lavos spawn question

[dinorider88]

Ok so lavos is either one of the bits at the end, or the dude in the middle (i say dude and the bit is just the part that survived)
but clearly lavos isn't the 1st part of lavos and thats just the spacecraft (seeing as how the fight goes: spiney thing- robo dude- birdman and squiddies)
so why do the lavos spawn look like the spiney lavos spacecraft?

[ZombieBucky]

perhaps i nthe early stages of lavoid development, the main part of the lavos is attached in the shell, and once it matures and goes from planet to planet, it detaches and forms a seperate entity from the shell. but until then, the whole of the lavos spawn is just a shell.

[Zephira]

Think of it like a turtle, or an astronaut. The shell/spacesuit protects the spawn. The thing inside - the bits - is still just an embryo. It hasn't absorbed any DNA from a new planet yet, so it hasn't had a chance to grow. The new Lavoids might look something like the mother Lavos when they're young, but by the time they've eaten their own planet, they'll be something completely different.

[FaustWolf]

So...inside the Lavos Spawn...is there a little dude in there? We never do see the innards.

[dinorider88]

a little dude and a little robot

[Battler]

Why does the spawn have the spacecraft-shell too? That's a very good question. Here's an answer I've fathomed up:
 
 The shell is a part of the body just as much as a turtle's shell is part of it's. When the shell of adult Lavos is broken in Trigger, we fight a large tentacled being that seems to be a part of the same mass the shell is, because it has no lower half, just a large fused hunk of flesh to the nearby ground/wall. This might be the real "body" of Lavos.

  As for the humanoid looking Lavos and the bits, I like to think of them not as essentially physical entities, but rather the conscience of Lavos. The "dream" of Lavos that is a counter to the "dream" of the planet. The entire final battle is fought in the subconscious of Lavos, and the pictures of many eras and locations you've crossed during the adventure are those collected from Crono and crew's minds synchronizing and duking it out with that of Lavos.

[dinorider88]

interesting theory

i had always assumed that as the final battle was taking place Lavos had a gate open to different time periods