#yj dolphin

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The Atlantis’ Kaldur Protection Squad’

[ittybittytatertot]

Squad goals

[irenesexe]

i just.... i really love dolphin 

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Dolphin Post-Timeskip Thoughts

1. Definitely a member of the Team.

2. The oldest (I would want there to be a three year timeskip, and I think Dolphin is 16, turning 17 in 2019, so she’d be turning 20 in 2022) tied with her co-leader 20-year-old Bluebird

3. She joined the team after spending some months learning Atlantean sorcery, which gives her her comic light-blasting, flashing and signage powers. Anglerfish are the only thing that come to mind for aquatic bioluminescence but... those tattoos really don’t suit her unlike Kaldur’s eel ones

4. Unlike Kaldur, she completed her time there, so tattoos on command.

5. She and Kaldur consider each other as a little sister and big brother, gotta have the family grow y’know

6. NOT ROMANTICALLY INVOLVED WITH GARTH. I know this is a thing in the comics but no, not here. Sorry. Too wide of an age gap.

7. I think I’d want to pair her with Cassandra or Harper, I’m undecided.

8. She still sometimes forgets her hands and feet are webbed and clawed now. Good in battle, not so much when dining undercover

[ittybittytatertot]

Love these Atlanteans.

(My dream team for Kaldur’s arc)

[ittybittytatertot]

manifesting that kaldur's beard in future episodes is symbolic of him taking care of himself and not being so rigid and unforgiving toward himself anymore. it's a healthy beard. a good beard. i'm putting that out into the universe it WILL be real

Wishing and hoping that it's not a "my heart and soul have broken and I don't have the energy to maintain my appearance" beard. It WILL be a symbol of his healing. Like to charge reblog to cast.

[ittybittytatertot]

For the Atlantis drabble, could you please do something with the Durham Fam (Calvin, Shalaina, Kaldur, and Delphis)

This May Be Propaganda for The Lemuria Board of Tourism But...

“We stopped in Singapore afterwards. Wyynde was landsick for most of it, but he loved the botanical garden.” Kaldur was saying over dinner.

“Oh I love Singapore.” Sha’lain’a mused. “I went there once when I was young-”

Delphis’s eyes trailed from her foster mom’s joyful face to her own plate. She found herself scooting the fish and kelp around with her spoon, stomach twisting sourly, as Kaldur related another story from his recent vacation with Wyynde.

The guilt of knowing Kaldur deserved all the leisure and travel in the world only added a spike to the nauseating twist, and it lingered even after dinner as she cleared the table. Calvin took the dishes from her with a gentle, knowing smile.

“It can be hard hearing about the surface. I miss it too, sometimes.”

“Oh-” Delphis’s frown deepened, hoping Kaldur had not noticed her mood as easily as his father had. She tried to smooth out her expression, or at least hide it with a dismissive shrug, “I have nothing to miss up there.”

Calvin frowned, “I’m so sorry, Delphis,” he almost put a hand on her shoulder, but backtracked. At first, she’d thought him shy, but then she noticed she was the only one he treated so cautiously. He knew she’d known bad men, and much like Kaldur, he was deadset against ever being such a man. “I signed up to have this,” he pointed to his gills, “done to me, but you… you didn’t ask for any of this. Not having a choice anymore, even if eleven times out of ten you would choose to be right where you are now, is tough. You’re allowed to miss what you never got the chance to have.”

Delphis hesitated for a moment before floating around. “I have everything I could ever ask for here.”

But if that were true, she wouldn’t have sounded quite so distraught. That was why, the next week, after talking it over with Sha’lain’a and then looping in Kaldur, Calvin made an announcement.

“Pack your things! We’re going on a family vacation.”

Delphis was the only one actually surprised, but Sha’lain’a and Kaldur made noises of excitement from their seats on the couch beside her.

“A vacation? To where?”

“Lemuria. It’s gorgeous this time of year.”

“The orcas will be there!”

“As will my friend Topo. You remember him.” Kaldur said with a genuine smile. Though Clavin had not told his son this, that was also part of his plan. Adopted or not, Delphis was like any little sister, and she wanted to do whatever her older brother thought was fun.

Delphis ran her webbed fingers through her shock-white hair nervously, “I’ve never even been on a vacation. I do not even know what to bring.”

“We’ll help you pack.” Kaldur offered, gallantly. “And Wyynde has already offered to house sit.”

“He’s not coming with?” Delphis was surprised. Since Kaldur’s sabbatical, the two hardly went anywhere without each other if they could avoid it.

“He has work.”

“And this is the Durham Family Vacation.” Calvin said, then winked at his son, “And he’s not family quite yet.”

Kaldur hid his face behind his hands while Sha’lain’a hugged Delphis and reassured her, “Besides, we’ll send pictures.”

A week later, Wyynde unlocked the Durham’s Shayeris home, fed their aldrovanda, vacuumed the scum, and checked on their snail before getting a message on his communicator. He opened it instantly. Each day for the last six days, he’d received similar messages, and a smile reached his face before the pictures even loaded. Today, the family was in the Pudget Sound. In one photo, Delphis waved–beaming with her grin and her luminescent scales–from the back of a baby orca. In the next, the family posed with goofy faces in front of spawning Chinook salmon. One was a selfie where Delphis pointed ecstatically at a beaver dam the family had stumbled across. The last one from downtown Lemuria was his favorite, though, as Calvin, Sha’lain’a, Kaldur, and Delphis squeezed into frame as one big, happy family.

[ittybittytatertot]

When you think about it, Dolphin/Delphis kind of got screwed over in the metagene department. Her superpower is having white hair and not being able to breathe on land. Unless those glowing scales were a new power

i mean, we've seen kids whose powers are blowing up, becoming unrecognizable monsters, blowing up again, and growing acidic pustules all over their body. Meta powers are not always good. Delphis is lucky her's have a use. Plus she seems pretty happy about her new life in Atlantis.