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      ❝ 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬?                              𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞. ❞

° •   ❛  independent & private & canon divergent   𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐘𝐃 𝐋𝐄𝐄𝐂𝐇 ° •   ❛  written by cermit ° •   ❛  plays NA,  but follows JP ° •   ❛  not spoiler free ° •   ❛  not entirely canon compliant,  au friendly,  and multiverse ° •   ❛  adores ocs,  give me all the ocs

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a coworker introduced me to a phrase and thought I'd share with yall:

"He's as useless as a frog with a glass ass."

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Putting my girl Flora in this and no one can stop me.

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EEL MERFORMS COMING IN MAY ✨️

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watching something with Circe shook a few things loose so tangent but maybe it will be enjoyable.

i've always had the idea that gods and other nonhuman beings can't feel what a human might describe as a "normal" amount of anything, whether it's joy, sorrow, rage, love, or grief. they're too big for it, comparatively, and what they do feel, they feel very deeply. it grows roots, becomes a permanent part of who and what they are, it settles into their bones like silt on the seabed as it were. It Doesn't Stop, even long after the initial event takes place. even if they're the only ones left, carrying it alone.

and it's very true for Malleus/Mallora, for Sebek, and the Octatrio and my sirens. for Ortho/Malenthios. in the case of the fae, they're a more elemental type of being - sometimes a manifestation of nature itself and only slightly, if that, watered down over time, but everything for them is sharp and intense. they can't feel just one particular thing, but a collection of emotions/impressions that linger for a long while afterwards.

in the headcanons i've written for Azul and the tweels, merfolk aren't born with the capacity to feel emotion - they have to learn it from somebody who already has them. it's a kind of mirroring, but it teaches them the responses and with enough exposure it becomes second nature. but it can also be lost if they don't regularly work that "internal muscle", and getting it back after a period of self-isolation or deprivation is very difficult. but when they do learn to feel, it's deeply. emotion doesn't just pass through them and fade, it echoes. it marks them, sometimes literally, but even when they're being mischievous or petty or cruel, they can't help but put everything they have into it. there is no such thing as a "small" kind of feeling, not really. they can learn restraint, and most often tend to over time, but that doesn't change how deeply they feel - just how they express it.

for my sirens Azura and Flora it's similar, but it depends on their background and development how they approach the minefield of emotional processes. they also feel deeply and often violently, and in expressing it they can often "go overboard" from a human's perspective. especially in their song, where it'll show the most.

it makes it very dangerous for their feelings to boil over, because there is a decent chance of the response being the nuclear one: Azul draining the life-force of everyone in Octavinelle simultaneously just before his overblot, Jade's very deliberate approach to getting revenge for being betrayed/lied to being to completely and utterly break that person at the fundamental level so they'll never function again, Floyd's hyper-aggressive reactions to what rubs him the wrong way for real, Malleus stripping everyone on Sage's Island of their living autonomy and forcing them into dreams and potentially doing the same to the entire planet if left unchecked, my Ortho's genuine willingness to wipe out any and all sentient life in the universe if it gave his brother a chance at a better/happier life.

this isn't all that they are, true, but it is an inseparable part. can't have one without the other, which means that if someone's unprepared for it they could be swallowed up and digested - possibly without remorse as well. but it does mean that when they care, they do it sincerely, with their entire being.

back when i first started musing Malleus, i had a brainworm of Lilia addressing any potential partner with a warning: it isn't easy to love a Draconia. They're wild, foolish, reckless, full of pride and arrogance, and they'll take everything on a whim if it strikes them. If you can't stomach that then flee while you can. and as we saw with Maleanor, that was true. she answered to no one but herself and her own whims, and Malleus is every bit as headstrong if not more when he decides to be. asking him to be reasonable is a loaded thing, because he is a fae and fae royalty at that, and his version of "reasonable" is unlikely to match what the average person would describe it as. and from his, and the merfolk, the siren, perhaps even the godling's perspectives, it is humans that are unreasonable.

tiny, transient things who might change their minds and how they feel just like the wind shifting direction. seemingly never for long. never steady. constantly spreading and applying their own rules to everything then moving the goalpost and altering the rules as it suits them. taking and taking, rarely learning, and yet so bright that they're captivating.

what strange and peculiar wonders, and there are reasons why cautionary tales exist. you will never go unloved by me is both a threat and a promise, holding a knife at the altar and being prepared to cut out their partner's heart or their own.

but it's worth it. hell or high water or mutually assured destruction, it's worth it

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Georgina Leech just proves that the Coral Sea method of courtship is to fatten them up so they can't run, fuck them stupid, and then kill and eat them.

