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captainjacklyn · 2 years

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Yk about the azul with shark!s/o (I really love it).

May i request a headcanon and a small scenario if you can squeeze it in with young azul and young shark reader on how they met. and became friends and then lovers?

Like shark!reader met young azul when he got bullied, and the bullies saw shark!reader come over and before they came, the bullies already ran away. While azul was sobbing the reader poked his chubby cute check (let's say is their first time seeing a octopus alive,and was thinking of dinner), when azul eyes met readers..let's say he sobbed even harder because they were literally grinning (really really wide),showing their sharp teeth.

They meant to harm and tried to wipe azul's tears (still grinning),then the bells ring and reader had to go to class and they didnt see azul for the rest of the day again.

When they saw azul the next day, they went up to him by shouting inky (in a friendly way) and hung out with him the rest day (is up to you what they do now). Inky is what the reader calls him ,forever .

also you can make reader beat up his bullies <3

i would like to think that reader has a habit of poking azul and a small habit of light biting him as a joke hihihihi

Ahh, besides azul, reader isn't so friendly with others

I hope is understandable

OH MY GOD YES ! thank you so much for requesting it honestly when I saw you're request I fell in love immediately. LET'S DO IT !

Pairing(s) : azul ashengrotto x great white shark!reader

Author's note : this ended up being a scenario which I am planning on turning into a two part fic or even three. Do not worry I am working on it. And also this is an au where instead of the leech brothers, reader is his first friend. They come after but you were first in line.

The love story of a shark and an octopus :

You never had many friends, nor did you want any for that matter. Anyone who would try to approach you swam away in fear of getting eaten and luckily you knew how to use it as your advantage. No one dared to bother the 'great white' making you have peace and quiet whenever you wished for it.

One day, as you were swimming around by yourself per usual, you noticed a group of mermaids who were laughing and snickering. Curious to know what they were looking at, you quickly swam you way up to them.

However, the group quickly noticed you and one of them yelled out, "It's [name] ! SWIM AWAY !" All had gone into different directions hopelessly trying to find somewhere to hide from you.

Once you were close enough, it wasn't long for you to roll your eyes when you realized they had swam away from you just like everybody.

You turned around planning on leaving until a strange sound caught your attention. A small octopus was sobbing and spitting drops of ink everywhere, it had silver hair and it's skin seemed grayish while his tentacle were black and had purple suckers.

You looked at the small merfolk and nervously took glances around you not knowing how to comfort anyone. You pitied him looking so miserable and you felt obligated to do something about it so you put on your best smile as you swam towards him, you then realized how...edible squishy he looked.

By instinct you poked his cheek wondering if he would react in any way. You didn't know if he just didn't notice your presence or if he wasn't scared of you, although you doubt the answer was the second option.

You're thoughts were soon interrupted by the octopus merfolk who cried even harder when he noticed you, spitting out more ink. You had made others cry before but they were only babies and making someone feel better wasn't your best skills. You kept on smiling out of sheer awkwardness and then wiped his tears away with your hands trying to calm him down.

The school bell suddenly chimed forcing you to head out to your own classes not seeing the young octopus for the rest of your day.

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The next Morning, you spotted him swimming down the hallway. Determined to get to meet him you shouted out to get his attention with the first thought that came to mind, "INKYYYYYYYYY !!!" he spanned around himself to see who was yelling out this way only to see the shark mermaid/man/folk he encountered yesterday.

He looked around searching for someone else you possibly looking for until he pointed at himself, you nodded eagerly as a sign of affirmation happy to find out he got the message and swam towards him. "I-I'm inky ?" the silver haired boy questioned as he slightly backed away from you in which you responded with, "Yeah ! We met yesterday but not in the best way though- What's your name ?" you took a small interest with him as he was the first octopus merman you ever encountered.

He seemed to hesitate before answering but was able to murmur a few words out, "..M-my name is Azul Ashengrotto..", well this certainly felt weird how do you interact with someone again ? He isn't running away so should you just say who you are ? yeah just do that, "I'm [name] [last name] ! Do you wanna be friends with me ?"

Azul was shocked at your proposal, there was no denying the fact that it rendered him completely speechless. "W-why are so nice to me ?" his question left you puzzled as you looked down and back at him, he noticed that the small grin you had a minute ago faded as fast as it came, "am I not supposed to ?" Azul truly didn't expect to see someone so confused and disappointed just to be friends with him.

The reason why he was so suspicious of you're actions was because he thought you were trying to make fun of him and then bully him like everyone else. "N-no it's just I didn't think you wanted to be friends with me.."

"Is it because you're scared of me ?" You realized that just because you interacted with him once wouldn't mean he wasn't going to fear you. "N-not at all ! I mean you are a bit scary but....Don't you find me disgusting ?" you looked at him and giggled slightly. He was about to leave thinking it was just a way to mess with him after all but then your answer made him think otherwise : "You ? Disgusting ? What a joke ! The last thing I would consider you is delicious but alright !"

Great. now he looked threatened and horrified. "Well...I just thought that maybe we could- hang out ? I don't know how friendships work since I don't have any. Friends." your face slowly lost its enthusiasm remembering this particular fact about yourself. Azul then thought to himself, he looked at you fear visible in his eyes yet a small determination sparkled, "o-ok then...We can be friends i-if you want to."

