Coin the Crab Turtle

### Alias(es)

Crabcake, C🪙in, Coiny, Gold-encrusted Decapodic Companion, Little Mutant, shell-for-brains, Blue Red and Yellow Blur, Dinner, Odd lil Critter, Loyal Crab, Bottom Feeder, Fabulous pet Crab, Stupid pet Crab, Little Thing, Small and Hungry Beast, Little Freak, Rapscallious Reptile, Stupid Blue Lobster, Glorified terrapin.

### Birthplace

an estuary near the northern coasts of Valliera

### Residence

Jonah's Ark, Room #316 on the Swamp Dwellers unit.

## Biological Information

### Weight

11 pounds

"***it's only stealing if you get caught!***"
—Coin to Azure in morse code upon boarding the Ark after he tells him not to take any shiny things that dont belong to him
"**Let's just say Coin's in need of a new shell.**"
—Azure to Marshy after she asks him how he got a small scar on his snout, upon Coin accidentally scratching it
"**After I knicked his eye, I promised I'd never let anything happen to him, and by the time we grew to understand each other, he swore the same thing... And I guess, in a way, we became brothers...**"
—Azure to Marshy about Coin

**Coin the Crab Turtle** is an original character designed by **Frostbite\_Carno**. He resides in the Jonah's Mythical Ark universe, in an AU of Noah's Ark, where Noah has a twin brother who goes on to save the creatures no one else wants to, and that would be the fantasy creatures and mythical beasts you find in lore and fairytales, including Mermaids, Trolls, Sirens, dragons, unicorns and many more.

Coin is Azure the swamp siren's pet, and best friend, brother even. Filling out the roll of a hunting dog as well as an emotional support animal. Coin is a young feisty, but loyal little Diamondshelled Snapperbabe, which belongs to a group of animals called shellbabes

## Appearance

Coin is a young Snapperbabe, who's shell bares small gemstones, gold nuggets, a diamond, and a single coin that was old as time.

Has the general built of a snapping turtle, but has legs like a hermit crab, 4 horizontally pupiled eyes, 3 antenna, a long tail like a central an outer tailfins like a lobster, a domed shell like a gopher tortoise that has no visible scutes, he has a spikey nose, and he's got armor plating on his head, neck, and tail.

He's primarily colored red and orange, but his skin and scales are light blue, with a darkish purple spotted pattern on his soft bits like a diamondback terrapin. His eyes are a light pinkish purple, with dark purple spots on his irises like a diamondback terrapin as well. his shell and armor plating is reddish orange with bioluminescent little sky blue dots running down the length of the plating on his neck. his legs are red and blue. he has a tail fluke like that of a lobster that starts blue but fades to orange, and then fading to red at the tips with 2 blue spots on each tailfin. he has 3 blue spots near the back of his shell on the left side and 3 more blue spots near the base of his tail. lastly he has vertical cream colored stripes starting at the back of his head and spanning the length of his neck with this pattern continuing on his shell, but stops before reaching his tail. overall he has coloration and patterns reminiscent of a sally lightfoot crab, but with purple spots like a diamondback terrapin and blue stripes on the legs like a coconut crab.

In the dark, or in dimly lit areas, Coin's shell becomes luminescent blue with the rest of his body being black except his patterns, with blue lining around his beak and red stripes on his legs

## Personality

Coin is one of the most intelligent of all known Shellbabes, and seems to have a dry sense of humor, as he is very sarcastic and a bit of a smartass. Coin can display a bit of an attitude at times as well. He has a form of what can be called magpie syndrome, having an unshakable urge to collect whatever catches his interests, be it riches, food, or anything else sparkly enough to catch his attention. Although this behavior is in fact natural for his species, this can land him into quite a bit of trouble and appears to even frustrate Azure from time to time.

Nevertheless, the little guy has redeemable qualities. Coin is a true and loyal friend to Azure, and is one of the driving forces in helping Azure make new friends and to step outside his comfort zone every now and then. While a bit cynical at times, Coin is constantly cheering Azure up, rooting him on, and refusing to allow him to take steps backwards. However, even though he cheers him on, he doesn't know much about the world either, being a little bit of a hermit himself. (pun intended) Being Azure’s only companion for most of his life, Coin has grown very protective of the blue dart swamper, he does not attach well to those who harm Azure in literally any way, showing no remorse for them unless they prove otherwise, but he is highly affectionate to those who have earned his trust, this is seen in his relationships with Welba, Marshy, and Hilda, and this is seen again through the shellbabe's newfound friendship with Lilypad.

