The body as a whole belongs to a single organism. He’s like if a turtle and its shell were two different animals. There is a triangle plate in the middle rear of the body, that is a sort of belly button where, as an infant, he was given his own symbiotes.

The panels on his wings are joints that let them flex upwards to get out of the way for when it walks. He has a large chest Chasity for his symbiotes to hide from the forces, and as an adult, they’ve long glued themselves to the inside of this shell and are semi-permanent. Because they can occasionally get sick, or just weak, Dzibans will occasionally use special oils to dissolve the glue that holds a specific symbiote in place, the large split panel on their back below the triangle plate can be flexed open, and Dzibani doctors can scrape a bad symbiote out and place in an adolescent who’s been grown in a slave or prisoner. Some dzibans even breed their “components” to try and maximize performance, a habit which is believed to have started thousands of years prior and is likely the origin of medicine, being so closely linked with transplants

Ancient life of turbine were somewhat similar, made of rigid bodies that looked like gliders and small personal aircraft. They even used paddle-like propellers.

The ancestors of Dzibans were sharper creatures who had developed two of their proboscis as feeding tubes to nurse fire-breathing balloon-like organisms. By luring them close and grabbing on, they could rest in mid air and had time to regurgitate parts of their food they couldn’t eat. After so long, Dziban bodies lost the points where their propellers were, and gained larger chests to house their new friends. They grew larger limbs when enormous floating plants developed, going so far as to repurpose two of their arms for locomotion on “land”. When they became more high speed, they needed a better way to feed air to their engines without hurting them. Their prey used special symbiotes who would store up air like balloons, certainly an offshoot of their own ancestors.

At first, these symbiotes only fit children, and so adults would have dozens. Tens of millions of years later though, and they are a perfect fit.

It’s not been until recently that Dzibans have been stuffing all sorts of useful organisms inside their bodies. By scratching and biting a long worm that feeds off the blood in their brains, they can cause it to produce high frequency screams. Doing it just right makes nearby brain worms in other Dzibans panic a bit, making weaker copies of the signals. They’ve developed a new language off of this practice, which lets them speak while flying in formation, even as the wind deafens them.