He certainly didn't expect for you to jump at him in joy, "REALLY ?! Why am I so happy ?! Is this really why people want friends all the time ?! I can't stop smiling !" Although he was stunned from noticing your sharp canines the boy felt somehow amused by your happiness and complete innocent confusion.

Maybe this day wasn't so bad after all...

Find part 2 here

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rxttenfish · 1 month

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so, if you've been talking to me on discord, you'll know that the 10ft measure for miranda has been inaccurate for some time now

mostly it's a holdover from an earlier iteration of her design and the fact that the numbers are the last thing that i do in the process of designing (on top of being bad at eyeballing distances too). she used to be more humanoid in stature, so i went with 10ft for length when i added her tail, and haven't really touched it up since.

however, her design has shifted pretty far since then, and it's been very clear for a long while that the 10ft estimate wasn't holding up. in the old days, i didnt have a reference for miranda to compare against, so it was fairly hard to come up with concrete numbers anyways. but, since i now have an actual reference with a height comparison, i decided to test it out and try to measure her for real

and it turns out that, yes, miranda's not really 10ft.

she's actually 19ft long.

(i used the little person here because i was using the heights comparison website to get an accurate guess on the lengths involved. each person here = 1 foot, and i have another to represent inches)

since i had this out, i decided to do some other measurements.

miranda's head is 1 foot and 7 inches long, for a total of about 19 inches.

i've always estimated her claws to be around 3 inches long, but here i can confirm that they're 4 inches, not accounting for the curvature (which will add length)

but moreso than just this, i haven't actually been happy with miranda's height lately. in general i've just really wanted to mess with merfolk sizes, because their distribution didn't feel right to me and i wanted something that felt more right to where they are currently. even moreso i feel like i keep making merfolk heads too small (they're intended to be huge, as one of their primary sources of interaction with the world around them, and also because their bite is so important), so i thought, hey, why not see how big miranda would have to be if her head were a full 2ft long?

as it turns out, she'd be about 5'6" tall.

which also puts her at around 22ft long.

so, yeah! merfolk measurements! and a confirmation that 650+ lbs for miranda's weight is absolutely lowballing it, and that needs to be the next number i find something better for.

#all the care guide says is 'biomass'#monster prom #miranda vanderbilt #art #miravi.txt #because you know why im doing this. you know.#i dont know how i feel about making miranda taller than aaravi though tbh #like its always been my thought that miranda ends up taller than aaravi #because merfolk keep growing and miri's an abyssal merfolk and subject to abyssal gigantism #but also its been a Thing for as long as ive been writing them #that aaravi actually finds someone shorter than herself in miri #ofc its because miri's more horizontal #but i like that. it feels nice to me.#so yeah. ill have to think about this.#anyhow. hi. hope you enjoy this Literal Ton Of Fish

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nonasidesstuff · 4 years

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the dimension travel au

aka Virgil’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week

so this is like half bullet fic half outline half word vomit but here it is!

this is based on a set of art drawn by @greenninjagal-blog that you can find here with the original version of this au

i dont mind if anyone wants to use any of these ideas just tag me/send me a link if you do!

this got SUPER LONG so its going under a cut

ok lets start with

virgil

his world is medieval-with-magic

the magic here tends to take on different elemental forms depending on the user

people who use magic are called witches

his is storm based (lightning, rain, wind, etc) and is good for both offense (shooting fucking LIGHTNING at someone is great in a fight) and gardening (the ability to call rain at will is pretty nice)

he can also make potions but in his world ANYONE with magic can make potions

the thing is,,,,, magic is illegal in the kingdom he lives in

so when he found out he had magic at like age 11 he fucked off in the middle of the night

he found another witch (a water witch) fairly soon after he left and they taught him how to control his powers and how to make potions

also how to hunt bc hed planned on living out of cities

5 years later hes 16 and has learned all he could and leaves to go to the woods in the middle of nowhere

his teacher had told him about a cottage they had built in a clearing in the woods and said he could go there bc they were leaving the kingdom

they left behind a lot of books on magic and he learned more reading those

the cottage was actually in pretty good shape? the roof was a little leaky but the furniture inside was fine

the outside was a nightmare though. overgrown plants all over

as the years went on he restored the area around the cottage and found a bunch of neat stuff

like a vegetable garden that had been overgrown and wild but still had healthy plants he could cultivate for food. there were also some spice plants that had gone out of control that he harvested and dried for later use

he found out the woods around his home were full of berries (wild strawberries and blackberries. shhhhhh idc if they dont grow in the same places this is a Magic World) and discovered that one of the trees in the clearing was actually an apple tree so yay fruit!!!!

so he was living the good life

cut to 3 years later

hes 19 now and a full-blown weather witch and potion maker

he has sectioned off his garden into 3 parts: spices, vegetables, and potions ingredients

unfortunately some ingredients just wont grow well in a garden and have to be harvested from the wild

virgil realizes hes running low on a couple of said ingredients and decides to make a run to the patches of potion herbs he knows of

he only gets halfway there

a swirling blue-and-yellow vortex opens up 20 feet in the air to the right of him and something falls out

something human shaped

holy shit its a PERSON

he rushes over to make sure this person is okay and.

they have reddish brown fox ears?????

and a reddish brown and grey tail????????

he pokes one of the ears and it twitches

holy shit theyre REAL????!!!!!!!!!