Coin's color changes according to his mood. For example: Coin turns a violet color when he lies. When angry Coin turns a deep blue-black, when excited he turns orangey-pink, red is devious, and nervousness is a very pale green. Coin, although he cannot speak verbally, he can speak morse code, either by clicking his claws or snapping his beak, and shows a lot of emotions through his facial expressions and body language. Coin even makes a laughing sort of noise and often gives a few critical looks if he doesn't like the looks of something, and he also has those big antennae on the top his head that act as ears so they can signal emotion and curiosity and when laid down threatened and whatnot. While he doesn't always listen, Coin always manages to come through in the end. If Azure is ever in trouble, he takes it upon himself to save his friend or be there for him when he needs support.

He can be a real piece of work at times, but he's got a heart of gold

## Abilities

**Natural Abilities:**

* **Chimeran physiology:** Coin can best be described as a chimera, a creature composed of several different animals. This gives the little guy the abilities of the species he embodies: the strong jaw of an alligator snapping turtle, the crushing claws of a coconut crab, and the color changing capabilities of a cephalopod.

* **Snapping Beak:** even though Coin is small for his species since he is young, even a crab turtle of his size can bite through the handle of a broomstick with his strong jaw and razor sharp beak. He could even cleanly bite off the fingers off most humanoids if he really wanted too, but usually refrains from doing so.
* **Claws:** His claws are no joke either, with a crushing force of 3,300 newtons.
* **Withdraw:** Coin is covered in elaborate armor, and is very durable. And just like a regular turtle, he can withdraw all his extremities into his shell for protection, and with the gold nuggets and gemstones on his shell, it only adds to the protection and durability of his shell.
* **Extendable stalk eyes:** Anyone who’s ever poked a snail’s face knows that they can pull their eyes into their heads, well with Coin it's the opposite, his resting position for his eyes is in his skull, where they are in most animals, however if he needs to get a better look at something, he can extend all 4 of his eyes surprisingly far to survey an area. It proves useful at times, but Coin mostly uses it to be nosey.
* **Amphibious:** Coin can breathe both air and water
* **Swimming:** being a water creature, Coin is an amazing swimmer, using his powerful tail and many legs to propel himself through the water
* **Sense of smell:** Coin, like other snapperbabes, has a keen sense of smell, which helps him to find the best fishing spots in the vallieran swamps and rivers.
* **Sticky Slime:** Coin can secrete a very sticky substance from his body when he needs to, which allows him to stick things to his shell. Once stuck, something can only be unstuck if Coin uses his anti-stick saliva.
* **Saliva:** The saliva of snapperbabes is the only substance that can reverse the effects of their slime
* **Infrared/Darkvision:** Coin has four eyes which can move independently or all together, he has two primary eyes which see in full color in roughly the same spectrum as human and most other humanoid vision. After the primary eyes are smaller secondary eyes, they see in infrared for night hunting.
* **Burrowing:** Coin is a speedy digger that could tunnel through any surface, relatively quickly, though his tunneling can often lead him to not see what he was heading towards on the surface. He likes to burrow down into the mud or sand often inadvertently creating an elaborate tunnel system underground, his big shovel-like claws helps him to dig, and his six other legs are strong and sturdy
* **Radio Antennaes:** Coin can use his antennae to communicate with other shellbabes over long distances, almost like their own little radio signal, however Coin isn't aware of this ability yet.
* **Regeneration:** Coin can regrow his limbs, tail, eyes, and antennae if he were ever to lose one or more of those body parts, he can regrow it in the span of a week or two. Coin can NOT regrow his head.
* **Bioluminescence:** When in pitch darkness, Coin is capable of undergoing a physical transformation in the form of a trait called bioluminescence via special cells called photophores on his body. This is found in real deep sea creatures (including some crustaceans) and allows Coin’s body and the sparkly objects hoarded on his shell to emit a neon, glowing light. His pupils and sclerae, meanwhile, can change color by alternating from vibrant and alarming reds and blues.
* **Camouflage:** able to change the color of his body using chromatophores in his skin, scales, and armor, causing Coin's body and the objects on his shell to change color, allowing him to camouflage. Also, by using the hoard of gold upon his shell, Coin can perfectly disguise himself to appear as an inanimate pile of treasures until he chooses to reveal himself. He can use his sparkly shell as a hunting tactic, luring unsuspecting fish from the surrounding water straight into his mouth, among other prey. When bioluminescent, Coin can perform counter-illumination, meaning he can manipulate the neon light of his body to match the darkness around him, completely camouflaging his form. Only his tongue and eyes can be seen in this form, when they’re open.
* **Waterjet:** Coin can charge up water in his body and shoot a jet stream of cold water out of his mouth.

