To best train your eguana you will want to first understand your eguana. These are not organic creatures but artificial life forms built by yours truly.

Eguanas have likes, dislikes, and even their own form of currency exchange and trade.

This manual has been broken into sections for your convenience.

Anatomy

1) The Mouth

The “Kibble slot”. They have a set of sharp teeth, an artificial tongue, and an articulate jaw. They can process taste though how much like ours their sense of taste is I truly can’t say. They may also use their mouth to pick up items they deem not safe to pick up by hand or simply to play with them.

2) The Eyes

The “peepers”. They can see in full color as well as in extremely low light. The eye itself is made of a thin material that is a mixture of rigidly treated wool and moth wing silk for durability. There is a set of vents behind the actual optic crystal to assist in venting excess heat hence their comical size.

3) The Wings

Or the “flappers”, their wings are a combination of lightweight, hollow metal bone and soft leather stretched over for a more organic look. Whilst the wings themselves are ultimately useless in actual flight, the eguanas do use them as a form of rudder when floating.

4) The Hands

Or the “huggy grabbers”. Eguanas have limited dexterity due to the inflexibility of their digits but this doesn’t stop them from trying and for the most part succeeding in daily tasks. They can also climb and carry various items by walking upright for short periods of time.

5) The Jacket

Or the “hug layer”. The eguana’s metal frame is encased in a layer of soft rubber and treated eft hide to assure that their metal parts don’t harm their handlers. The Eft hide in particular maintains a sensation of a more realistic reptile whilst also ensuring that they are more water resistant and easily dried.

They can also be placed in a cold box and utilized as an ice pack or likewise instructed to lay in front of a fireplace and utilized as a heat stone. This causes no harm to the eguana and many appreciate the bonding time.

Below is a continued breakdown of unlisted parts

The Core

The eguana is a mammot that runs via a dual core process. The primary or ‘soul’ core and the secondary or ‘brain’ core.

The Soul core is donated from wild water sprites and installed in a reinforced casing in the eguana’s chest. The water core itself gives them their curious yet flexible personalities.

The brain core is akin to a soul gem. Each brain comes with the basic functions an eguana needs including but not limited to communication (The ability to speak and understand), mobility, and self preservation (eating, not swimming in lava, etc.)

As the eguana ages and bonds with their fleshling, they will be taught both by observation and direct experience much like a child. Each eguana can be given the basic core set or they can be pretaught a particular set of simple skills such as cooking or recognizing certain tools.

The Tail

Not shown in the eguana drawn diagram above, the tail itself is actually connected in segmated parts much like the spine. This tail can even be detached in situations of duress much like that of their organic cousins. It assists with balance and acts as a weapon in a pinch.

personality

Although every eguana is built on the same core, the eguanas themselves may develop distinct personalities based on their generation, their interaction with fleshlings and other eguanas, and rather or not they were prefabricated(prefab) or free roamers.

A prefab eguana is built specifically upon request and delivered to their fleshling to be as soon as feasible after their activation. They are akin to a blank slate and have a headstart on bonding with their one person.

A free roamer is a preexisting build that is adopted or adopts a new person into their life. Both retain some degree of training as in the case of free roamers, elder eguanas within an area will teach them various skills they have deemed appropriate to fleshling interaction, such as cooking, cleaning, and serving drinks.

Prefab eguanas can also be sent to eguana “school” via allowing them to free roam at night. Both prefabs and free roamers will gather at night to trade skills, stories, and partake in simple games that help further develop their cores and serve as entertainment whilst their fleshlings sleep.

All eguanas in common share a love for ‘fleshlings’, which broadly encompasses all sapient humanoid species but can also extend to what we ourselves would consider animals, such as the very Puks they resemble, fish, or even bugs. It is not uncommon for an eguana to adopt and care for pets.

Eguanas may also dislike things ranging from particular flavors of kibble to the texture of certain fabrics. It’s hard to truly predict what they won’t like but fortunately for people, we are rarely among them.

Eguana See

Eguana do. The most efficient way to teach an eguana is to show them what you want them to do, this is particularly effective in overcoming hesitation or fear. As noted above, eguanas come with preset skills and among these, rules.

An eguana is taught to never steal (Though some ignore this from mild to outright kleptomaniac degree).
Never to kill (Which they don’t seem to always extend to fellow elementals or fleshlings they deem a threat to their own), and
Never to lie… Which in retrospect seems a waste given no one yet can understand them.

One particular dilemma that comes to mind is the firepit problem. Due to the aquatic nature of their core, their mere ability to cook is in and of itself an overcoming of instinctual fear. Jpeg herself is one of my few eguanas that will actively and fearlessly reach into a hearth and retrieve hot coals for me. Despite her and my best efforts combined, this is far from a standard feature in eguanas and if you wish to teach your own you will need lots of patience, kibble, and praise.

This same rule can be applied to any task or behavior or you would like your eguana to perform for you. Amongst their preset ‘rules’, your eguana will typically already know how to sit, stay, roll over, play dead, etc. They can also be taught the most basic reading, writing, and strange number logic that can almost pass for math.

Kibble quite simply is dried eguana fuel. It is grown and cultivated in large vats. Kibble is a specialized hybrid algae that is scraped and dried monthly. The dried kibble is then pressed into form and soaked in a mixture of natural juice flavors and colorings for aesthetics.

Kibble is entirely safe for human consumption so there is no need to panic should you or your child(ren) accidentally consume kibble. Kibble will also grow to nearly three times its original size when soaked in water and many eguanas prefer their kibble this way but they will also consume it dry when it is so offered.

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Eguanas come in a variety of sizes and colors. They are most typically found in standard eguana green but they can also be ordered in custom colors. Changing an eguana's jacket is a simple matter of peeling them out of their leather outer coating and giving them a new one.

To custom order your very own glorious chonker, merely contact myself, Khal Hatasashi to discuss the kind of eguana you'd like to have made.

The eguanas pictured are Giblet (purple), Terabyte (blue), Jpeg (albino), and Levitz (superchonk green).

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