he gathers up this person and takes them home

he puts the strange person in his bed and tends to the minor injuries they obtained from falling 20 feet

this is when he realizes that this person is dressed,,,,,, very strangely

now, people in virgil’s world have some freedom in what they can wear. they can wear whatever the FUCK they want. virgil is partial to dresses and skirts himself

but what this person is wearing is different. the material was like nothing hed ever seen before and in a strange style

(it suits him. its really cute)

he slept for a little over 9 hours

(virgil slept on the floor)

and when he woke he was disoriented and woozy

so he ate a small meal and drank some water and fell back to sleep for another couple hours

when he wakes again, he feels much better and is able to introduce himself

“I’m Patton Baker! Where am I?”

patton

his world is like if you took every single magical girl/boy anime out there and mashed it into one world.

so its chaotic

theres aliens/demons/monsters attacking every other week

this attracts magical creatures like a magnet and they start giving magical girls/boys powers. these are called magical guardians

these people are public figures and are treated the same way idols are in our world (not allowed boyfriends/girlfriends etc)

its a tough job

patton became a magical boy when he was 14 and has been for the past 3 years

the powers his magical guardian are able to give are based off of endangered or threatened animals (yes im sort of copying tokyo mew mew shhhhhhhhhh)

patton became infused with the dna of the island fox

his transformation is triggered by a small tattoo-like marking given to him by his guardian. it’s on the base of his neck

he Absolutely has a magical girl transformation

when he’s transformed, he has the ears and tail of an island fox as well as claw-like nails. his hair is the reddish-brown of the fox and his eyes are silver

his outfit is light blue with silver and white accents and dark blue sleeves

when detransformed he has blond hair and blue eyes

his magical boy weapon is a bow that he can shoot arrows of light from

his group was based out of florida and has been going strong for about 15 years. magical teens come and go as they gain their powers and retire or, tragically, lose their lives fighting

at the moment there are six people including patton

their most recent foe is a monster that has the ability to make people and things disappear, and they’re not sure what happens to them

theyre fighting this thing at night when it happens. the creature has already taken the streetlights out and the teens are fighting in heavy darkness. patton, who has better night vision due to his fox genes, sees the monster about to grab the leader, and strongest, of their group

and he makes a choice

he pushes her out of the way and gets grabbed by the monster instead.

there’s a single moment of searing pain and then the world dissolves into swirling lights and dizziness

when he wakes he’s in a strange house. he introduces himself and the person who’s taking care of him introduces himself

he’s told he fell out of some sort of portal and virgil tries to help him figure out where he is in relation to his home but. virgil doesnt recognize any of the places patton is talking about. and patton doesnt recognize any of the ones virgil says

virgil asks patton about the fact that He Is Part Fox and patton talks about the magical system back home and thats when they realize theyre dealing with dimension travel

patton stays in bed for the rest of the day and by the next hes feeling much better! so he helps virgil around the house and they get to know each other

the day after that, virgil remembers that he really needs those herbs, so he tells pat hes going out for a bit to gather them

he gets about a quarter of the way there when Another Portal Opens and dumps out a person. this time right in front of him

this person is also wearing odd

clothing, but in a different style than pattons

he checks to make sure theyre not injured (they knocked their head a bit but other than that seem fine) and carries them back home

the person is unconscious in virgil’s bed for a couple of hours longer than patton was, but he wakes up entirely coherent

he introduces himself as “logan croft”

logan

his world is one full of magic

magical creatures of all sorts live there and magic is a welcome part of society

there’s elves, fairies, merfolk, unicorns, any you can think of

magical schools are also big parts of it

people who have mastered their magic to the highest degree are called mages

everyone else are called wizards

the way magic works in this world is with spells (think harry potter but without wands)

some people are born with more magic than others and as such have a harder time controlling it when it manifests at around 10

so theyre sent to magic schools where they learn how to safely do so

if they want to stay at these schools after they learn control then they move on to higher forms of magical education to continue learning

logan is one of these students

he was born with a MASSIVE amount of magic and when it manifested he. accidentally leveled his house

everyone was fine!!!!!!! but the poor boy had absolutely no control

so he stayed at a school for people with high amounts of magic and by the time he was 13 he had enough control to leave if he wanted to

of course this being logan he Absolutely wanted to keep learning so he moved on

he was so good actually that he ended up in the best magic academy in the world

he consistently learned magic at a faster rate than his peers and so by the time he was 18 (people normally didnt until they were like 21/22) he was a mage in all but name

so he was ready to take his mage exam

the mage exam is considered both easy and the hardest and most dangerous thing you could do

its easy in the fact that you only have to cast a spell correctly

its hard and dangerous bc its a spell that NO ONE outside of historians have ever seen before and you only have 10 minutes to memorize it. things go wrong Frequently

needless to say there arent many mages and people tend to either quit before reaching that stage or fail

and failure can be painful

so logan decides to take the mage exam

the spell they are given is a long string of words dug out of an ancient book of spells and historians arent entirely sure what it does

so ofc its given to the best in the academy

logan takes his ten minutes to memorize the spell and begins chanting

now in this world, when spells are used a runic circle made of light appears under the person casting

small spells have small circles and bigger spells have larger and brighter ones

the one this spell called forwards was massive and so bright that it blinded the exam practitioners (i think thats the word?)

when the light died down logan was gone

theyre unsure whether it went right or wrong but unfortunately theres no trace of where logan had gone so theres no way to see

when he wakes hes somewhere he doesnt recognize and is being taken care of by two people

they all introduce themselves and logan gets the story about what happened to him

and he realizes hes in a different dimension with different magical rules

naturally he wants to learn everything

so he and virgil have long discussions about the differences in their magic systems

