Post by The Ellimist on Sept 10, 2014 21:26:13 GMT -6
The Taxxons are a race of insectoids resembling a massive centipede. The most prominent feature on a Taxxon's face is a large mouth with razor-sharp serrated teeth that rises from the head straight into the air. Around the sides of the mouth are two sets of red globule, jelly-like eyes. Eight-to-ten feet long, they are closer to the height of a human when standing erect due to the lower portion of their bodies being needed for balance. They have twelve upper appendages that end in lobster-like pincers, and twenty lower appendages. Although they're slightly slower than humans on land, they are very fast swimmers. They can easily keep up with a bottle-nosed dolphin, for example. The Taxxons possess an unceasing and irresistible instinct to constantly feed, especially upon meat. Their skin is typically colored dark red with yellow underbellies. Taxxons engage in feeding frenzies when they sense raw flesh or blood. Their race has no apparent qualms with cannibalizing its own kind, and if they are wounded they will often begin to eat their own damaged flesh. Neither a Yeerk in control of a Taxxon body nor a human or Andalite in Taxxon morph can fully control this instinct.
