#atol ros

[aurelim]

Anthony/Anne Maddox

The Captain

❝There is so much to show you guys! The human world is so vastly different than this...wherever we are.❞ ❝I don't think I would have met any human who could compare to you. I'm so lucky to have met you.❞

Age: Three years older than MC

Race: Human

Gender: Male or female, depending on player choice

Pronouns: He/him or she/her, depending on player choice

Physical Appearance: Maddox has tanned skin thanks to living by the sea their entire life. They have golden shoulder-length hair and piercing blue eyes. Will always be six feet tall flat out no matter if Maddox is male or female. Perhaps the most recognizable feature of theirs is their navy blue coat with gold linings. If you were to imagine an average sailor, Maddox would look like one.

Trope(s): Forbidden love, fish out of water, first true love, [REDACTED]

You had never expected a human to be saved during a hunt, but it was certainly surprising when you discovered that it was A of all people. A disgraced but still well-liked captain, Maddox once claimed that mermaids existed; however, without anything but their words, many did not believe them. This led them to being ostracized and spurred them to spontaneously invite others to prove it. But was it worth it if everything but them was destroyed? Was it worth it just to get a glimpse of you?

A would be nothing without their charm and confidence. You also find that they are incredibly cocky and flirty, especially when they have gotten a few drinks. There is something about them that exudes adventure, which is very true since they loved traveling around on their ship. Free-spirited and unable to stay still for more than a few minutes, A is independent as they were forced to look out for themself at a young age.

They never show fear in front of others. Perhaps it can be read in their eyes, but they are quick to hide it from their tone and expression. A must remain calm when others lose their cool, acting as an anchor in a chaotic storm.

For someone who lost everything thanks to your family, the captain appears to hold no grudge against you. They treat you as if you were one of their kind, disregarding that you can kill them at any moment. Though there are times when they go quiet, eyes far away and mind distracted. Something pulls down their conscious, preventing you from getting to know the real Maddox.

They grew up with a single parent who was rarely there for them. A had to grow up by themself and discovered their love for ships when they were fifteen years old. Since then, they worked hard to save up for a ship and bought the Odyssey with their earnings. Maddox does not have a crew to help them, but they like to refer to themself as a captain regardless. They believe they earned it. Especially when they are sailing for jobs and manning everything by themself.

You have a feeling you were destined to meet them no matter the circumstance. Like a magnetic pull bringing you two together...

Fun Facts About Maddox:

Might become a friends-with-benefits route. It has not been fully fleshed out yet, but Maddox will definitely not be thinking about falling in love with someone. They are so used with having one-night-stands that establishing an actual relationship has never occurred to them. Maybe they have come close in the past, but it never reached that point

Has an (affectionate) nickname for MC and K individually :)

Would call MC that nickname and another one if you decide to romance them

Has gained a semi-tolerance to alcohol, but they get drunk fairly easily anyway

Honestly thought about basing them on Prince Eric, but I kind of based Maddox on Oisein from The Nameless by Parker Lyn; it's a good game and Oisein is so pretty that I couldn't help myself (sorry about that)

Would honestly love to become a Merfolk. Or if not a Merfolk, then a sea creature like a whale or dolphin

Has met the Royal before, though they did not realize it as said person was under disguise. A took them out to drinks and they somehow made it back to their respective homes without throwing up in an undisclosed location. The Royal does not remember it but A does

When it comes to jobs, they will take it if the job has high rewards. Maddox would take any they can get, but if they are given multiple and had to choose one, they would choose the one with the most rewards. It's the better choice for them financially

Loves sparring. They learned how to use a sword when they were twelve, and they are very experienced with a rapier. Maddox is very deadly with one, especially when parrying

That rapier is attached to their hip, easy to sheath out quickly

Scary fast swimmer

Kind of likes to read?? Like they would carry around a book in their inner pocket but they only read if they have the free time to

The book is usually tips on how to manage a ship and romance

It was not a coincidence you met Maddox. Things happen for a reason, but you may never get to figure out the reason why. Was this for story purposes? Or something more?

#As the Ocean Lures #atol #atol ros #ch: a maddox #a maddox #4/4 #ro info #atol ro info #all of the ro infos are out!!

[st4rdom-if]

hi! i recently read your demo for the mermaid IF and i was blown away- it was beautiful writing and i'm really excited for this demo (no pressure :) ) i love the characters and can't decide between nari and seungho lol. because of this blog i got into k-pop and decided to write a few of my own idols while playing underwater by red velvet on loop lmao and i love the songs! :) i'm excited to see how the story progresses and wishing you an amazing 2024! :)

Aw, thank you so much! I really don't think my writing is as great as other IFs but thank you! Hopefully I can write another banger game like ATOL and bring in the feels 😅

My goal is to make choosing between the ROs as hard as possible! So it's only going to get harder to choose from here on out.

Ah, I'm glad I got you into k-pop then! To be honest, I was never a huge k-pop fan until I came up with the idea for ST4RDOM. Now I would say I am a little obsessed. I should come up with a playlist to listen to while playing the game, but I'm going to focus on the demo first and foremost!

Thank you so much for your support, anon!! This genuinely inspired me to write another 1K words so asks like these really motivate me. Hope this will be an amazing 2024 for us all! 😄

#answered #anon

[flowers-of-io]

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So this came to me as a random stream of consciousness literally at 4 am when I *really* needed to wake up reasonably the next day, but of course I had to type all this mental thunderstorm down. In short--what if the Osmium sisters sold the Needle ship at Kaharn. It's such a small detail that could have changed everything, and it's tragic to think how close they were to avoiding the disaster entirely. And the story would have been fascinating from there! The Kaharn Atoll, the place "where species meet", itself has fascinated me since the beginning and I hope to write it someday, be it here or in an Alloin fic. And the sisters go there, sell the Needle and hire mercenaries and they sail back to the Osmium Court to take it back. They are three, maybe four already, grown and more matured, sailing at the front of a small flotilla in Aurash's ship, their blood on the mast crimson and dry. Xi Ro leans on her sword, afire with rightful fury, and Sathona looks out into the horizon, silently terrified they have made a terrible choice, the worm whispering softly in her grasp. And Aurash's eyes are bright and intent and sad as she searches for the first faintest outlines of the Osmium harbour through the fog. I think the main driving force of the fic would be fulfilling the oath, something that the siblings actually don't achieve in canon and it's another tragic-fascinating point about their story. We don't know about Sav and Xivu, but Oryx still took it very seriously when Crota was born, and Taox haunted him still even after he had split with his sisters by the end of Books. I think Savathûn was the closest to fulfilling her vow, having become a Mother and raised spawn (she didn't eat the mother jelly but that's a technicality); Xivu fought Taox and the Helium Drinkers, but didn't kill the traitor. And Oryx, of course, never truly understood what had caused the syzygy and why. And moreover, they hadn't really taken back their home, which had been the root of it all in the beginning.

