SPORTLE - TIMELINE #28167035657
Added 2024-11-05 21:18:13 +0000 UTC(Timeline Tuesday #171)
Sportles are a species of living fungus, hailing from a timeline where no animal life exists and plants have evolved in strange, unique ways. The oozobear, a previously mentioned visitor to our reality, also hail from this timeline.
Sportles range in size, between four to ten inches in length, and move about on a set of four stubby legs. Their bodies are pale in coloration, with a short tail in the back and a six-eyed head that projects from the front of their body. A cluster of sensory tendrils hang from the bottom of their head, which the sportle uses to pick up various sensory information, and to consume their herbivorous meals.
Technically speaking, sportles are a type of sentient mushroom, which is mostly apparent based on the large, dome-like shell that covers their back. While this bears a striking resemblance to the turtles of our timeline, the coloration also draws obvious parallels to natural mushroom caps. They feature a distinct pattern of red spots on a cream-colored base.
The shell of a sportle is, in fact, a type of mushroom, but it has hardened to an incredible degree. Tucking into their shell is a sportles natural defense, which often comes in handy for this slow and gentle creature.
Sportles do not require partners to reproduce. Instead, the creatures release a flurry of floating spores from their mouths once they reach maturity, and the spores that nestle in a dark, warm place will often grow into sportles themselves.
