Flarian meme:
Spunj with badly photoshopped fins and flippers
"Sessiles are cute. Flippers[1] are cute. Why is this not cute?!"

As noted earlier, harm to creches and sessiles gets a lot more media attention and horror than harm to individual adults. My friend Tea has pointed out that their sessile stage is probably peak adorable[2] to them on a biological level.
Adoption of adolescents shortly after emerging from the sea is also biologically important, so aquatic features would be a kind of cute neoteny, something usually grown out of in adulthood. Some flarians grow fins, some have webbed digits, some have full flippers; and the majority grow out of these traits within a few years on land.

[1] localization of TRC word encompassing aquatic features

[2] Peak adorable: the phase of adorable reliance where the demand for adorable can no longer ever be met despite ever-increasing drilling for more adorable.

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