I really have brainworms about this and hope to turn it into something of a few-chapters thingy, but I have already two active fics going on and uhhhh probably should wrap these up first.

#reply #eri-223 #krill #aurash #sathona #xi ro #taox #keeping up with the osmium dynasty

[steph-anand]

@mellora-atoll and Steph have their first official date at the museum. Mel sets the place up, Steph brings the food, and then a bunch of cuteness comes about

Mellora had "pinterested" what a romantic date looked like. She'd made a whole "board" of picnic layouts with soft blankets and woven baskets and scenic views interspersed with a lot of candles set up on floors and wine glasses. Unable to decide between the "aesthetics," she'd gone with both.

Part of the museum jutted out over the rocky shore of the beach, the bay window standing wide and tall at the end. At all hours of the day, the glass was filled with the expansive view of the ocean. Now, as night grew darker, the ocean and sky both filled with inky darkness and twinkling light as the moon's reflection danced on the waves and the stars woke up, Mel was finally satisfied.

On the floor beneath the window she had layered blankets and pillows pilfered from around the museum and her house and around the corners of the room and on the window sills had placed a rainbow assortment of candles: tall white ones, thick green ones, pale pink, windy ones, and lit them all. Between the low flood lights, the sky, and the candles, the room glowed in gold and silver. It reminded her of the night of the lantern festival, the moon also illuminating them and the port lights warming them.

She'd dallied too long admiring her handiwork, though, and the grandfather clock tolled the hour. On socked feet she skid to the front entrance of the museum and opened it to reveal Steph. With a bright grin, and an over-exuberant shove to the door to keep it open for her, she greeted, "Hi, babe! I, the–I put some stuff in the window room. And got wine from home, if you want." She looked at what the other woman was carrying and added, "Do you need help carrying anything?"

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Steph was excited and maybe she spent most of the day preparing for tonight's date to make sure it was all as good as it got and that she could bring the kind of food Mel would have liked and enjoyed. In the end she showed up with a huge basket of food and a big thermos tucked under her arm. And almost as if Mellora knew when she arrived, the door opened to the museum and Steph's face lit up at the sight of the other woman.

"Melly, hey!" she greeted, her fingers and toes tingling, excited for the night. "It's okay, I can carry it, just lead the way." She slipped out of her shoes and followed Mel in, chatting along, "I brought some tacos, a couple of different kinds and I made those and then I bought a bunch of sweets for us to consume. Payasam should still be warm so we should start with that, and then gulab jamun and sopapillas and along with the wine we can decide to drink malasa chai too, if you're--"

She stopped dead in her tracks, though, when they reached the window room and Steph took in all the candles and the lights, the view, the blankets and pillows, and her expression softened. "Mel, this looks gorgeous! Did you do-- you did so much, everything looks so great!"

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She secured the door behind them before ushering Steph in. With the blankets on the floor, she figured being shoe-less would be more comfortable and was pleased that Steph so readily went along with it even without prompting.

Mellora was nodding to the long list of goodies Steph had made or acquired for them, the words for foods and sweets going over her head for the most part, and froze a step ahead of her when she did. Her heart flipped thinking she had done something incorrectly, or perhaps had done too much (had "pinterest" betrayed her?), but all the tension flooded out of her at the praise.

"Oh, I'm just so glad you–that it looks good to you." Mel darted ahead of her to smooth out an already flat corner of the blankets and gestured for her to set the food down wherever she pleased. She sat, plopped more like, with her legs tucked beneath her. "I didn't want it to be creepy, y'know, after dark. And, y'know, I wanted it to be... romantic, so I added candles." Sheepish now, she smiled up at Steph. "I'm sure the food is excellent and I can't wait to try it... how was your day?”

Wow, she thought, so smooth. Suave, in fact.

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Seeing Mel being nervous about everything didn't erase Steph's, but it was nice, to see how much Mel wanted this night to go well, how both of them were equally excited with a bit of nerves along with it.

Steph couldn't stop smiling, grinning. She set the basket and the thermos down and then settled down next to Mel, leaned over and pressed a quick kiss on her lips. It still felt so exciting that she could just do it. "Hi," she whisperred this time, staying close for a moment before properly settling down onto the blanket. "Definitely nothing creepy. You didn't make a horror movie scene, it's really romantic," she reassured Mel as she looked around again. She couldn't get enough of the entire setting - and then her eyes landed on Mel, and okay, she could, if that meant looking at her instead. The way the candlelights flickered on her face, the way her curls were a mix of gold and silver, giving her a glow.

"It was slow and fast at the same time," she admitted. "I couldn't wait for tonight, but wanted to make everything good. And for full disclosure, some of it is from the café, I am not the best baker and didn't want to experiment on you. But the tacos are mine and the chai, and payasam which I'm not sure if you know what it is, but basically just pudding, and it still should be warm." Which she probably already said, but still. She was also packing everything out from the basket while she talked, put it on the other side of the blanket - just close enough for the two of them to reach, but not too close to be at risk of spilling. "What about you? Did you have a good day?"

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Satisfied that Steph liked the interior (and that it did not seem like a house out of a horror movie where the young couple that moved in should have run away screaming the first night (Mel would never understand the logic of human's horror stories)) Mel let herself relax too and all but melted into the quick kiss.

Mel followed Steph's hands as she set up their picnic, nodding at the names of food she already recognized and trying to place the ones she didn't. Human foods were a delightful adventure each time for her as textures, spices, and culturally identifying dishes slotted into place. Really, it stopped being just Human Food in her mind and became Steph's Food (and by extension Renzie's) and all the other food. "I'm sure it's all amazing, of course it is!" Not to lessen her skills in the kitchen at all, but Steph would learn that she was very easy to impress.

