#rikoi

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Feeding the bapy merpeeps fish food rn.

he says thank

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I just realized I never got around to posting this, and that's a crime

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for art requests I would love to see Rikoi again I miss his terrifying teeth

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Bebe Rikoi !!!!

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what is fish pole body language rp

excellent taste that one is actually koiko lore!

the one! It's called body language because riko can not speak (even though merman's can, he was never socialized for it) he can communicate using only his own made up gestures and instinctual body languge the story goes over Renee helping to get him out of the moriama's possession and into their meer sanctuary where he will go through therapy with Aaron and possibly have to learn that Renee can not be his mate 💔

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pls tell me more abt the mer riko with his funky black teeth and renee bc I love them so much

Riki does not know how to speak every meer does but riko was never socialized . He is afraid of large open bodies of water and after being moved to the reservation he keeps to shallow ponds and small fake beaches.

Aaron will be riios speech teacher and general therpist (Aaron is lime shark !!!) I wil try to doodle him today

Riko's first spoken word is Renee

Aaron is meer while Andrew is human it's because their mothwr is human and their father was meer . They don't get along and feel like there is world apart between them

Neil is also crossbreed - marry seduced a sailor who then proceeded to chase her not ready to move on after his brief affair with siren.

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Me running away from the Seanest or sum with the baby merperson riko u drew in a big plastic goldfish bag (he's finally safe)

QUICK THEY ARE AFTER YOU !!!!

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Dear Cap-senpai, how does one come up with a cool, original and cohesive AU idea for AFTG? I want to write for these characters, but I have no idea where to even start. - Sincerely, a struggling writer

I am really honoured that you ask, because I see myself as mess I am just very devoted mess Making any sort of story is always the same no matter if you do fully original work or something based on pre existing IP You need to pick topic you enjoy this way you will have fun developing it it will make it feel like fun activity not work or effort. Ok lets take the Rikoi au as example bc my brain is right here right now general idea is ,, Riko as mermaid" now the question is how do i make the concept of mermaid tie into his family history i tie it into his design, i try to consider his background and possibly how his culture could tie into it - rikos family backstory - Japanese koi - i could read up some Japanese stories about koi to get even deeper - swamping number from arabic 1 to japanese to fit the theme bit more - moving moriyamas all the way back to Japan to have more traditional looking garden/pond environment for him so this is Riko but every universe and story need supporting cast [your cast can be 1-2 character it can be 5-20 or more how much you can handle but having more character makes your world and story feel more alive ] so now we have renee who because of her canon background witch charity becomes part of meer rescues team foxes who are half way house become meer sanctuary aaron and andrew who are the most different twins ever become 2 different species neils father who is piece of shit is still a piece of shit! <3 ilu nathan it's all about finding loose parallels! you don't have to tie things that way but finding things that tie your new AU yo canon even slightly will help other people understand the new dynamics and find something to relate to taking into account their love for original work when designing a story even for 1 character try to spend at least a bit to think of the world around them - aftg is actually great example of this - our main narration is made by neil who spoon feeds us very limited amount of information but in EC nora explained in much more detail how the whole world around him functions and motivations of other characters- we wouldn't knew those informations but nora wrote those books taking them into account this is why the relationships character formed have so much depth I also watch a lot of youtube videos about story analysis for video games and enjoy listening to essays about characters motivations !