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Well I am SO glad you asked, here's Steph in period dress :D
She's doing her best to remain undetected as she makes mer-friends โ she stowed away on a fishing ship for highly personal reasons and Tim quickly, unfortunately, becomes the only friend she has. This is very inconvenient when her people trap and sell his people as novelties.
People think of whaling as a 19th century industry, like Moby Dick, but actually whaling was common back clear through the 1600s; this was before the use of whale oil so the main commodity was whalebone (the same stuff used in old corsets). And "whalebone" wasn't the same as "whale bones," it's what they called baleen. It would have been a lot more common in the 1700's if the earth hadn't entered a literal mini ice age about then, which expanded sea ice around whaling territory and made it harder to get to them safely. The discovery that "oh, heck, merfolk are real things" would have been a very timely and profitable discovery, picking up the slack of one industry to pave the way for another. Herman Boerhaave, a Dutch physician, was reintroducing autopsy and dissection as a cornerstone of medical science, and the slave trade was just picking up its feet to get going in earnest. The personhood of fish-shaped people would not so much be taken for granted, and 18th-century society would have gone wild for the chance to explore and dissect and sell and experiment on some funky mythological creature.
This all is very unfortunate for Tim, who makes a hobby of watching humans. It is also unfortunate for Steph who has mostly been the one watched and finds herself very suddenly responsible for the safety of this absolutely idiotic wet boy.
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๐๐ข๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ด/๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข ๐ข๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต :((.
๐๐ต ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ! ๐๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐จ๐ฐ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ด๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฆ, ๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ.
"๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐บ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข." ๐๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ง๐ญ๐ถ๐ด๐ฉ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ. "๐-๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ..." ๐๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ถ๐ค๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด, "๐๐ฐ ๐ค๐ถ๐ต๐ฆ, ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข."
๐๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ! ๐๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ป๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ด, ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฌ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ :((.
๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ! ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต'๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ด ๐ด๐ข๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ต!
"๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต๐ค๐ฉ๐ข' ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข?"
"๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ข๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ง๐ถ๐ญ, ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข."
"๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ, ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข."
๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ! ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ด๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ป๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ!
"๐๐ข๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ช๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฌ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ, ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข."
"๐๐ข๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ช๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฃ๐บ, ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข."
"๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐บ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ, ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข."
๐ฆ๐ถ๐บ๐ผ๐ป'๐ ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐ฎ ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ด ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ผ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ ๐๐ผ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ ๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐/๐ผ ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ ๐บ๐ฎ๐บ๐ฎ! <๐ฏ๐ฏ
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Day 142 of drawing Papyrus until he cameos in deltarune! Honestly Sans!! Now he has to clean all of those!! He was totally smiling about that dumb joke afterwards though.
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