"It was good, easy, kind of slow. Not a lot of people come in now that tourists are out, school is in, and the pendant is gone, but... it was nice. And I had the after school group visit again." Mel smiled a little and looked at her fingers where stray bits of acrylic paint still stuck to her fingers. "We painted little pumpkins and glued bits of streamers to them to make pumpkin jellyfish." She pointed to one of the windows where her own example jellyfish hung, painted rosy pink with pale streamer-tentacles hanging down. "The kids named it Arnold, for some reason."

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Steph knew just how wild and crazy it could get at the museum, one of the first times she saw Mellora was in the mids of summer, Mellora doing probably one of her very first tours at the museum. She was impressive from the get-go, as she showed around a bus full of people, answering the questions of kids. ANd now she was making little pumpkin jellyfish with them. Could all of this get any cuter?

"Arnold, that's really cute. Your jellyfish looks like an Arnold for sure," she nodded, pretending to be all-knowing as if she actually knew anything. "Wouldn't have thought to make one out of a pumpkin, either, I usually just carve some horror mouth into it this year around. It was a whole family thing for a while for us." And then it sort of fell to the wayside and they haven't done it in a while, but she did have a lot of fond memories of it.

"Was decorating pumpkins a big thing for you and your family around Halloween?" she asked, really hoping for some cute baby Mellora stories as she offered up a spoon for the payasam. She just realized she didn't really know that much about the other woman's childhood. "Or had any kind of fun traditions - not even for Halloween, just in general, too."

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Mel smiled, indulgently proud of her jellyfish pumpkin. "You should have seen the babies' pumpkins, they were very cute all lined up in a row." The babies in question, of course, being the kids who were not actually infants. "I can show you how to make them. I haven't carved a pumpkin before. My family didn't really celebrate Halloween."

This was always dangerous ground, her past, so shrouded in a lot of water. She found it best to tell the truths, and pad them so they were believable. Besides, she wanted to be known by Steph. As much as they could be, anyway. She gratefully took the spoon and tried a bite of the payasam, cooing in delight at the taste. Words lost, she reached out to squeeze Steph's arm to communicate how good it was.

"We, uh. My moms would take us to the shore to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks." She remembered her sister flinching at the booms high in the air and she had taken her little hand in hers. She couldn't recall if she'd mentioned her sister before, the wayward girl, lost to Mel for now. "And we would celebrate my grandmothers birthdays like holidays, too. Food and getting together, but otherwise we didn't do a lot."

She didn't want it to sound melancholy, because her family had hundreds of traditions, simply none she could share. "What else do your family do? Do you bake with the pumpkins you carve as well?"

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"I'm sure they were. Did you take any pictures by any chance?" she asked. "Oh, I would love that, yes, I would love to learn how to make them. And I can show you how to carve pumpkins in return? And then both of us can end up with some fun new decorations for our places."

It sounded so strange, that Halloween was not celebrated in Mel's family, but then again, Steph lived in a town where holidays and celebrations were huge, not everyone celebrated it at college either. But it sounded like she and her family had their own traditions, and Steph just smiled fondly as she listened, squeezing Mel's hand back, feeling victorious when she expressed how she loved the payasam.

"Us to shore?" Steph asked back. "You and your grandmothers? Or do you have siblings as well?" Maybe some sisters. It sounded like one big family of woman so far, something that must have been fun to grow up in. "Food and getting together is really the best way to celebrate, that's usually how it goes for us too. Anyway, you guys went to the shores - you said you lived up north, right? Did you live close to the ocean or just close enough to take trips?"

She shook her head. "Not with the carved ones, no, but generally with pumpkin, yeah. We have something called calabaza en tacha, which is basically candied pumpkin. We usually do it for Día de Muertos. And we usually sell it in the cafe around Halloween time, too." She loved Halloween, of course she did, but for her it was always mixed tradition - Halloween and Days of the Dead. "Food was always a big thing for my parents. They said it was part of how they fell in love. Abu taught mama his recipes and mama taught him, and the magic happened in between."

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"Oh! Yes," Mellora fished around in her pocket for her phone and whipped it out. Clumsy in her haste, she managed to find the photo she took of the whole school group holding the little pumpkin jellyfish up by their strings, their arms extended. Kids ages five to ten all stood in a grinning row. She turned the phone to Steph so she could see. "I'd love that." She winked. "It's another date."

Mel blinked, catching up slowly to what she asked. "Sorry, yes, no–I mean, I sometimes travelled with my grandmothers too. I also have a little sister. And cousins, too, but we didn't see them as often." She laughed and brushed hair out of her eyes. recalling how much trouble they both caused when they were just wee mers. Steph was asking more specific questions, though, so Mel focused. "Well, we lived in a few different places in the north, but always on the ocean." Not technically a lie. "And sometimes we were near towns or cities that would set off fire works. It really depended."

She cooed a bit at the mention of candied pumpkin, trying to imagine the smell alongside the smell of sugar. That was her best guess for it. "Aww, I love that," she said in response to the romance story. She tried her best not to look at the food prepared for her in front of her, tried not to think of the L word right now at all. It was too tantalizing and too guilt-giving. She reached for the wine she had prepared instead and poured two glasses, taking a sip of hers and offering the other to Steph before setting her cup aside. "What were your parents foods of love then? It sounds like they might have a whole list of them."

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Steph was eager to see the photo and the cuteness overload didn't disappoint, all the kids were bright smiles and glowing, so excited to show off their different jellyfish. "Aww, they all look so cute and sweet, I love them." She leaned forward and gave Mel a kiss, "You did such a good job with them. And I can't wait for that other date already." It was exciting, to know there was more ahead.

It sounded like Mel had such a huge family who travelled a lot and Steph just smiled as she listened, enjoying getting some peeks into how Mel lived before she got to Port Vale. "That sounds fun. Did you enjoy growing up with moving around relatively often?" To her, moving several time while growing up was often. She grew up in one single time and the only move she did was to college and then right back.

And then another thought crossed her mind and she tilted her head, "Do you miss them?" It sounded like they were all close, and now Mel was here, all alone, without her family. That could have possibly been really hard for her.