(with patton chiming in every once in a while with how bonkers magical girl powers are)

after logan gets back on his feet virgil really REALLY needs those herbs and so he decides to go back out

logan tags along this time bc he wants to see the differences between the flora and fauna of this new world

they get about half way there and once again.

a portal opens

its light blue and yellow

virgil goes “jesus christ AGAIN??????? am i a MAGNET for these things??????????”

and a person falls out

theyre another animal person. this time with scales covering the side of their face and down their arms

virgil and logan carry this whole other person back home and as soon as they walk in

patton is like “janus????!!!!!”

janus

turns out

janus is from pat’s world!!!! and the same mg group!!!!!

he became a magical boy about a year before pat did and was merged with the dna of a golden lancehead viper

so hes been a mg for like 4 years

his outfit is white with yellow bows and a black cape thing with a yellow inside. his scales are bright yellow and his eyes are heterochromatic. one is a normal eye (brown) and the other is a bright gold color with a snake-like pupil

his marking is on the inside of his left wrist

his weapon is a set of knives made of light that he can call at will and either slash with or throw

he and patton got along rather well in the current time

in the past, they,,,, didnt

it wasnt violent but they were kinda snippy at each other and janus was aggressively sarcastic which pat Did Not Appreciate

but after working together for a few years they got to know each other better and saw each other through low points in their lives and became close

janus was still a sarcastic little shit but now its more playful

he likes to suggest “pushing it down a flight of stairs” for any problem

“man i have a big math test tomorrow with a mean teacher that i didnt study for im screwed”

“push it down the stairs”

“the teacher or the test?”

“yes”

he will also aggressively remind you that Self Care Is Good And Needed

(“patton youve been patrolling for hours every night this week. go sleep”

“but i-“

“go 👏 to 👏 sleep 👏”

“bu-“

“go sleep or im going to knock you unconscious and THEN youll sleep”

“ok fine”)

anyways the dimension monster came back and despite the whole group being more careful, it got janus

luckily (to every one else) this time they managed to defeat it

once again, the pain of dimensional travel fucking SUCKED and janus was unconscious for about as long as patton was

he woke and ate a small meal and fell back asleep for like an hour

when he woke up that time he was shocked and happy to see patton

they reunite and everyone gets to know each other over the next couple days

and then virgil remembers that he STILL HASNT GOTTEN HIS HERBS and they all decide to tag along when he leaves to get them

virgil just like sighs and said “nothing better happen this time i swear to god-“

and they make it most of the way there!!!!! virgil feels a little hope!!!!

then another portal opens

its red and green

(virgil: “GODDAMMIT”)

this time TWO people fall out

the group gather up the two portal people and take them home to heal bc

holy shit they are in bad condition

theyre unconscious for a solid 2 days

Roman and remus

their world is BAD yall

the world is very scientifically advanced, and a group if scientists decided that they wanted to prove the existence of alternate universes

and they did!

but they accidentally opened a portal to a hell dimension and they couldnt close it

so the whole world became an apocalyptic nightmare

this happened when the twins were 15

theyve been surviving on their own in an apocalyptic hellscape for just over 4 years now

remus is the close range fighter with a variety of Large Sharp Knives and roman hangs back and snipes the ones going in for remus’ blind spots with a modified rifle. or if he has to fight closer range he has a modified pistol

roman also is the one to carry their medical supplies bc remus did Once and never will again

they travel together bc even though they cant stand each other some days (remus makes gross comments a Lot and roman likes to complain about the lack of conditioner)

(roman once found an old bottle of perfume and dumped it on remus’ head. in retaliation, when they were relatively safe remus found a dead squirrel and chased roman around with it for a solid 15 minutes)

theyre still twins and theyre all each other have left

currently, roman and remus are running from a creature that caught them off guard while they were sleeping

it had managed to get a few good hits on them before they managed to fight back so they both have a couple injuries

roman has a long slice down his arm and remus has some real bad claw marks down his back

the two of them find a building they can hide in while they wait for the creature to move on and discover that its some sort of science lab

they decide to explore for a bit bc they have 0 braincells between the two of them

what they dont realize is that this is one of the labs that the scientists were using to build their dimensional machines

what they do realize is that the monster found them and it starts chasing them through the facility

the two of them are in really bad shape

malnourished after living on just what they can find for 4 years, both bleeding profusely from open wounds and various injuries from other run-ins with the creatures

they arent able to run as fast as they usually are able and so they get cornered in a room with a large machine

they back up to it to stay away as long as they can and

one of them presses a button

the machine behind them whirrs to life and the two are sucked into a portal oh so similar to the one that ruined the lives of everyone on their world

roman wakes first

he wasnt hurt as badly as remus so the portal didnt take as much out of him as remus

everyone introduces themselves and roman has the his first full meal in. a long time

(he might cry a lil bit but shhhhhhh)

and now that hes awake, virgil can give him a potion to help speed up his healing

thats when romans like “holy shit MAGIC?????”

bc there was none on his world

and they all talk and get to know each other

(the other four are Horrified at how awful his world was

bc like, patton and janus’ wasnt very good either but it wasnt an apocalypse

the next day virgil leaves logan in charge and FINALLY goes and gets his GODDAMN HERBS

nothing happens this time :)

and when he gets back remus is awake

hes fed and virgil gets him a potion too

the two heal and just kind of marvel at the fact theyre safe for the first time in years

also that theres GODDAMN MAGIC!!!!!!!!!!

