Aquatic humanoid
A mostly non-scientific classification, aquatic humanoids include all humanoids adapted to partially or fully live underwater, with the exception of Near-Humans. Aquatic humanoids have developed their adaptations from either genetic splicing with other aquatic animals, evolution (natural or enhanced via the Progenitors' unique technology), or a combination of both. While some species are limited to aquatic environments, other can breathe air, or even live amphibian lifestyles.
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Because of their varying lifestyles and their aquatic adaptations, these humanoids are among the most divergent of all. While other types of humanoids may also look distinctly non-human, none require the same kind of adaptations as an aquatic humanoid. And even those adaptations will vary greatly between different species of humanoid. After all, a species which lives an amphibious lifestyle, making their homes in freshwater rivers, will have very different needs (and thus adaptations) than a species that spends their entire life at the bottom of the ocean.
Added on to this is the fact that traits spliced from other aquatic animals can vary greatly. One species may take their aquatic adaptations from frogs or other amphibians, while another takes after fish, and a third instead takes on cephalopod traits, and a fourth may even take after crustaceans like crabs. Each would likely take on traits completely different from one another, not helped by any natural mutations that may occur along the way as they evolve further.
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