"Thank you," she took a small sip of the wine before setting it aside too, reaching for a sopapilla. "Yeah, they have a whole list. Honestly? A lot of the stuff we sell at the cafe comes from the two of them putting their heads together and sorting out their favorites. And obviously things changed around based on demand, but a lot of it stuck for them. But if I'd have to say one thing, it's mama's pozole which is a really delicious stew, and abu's naan, which is a kind of flatbred. They say it's the two of them together on a plate, they get really mushy over it on their anniversary."

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Mel had to smile through the kiss because she couldn’t fight it down. Note to self, she thought, educating kids was apparently a new key to Steph’s heart and more kissing. Good thing she really loved kids.

For her, moving fairly often meant once a decade, perhaps two, but she couldn’t exactly share such numbers. Sometimes she had to wonder what Steph, or her family, would think of her dating someone who was older than all her living relatives. Likely not positively, but at least she wasn’t old for a mermaid. “I didn’t think too much about it, honestly. I enjoyed my life, though. Where I was didn’t matter.”

With a sopapilla half in her mouth, Mel froze. Missing her family remained a cold, achy core behind her sternum. Managing to tear off a bite and chew through it, pausing long enough to compliment that too, she nodded. Opened her mouth. Closed it. And opened it again. “Of course I do. I hear from my mum and my mama.” She could feel the absence of her sister, even the sheer mention of her, like a missing limb and twisted her mouth.

Listening to her parents love language was easier, and it warmed the ache in her chest. “Aw, that’s lovely!” she said and pressed a hand over her heart. “I like that, and that they still talk about it so much. It sounds like that’s such a part of you, too.” Mel looked down at the display of food. “If you were a food, what would you be?”

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"That's nice, just enjoying wherever you were. What was the favorite place you ever lived in?" Steph asked, it not really sinking in for her that Mel was trying to give her vague anwers while she was asking for specific things. She just wanted to know more, learn about Mel's life before Port Vale. It felt like such a mystery that she loved unwrapping.

Steph almost winced at Mel's reaction to her question, but she held herself back. "Sorry, stupid question, of course you miss them, they're your family. I couldn't-- I moved away for a couple of years about a decade ago for college. Never regretted it," well, she did towards the end, when she wasn't here when it counted, but that wasn't about it anymore, "I loved it, but I missed them so much. Even if I also loved the distance."

She smiled, looking over all the food she brought herself. "I guess I inherited some of it myself, I never really thought of it like that. I didn't start actively cooking and trying to learn until just recently, before that it was just takeout mostly, but I really enjoy it." And more importantly, she enjoyed seeing Mel slowly try the different options she brought and enjoy them, even if she was in the middle of a not that pleasant question.

She let out a small chuckle at the question, but somebody her brain immediately knew the answer, "Churros. Don't ask me why, I don't know, but first thing that popped into my head and I am okay with that. You?"

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Hm, fuck, thought Mel. She couldn't damn well say she adored the kelp field she'd camped out in once or the sweeping North Atlantic palace she resided in for over a century, off and on as duty willed it. As much as she really, really wanted to. She knew Steph would find the tales entrancing, perhaps too much, or so much so that it became an analysis and not about knowing Mel, but the thought didn't stop her yearning for it.

"Well," she hedged, leaning forward to hover closer. "Port Vale is getting high on the list." Teasingly, she kissed Steph, once, twice, and plopped back where she sat with a smile. Surely, that would distract and satisfy her.

"That makes sense... I think it's probably good to get a bit of distance. Even if it's just to, y'know, figure out whether or not you want or need distance." She was just musing aloud, but it felt true enough. "Are you happy you're back in Port Vale?"

As she proceeded to slowly try and savor each bite of the food Steph brought, giving each morsel the time she felt it and Steph deserved to truly taste and decipher it, she listened intently to what she said. The woman was so effortlessly easy to savor, regardless of what she was doing.

"A churro?" she asked curiously. It sounded familiar enough that she must have heard the name previously, but couldn't place it. "Oi, I really, really am not a good cook. Or baker. Uhh..." she fished (ha!) around for any human dish she had made successfully. "I sure can make... a toasted bagel with almond butter. Chocolate almond butter on a good day."

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It wasn't the kind of reply Steph really expected, but she couldn't help the smile and then Mel was kissing her, and the only answer to that was melting into it. Mel's strategy worked just as she wanted it, Steph forgot everything they talked about before and when the other woman pulled away, she followed her, a small, unhappy voice coming out from the back of her throat.

And at Mellora's question, she kept close,a couple of small nods as she bit into her lips. "Yeah, definitely glad I'm back here," she said and leaned in again to kiss Mel. Maybe she was a touch bit too distracted by Mellora.

At some point she did pull away though and they got back to eating and not getting too distracted by kissing (really, it was a problem, that was all Steph wanted to do while also she just wanted to keep talking to Mel, too), and she she smiled at Mel talking about what she can cook. "That sounds lovely, you should make it for me one of these mornings." Steph certainly wasn't picky.

"Oh, oh, by the way, I wanted to ask - are you dressing up for the festival?" she asked as she reached for the glass of wine on the side, taking a couple of sips. "I'm definitely entering the contest, it sounds awesome and I remember being sad that there wasn't one by the time it would have been my turn in high school, though I guess my costume now will be ten times better than what I could have made back in high school. Either way, though, whether you dress up or not, we should check it out. Play some games, have some fun."

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With the returned kiss, Mel relaxed again.

She hummed, tilting her head teasingly. "I guess you'll just have to stay over more to unlock bagel in bed privileges." Maybe she should attempt to learn actual dishes to share since it seemed so sewn into who Steph was and how her family loved, but she had no idea where to begin. Her attempts thus far had either been disastrous or so simple there was next to no way to mess them up.

Also sipping wine, she nearly choked on both the wine and her own chuckle. "Ohoh, I've heard of this festival, lots happening around it! The kids keep chatting about it and the games. I'd love to go with you." It could be fun to go to a festival with Steph rather than running into her after the fun had ended. Of course, they'd made their own fun. She bit her lip recalling it and had to dig her mind out of the gutter.

"I haven't thought about dressing up..." she narrowed her eyes at Steph. "What are you going as? Do I have to guess?"

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"I wouldn't mind that one bit," Steph said, leaning in to give a long kiss to Mel. Bagel in bed privileges sounded awesome, but mostly because it meant waking up curled up with Mellora.