they still can’t believe theres actual magic

the five dimension hoppers eventually meet thomas, virgil’s talking magic cat

(virgil: “he can think and talk like a human hes not my cat”

thomas: “im totally your cat stop denying it”)

he decided to wander around the forest for a while (he does this often) and only got back after all of the portal shit ended

he is the only cat with magic and says he ALSO fell out of a portal but it was a few years before he met virgil

i dont really know what happens after this

maybe they go try to figure out how to get home?

maybe they decide to stay and live in the woods for the rest of their lives

maybe they decide “you know what? FUCK the government” and stage a coup to make magic legal

whichever it is definitely has a lot of found family goodness

can you tell i started running out of steam like 3/4 of the way through

#My posts #sanders sides #tss dimension hopper au #virgil sanders #patton sanders #logan sanders #deceit sanders #janus sanders #roman sanders #remus sanders

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royalreef · 3 years

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(( I’m just going to straight up copy + paste the Discussions I had on the MonProm RPC server last night because they’re GOOD. I’m not going to polish them up or anything, just a straight copy/paste, but... Still... It makes my heart soft.

i appreciate it every time someone realizes. "OH, the merfolk tend towards communal raising of children."

they have blood-family but they ALSO have community-family and BOTH ARE INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT.

i dont feel like enough people appreciate nor understand just how SOCIAL merfolk are.

like they are CONSTANTLY noisy and sound like a massive colony of seals for a REASON. in a village where theyre fairly left alone from the kingdom, they'll have a rich social life of complex relationships that are prone to quick change.

and not in a bad way! very seldom does actual upset happen, and often the community itself will come together to try and resolve it, but its a constantly shifting web of what who-feels-about-who on any given day, with their hypersocial communication coming in to keep up with that quick-changing gossip and relations. they all do genuinely care for and have a particular word for the kind of love they feel for their social-group/pod/group-of-merfolk-term that doesnt translate to english - theyre all just prone to dramatics, and even in being so dramatic, its often viewed as a very fond, good thing that helps keep that social group close and healthy to have playful dramatics with each other. its almost even a form of play to them, without any real danger, and with how their brains are hardwired to easily keep track of every little social change, its something they can really enjoy!!!!!!

its also, in no small part, why the low royals are SO FUCKED UP. theyre systemically deprived of any real way to have social connections, and even when it comes to humans, if you force them to stay emotionally detached from everyone else, it REALLY FUCKS PEOPLE UP. and it only goes tenfold when you get to merfolk, who are even more social than humans, who view isolation as one of the worst tortures you can do to someone! if they dont get the ability to connect to other merfolk, if they dont get to communicate openly and freely with other merfolk, then they quickly get stressed and destructive and just emotionally pent-up to a SEVERE degree.

its why freshman miranda had such a quick turnaround from "don't even look at me, you don't deserve to know me" to "hi yes i'm crawling into your lap because you gave too much attention to your homework and not enough to me". because she is NOT SUPPOSED TO be so detached from others, but she also didnt really have anywhere to go to or learn how to behave in social situations, and thus ends up overcompensating.

basically being a merkingdom royal is just being in one giant cycle of abuse, which first fucks up your own bodily and instinctual needs, and then sets you up to fuck up your kids bodily and instinctual needs, forever and always, until someone eventually gets the chance to break it

unfortunately, with the merkingdom so far, the "breaking it" often involves entire bloodlines getting wiped out for good and in horrific ways

and its also why i say, if you're getting a good end with miranda, then the merkingdom has to be wholly dismantled. these issues are systemic. putting a new layer on paint on top of it won't fix it, you have to get rid of it.

and also why most of the revolution is just changing people's views on the merkingdom. it doesnt matter if you kill the king if all the other parts of the merkingdom remains. there will be another king that'll grow back. its only a matter of time. miranda knows she is replaceable, and the same goes for every other royal, including the king himself.

its also why the first step to a good ending with miranda is literally just. making her realize she's been abused. because YEAH. YEEEAAAAH THATS HARD TO DO WHEN YOU LIVE YOUR ENTIRE LIFE IN AN INTENSELY ABUSIVE SITUATION ISOLATED FROM EVERYONE ELSE AND SURROUNDED WITH PROPAGANDA AND GET PUNISHED FOR THE SLIGHTEST RESISTANT, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE.

and she has an emotional investment in not questioning it, because it's literally all she's ever known. even without the severe physical punishment she'd get, she'd be effectively jumping out of a moral plane without a parachute and blindfolded. there's little to no emotional safety net for her when her entire worldview gets shattered.

