Name: Starteeth
Alias: Biting Starfish
Genders: Male, Female (also Fragmentation)
Alignment: Instinct
Diet: Omnivore (includes wood, paint, plastic, metal, and rubber; Akin to a goat’s diet)
Variant: Orange Body w/ Bumpy Yellow Spots and Yellow-tipped Arms/Hands, Yellow Fluorescent Slime-coating, Red Gums and White (possibly Yellow-stained) Teeth
Description:
Starteeth (plurally but incorrectly called “Starteethes“) are an extremely aggressive species of fluorescent-coated (aquatic) starfish that have true canine teeth (and gums, though typically they are unseen), where they stick slightly out. The saltwater-dwelling creatures are about 8 inches long in length (through the size can vary). Starteeth, typically acting as parasitic hitchhikers, are known for finding a high point out in the open sea (normally at submerged reef), where when a ship nearly brushed pass or by the rock and leap onto the ship by tensing their central disc/mouth area than “snapping” themselves with their legs, launching them in the opposite direction.
They can be used as living tools, to the delights of sailors that are in a pinch, but users must be careful to not get bit. When agitated (and/or above water), they constantly keep doing a biting motion (as if they were feasting). A bite from them is extremely painful, do to their hard metal-breaking teeth. Thus, they can easily tear a victim’s hands to bits. They are extremely useful when having to cut metal objects since all manner of tools wouldn’t get the job done like a power-chowing Starteeth.
They can stay out of the water, even being not moist, for about an hour at tops without any deadly effects. Therefore, one just “restores” or “replenish” the biological tool by dipping it in the water every now and then, just like how one would do with a mop or wash rag. Another useful attribute about them is that an arm or a group/pair of arms can be torn off, where the starfish will survive and regrow (now into two separate entities) as long as the detached strip/arm and the previous owner’s body has part of the central disc.