"Sounds like a plan!" Steph grinned excitedly. "And yeah, with all the extra events, this will be one of the biggest Halloweens the town has seen in a long while." There certainly haven't been weddings on the festival until now, and the costume contest wasn't around for way too long, either. "We're also aiming for a festival reopen for the café, so hopefully with all the buzz, it'll be a big deal."

She covered her face in her palm. "I am so easy to read, really. But it's a mermaid costume contest! It's not my fault that is a requirement!" As if she wouldn't have dressed as one either way. She just wouldn't have gone all out for it, probably. "It was a thing years ago, when Victoria was in high school, I'm not sure why they stopped running it, but it's it's cute, how she is bringing it back. Nostalgic and all."

Steph tilted her head, trying to gauge Mel's reaction. "You're not sick of all the mermaid sticks of the town yet, right?" Or mine, she wanted to ask, but she didn't want to ask that outright.

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"I have to help set up the museum for the high school fundraiser, they're using it for a haunted house because the school is, and I quote, 'just, like, gross and also too big, Ms. Atoll', but after that I'm all yours." She would have to wait and see how this would go with the new woman in town and Victoria preoccupied with the costumes. She and Elistra had witnessed Soibhan near the water and since then her suspicions had been on high alert. "I'll send my volunteers over to the café after, too. You can be pleasantly swamped by teens hunting for lattes."

Mel chuckled and shook her head. "I thought Halloween was supposed to be spooky! Are they undead mermaids?" In her opinion, not much in the ocean was especially spooky besides the unknown darkness. Even the deep sea creatures that creeped humans out were somewhat commonplace to her, in the grand scheme of things.

Although, seeing her friends and neighbors dressed as unrealistic versions of her species might be creepy.

Steph's wavering insecurity reappeared and it hurt Mel's heart that, as unshakeable as her belief in mermaids was, that the repercussions of that belief, the rejection from people because of it, could make her so uncertain. Mel set her wine glass aside and took one of her hands in both of her own, pressing butterfly kisses to her knuckles and pinning her with an intent look. "Baby, that depends entirely on whether or not you're gluing shells to your boobs for this."

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"To be fair, the high school is gross, at least parts of it. Wouldn't hold a fancy fundraiser there for sure. And you clearly do such awesome work with the museum," Steph said, gesturing all around them. The view and the vibe was still so perfect, so romantic. "If you need help setting up for that, or need any food for it, I can help arrange that, and we will happily take all those volunteers. And then once you're done, we can meet up by the harbor? I will probably drag Renzie down there for a bit, he needs encouragement to join the festivities."

She gave a small shrug, "Not sure if they will be undead mermaids, but some people might do that as an extreme costume to stand out. I'm gonna try to go the realistic vibes. Some undead mermaids would be cool, though. Are you gonna dress up? Not necessarily as a mermaid, just as anything?"

Steph felt so unsure - Mel believed her, she believed in mermaids, but her experience in the past was that most people who weren't used to Port Vale got used to all the mermaid events, and even if Mel believed, that didn't mean she wouldn't get tired of it. Or her. But Mel took her hands and kissed her knuckles and Steph melted as she kept her eyes locked on Mellora's.

"Oh, no, no shell boobs for me. And definitely no gluing anything onto my boobs. Or anywhere else," she chuckled and covered Mel's hands with her free one, squeezing her hands and dropped her head onto the woman's shoulder for a moment. "I like it when you call me baby," she muttered, pressing a kiss onto her neck and then up her cheek and her lips.

"If I'm ever too much-- you can tell me, Melly," she mutteres as she pressed her forehead against Mellora's. "I don't want that to be-- Just tell me, please."

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"Thank you! I think it's fine. The kids have plans and supplies already, I'm just supervising and lending a hand." Mellora shrugged. "Of course you're welcome to swing by because it'd be fun to see you, but meeting up on the harbor works. And definitely drag Renzie, he should take a break."

She wondered if Steph knew that Renzie had pulled her aside some days ago to give her, in Renzie fashion, the big sibling talk about dating her. Not hurting her. Maybe she could assume, having known him for so long.

Mel's eyes widened and she peered at her. "What constitutes an 'extreme' mermaid costume?" Abruptly she turned fond at Steph's plan. "And what entails a realistic vibe? Wait, are you going to mimic the one that saved you?" If she did, it would surely cause a great deal of bizarre dissonance if she recognized the hue and pattern. "I know I should–" but not as a mermaid, that might give her a heart attack if she tried– "I think I'll go with a pirate."

With great drama, Mel sighed in relief to the confirmation of no shelled titties. "Oh, good, because that definitely wouldn't be realistic." Letting her eyes drop closed, Mel tracked Steph by the map she drew in kisses along her throat and cheek, finally giggling as their lips connected again. Lost in the pleasant bliss of it, of simply getting to tease and explore each other, the meaning and implication of her words didn't sink in right away.

She tugged back to look at her squarely, a frown firmly fixed in place. "What do you mean, Steph?" The idea that she could be "too much" made her stomach twist with an unidentifiable, unpleasant feeling. "Don't want to be...? You aren't too much, you're you. And I like every part of you, why do you think I wouldn't?"

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"Please tell him that if you get a chance. I keep trying to and he keeps insisting that works needs to get done, as if he was the only one working in the entire business. I did manage to drag him out during the lantern festival, though, so I'm hoping for the same for Halloween." Renzie really needed her for this, Steph was sure of it.

She gave a small shrug, "Not sure how far people are willing to go this year, since it's the first year back,s o people might go wild. But I saw a couple of pictures from when it was used to be a thing and one year somebody did their entire costume out of shells, which looked way too much, and then I heard that there was somebody who just showed up naked because why would the mermaids wear anything they were mammals in the water, though I am not sure if that is just a legend that people came up with or if it actually happe--

"Oh, no, I should have thought about going for that mermaid's look." Steph shook her head. "I have this awesome tail that can be used for swimming as well - like it looks like a full on tail, it looks great. This purple and pink mix as a base color with blank in it, it looks really cool."

And when Mel announced that she was gonna dress as a pirate, Steph just grinned. "That sounds amazing, yes. Pirate and mermaid. Totally go hand in hand." Not that they were going for anything matching, but still. It would be considered and Steph was excited to see Mellora in pirate hat and an eyepatch. "Are you gonna have a sword too?" Very important question, obviously.