(and its also why she needs to have friends and loved ones around her to help her steady herself when that happens)

but YEH. most merfolk are just inherently playful, caring, loyal croc-fish-cats who will befriend literally anything, are slow to anger much less violence, just want to chat with each other and sing and all share in a truly mindboggling amount of unique foods.

legit i think theyre one of the species most eager to not only adopt other species and raise as their own, but also are most willing to fall in love with other species like humans or other monsters.

the merkingdom is NOT their natural state.

the first time someone else's muse gets invited to just a random commoner merfolk village, theyre going to be almost immediately adopted into the community and p much SHOWERED in food and merfolk both wanting to play with them and just chat with them. theyre curious, and they dont mean harm, they just wanna take care of this new friend and learn all about them.

i mean what else did you expect from a species so social they evolved a truly stunning set of vocal chords to communicate over many nautical miles and sing to each other in many different voices at many different pitches - who still take it so far today that a major concept in their architecture is making buildings that'll produce sound as the currents turn through them, so that entire cities become song?

who are so universal in needing stuff to chew on, that having chewy stim toys is just a normal and accepted part of their culture? who can eat such a wide variety of foods and have the digestive system to handle it all, that they all intrinsically know the importance of it? who evolve complex visual displays in lights and with their fins just to display to each other? who go to massive lengths to avoid getting in fights, for fear of both hurting the other and for themselves getting hurt too?

they're just animals, like you or me. and like animals, they arent born bad or evil. they're just born to try and survive, and nothing ensures entire groups of both themselves and others who can help them survive and survive happy and healthy like caring for each other.

#Most secret royal advisor || OOC #Given by Divine Right || Headcanons #abuse #trauma #long post #(( IM STILL THINKING ABOUT THIS #(( ALL THE TIME

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heyyy! im enjoying ur infodumping on witchcraft (its definitely not too much)! it must be kinda stressful researching without your parents knowing, so good luck with that. and im really sorry u had to watch that disrespectful video, that person is a real pos. if u dont mind me asking, do u want to share more about a particular type of witchcraft/paganism that you're interested in? (totally cool if u dont, i know that a lot of religions are purposely secretive lol)- mango 🥭

hi mango! im glad your enjoying my infodump, im sure im annoying some people, but what can you do, right?

it is stressful, i had to make up some bullshit excuse to change something in my room so i can have a makeshift altar, im having to hide my Book Of Shadows (basically a notebook where im writing down everything im learning, ill eventually write spells and rituals when im ready for all that and possibly some prayers, meditations and stuff when i figure out what works for me), and im starting to sneak in some jars and candles and salt cuz ill probably need at least the salt for protection, since its october and Samhain is almost here (its on halloween)

and yeah, that real person was a dick. i knew that there were people like him, but i didnt really think theyd be so out there, it kinda shocked me. and it also made me sad to know that people really think that of my religion, its disrespectful. im not christian, but im not going out there and saying your religion is evil, even with the history of genocide and literally wipping out thousands of sacrate documents for hundreds of religions.

so, rn im not strickly following any religion. im believe in some aspects of Wicca and i decided to follow their calendar (at least for now) but im not wiccan. im sort of a mixture of Wicca and Greek Paganism, but with a bit of my own believes and my own understanding of the world. basically, i believe in the Greek gods as guides for certain parts of life, and as representation of certain aspects of life (so Hestia represents fire, while Poseidon represents the ocean and bodies of water, and so on. for me, they are basically spirits that can help you connect and understand things (or people in cases like Aphrodite) around you, and they help you to learn how to respect the earth and use the resources it gives you without hurting it), and they also have a certain control on those aspects, but if you dont put your effort into it, theres not much they can do. i believe in who wiccans call God and Goddess as one big genderfluid spirit that kinda just overlooks everything and helps with kinda paving the path every being can go to, but without interfeering directly. and i do believe in the FaeFolk and the MerFolk. i believe in the relation between a persons energy and the energy of the things around them, and that our spirits can communicate with other spirits in other realms if we want to and put an effort into it. (<- this all makes sense in my head, but idk if i explained it on a way that makes sense for other people)

i am mainly doing research rn, because i dont yet feel confident with doing spells and potions, or summoning anything. im mostly focusing on basic energy and spirit protection, with daily tarot readings and meditations to create the habit, while i study and understand the basics. but overall im eclectic, and probably gonna be for a while (maybe forever, who knows) until i figure out what i wanna work with more

on a short note, im eclectic in both my religion and practices :)

little addition i think is important: none of the divinities i believe in are perfect. they all made and make mistakes. but they learn from their mistakes, and so do i. they arent all powerful either, as already said. they can help to up to one point, the rest i have to do it on my own. magick isnt how its represented in the media. we cant make things appear out of thin air or shot fireballs out of our hands. what we can do is improve the odds of something happening through the manipulation of energy and with the help of spirits and divinities.

#okay i said a lot #but thats basically it #amazing mango anon #witchy hours

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fandomsfeelsandfanfics · 7 years

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Fourth Floor/// Neville Longbottom x Reader

You didn't see many new faces. You definitely didn't see any kids your age. That’s just how it went on the fourth floor of St. Mungo’s. You were admitted, you never left, and at some point or another your family forgot you and you stopped getting visitors.

You were slightly more lucky. You didn't have a family to forget you. You had been dropped off at St. Mungo’s when you were a newborn. No one ever claimed you. As soon as you turned up they new you were abnormal, even for a witch.

So that’s how it went. No new faces. The same old dull patient and the same old dull nurses. Your only hope at escaping the boredom was having a nurse wheel you around. You and everyone around you (no matter if they were willing to admit it or not) knew you had no chance of leaving this place.

Nurses tried their best to keep your spirits up but this became harder and harder the older you got. The nurses wheeled you around outside and tried to make small talk. It was a nice day but it did nothing to ease your thoughts.

You gazed at the lake and began to wish that they let you swim outside more often. Someone tripped over your chair and fell to the ground. Your eyes snapped to them. Your hands quickly grabbed the blanket that covered your lower half and pulled it up further in surprise.

The boy looked up at you in surprise like he hadn't seen the girl in the wheelchair that most people could have spotted a mile away. You wanted to help him up but well...

