating teeth. Always take cover when it starts shooting it's highly venomous spines.

### Diet

Wave-shredders will eat just about anything, seals, people, porpoises, ENTIRE schools of fish, smaller sharks, other sea monsters, you name it! and a select few individuals are not above eating their own kind when times are very rough.

Wave-shredders have a few ways of hunting, if they are swimming around and spot prey they will rush it and shred it up, sometimes they will swim to the ocean floor and burrow into the sand with their teeth, with only their eyes and the top of their heads visible, and when something swims passed BOOM it's shredded up and eaten. If they spin their teeth fast enough they can create a vortex that will suck any smaller surrounding unfortunate creatures.

Some wave-shredders have a rather cruel way of hunting seals, chasing the seals onto rocks or the beach where the seals think they are safe, only for the wave-shredder to follow them, able to walk on land for limited periods of time by using their tentacles, and grab the seals while they are at a disadvantage and shred them to bits, before slinking back into the ocean like a ghost, leaving a bloody trail. but perhaps one of the most terrifying hunting strategies of these animals is deception, sometimes when swimming through the seas, wave-shredders will change the color and pattern of their skin to mimic that of a whale-shark's, which they bare a striking resemblance to, while arranging their tentacles in a way to look like tailfins, and when unsuspecting creatures swim toward it mistaking it for the gentle giant, it will reveal it's true colors and mercilessly devour the victim. There is a way to tell if you are dealing with a whale shark or a deceptive wave-shredder, and it's all in the eyes, if everything looks normal, probably a whale shark, but if the eyes are glowing red, then your most likely dealing with a wave-shredder. and if your close enough you can tell that the tailfin is made out of tentacles but I don't think anyone would wanna get that close to find out so just watch the eyes.

Some wave-shredders have another deceptive way to hunt creatures by wrapping it's tail around something, changing it's colors to blend in, and opening their maws and wait for poor unfortunate souls to swim in their mouths, and once something does, it is sucked in via mouth suction or grabbed by it's tentacles or tail

### Reproduction

Wave-shredders don't have a specific breeding season or anything, if they are wandering the sea and they just so happen to run into another one of the opposite sex, and it just so happens they are both in the mood, they will mate, simple as that.

Waveshredders like to pretend to be independent, like lone wolves of the sea. However, they're secretly just extremely shy around each other. Imagine if you're entire species was a bunch of introverts with anger issues. So if a male and a female ever decide to get it on, they'll go about it very slowly with one another. First they'll stare each other in the eyes for a few minutes, occasionally looking off to the side out of nervousness. Then one of them will initiate the courtship, it can either be the male of female, but one will start flashing it’s iridescent blue markings, basically saying it wants to mate, and if the other one is on the same page it will flash it’s own back, the two wave shredders circle each other for a few minutes flashing each other with their vibrant blues.

Next they'll lock their tentacles together and stick some of their suction cups together to keep their grasp intact. Then they'll lock their seahorse-like tails together in case a huge current interrupts them. Then they'll gently bump their heads together and make little purring noises and slowly line up their "no-no squares" towards one another, and that's when they "get bizzay." After a few hours of undersea love-making, they'll eventually find somewhere dark and spacious, the female will lay her eggs there, and then she'll protect the area with her life until the eggs hatch. In the meantime, Hubby will go out and search for prey, then bring it back for Wifey, and maybe extra just in case the babies hatch with an appetite.

While the female is gestating, she can have Up to 300 baby wave-shredders developing inside her. However once the babies develop their embryonic teeth, they engage in what is known as embryonic cannibalism. They begin eating each other in the womb, the larger embryos will start to eat the other embryos, killing their unborn brothers and sisters, as well as the unfertilized eggs. Out of the up to 300 babies, usually about 200 will remain.

The remaining wave-shredder babies in the womb are then coated in a layer of collagen protein strands, which surround their bodies and form into an egg case or egg capsule, rough and leathery in texture they would make good purses for a mermaid actually. Sometimes a female will crawl onto shore using her tentacles and deposits the eggs into tidepools. Each egg case has has tendril on it so that they wont get washed away. They will continue developing in these tidepools until they finally hatch. They come out soft, and without the protective spines.

The babies, being the size of small dogs, will then crawl into the open ocean, and they will stick together in their early years, wreaking havoc in their area. If you think an adult wave-shredder is bad, then a small swarm of babies coming at you with rotating teeth is like the spawn of Satan, like piranhas on steroids. and if they are of the tailed variety they will look for kelp forests to live in as younglings usually. Sometimes a few individuals will burrow into the flesh of a much larger creature and eat off it’s meat, but not enough to kill it, like a parasite. But usually creatures like the The Torrential Tartantuar, or colossal snapperbabe are off limits do to their armor. Because they are born soft, and without the protective venomous spines that cover their bodies, this is why as babies they work together as a team to bring down targets

Once they become juveniles they will all split their separate ways more often then not, and ride the waves of the ocean, shredding whatever prey they come across.

## Trivia

* So last year my friend Puff asked me if I wanted him to design a sea monster for me, and of course I was like yeah and accepted, I told him I wanted it to have a body like a whale shark, blue ringed octopus tentacles, spines like a pufferfish, a tail like a seahorse and a mouth like a whispering death (How to Train Your Dragon) and he delivered perfectly, it looked exactly like what I was thinking, in fact it was even better! and that brings us to now
* The genus name "Voragodon" roughly translates to ¨Rotating Tooth” or ¨Whirlpool Teeth"/"Vortex Teeth". The species name "Pistripolypus" literally translates to "Sharktopus" because it's mainly a mixture of a whale shark, and a blue-ringed octopus. And the ones with the seahorse-like tail "Capticaudis" means ¨Grasping tail¨
* The reason there are two species of Wave Shredder is because one time I drew a wave-shredder but forgot to add the tail, but I didnt have enough space to add it so I was like "fck it, I'mma just make it a new species"

## Gallery

The Wave-ShredderTailed Wave-shredder pngWave-Shredder png (tail-less variant)Juvenile Tail-less Wave-Shredder pngThe face of a female Elder wave-shredderAn Elder female Wave-Shredder, next to a human, a well as a Swampmaid and a Swamp Siren for scaleA wave-shredder facing off against a hammerhead terrapin, and a lobsterviathan with the cartoon network colorpalette. Note: Wave-shredders and hammerhead terrapins wouldn't have actually met eachother, as the two are separated by atleast a few million yearsA juvenile wave-shredder and a juvenile chainmail shark have a friendly encounter, both curious about the new creature before themWave-Shredder concept art (final design)Wave-Shredder concept art