eternity float of the coral sea event synopsis + speculation
So “Eternity Float” refers to a wedding tradition or custom that originated from the Sea Witch’s matchmaking morays that once gave a “love trial” to the mermaid princess and her beloved human prince (from the Sunshine Lands). I assume that this “love trial” must refer to when Flotsam and Jetsam flipped over Ariel and Eric’s boat In the Twst world, the boat flipping is interpreted as an event which brought the two lovers of different races closer together. (This was a story previously established in Jade's Platinum Jacket vignettes.)
For this event, Jade and co. will be visiting an harbor/seaside town (Azure Town) in the Sunshine Lands. You can see some of its buildings on the cliffs in the background of the limited event SR cards:
The event synopsis also mentions “[congratulating] the newly weds”, though it does not specify who they are. It doesn’t seem to be referring to w celebration of the mermaid princess in her prince (which I had previously speculated), so I wonder who the lucky pair is…?
The premise of “Eternity Float” poses a few questions to me when considered alongside other lore we know of 🤔 Like... how common is it for merpeople to have their weddings shoreside instead of entirely underwater??? Because Ruggie mentions (in his Halloween Dress vignettes) working at a wedding venue (which I assume is on land) and how the merfolk couples would specifically request a warm dessert rainbow soup with trident cookies, things which would be pretty difficult to prepare underwater. Did the mermaid princess's wedding end up influencing what is popular for merfolk weddings in general? Sort of like how Queen Victoria's white satin dress set the trend for western weddings? Or would merfolk marrying on land be something more akin to a destination wedding?
In Floyd’s Beans Camo vignettes, he mentions it is “pretty rare” for merfolk to live on land… but maybe it’s more common to go there temporarily? I only say this because if it’s fine for merpeople to go to land temporarily, this doesn’t conflict with other lore which states that adult merfolk like to visit stores along the coast + Mr. Leech owns similar businesses. So does this imply that merfolk like to visit the land for special occasions and celebrations, including weddings and vacations???
Also!! I know there's a lot of fandom speculation about what the Leech family "business" could be, with the most common one being they're the undersea mob. There is also a variant which suggests it would be funny if it turns out their business is actually Normal and is just related to the government, meaning things have to be kept hush-hush.
I wonder if the tourism businesses Mr. Leech runs along the shore are like... cover-ups for shadier dealings, or if these are just genuinely how he makes his money. Does he have fingers in the wedding industry as well??? This might give him a reason to be the parent present for this hometown event (though of course there's no confirmation yet).
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