Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24652012-20160217005950/@comment-24652012-20160311233818

Its actually not slimy, but the scales are smooth to the feel and designed to make the slightest current make them swim even faster.

Their skin its self is nearly 3 times thicker then rhino skin. And the reason it doesn't get a scar is because the skin responds to taking damage by getting a callus groth instead, where the skin simply thickens to protect againced the same blow. This eventually smooths out. What little permanent skin damage they do get how ever, once the scales grow over that again you can't see it under those scales. One scale is as strong as a leather shield. Also like lizards they do shed their skin, renewing anything left that could have been a scar. Though you don't see their skin shed because grooming sea animals would just eat the dead skin as it forms. Just like symbiotic relationships in the real world.

Amazingly to the touch they actually feel much the same as a dolphin. If dolphins had scales. One scale is so near another that water doesn't even come between them, so something with the eye sight of "regular humans" from about 8 feet away can't even really see scales on them because their formed firmly together.

This actually is enough to make them resistant to low class bullets.