It was nice, to bury her head into Mel's shoulders for a moment, kiss her everywhere Steph could, and then for a moment she froze when Mellora pulled back because she thought she'd be telling her exactly what she asked, but then Mel spoke and Steph felt like she was melting again. She bit the inside of her lips as a soft, small smile curled up onto her lips. "It's-- it's nothing, just kind of automatic reaction, I guess. I-- let's just say that some people think I can be way too much in certain areas and topics. And it ruined things for me before and you-- I don't want that to happen with you. It's all."

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"Maybe pretend it's a great marketing opportunity? I don't know, but I hope he finds time to relax. It's important to, even if you're responsible for things." She should know. Renzie's sister is currently the source of all her relaxation. When she had been beside Atla, they had taken turns getting the other to relax, but Atla did most of the reminding for Mellora.

Naked sounded right. She wouldn't mind Steph being naked, but of course mid contest that might be a bit inappropriate. "Nakedness is better for swimming," she hedged, as though she didn't have personal experience on what suited a mermaid's body in the waves and what didn't. Unless it was a stationary party, you wouldn't ever catch her in a gown of strung together seashells. Much too heavy and had too much drag.

"Aww," she cooed, trying to picture Steph as a mermaid and once she got past the jolt of uncanniness, it was a beautiful image in her mind. Maybe a bit too beautiful, honestly, and tantalizing. A hypothetical that would break down all the lies and barriers still between them. "Wait–" her mind stalled. "Like, actually swimming? With the tail?"

Humans were insane.

Mel gasped and pressed her hand to her chest. "Of course I'm going to have a sword. I'm going to have two swords. What self respecting pirate doesn't have a minimum of two swords and also a mermaid lover." She kept up her act of being scandalized. "I'll be the best pirate queen you've ever seen, of course!" Of course it can't all be giggles. In her mind, of course, Mel feared when she wouldn't be enough for Steph. Mellora as a person wouldn't be more loved than the mermaid. If Steph ever found out, then her selfhood and her intrigue wouldn't surmount that of a mystical thing. She no longer believed in the seafoam myth, but it would likely feel just as painful to be dissolved into an idea to be dissected.

"It won't," she murmured, pressing close again, her lips against Steph's hair. "You aren't too much, maybe... maybe those other people who fucked up by losing you just weren't enough."

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"Oooh, that could work, yeah. That is usually the way to go with him in these matters. Trick him into it or sometimes I just annoy him into taking a break, that works too." Steph could be a brat and a big one at that, especially with Renzie, but he expected that much of her already.

She couldn't help but giggle at the small comment from Mellora, thinking about how they would definitely have to go skinny dipping at some point. Not this time of the year, but if it was still a possibility when the temperature was better. "Yeah, for actually swimming. They kind of work like those snorkeling fin, but the two feet are built in together and it looks like an actual mermaid tail when you wear it. And mine is really gorgeous, it's better quality so it looks super realistic."

Two swords. Mellora was going to be in a full pirate getup with two swords. She was going to die, Steph could already tell. It was a done deal, no question about it. Not that she was complaining, no, she couldn't wait to see Mel in all of it. "Of course, my apologies, Captain Mellora - or Queen Mellora, whichever you prefer - I didn't intend to offend," Steph tried keeping her chuckle in, going along with it, but it was hard to keep a straight face.

And a smile that slowly appeared again when Mellora pressed her lips against Steph's hair. Not as wide and bright, a softer, more shy smile, but Mel's words were soothing and reassuring and Steph didn't realize how much she needed to hear them until Mellora already spoke them. "That's-- that means so much, you have no idea."

She pulled back, just enough to be able look at Mellora, to cup her cheeks gently and say, "You're enough. You're so smart and fierce and amazing and gorgeous and you're definitely enough." Not that that was ever a question, but she felt like saying it. "And I'm so lucky to be here with you. Wouldn't be anywhere else."

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"Oh," she murmured in understanding, though still doubted to what degree "realism" would play into humans' recreations of her kind's tails and fins. Maybe the people who produced them out of plastics and whatever other material had secretly seen a mermaid and were just coyly profiting off it. She wouldn't put it past them. "I'm sure you're a beautiful, whimsical, and alluring mermaid." With her praise, Mel leaned in to sneak a kiss to the shell of her ear. "No wonder I undoubtedly recruited you to my famed pirate crew–and come, now, I'm the queen."

Neither captain (that, in her mind, referred to lower military personnel and sirens) or queen (which implied a degree or royalty that she did not possess and didn't want to) really fit, but she didn't actually know enough about pirates or naval function to think of a better title. Queen would do. Empress, maybe.

Mel rolled her eyes teasingly and laughed. "'Your majesty' works too."

She likely didn't know how much her words meant, still unsure of how important she was or wasn't, but she was glad to see them soothe Steph. She inhaled sharply as the reassurance was returned, though, and leaned into the touch at her cheeks. As much as it made her heart do a flip, she knew Steph's assertion would be put to the test someday. Knew it as surely as she knew she would end up kissing her; the inevitability was set.

"Neither would I," she murmured, and rather than kissing her again, because they had all night for that, she dipped forward to hug her. Fiercely, her long arms enveloping her, and held her close and tight.

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"You'll see on the day, i could show you a partial picture of the tail right now, but it would be better as a surprise. But it looks good on me, I promise." Steph didn't know if it was good enough to win the contest, but she wasn't entering to win, she just wanted to have fun with it.

"Your majesty," Steph nodded, testing out the different words. "My queen. Eager to be part of such a famed crew, hope I can gather a ton of treasure for you and make you proud," she played along. "No matter how deep the treasure is, I'll swim down to the bottom of the ocean to get it for you."

The way Mel leaned into her palm made Steph smile, her fingers caressing the other woman's cheek, and when the hug came, she leaned in ans wrapped her arms around Mellora gentle but firm, holding the other tight as she buried her face into the crook of her neck for a moment.

She gently nudged the two of them down onto the blankets, towards the couple of pillows Mellora set up, lying down next to each other, still holding each other, just cuddling. "You know, this almost feels like glamping," Steph chuckled, taking their surroundings in again from the corner of her eyes. "I mean we're not outside and we don't really have a tent, not even a fancy one, but it's as close to it as we can get in October I guess."

