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Anyway the design I am going for is meant to be very neat. Hear are some important features.

The eyes are designed much like that of a squid, but with large amounts of coloration. Some older mods lack this, some up to date mods don't.

The ear holes like that of any reptile, visible, able to be focused, can be closed. With their hearing they can hear the heartbeat of a scared enemy from a great distance, and follow the echo of the beat to them. Their hearing allows sound to give them a visual the same as light can with eyes.

Their noise able to comb through the water and find sent, bringing information on what they smell to the brain on a molecular level. If you sweat in the water and they smell it they can tell if you have low blood sugar.

The jaws, eloquent, powerful, beautiful, filled with sharp and powerful teeth. One can only imagine how their natural prey would view their set of jaws with both respect, admiration, and fear. For the most part it is actually easier for them to grab something precise and swift with their jaws then with their hands. Their hands can only match such dexterity when holding a trident.

Their head, shaped both for fluid dynamics, the ability to feel vibration in the water, and hold a very large brain. Unlike humanistic beliefs they in no way have to sacrifice strength, physical power, and athletic capability for intelligence in any way what so ever. How their brain operates is based on many real world sea life, matched with a intellectual capacity that if humans knew such a creature possessed, they would be frightened and humbled.

Their tail, powerful and fluid dynamic. One flick of their tail can propel them through the water 42ft.

Their hind flippers give their flight in water balance more then anything, but do attribute for speed as well. Their much like canoe oars on a boat being used by men who can hold 500 pounds in one arm and carry it as they walk. It also serves for griping.

Their mussels are like rubber bands, each time they prepare to use them being pulled back then springing forward, greatly reducing the need for greater strength while also having it, thus allowing swift swimming and the ability to carry a heavy load with ease.

Their skin its self is thick and tough, much like rhino skin, and over it scales designed to give them increased speed and turning ability in water. Shinny, but not to shinny, to bring out their color. To the touch their scales have a smooth soft feel despite being tougher then leather. How nice it feels rivals even the feel of animal fur.

Their hands are meant to be at a balance, webbed to increase speed and balance while swimming, but not to much webbing that it interferes with daily cultural activity such as braiding lashing from material such as animal sinus and the bark of kelp. Their claws made for digging in sand or gravel for clams. Indeed they must be clawed, as their is nothing worse you can have on a appendage in water then the design of a human fingernail.

Their gills able to compensate for multiple settings, having a setting for both swimming at certain speeds, holding still, and if something knocks them off corse. The air their gills can filter out of the water can be channeled into their multiple fish like swim bladders. Their farthest front swim bladders in their chest able to hold air or water like lungs by much for breathing purposes, but for vocal purposes. Able to produce both air in water vocabulary as well as water in water vocabulary as need be.

Now if I ever get a sound editing system, their voice will be the absolute greatest challenge of all. Able to produce such a large verity of sounds only the most imaginative humans can imagine. Sounds of many volumes, pitches, speeds. Speeds from 582 clicks per second to 582 second long clicks as needed for their communication. With a voice with beauty designed specifically for charming the opposite gender with such beautiful songs.