Like with Saucer Alien, this buff cyclopian snerman (snake merman) is an interpretation of a randomly-generated 7x7 prompt sprite, with a palette of three random colors and black. I'm only letting myself change one of the random colors for these challenges, and this time I chose to change the original green (#488d3f) to my usual neutral green (#298735). This is also where I decided to make the "death" animations for this series consistently leave the option of a non-lethal defeat.

Prompt:

I started this piece planning to make a moss-covered automaton. I named the xcf file Mossy Mech, but it seems that anything I name Mossy ____ ends up wildly diverging into its own thing. I'm glad it did, though. I don't think I'd have combined these concepts in this way without the happy accidents, like the dinky little legs just working better as fins.

I tried looking up references for snake muscle anatomy, but couldn't find anything in enough detail, so this fella's just got abs for days. The pauldron symbol isn't meant to be anything in particular, but is loosely-inspired by the fleur-de-lis.

Inspired by this Tumblr post by Mossworm. Prompt generated by the 2draw.me Random Ship Generator