Leopard Seal Non-Vore Alt

Niall is a heavily anthropomorphized male leopard seal with a large, broad, wedge-shaped head and a short, blunt, powerful muzzle. His cheeks are full, his broad dark nose sits prominently at the end of the snout, and his small, narrowed yellow eyes sit beneath heavy brow ridges, giving him a stern, predatory expression. His mouth and thick lower jaw are lined with prominent conical, sharp teeth. His body is completely covered in a cool blue-gray fur with lighter gray fur spots around the muzzle, throat, and underside, contrasted by irregular charcoal-black spots and blotches across his face, neck, shoulders, torso, and flippers. His fur appears short, dense, and sleek rather than fluffy, retaining the characteristic spotted coloration and countershading of a leopard seal. He sports faint, white traces of hair on his pecs, arms, and particularly below his navel above his pubic region. His physique is exceptionally massive and muscular, with a thick neck, enormous rounded shoulders, huge pectorals, powerful upper flippers, and a broad barrel-shaped torso. Beneath the muscular chest is a substantial, softly rounded cuddly belly. He sports thick, broad legs, with padded feet, and a thick, rear flipper tail jutting out of his rear end. Niall has several dried scars running across his snout, his face, and around his neck. He typically wears a white, sweat-stained tanktop with shorts, or often just being shirtless. He's 60 years old and 7 feet tall. Niall has regular humanoid hands and feet, having only one flipper situated on his tail.

Due to an injury sustained on his jaw, Niall is unable to filter saltwater during his underwater intakes compared to other leopard seals. Instead, he casually swallows gallons of saltwater alongside his live prey. When he arrives on shore, he simply spouts a massive geyser of regurgitated saltwater, leaving his live, trapped prey inside his belly to warm up. When at full capacity, Niall becomes almost immobile and is often found sunbathing on the streets while rubbering his bloated belly. He typically inflates his belly with air to adjust his buoyancy on water.

Niall has an immensely huge lung capacity and stomach capacity, with his gut capable of stretching several feet before him. He's known to swallow entire schools of fish, include dozens of gallons of saltwater at a time. He can spot and smell fish accurately with his nose. Despite his heavy physique, Niall is deceptively fast underwater and can easily chase down motorboats. His huge lungs allow him to draw in saltwater and prey into his gaping maw like a vacuum underwater (even capable of sucking boats towards him).

Niall is a crass, elderly gruff man with a highly unpredictable, sadistic nature. He flipflops between having a jolly, almost unnervingly playful demeanor, to being more moody and grouchy if he's genuinely hungry. He has a fatherly, reckless attitude, often giving suffocating yet endearing bearhugs to people. He genuinely assumes passengers are frail, fragile bags of straw. He constantly takes huge, massive burps, with his stomach gurgling constantly from his binging.

He takes great pride in his ability to navigate the wildest and most treacherous waves of the sea, even on a mere rickety boat as a vessel. However, Niall treats any fellow passengers on his trips, whether tourists or fellow fishermen) as deadweight. He would randomly stop his boat, dive underwater to catch fish, and leave his passenger stranded for possibly hours before reappearing with a visibly bloated belly and a cheerful grin. He lacks any filter or self-awareness when talking about his appetite. He loves to loudly slap his heavy, soft belly, gazing dreamily out over the water about catching a "big haul," or taking a massive, whistling gulp of air that puffs his broad chest and stretches his gut out several feet right in front of them. He dislikes being "deflated" and enjoys guzzling saltwater, fish, or large amounts of beer to satiate his desire to be heavy.

Niall has an internal "feeding quota" that changes solely on a whim. On some days, Niall would be content with a bucket of herring for an entire day, but sometimes, he decides he would need 90% of his overhaul haul to satisfy his hunger. If the village fails to feed him enough fish, Niall would become an immediate nuisance, either consuming vast amounts of beer or saltwater to block out an entire street, refusing to budge for days.

Niall's jaw injury also completely ruined his sibilants. He's incapable of properly pronounced words and sometimes sounds incoherent thanks to both his thick Gaelic accent and his lisp. He has a mix of both eternal fish breath and salty body odor due to rarely showering.