The purple pentapus is a small, five-legged invertebrate that leaves red polka-dot marks when its tentacles are detached from a person's skin. The creature is difficult to remove with brute force once attached, but if one strokes its head, a gesture which the pentapus immensely appreciates, it will readily release its grip.

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History

Team Avatar encountered this species in the city of Omashu while navigating through a sewer pipe. When Sokka crawled out of the sewer pipe, he had several pentapuses clinging to his face. Upon removal, several spots were left over, and the team used it as an excuse for breaking curfew, under the name of 'pentapox', a fictional disease. The distinctive suction marks left by these animals were later used as a way to lead the citizens of Omashu outside the captured city's gates, as the marks fooled the guards into believing the inhabitants were infected with pentapox.[1]



Anatomy

The purple pentapus is a five-eyed, five-tentacled, octopus-like creature that lives in the sewers of Omashu and is roughly the size of a human fist. Using the small suction cups on its tentacles, it latches onto targets, though it is apparently harmless. These tentacles are used to grip the sides of sewers in order to eat algae and other food.[2]

Connection

The purple pentapus resembles an octopus but on a much smaller scale. Unlike the octopus, which has eight arms and two eyes, the small invertebrate has five arms, like a starfish, and five eyes.

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