**Skillset:**

* **Morse Code:** Coin has learned to speak Morse Code, being able to do so by clicking his claws and snapping his beak, and is able to understand spoken language.
* **Intelligence and Communication Skills:** Coins' intelligence is unrivalled amongst many other known non-sapient mythicals in Valleria. Coin can also be a smart and strategic thinker (When he wants to be). and at times, attempts to show creativity, as sometimes he attempts to draw after watching Azure do it, but it usually just comes out as scribbles, even though Coin INSISTS that it's true art.
* **Rapid Spin:** With a running jump or if picked up and thrown, he can harm most small enemies by withdrawing into his shell while moving along the ground, and bounce off walls and other objects, Spinning his body at high speed to strike the foe like so, but this can leave him pretty dizzy for a little bit afterwards.
* **Hydro Pump:** If Coin retracts into his shell and channels the water pressure from his mouth it causes him to spin around at a high speed while he Blasts water at high power to strike the target. Basically combining his water breath and his rapid spinning technique
* **Bubblebeam:** Coin can forcefully shoot a cluster/cloud of bubbles from his mouth. This doesn't actually hurt anyone,... like at all, in fact it might feel good actually, but he can push people back with it if he does it hard enough, not launching stuff though, just gently and slowly push em away.
* **Icebeam:** Coin can shoot a beam of ice from his mouth and freeze things for a short period of the time, making them unable to move

## Relationships

### Family

* **Azure the Dart Swamper:** Best friend, basically his. brother

### Allies

* **Azure the Dart Swamper:** Best friend, brother even.
* **Lilypad the Haze Frog:** Close friend, and playful rival.
* **Marshy the Swampmaid:** Any friend of Azure's is a friend of his.
* **Welba the Swamp Siren:** Any friend of Azure's is a friend of his.
* **Hilda the Swamp Siren:** Friend.
* **Bubby the Swamp Siren:** Acquaintance, she's alright for the most part.
* **Matthew the Neko:** friend
* **Robin the Ropen:** Friend

### Enemies

* **Lilypad the Hazefrog:** (Formerly)
* **Saal the Swamp Siren:** Coin dislikes Saal, She wants to eat him. Whenever Saal appears, Coin blends into the background to hide, usually while giving her a death-glare.

## Trivia

* Coin was created on December 6th, 2021.
* I always like to imagine if my OC's had voice actors/actresses, and for Coin, well obviously he cant talk, but I did craft up my own sound effects for what he might sound like https://youtu.be/vTOVbU4EEpY
* The creation of Coin was a multi stage process, to both design and realize that design into the final creation. I used about a dozen different animals in the face and in the body of Coin, there are the more apparent ones like alligator snapping turtle and coconut crab, if you look at the drawing, at the eye it's a cuttlefish eye, and the spikey nose of a lobster, and there's diamondback terrapin in there, and there's crayfish, and there's even a little bit of plesiosaur in there, along with ankylosaurus, fiddler crab, chameleon, krill, decorator crab, gopher tortoise, snail, iguana, and sally lightfoot crab, Cause I wanted him to have this sort of odd sense of "I've seen that creature, but I'm not quite sure what it is," so I put all these different animals into the design of what Coin looks like.
* I really wanted Coin to have 10 legs, but as I was designing him, drawing all the legs on his body and having to fit them all on his body in different poses, was simply way too difficult for me, so he only has 8. Although if he were a real animal he would definitely have 10.
* When Coin does his rapid spin attack, I imagine it making the koopa shell noises from mario
* Coin is somewhat based on my irl pet turtles.
* He is generally seen mounted on Azure's back, or his head poking out of his quiver, and like mentioned before doesn't speak, and only communicates through a broad range of facial expressions, body gestures and morse code.
* Coin is has a fear of olives, which is based on my pet snapping turtle who is terrified of them.
* If Coin had his own theme music this would be it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9k0Ofub9Zk

I noticed there was no weaknesses thingy in the template and the rules say we can't add new ones so I'm just gonna do it in trivia

* **Weaknesses:**
	+ **Being Flipped:** Coin actually can turn himself over if flipped onto his back, but it can take a lot of work, and he can be pretty vulnerable when in this state.
	+ **Astraphobia:** Coin has an intense fear of thunder and lightning.
	+ **Olives:** Coin has a strong aversion to olives, and is very afraid of them, this seems to be an instinctive trait shared by all shellbabes. If he eats them he will begin to feel very sick and a little woozy, and will start coughing until he starts continuously start shooting boiling hot water from his mouth, all while glowing bright red in the process. Eventually he will cough up the olives and the effect will be lost, Olives have different effects on different species of shellbabes, and while it might not be pleasant for Coin, this might come in handy one day.