Vulpimancer

Vulpimancers are an extraterrestrial species of blind mammals from the garbage planet Vulpin.

Anatomy
Vulpimancers seem to be canine when young and become more feline-like as they grow older. The males gain stripes on their backs, and both male and female Vulpimancers grow tails.

Although they traditionally have orange fur, Vulpimancers can come in other colors. For example, Vulpimancers from Dimension 23 have dark orange fur while Vulpimancers living in the Null Void have light blue or red fur.

Powers and abilities
Vulpimancers have an incredible athletic ability and heightened senses of smell, hearing, and taste, but no sense of sight. This is supplemented with the porcupine-like quills on their back, which serve both as weapons and finely tuned sense receptors that can sense things and "see" in ways most other creatures cannot.

Super-adept, Vulpimancers can use their quills to detect the slightest movement, heat signatures and some even say fear.

Once their prey is located, the quills on their backs can be fired off like projectiles, or the Vulpimancer can roll itself into a spiked ball to attack its enemies. Vulpimancers can only launch the quills on their back once they reach adulthood.

Vulpimancers have an incredible sense of smell. Unlike most mammals, a Vulpimancer relies on two sets of gills, each on a side of their neck, to smell the world around them and in combination with the quills on their back and their heightened hearing is able "see" the world around them in thermal vision, similarly to pit vipers.

Vulpimancers can make powerful leaps. This ability was developed from chasing prey up steep cavern walls.

If Kevin were to use Savagemutt, he would be more powerful than ordinary Vulpimancers due the alterations made to the Antitrix.

Weaknesses
Because they rely on their senses of smell and hearing to see, Vulpimancers are vulnerable to strong smells and loud noise.

Having no eyes means that Vulpimancers have some trouble with finer movement, and a select few enemies have ways of getting close to them undetected or can get the drop on them fairly easily.

If they are infected with an Earth cold, Vulpimancers are rendered helpless because their nostrils are clogged.

Culture and society
Vulpimancers are bizarre and beastly beings that are far more animal than humanoid. Ranging from Human-sized to several times the size of a Human, Vulpimancers share a few common characteristics. Vulpimancers do not seem too friendly with their own kind, but this is a common trait among animals that aren't family. Vulpimancers are very hostile, aggressive, and live for the moment, hunting down whatever they can find and moving on to the next meal.

Some Vulpimancers, however, do live in tight family groups from ten to twenty individuals inside caves or the old wrecks of starships and old buildings. These Vulpimancers are more "civilized" and are known for collecting and recycling materials they find on their garbage planet and selling them to off-world cities and companies.

Technology
Vulpimancer technology comes from different ships and devices that have been dumped on Vulpin by other races.

Language
Vulpimancers have the ability to easily learn most languages. Unfortunately, they lack the vocal structure to speak anything other than their own languages. To untrained ears, their words sound like nothing more than a bunch of growls and snarls.

The Vulpimancers' language is too difficult for Universal Translators to translate. There is a special translator that can translate their language, but it is not as portable.