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"I'll just have to be surprised. And, well, yeah everything looks good on you."

Mel tried not to preen with the honorifics pointed at her. She didn't care for them when she was in an actual place of authority, but from Steph's lips it just made her giddy. "Aw, now that's devotion right there!" she laughed, imagining the pink mermaid diving down beneath a great, multi-masted ship into the depths below. She was born some years after the age of piracy and common sailing ships, but she recalled the relics and the human's depiction of them in film. "Unstoppable with a mer by our side, I'm sure."

Mel sank willingly into the pillows she had set out. She ran her knuckles up and down Steph's arm, content in the simple display of affection. She blinked though, her hand paused in its rhythmic motion for a second. "What on earth is 'glamping'? Glamp sounds like a medical condition."

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"A queen such as yourself deserve all the devotion and loyalty," Steph said, still joking and playing along, but she did mean the words completely. "You need the most loyal by your side and I will be one of those on your ship." It was all just fun and games, but Steph already knew for sure that when she would see Mel in the pirate costume with the two swords at her side, she'd die and would take great pleasure taking it off of her at the end of the night, devouring Mel like a queen deserved it.

She sank into Mel's arms, her fingers drawing circles on Mel's arm and when Mel paused, she raised her eyebrows. "Wait you don't knowbwhat glamping is? It's awesome, it's-- I say that as if I actually have been before which is a no, but it looks really awesome. It's basically fancy camping. Glamorous camping is I think where the name comes from. You go camping and you sleep in a tent but not the basic stuff, there's like electricity in there and actual mattresses and you have toilets you can use and all that jazz."

She gestured around them and then out towards the waves. "All of it reminds me of a really, extremely fancy set up based on pictures I saw. Except we're not sleeping here."

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Steph didn't know how right she was, and how much Mel had fought to have the most loyal backing her in this time of turmoil. She could fantasize about Steph being in that flock, a mermaid with shadow blossom tail at her back, someone she could trust implicitly. It was just a fantasy, but fuck it was a nice one. A comforting one.

For a second she thought she had messed up in questioning what glamping was, having allowed her feigned competence towards all things human to lapse, but relaxed when all Steph did was explain it. "Huh," she said slowly. "Why not just go for a nice walk, then return to an indoor place with all of those things?" It seemed like an unnecessary extra overlap between outdoors and indoors to her. "I guess if it's like this, though, it's not bad."

Mel's smile turned mischievous and she detangled herself from Steph's arms and rose to her knees, nudging her to lay flat. In one graceful pivot she straddled her, knees bracketing Steph's hips. Draping herself forward, her face hovering inches above Steph's, she grinned. Teasingly close, but too out of reach to steal a kiss. "Why would we sleep here when I have a much, much comfier bed waiting. This is just... warm-up, right?"

Of course it was much more than just a warm-up, it was a date, a firstish date that was going swimmingly.

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"I can only imagine it's big for those who live in the middle of a big city or something. Also it just looks cool, maybe they go for the aesthetic and for the change of scenery." Steph definitely would have tried it out once, but if this was the closest she would get? She was perfectly fine with that.

Especially when Mel straddled her. This she was certainly enjoying.

Her fingers grabbed onto Mel's hip, her fingers tracing the smooth skin on Mel under her shirt as she tried to lean forward, tried to kiss Mel, but she was just out of reach and she let out a little desperate moan. "Your bed is definitely comfier, but I don't know about you, but I feel extremely comfortable in this position right now," she couldn't help saying, her hand running up and down on Mel's legs. "We should definitely not move for a while still."

And yet, she moved, but moved upward, cupping the back of Mel's head and pulling her back down with her, the two of them eye to eye now, Steph not looking away, mesmerized by the woman on top of her. "You have such gorgeous eyes, has anyone told you that before?"

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"We have all night," Mel promised before being tugged down to have her face hover a scant inch above Steph's. She swooped down the extra inch to steal a lingering kiss. Teasingly, a smile spread across her face and she shrugged, tilting her head to one side, and then the other in a grand show of thinking about it. "I do think someone has mentioned it before, but never so sweetly."

She straightened up, still straddling her, and reached behind her for the wine glass, sipping it as her gaze roved over Steph's face. He other hand lingered, resting on her chest and worrying the cloth of her shirt between forefinger and thumb. "Has anyone told you that you're brilliant. I mean, your eyes are too beautiful not to have complimented, so I know that base is well covered. Right? But your mind is something else entirely. So vast, so dedicated." She offered her glass to her.

They had the whole night. And perhaps her new plan was to whittle away the dark hours complimenting her. She could. There could be no end to what to compliment about one Stephanie Anand.

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Steph was running circles on Mel's hip with her fingers as she looked up at the woman. The candles and the atmospheric lights were shining around Mel, covering her in almost an angelic light, and for a moment Steph's breath caught in her throat. What a sight Mellora was in that moment.

Steph bit her lips, smiled up at her and steadied her in her lap before she moved, shifting up into more of a sitting position herself, leaning against the wall behind her, but allthewhile she still kept Mellora in her lap. She was certainly not going to let the woman go now. She leaned forward and gave her a kiss at her compliment. "Your mind is incredible, too. So focused, so determined. And you're fierce and kind and a badass too, from what I heard," she added, grinning, thinking about the Renzie telling her how Mellora took down Danzen when he was trying to steal from the museum.

Steph was mesmerized, really, by Mel, and that kept on for the rest of the night. They complimented each other, they kept on chatting and eating, and eventually they made it back to Mellora's apartment where they momentarily stopped talking. In the end, they fell asleep curled up into each other, excited for what came next.

#mellora #mellora 005 #this is pre halloween #just an entire thread of cuteness #they are just so sweet and i love this #this was so fun thank you eavan

[soundofseventeen]

La Llorona (Hiphop Unit)

Hi, it’s Bee with the last unit!!! It wasn’t supposed to be scary(ish), but it went well with the Halloween theme as well as the Day of the Dead and overall Mexican theme!! I was happy to include something different, so I hope that’s okay with everyone!! All the foods I listed I linked so you”d know what they are!! Also, if you’re brave enough to listen to the other links, I commend you!!! (Second one sounds most like the one I remember!)