“So so sorry.” He got up and dusted himself off. “I was in such a rush that I didn’t....so sorry.” A small smile spread across your face.

He was young, about your age. He was handsome with his dark brown hair and green eyes. Maybe you were just over excited but you felt compelled to tell him more. However, you didn't know if he would want to learn more after he saw what was under the blanket.

“I’m Neville, by the way.” He held out his hand. One of your hands held the blanket firmly in place while the other shook his hand.

“(Y/N).”

“It was very nice to meet you and sorry about the whole falling thing but I’ve got to go.”

“Will I see you around,” you asked before he could leave. He smiled and nodded before turning and running in the other direction.

You heard the nurse laughing slightly and you shot her a look.

“Keep going, please.”

Later that day you had a nurse pulling you around the room where most of the patients were kept on that floor. You were placed all alone because you needed special treatments and sometimes you got funny looks from other witches and wizards.

Occasionally, you would visit the other patients. None were close to your age but most of them were quite nice and really funny so you never really minded. They would tell you stories, some of which you had to question if there was any truth behind.

You were laughing at some joke when out of the corner of your eye you saw the door open. You turned your head and saw Neville enter. He didn't seem to see you. You tugged at the nurses sleeve and she leaned down so that you could easily whisper in her ear.

“That Neville boy, has he been admitted here?” The nurse shook her head and her expression became very sad.

“No but his parents were a long time ago. You’ve probably seen them before. They’re usually only brought out here for holidays like Christmas because they’re special cases but he’s visiting so they put them out here. The Longbottoms. Poor couple, they were young and so was Neville, when they got tortured into insanity.” The nurse shook her head.

Your eyes went wide with shock. You had heard of them but you had never met them. Suddenly, you felt like had invaded something very private in this boys life. You felt very guilty.

“I’d like to go back to my room now, if you don't mind.” The nurse didn't argue as she rolled you out of the door.

You laid in your bed finally free for the first time that day. You didn't need a blanket to hide your hame from the rest of the world. The thing you hid so mysteriously under the blanket was a tail. Not like a monkeys tail or a cat tail or something of that sort. That would be easily concealable.

Your entire lower body was what muggles would call a mermaids tail. It was bright green and glistened in the sunlight, not that it ever got much sunlight. You were born with it and the working theory among the Healers was you or your mother were cursed.

When you were dropped off at St. Mungo’s no one knew what to do with you. There had been no one like you. Immediately they started conducting experiments and they hadn't stopped since. You had taken to hiding it anytime you were outside your room. At nights you went swimming at night to get workout in since you couldn't walk and those were your favourite moments.

As you moved your tail back and forth absent-mindedly you thought about Neville and his parents. You really hoped to see him again but how could you. You knew all this stuff about his parents and him yet he didn't really know the first thing about you.

You were dragged out of your thoughts by the doors opening and closing quickly. Usually the nurses and Healers knocked before they came in. However, this wasn't a nurse or a healer.

In walked Neville looking completely distraught. His hands were in his hair which messed it up a great deal. Within seconds he turned towards you. He gasped loudly.

“I'm so sorry, I didn’t realize anyone stayed in this room. Oh Merlin.” The entire time he spoke his eyes were glued to your tail.

“Hey!” You quickly pulled a cover over your tail and his eyes met yours. “Yeah, buddy, eyes up here.” You crossed your arms.

“Sorry, I just-”

“Yeah, I know. I just have a bloody tail. Bit distracting yeah?” You hadn't meant to come off harsh but this was frustrating. You sighed. “I don't mean to sound rude but this happens all the time. I’m a regular girl but then people see my tail and all of a sudden I’m a freak again.”

“No,” Neville blurted out. “I think you’re great. Normal isn't always the best, you know. I also, think you're very pretty.” Your gaze shifted as you felt your cheeks heat up.

“Yeah?” Neville nodded. He was blushing slightly as well. “Er, thanks. You can um...stay in here if you'd like.” His eyes brightened up.

“Thank you so much. My mom was having one of her episodes...I needed some air. I didnt think anyone stayed in here. Much less a...” His sentence hung in the air as he waited for you to tell him what exactly you were.

“Mermaid. Muggle mermaid but mermaid.”

“Well, yes. I had heard rumors but you can't believe half of the things you here from those people. So how did you...” He stood there awkwardly which you found adorable. He didn't quite know what to say.

Ahh, yes. Your origin story. All conversations usually led to this. How did you get like this? (I don't know) Are you a monster? (Definitely. I devoured three small children this morning) Can I touch your tail? (Yeah, if you want your hand cut off)

“Well, I was born like this. Healers don't know for sure but they think someone cursed me or someone cursed my mum before she had me. I would ask my mum but she hasn't turned up so that’s that. You can sit down.” You moved your tail slightly which made plenty of room on the bed for him.

“Oh, wow. That’s...wow. I mean...just wow.”

“Wow. Do you plan on broadening your vocabulary anytime soon or...” Neville burst out laughing and so did you.

“Okay, well tell me. Why have they got you held up in this place? Shouldn't you be in the ocean with other mermen and women?” That was a unique question. Not many people asked that. Neville was getting very interesting.

“Well, legally they hold me here until I am 18. They can mostly do whatever, conduct experiments, do surgeries, that type of thing as long as I consent. When I’m 18 I can do whatever I want. I can ask to stay here or I can live in the muggle or wizarding world. Or I could ask to taken to the sea.” You paused just to see if he was paying attention and he certainly was.

