Name: Dragfoot
Species: Gojirasaurus Nanumdeus (Meaning: Godzilla Lizard Dwarf Deity)
Age: 36
Height: 10 feet tall
Length: 20 feet long
Weight: 2.500 pounds
Found In:
Area Minus (Dense forest area)
Relationships:
Travis Venator (Nemesis)
Aliases:
The Small G
Ninja Dino
King of the Miniscules
Forest Apex
Appearance:
Dragfoot has a very slim, and streamlined body. He has a prominent brow on his head, several razor sharp teeth, long arms with three claws, long legs with three toes, and a long tail. He also has quills on his neck and back. He also has a metal weight strapped onto his right foot which is where he gets his name from. The weight also features small bits of damage, indicating that he has tried to get it off in the past.
He has stripes that are shaped like molten lava, and has additional stripes on his tail similar to the ones seen on sea snakes.
Colors:
His main colors are three shades of blue. A dark ocean blue for his head, a lighter sky blue for his middle half, arms, and legs, and a lagoon blue for his lower half, the same lagoon blue was used for his eyes. His stripes, pupil, and claws are black along with his underbelly. Parts of his tail are colored in a lavender like purple the same goes for his brow. His mouth is red, his teeth are a bone color, and his membrane is cream colored. The weight on his foot is silver.
Personality and History:
Before everything went downhill, Dragfoot was one of the most intelligent and most powerful dinosaurs in terms of the smaller scale range. He was such an effective hunter due to his endurance and a top speed of 50 miles per hour that made him a formidable assailant to any unfortunate animal that dared to cross his path.
During the peak of his reputation, a company known as Dunamis Incorporated found Sauria Island and decided to mine the land for resources. During this time, Dragfoot was captured by the company and at first he was going to be killed after he tried to attack Dunamis' workers, but after a little bit if back and forth between the staff, they decided that he could be a useful asset.
He was later trained by a man who's name has been lost to time. Under the man's guidance he was treated fairly well. This was before Dunamis started to use dinosaurs as weapons so they were treated with more respect. Although there was one worker who wasn't on board with the idea.
This person wasn't really a member of Dunamis. He only pretended to be one to infiltrate the company because he was actually a corporate spy sent to sabotage Dunamis in order to make their sales drop so that other companies will benefit from it.
He settled on sabotaging the progress on Dragfoot. Both because it was his mission and because the theropod almost killed him on one occasion. One day, Dragfoot's rider handed off the dinosaur to the spy because he was being sent back to the mainland. Not knowing what the man intended to do to the dinosaur.
He proceeded to starve Dragfoot, Without the supervision of the higher ups, he managed to get away with this with no problem. When the rider came back, he took Dragfoot out on a hunt. This is where the spy's plan would come into motion as he spilled dinosaur blood onto the rider but claimed it was an accident.
By that point, Dragfoot didn't recognize that man as his rider, but as his prey. The rider fought back with a knife and after a brief struggle, they fell into a small watering hole where the blood wore off and Dragfoot recognized his rider again. But it was already took late as Dragfoot was deemed unstable by both Dunamis and his rider. He was detained by mercenaries and his rider placed a weight on the dinosaur's foot so that he would have trouble with hunting. This was his punishment for attempting to kill his rider.
What they didnt expect was for Dragfoot to adapt to this new life. Because of the decrease in his speed, he has become a much more patient and calculating dinosaur who's intelligence was growing with each passing year. He no longer ran as he preferred to either scavenge or ambush his prey in quick bursts.
As the years went by, Dragfoot lived his life in the forest in relative safety. The spy was exposed much later on but they didn't try to remove Dragfoot's weight because it's clear he now views them as a threat.
Later on, the spy's son, Travis Venator arrived onto the island. While his goals remain unknown, one of them was to hunt down Dragfoot. Some people assumed that it was because it's probably what his father would do if he was here.
At first, he didn't care about the hunter and ignored him. That is until he heard him fire a gunshot. This awakened some trauma within Dragfoot because he associates the sounds of guns with his detainment since the mercs tried to shoot him. And this is why he develops a sort of rivalry with Venator.
