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When I first conceived of cataloguing Zelda monsters in my own way and working out relations, the first thing I wanted to do (or maybe second, after sorting out the Gohma headache) is to split between the clearly-octopus octarok and the weird squid ones from the games whose art I hate. Thing is, if I had looked more closely at the models from the first 3D games, I would have seen that they actually both blended a variety of cephalopod features.
Nonetheless, I wanted to make a clear break here, and thankfully in the interim years, games have established this kind as a SEAocta, so there you go. Still weird having that suffix on a squid (I was thinking ikarok would have been a good name) but it's really fine. And yeahh I put way too much effort into all those markings... but it looked incomplete without them.
I was tempted to make the mineocta full-on nautilus, but it's clearly meant to be in this family. Maybe a larva, maybe an offshoot.

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When I first conceived of cataloguing Zelda monsters in my own way and working out relations, the first thing I wanted to do (or maybe second, after sorting out the Gohma headache) is to split between the clearly-octopus octarok and the weird squid ones from the games whose art I hate. Thing is, if I had looked more closely at the models from the first 3D games, I would have seen that they actually both blended a variety of cephalopod features.
Nonetheless, I wanted to make a clear break here, and thankfully in the interim years, games have established this kind as a SEAocta, so there you go. Still weird having that suffix on a squid (I was thinking ikarok would have been a good name) but it's really fine. And yeahh I put way too much effort into all those markings... but it looked incomplete without them.
I was tempted to make the mineocta full-on nautilus, but it's clearly meant to be in this family. Maybe a larva, maybe an offshoot.