" Yep! The Bluenight informed the Flowerfish who was rather excited to know the Taiten's special day. Especially being that, for the past three years theyve known the larger creature, (Eclipse) has never shown anything towards doing a special day; both small ones assumed the Taiten merely didn't have one due to lack of interest or celebrated his in private, hence why theyve never asked. "
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The Flowerfish hesitated for a moment, his mouth opening and closing with uncertainty. He wasnt sure if he was allowed to ask this, especially from someone who—as he realized—was as private as Eclipse.
How much did he know of the Taiten? As hes discovered, not much; Eclipse never acted differently whenever Sun's special day passed or when his own now arrived. But thats just because Eclipse chose now, right?
But why now? Why now that hes prompted?
Sun's swimming came to a pause, a mix of confusion and embarrassment in his movements. He looked around, seeing the usual emptiness of the vast ocean, yet he felt watched—not by Eclipse. He has been for a bit now, which made him question if asking what he wanted to ask was truly necessary, if this was some sort of warning being given to him.
But seeing Eclipse's ever so gentle stare paired with unwavering patience...
"I..." Sun swallowed, building up the courage.
Eclipse rose one of his hands until it made contact with Sun's tail, making the smaller one sit on it. This was Eclipse's encouragement and Sun knew that, but it still took him a moment.
Sun's tail curled on the Taiten's palm as he made himself smaller. "Why is..." He rubbed his arm, brushing against the old scar some more. "Why is that... your special day?.."
A brief pause.
"I-its not a—not an important thing so you dont have to—"
"Because I did something brave that day." Eclipse answered, his clicks slow, almost like he was thinking about it.
Sun's head perked up, his rays moving smoothly with the waves. "Something brave?"
Eclipse chuckled. "Do you not believe me, runt?"
"No—I do, I mean..!" Sun panicked, waving his hands. The Taiten laughed some more, making the Flowerfish's face grow a deeper shade of yellow-orange as he hid himself behind the large thumb.
"Oh, little one, little one..." Eclipse's smile was reassuring, lowering his head to see the smaller mer more clearly. "So easily embarrassed."
Sun kept himself hidden, his hands covering his face. How could he doubt Eclipse like that?
Eclipse let out a slow sigh, blowing gentle air towards Sun who peeked behind his thumb. "You can doubt me, but I only tell the truth. I wouldn't hide anything from you. You and Moon both, my precious runts." He extended his index towards Sun who nuzzled it in turn. "I promise."
Probs one of the most random things I’ve decided to animate, but it seemed like fun animation practice* and I LOVE Pinkpanthress’ new music video. I've been waiting for this song to get popular since it came out last year, probs my second fav in her whole discography, but like yeah very fire very peak please watch it if you haven’t it’ll change your life (/silly)
I pretty much took the format of the music video and ran with it for the chorus, the random people doing silly things to the beat is pretty much just an excuse to include as many women in the cast that I can fit B) I couldn't fit everyone in here, but I hope this is enough !!
*This was supposed to take like a week, but I underestimated it and it’s now been a month. The most timely of animators, I am
Extras and original MV below the cut:
I made some gifs of some of the smaller moments I thought looped well! (And also cause Terra and Monty are mostly obscured by Nebula and I spent a silly amount of time on them)
Sidenote: I can't believe how much I've drawn Venus with apples. It's not a conscious effort, it just ends up happening. I'm banning myself from doing it after this because it's getting ridiculous at this point (though I really like the animation loop so I'm still happy with it 😛)
I’ve been trying to incorporate Rosie’s punishment into art for SO LONG you have no idea. It makes me feel many things (mostly anger) so know that there is at least one other art piece in my drafts themed around it. (I also have some comic scripts about Rosie's reintegration into the group, but I dunno if I'll ever draw 'em because I don't know where I want the story to go yet)
She ate this video up genuinely. The scenes with Andy jumping rope and DJ using the turntable were taken from the video. (Andy more directly, I adjusted the angle for DJ)
The frames do get a bit scuffed at times, I am awful at making consistent frames rn XP
I was also originally gonna only do art for this but I never got past drawing Rosie. The animation took over. (I appreciate how many characters in these shows have curly hair. As someone with very curly hair I'm like YEASSSSS MOREEEEEEEE 🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥)
Also PLEASEEEE make Feelings popular next chat, PLEASE its literally her best song. Gorg. I have a specific Rosie piece I'm using it as inspo for later, spoiler alert.
"Think of me, you can't pay for therapy!"
"Nothing left to bleed, you spent all your clarity!"
I cant, like, just doodle them (as I was supposed to for this comic) because of their color pallette. I feel obligated to color them fully for no reason because, yes, my merbabies I will color you all fully <3
