awellboiledicicle:
awellboiledicicle:
How do spider people breathe.
Like even if they’re a spider centaur sort of thing, the blood situation has GOT to be weird. Is the hemolymph and blood-blood mixed or?
Like spider dont got bones. Spider specifically are hydraulic run, externally supported things. They breathe, and get oxygen to their cells, way different than vertebrates.
But humanoid, presumably, got bone in it. At least two. And internal structures set up in relation to bones.
And while humanoid has a blood pressure, a stab wound would be Bad but like. Outside squishy and repairable. Spider get stab someplace they cant break off at a segment, Oh No. Because while movement in humanoid work only on muscle, spiders work on hydraulic pressure AND muscle– but less than the pressure.
And humanoid, they have lung. Lung we know and have. Spider also have lung, but Different. Book lungs or tubes that just kinda passively do exchange between hemolymph and the air.
They also generally have tube hearts that go straight through without like. Chambers. Just rubbing the molecules on the hemolymph technically.
Basically I really wanna know if a spider person has hemolymph, and endo- or exoskeleton, and if they lost all their legs but you misted them and fed them enough would they be fine after a molt.
Mainly tho deeply wanna know if they just run book lungs and what the fuck is happening in setting where it’s just Dude But Half Spider with no real appearant alterations. Are they secretly only using their noses for smelling and the nasal cavity just goes right to the throat and on straight to the stomach, but air just flows out the mouth. Do they have diaphrams, without our style of lung. How do they talk. Are their vocal systems in their spider section, where the lungs are. Is the humanoid part just kinda a thing they evolved for prey purposes. Was it for hands.
But also they’re usually in fantasy so did some creator make them and they just rolled with how they observed other beings acting with their upper parts and they dont know why fucking everyone else is shaped weird. Where do they assume humans breathe from.
Are their arms just treated as pedipalps and the males just have yaoi hands
In the absence of other input I’m going to assume that the person mouth has some Fuckery involving retractable fangs and no teeth.
Also that the appearance of the humanoid parts is exceptionally deceiving because it looks like skin but its actually just the same thing as spider “paws”– aka its exoskeleton with joints here and there in the expected places, but also coated with the same kind of hairs their feet have. Just also distributed in a way that it looks like vaguely uneven skin with body hair on it.
Their hands are super hairy and their fingers– also segmented– end in claws. The configuration depends on the spider species it’s based in I assume
Also probably are ungodly unnerving to watch eat. Not necessarily bc some do the “wrap and slurp” and others just grind through and work on it like melty cud, but bc like. Their suck stomach (how they pull food in, bc the lacking lips and lungs to slurp like we do) is probably just what people would assume their humanoid halfs abdominal cavity is.
Not to mention what the eye situation would be like.
Are they hunting/wandering spider people or mostly web hunters. Depends but I also wanna know how coloration would have worked out.
Also the hunting ones would have even wilder mouth situations bc they have to fit the serrated bits in there. And their lips might just be more hair tbh
expanding on this because i had coffee and if im cursed to ponder this, so are you–
if you peeled the hair off an arachno-being, would the human bit look like an angler fish lure, with the connection to the main spider part being v flexible? If the torso up there is their suck stomach, is the chitin up there thinner, explaining why in most settings they bother armoring that part?
Given they’re almost always sentient as well, how do they culturally handle the tendency for females to eat the males that some spiecies of spider have. Is it just a cultural thing that other groups go “but literally why” and still others are like “no, no, you feed yourself to your children– like good parents” and others are like “you stick around after breeding? cringe” and then there’s the inevitable group thats like “i made the egg sack after we fucked, i put it in a safe spot, what else do they want from me?”
And then theres like one group that does the ‘frog in nest to keep out bugs’ thing, but in a dnd sort of setting its just this culture of idk drow living alongside these people and getting rid of any ooze or weird mindflayers that wander in.
Also i’d love to see a mindflayer try to attack a spider person because i want to know if they’d know where to bite. Is the brain in the human bit? Is it more around where the lower back of that would be, so it was centralized in the body?
do they have eyes lower down in that case, in addition to the ones seen on the humanoid bit, to provide a wider range of vision? Do they have more or less complex eyes to compensate for the whole thing? Are the eyes on the human bit even functional, or are they also just colored hair?
Basically i’d like to see a mindflayer try to bite one’s “head” and just get hairs that do a bunch of piercing damage.
That said some spider’s brains and organs spill into their legs a bit from sheer proportions, so its possible theres a sort of secondary brain in the ‘head’ that is responsible for boosting the info from the eyes on the human head–however many that might be- but damaging it largely just means the human half doesn’t move too good and the person loses vision for a bit. has to work by air pressure on their hair feel.
I will keep adding to this until someone as excited about this as i am is found
