I looked up a bunch of stuff before moving onto more sketches. Apparently dual wielding spears has never really been a thing in real life. The closest I could find was some kind of short spear style from Ireland.
Anyways, I tried to make some sense out the way the lances could work, along with some overall variations of the character itself. Taking what I got from the previous sketches, I pushed them a little bit more with some slightly higher quality sketches.
The first one was initially based on the original drawing, but with the keyword being "regal", I ended up with something different. I started with a seahorse as the inspiration for it's posture, followed by the betty's fins for decoration. Once I started adding the fins, it reminded me of muay thai fighters. In the end, it came out looking like a more capable fighter than the original drawing.
The second one was just supposed to have the "hulk" kind of feel to it. Big, slow and a chunk of power. Instead of giving it proper lances, I figured it'd look more interesting if it simply would've used the debris around it - resulting int the coral inspired handles. Also, it's a huge shrimp, so I guess that's kind of something.
Last one is pretty straight forward. A predator through and through, in terms of visuals at least. Looks dangerous, uses something more akin to harpoons and is most likely faster than the other two. I didn't really put as much thought into this one.
First one most likely uses the lances to swim faster in some way. Big Shrimp simply throws them at it's enemies and Sharky just chase its targets the old fashioned way.
Ok, that was a lot. I'll shut up more next time. Not sure if people actually care about all of this.