She's fattening Azul up so he makes a good meal, obviously.

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my hc of Floyd growing to be 7'11" as an adult no longer seems too farfetched 🥹

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inbox call for when i'm off work. mutuals only, multimuses please specify muse or i'll pick one.

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(source)

Ma'am you are a vision.

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"That's momma~☆"

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who would be Floyd's sugar baby?

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[tulgeyhost]

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lays on him instead

oh he wasn't expecting this development~! the Cheshire gave a soft purr like sound as he glanced up at the eel.

" comfortable? "

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"Yeah, you don't feel too bad for a land dweller." He can't really recall if he's ever interacted with this fish before, but for all the pins and buttons covering the other they're warm and just the right amount of firm and soft. Plus, that's a cool-looking tail they've got. "What're ya, a cat?"

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well 🧍‍♀️ as a reminder this blog is NOT a safe space for trump supporters but it IS a safe place for women, queers, trans ppl, people of color, undocumented people, and any marginalized group.

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He's gonna walk around and put sea-themed stickers on everything. Including people. No one is safe.

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hey you kind of set off my prey drive. wanna get out of here ? you first

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The Leech family is a curious one. The current patriarch has some things to reminisce on.

There's a photograph in the back of Vera Leech's wallet that's been enchanted to withstand immersion and resist wear from the ocean. It was taken on the surface with a disposable camera, but the film remains glossy and vibrant. The only figure within it is of a woman Jade and Floyd have never met, and per agreement their father only meets her when truly necessary.

He doesn't mind. Jasper Leech has long known that he isn't first in his wife's heart, or even second. He's content, most of the time, to simply have her at all - whether as a business partner or occasionally an intimate one.

Anne Belgrove is a nurse, he knows. She lives alone in a little apartment in the Land of Sunlight, and she is perhaps the only person in the world who can match Vera step for step when it comes to making rounds in a hospital. He's only met her in person less than a full handful of times. Once, when Vera introduced them and laid out the terms of their bargain. Second on Christmas Eve at a company party he'd been invited to by a colleague. And third when Vera went back to the sea for the marriage ceremony that formalized everything.

She's a caring woman, he knows. Somewhere in her thirties, no family remaining, nothing keeping her up on land but her devotion to helping people get the treatment they need and recover from whatever ails them. And perhaps, a teeny-tiny little fear of deep water. He's never tested it, but the theory remains.

If she were willing, then a healthy stock of breathing potions and a little grotto close by the surface could be arranged in under a fortnight. There's not much Vera asks from the world, and Jasper loves her enough that he'd be willing to swallow the cost and keep the boys occupied so that Vera would have to be away less. But that's not his place, and unless Vera asks or Anne herself gives the green light he tucks the offer behind his second set of jaws and goes on with his business. It's a busy year, and prospects are always moving.

Jade would be a good heir. Adaptable. Level-headed. Patient when he wanted to be and unobtrusive as needed. But he's also willing to sabotage things to keep a game interesting, and he can't deny that could have disastrous results later down the line. Floyd, on the other fin…

Floyd's a good boy. Hell of a temper and fickle as a riptide, with the tradeoff of knowing when to fold his fins and swim along quietly. It'd be lovely if they decided to cooperate together.

Well. They could both decide to go swimming somewhere else, if it suited them. Unfortunate, but possible.

Maybe he'd get lucky and one of them would have an Anne of their own. Something nice and pretty as a treat to tug them along and keep them quiet. Maybe.