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#(i'm sorry quarantine is feeding my brain worms)
poppet-seed · 2 years
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Um, sooo normally I'm not one to send asks, as they make me real nervous. But um, I was wondering a couple of things about your pirate au because it has a choke hold on me.
Say someone wanted to write something for said au, would that be ok? And if so, would..it would be ok if it was done with a twist? As I personally love to try my hand at writing something for it, but I've found..I do better writing like found family stuff. Soo I was wondering if you would be cool with a found family sort of version? I had an idea for one, with pirate boys coming across some siren children in need of help. But I wanted to make sure just writing for your au is something you're ok with in general.
And second, going off the note of the pirate boys, my curiosity needs me to ask. What would the three do if they came across lone Siren children in need of help? Would they even help them? Would they be morally conflicted? Or what have you?
Anyway!
Sorry this got so long, hopefully it makes sense. And you don't have to answer any of this if you don't want to!
Hope you have a wonderful day!!
You have no idea the brain rot you have unleashed on me.
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I'm sorry I took forever to get back to you on this ask. I just wanted to think in depth about it. Because GENUINELY IT GAVE ME SO MANY BRAIN WORMS!
So here's what I got~
- mother sirens aren't that maternal unlike mermaids
- pups can usually fend for themselves after a few months and go off to be independent
- a mother siren usually has a pup a year (there's only one mating season every year), but can have twins in rare situations. It dosent go beyond that.
- sirens are solitary unless mated for life
- the pup will live on its own and separate from any siblings (rare situations have been recorded of twins staying together)
- mum and dad will stay together but abandon the kids after a few months
- if a predator approaches and the male can't fight it off the female may get a boost of maternal instincts to defend her young (this only applies if the pups aren't big enough to fend for themselves
- in an unlikely situation both parents die before the pup/s are ready, the pup will usually seek out merfolk.
- merfolk have been known to help raise siren pups untill they can fend for themselves.
- Once again though, they won't stay with the mers as they are solitary and will want to be independent.
- pup hood lasts untill their first birthday.
- sirens grow much faster than mers.
- they are more feral than Mers
- a siren pup is more likely to die after it becomes independent but before it reaches its first birthday.
- it's is unlikely for a pup to surface before it's first birthday. It will typically stay in a coral reef and feed of small fish
- however if chased from its hunting grounds the pup will be forced into deeper water
- the only way I can see the boys helping out a siren pup is if the child is in clear distress. (Caught in a net, injured and circled by predators)
- it would have to be a life or death situation for morality to questioned.
- the boys are extremely passionate towards kids, but like all that sail the sea, not willing to get tangled up with sirens.
- moon is terrified of sirens 
- but in this case. They're likely to help.
- that question of "its just a kid and needs our help"
- it would mostly be sun arguing to help. Eclipse being the middle ground and moon against helping.
- Sun is very persuasive and would get eclipse to agree and basically outnumber moon
- the crew also love kids and would be a lot more willing to help the pup (probably one of them that pointed it out)
- probably put the pup in quarantine.
- Good thing about siren pups tho, is that they can be domesticated and loose their aggression if treated right. (Persistence is key)
The mental image of a tiny baby guppy lives in my head rent free.
Thankyou so much for blessing me with this idea.
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I've had a lot of fun with this idea.
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