“As far as mermen and women go, we don't actually get along. I’ve met my fair share of merfolk. A while ago the Healers thought that maybe I belonged with them even though I didn’t look like them. I swim fast, I breath underwater, and I could get along fine in the ocean but the merfolk just didn’t like me. They said I wasn't a proper mermaid and I didn’t even speak their language. They also said if the Healers didn’t remove me from their lake immediately they'd kill me.”

“Hmm.” Neville said thoughtfully. He shrugged. “Their loss.” A smile played at his lips.

“I think the tail is amazing. I think your story is brilliant and I really think you're brilliant.” Suddenly, the door burst open for the second time that day.

This time an older lady who closely resembled Neville entered the room.

“Neville, there you are. I’ve been looking for you. Sorry to interrupt but we have to go. You can say goodbye and I’ll be outside.” She gave you a kind smile before closing the door.

Neville looked almost sad.

“That’s my gran. I better get going.” Neville moved to stand up but you grabbed his arm and he stayed put.

“Thanks...for talking to me. Um...will you...will you please come back someday?”

“Definitely.” You quickly leaned forward and pressed a kiss to his cheek. Now he was absolutely bright red.

“Bye, Neville.” He looked slightly dumbstruck.

“Er, bye.” He stumbled towards the door. Almost falling more than once. Finally, he reached the door. He gave you one final smile before leaving.

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A/N: GUYS I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO DO A MERMAID FIC OMG. I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WOULD BE REMUS OR SOMETHING BUT HERE THIS IS SO.

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What’s your favorite part about your design for Miranda? Might not be the most in depth question but it’s what I’ve got

there's a LOT that i like and a lot of little details that go into her design that only really show up when you see them acting in tandem with each other (her jaws are what come to mind - she is very, VERY good at biting and biting to a terrifying degree, but you can't really see it until you put together the shape of her teeth with the serrations on them with the shape of her skull with the fused bones in her skull with the "softness" of her face created by her jaw muscles with her neck muscles - and you only get that when all of her various smaller traits work together)

but i think if i had to pick a single, purely physical aspect of her redesign it would be the nose crest

i've had it for... a while? namely, because for a long time i was drawing more humanoid miranda and miranda closer to her canon design, but i also had a full speculative design that i kept in my head, although i never really had chance to use it. that was where i added the nose crest, based off of phytosaur nose crests at the time, because i think they have funky skulls and its a shame that people outside of paleo circles dont know about phytosaurs. and it really is just a VERY appealing head shape for me.

(just look at him. look at my good boy.)

but, because i've gradually gotten more and more divergent with my artwork and with miranda over time, i eventually realized... i already had basically the rest of the head i wanted with the original total redesign, and all i had left was to move the nose up and almost between the eyes, instead of at the end of the nose.

however, one of my favorite things about having the redesigns is what i mentioned before - how all of the various parts of the design work in synchronicity together. at a certain point, even when you make a change, it all kind of WORKS with everything else you have, often even better than before the change, and it helps reinforce the idea you're going for and makes them seem all the more better adapted for what they're made to do.

in which case: merfolk's ancestors diverged from ancient amphibians. i've known this for a while, that's how they have their external + internal gill setup, and even more recently i've settled on them being a type of temnospondyl. however, its important to understand that this lineage of ancient amphibians who lived lifestyles similar to crocodiles experienced a decline in the mesozoic, entirely disappearing around the middle-cretaceous. several different factors contributed to this, but one of the big ones were being out-competed by crocodiles, and even if they had made it to the K-Pg boundary, they wouldn't have made it beyond that.

this has been a problem for me for a while. merfolk are a part of this ancient branch, but they survived to modern day, unlike their relatives, and thus would have had some kind of workaround that let them survive while the other branches of temnospondyl died out.

so far, the reason why has been two-pronged, with some adaptations that made them unique very early on and let them carve out a niche for themselves.

the first has to do with their reproductive setup. they, very early on, had live birth, and because of that, they were not as reliant on pools on water to reproduce in like other amphibians. they also had unisex individuals, which let their populations survive at lower numbers.

but the second has to do with how they accessed oxygen. this is why they have the dual gills setup - they could extract more oxygen from the water than their relatives, via waving their external gills around when they were still or having running water pass over them, or from swallowing water and pushing it out and over their internal gills when they were moving around, and both of them meant they didnt have to breathe through their skin as much, so they could cover it in scales. because they were amphibians, they had lungs too, which let them directly breathe in oxygen from the air, which gave them a further use and advantage over their counterparts, as it gave them a bigger "hit" of oxygen all at once for them to use.

which leads me back to the nose crests as one of those ancestral traits that merfolk still have today. moving the nose so radically on top of their head meant they didnt have to lift their head so far outside of the water to breathe, but because it was on its own bump and above the rest of the head anyways, they could shift their nostril position around to more directly funnel water into their gills when they swam forward, effectively giving them the best of both worlds for specializing in taking advantage of all the different ways they can access oxygen.

and both of which, in tandem, makes me feel a lot better about alluding to their evolutionary history and how they managed to last through deep time while their relatives didnt, and how merfolk were able to come about in the first place.

#asks #chloes moth dimension #all the care guide says is 'biomass'#monster prom reanimated #Monster Prom: Reanimated #this is also why abyssals have pretty small nose crests while the other species of merfolk get much bigger nose crests

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