This fight went on for five years. They'd always try to hunt each other whenever possible. Venator would often loot abandoned Dunamis facilities on the island to refill his guns and get some semblance of shelter. This whole experience made Dragfoot much more strategic as he would tend to plan traps for the hunter.
One such occasion was when Travis was looking at a camera monitor outside one of the facilities. Dragfoot had used mud to put some footprints outside. Travis assumed that because the footprints led outside, he thought that Dragfoot had left. Only to realize that the dinosaur was tricking him due to the footprints leading back into the front of the facility.
During the last year of their rivalry, Dunamis Incorporated was busy trying to take down the Fossil Riders because they were getting in the way of their plans, but on the flip side, Travis and Dragfoot finally met their last confrontation.
This took place at another abandoned facility, but this time Travis had
devised a plan that would end their five year long bout. He lured Dragfoot to a specific part of the facility to trap him. He took a pole and jabbed it in between the chains of Dragfoot's metal weight and pinned him to a wall. He then threw a lighter over to a gas tank and caused an explosion. But it didn't kill Dragfoot because he was so desperate to live he exerted all his strength into one large leap. He was blown away by the explosion and was left with a burn on the right side of his face.
When Dragfoot stood up, he noticed that he got lighter in weight. He even started to jump around to see if this was true. Then he realized that during the explosion, the weight was blown off. And due to the many years of him being weighed down, it has caused him to become even faster after the weight was released. He then started to stalk a limping Travis who was severely injured. Right now, we haven't decided on what will happen yet, but there's possibility that only one will come out alive. Travis can only hope to find another place of solice before his nemesis catches up to him. And with him gaining back his speed, is there really any form of escape left for this man?
Trivia:
• I didn't work on Dragfoot at all. He was all my brother's idea, from his design to his backstory. It's because since my brother was helping with designing, I let him make his own dinosaur and didn't try to alter anything.
• In this universe, this creature technically isn't Gojirasaurus. Its just a Coelophysis relative that nobody had a name for. But because it was so large and it looked vaguely like one, it was decided that it would be called Gojirasaurus.
• He is one of the only theropods who can walk in a more upright position and a quadrapedal stance. He can do this by stretching his arms to the side and lowering his body. His hands may look to be pronated, but it's just because of the angle in which his arms are positioned.
• He's the strongest of the smaller scale dinosaurs. Cross the Utahraptor comes at a close second.
• His eyes are blue, as a reference to his namesake Godzilla/Gojira who, in some incarnations, has his eyes glow when he's charging his iconic Atomic Breath.
• His quills perk up as a form of intimidation.
• Similarly to Hangjaw, he didn't get a mate because he was considered unattractive due to the weight on his foot.
• He's one of the only dinosaur antagonist who's had a human rider in the past.
• His relationship with Venator was loosely inspired by the rivalry between Moby Dick the White Whale and Captain Ahab.
• Dragfoot is the only antagonistic animal so far who doesn't have a relation with the Fossil Riders. The closest the story gets to that is when a member of the team, named Krate, caught a glimpse of him fighting with Venator.
• Krate calls him Goji. Mostly because the name Dragfoot was given to him by Venator as a way to mock him so Krate is unaware of the name.
• Despite his bright colors, he's actually efficient in stealth due to his feet having pads under them that prevent his prey from hearing his footsteps.
• He lost a fair amount of weight due to the metal that was dragging him down. This is why he became faster when the weight was detached.
• Due to his stealth orientated nature, he has lost the need to roar or growl because he deems it pointless to announce yourself to your prey. He does however do it to taught Travis during their final encounter.
• At first, we were supposed to give him spikes so that he'd resemble his species namesake even more. But decided against it because we didn't want to constantly associate Gojirasaurus with Godzilla himself but we still added a few references here and there.
• His species name, Nanumdeus translates to "Dwarf Deity" This is a reference to the fact that his kind are way smaller than what they were named after.
• His colors were inspired by the exotic skins found in Primal Carnage. My brother told me he specifically took inspiration from their Ceratosaurus.
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