weak points
by Trout
Kinkshaming For Fun And Profit
4 years ago
maybe it's a bad idea to tell people how to defeat me
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My bet is that it's primarily used for nervous tissue creation, healing, (like flooding the nervous system with cell food and usable proteins) and regeneration. It's soft and has almost zero connective tissue, and that suggests to me it's expendable or the amount doesn't matter, like fat, and could form immediately with the spine. Not only would an excess of spinal tissue building blocks ensure proper growth- birds and theropods often move, crash, fall out of nests, and fight at speeds that would give many animals nasty concussions. Because time is of the essence when healing nervous damage, an immediate "care package" of "heal better juice" to the area would result in far less permanent damage!
but that's just a theory- and a gut one at that. It could be that it's just some mechanical stand-in for a function other animals had later developed chemical responses for, like separating left and right leg commands with physical separation instead of chemical inhibition.
the fascinating thing is just how insanely different its possible uses could be!