Ready to go?” Mingyu called to the other two boys from downstairs. You and Hansol raised your heads, taking your eyes away from the phone screen from a video he was showing you. When Seungcheol clambered down the stairs a few minutes later, you jumped, momentarily leaning into the boy next to you. “Wonwoo, hurry up before we leave your ass.” Wonwoo finally did emerge even if he was grumbling about his hair needing fixing. “Alright, Y/N’s afternoon-evening with the hip hop unit can commence. Whoo-whoop!”

“You do promise you’re not gonna scare me or anything, right?” You were nothing less than apprehensive with any of them now, and if they tried anything, you’d be sure to end each and every last one of them, starting from the oldest and ending with the youngest. You’ve had enough scares to last you into the next lifetime. From the haunted house to the home invasion that wasn’t even an invasion, you weren’t sure how much more you could take.

Vernon put his phone away and stuck his pinkie finger out. “I can promise you I’m not trying anything. You look like you haven’t slept in days and besides Halloween’s over.” He gave Wonwoo a pointed look and he spat the the plastic vampire teeth out his mouth and threw them at Mingyu, who caught it without thinking and once his thoughts caught up with his actions, he dropped it on the floor.

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The streets were blocked a lot sooner than expected so you had to walk a few blocks to reach your destination. It seemed lively from the music you heard. That and by the way that Mingyu was tapping his feet as he trodded along. Various scents overpowered your nostils and your mouth was already watering from everything you were about to eat and you could feel a vague headache from the flower petals.

One of the best things about living in a city as big as Seoul was getting to see the cultures year round. It was predominantly Korean yes, but you loved when society’s rules were broken and you saw the most beautiful things. Halloween brought Dia de Muertos (a three day event at that too) and you were excited to see just how different it was from Coco. (You loved the movie mind you. So much so that you took up taking Spanish in your spare time. You’d begged the boys to come you for events, but they were usually tired or out for it.) You could feel the cavities coming in from the sweets you could smell and you ran ahead of everyone. Once you were in a mini Mexico, you became engulfed in the crowds, getting separated from the boys more often than you thought. Every stand offered a homemade recipe you’ve only dreamed of trying. You saw so many pictures of their loved ones, and each one told you what you were eating was a favorite among them. Older generations counted the stories of how they left their comfortable life to move overseas while the ones your age tended to their desires (ie more water, a refill for you, someone even showed you a photo album of how different the times were back then.)

You ate tamales, bowls of pozole, chilaquiles, tortas, drank aguas frescas and something called horchata but had to fight Mingyu to get his own. Your favorite was a homemade hot chocolate they called champurrado and it hit the spot as the afternoon cooled down. (Wonwoo disagreed; he liked the atole better.) They paired it with a concha which was a sweet bread shaped like a seashell and it was heaven in your mouth. You gave the guys a taste (Vernon excluded) of molé which was a type of food mixed with chocolate and peanut butter and you laughed when Seungcheol turned green with that fact.(The sopa de arroz was good though.) Your feet were hurting from all the times you were pulled out to dance and from everything you’ve ingested. Once the stands closed for the night, you were surprised to learn that the families were heading to the cemetery for a dinner and you learned that it was where the real fun began.

Candles were lit at every corner you turned, and you felt the need to give a short prayer here and there for the departed ones. Your heart swelled at hearing people reading to the graves and leaving platefuls of food and there were candies strewn everywhere. (You’d read somewhere that the more mischievous children liked that.) It had overall given you a glimpse of a different lifestyle that you wished you knew more about.

At one point, you were busy hearing a story of someone’s great great (you weren’t sure how many greats to be honest) grandparents had fought in the Mexican War of Independence when Vernon tapped you on the shoulder because he needed help understanding an urban folktale. “They called her La Llorona (yo-ro-na).”

“Vernon, that’s a song from Coco,” you cocked your head in confusion.

“Look, I might not understand Spanish but there are kids who looked scared af.”

“Af? Stop going on the internet.”

“Please just help me with this? I think we need new ghost story to tell.”

You gulped, putting on a brave face as you heard the story and translating what you caught about the Weeping Woman as she was called from a guy who claimed to have heard her while on a trip overseas. In short, it was about a woman who drowned her two children one day, and when she died, she was denied entry to Heaven and wouldn’t be allowed to go back until she found her children. Thus started her infamous cries of “¿Dónde están mis hijos?” (Where are my children?”) and “Aye, mis hijos.” (Oh, my children.”) And it was now said she haunts the Rio Grande that stretches from México to somewhere in America. She comes out mostly at night walking alongside the banks of the water with her long dark hair flowing and wearing a white dress eliciting the famous cry and hoping to find anyone willing to let her near them while she begs for forgiveness. Most of the time when they say yes, she’ll drag them into the river and drown them. “She’s still around,” you whispered to Vernon and the other three who joined in when they finally found you. Seungcheol was biting into a churro nervously while Mingyu kept popping spoonfuls of pomegranate seeds into his mouth to keep from talking. Wonwoo, who normally refrained from commenting on ghost stories unless he was the one telling them, scoffed but it didn’t stop him from scanning the cemetery as discreetly as possible. As the night grew colder, you heard more stories of boogeymen, with mostly it being parents telling their younger children that “The Cucuy” (coo-coo-ee) was gonna get them if they strayed too far. That was a signal for you to finally call it a day.

The ride home was silent, each one engulfed in their own thoughts. You refused to look out the window in fear of seeing something you weren’t supposed to. Other than that scary story, you were finally tired in the sense that you could finally sleep decently without the plaguing nightmare performance and vocal units inadvertently caused you. You closed your eyes, enjoying the warmth Mingyu was radiating as you used his shoulder as a pillow.

“Aye, mis hijos.” filled the car and you jerked up, blood growing cold. “Aye, mis hijos.” she repeated and you felt Seungcheol swerve the car from her voice too. You looked around to see where it was coming from, only to hear Wonwoo laughing from the passenger seat and turning his phone off which made the sound stop.

“You guys were too easy, I’m sorry.” He shuddered. “That was scary as shit though. Urban folklore: one. Know it all young adults: zero.”

“Yah!” Seungcheol thumped the back of his head with his free hand. “You couldn’t have done that at home?”

“It wouldn’t have been as fun though,” he shrugged, not sorry for scaring everyone. Upon getting home, Jeonghan opened the door asking how the festival went.

“Good. Do you guys wanna hear a scary story?”

#seventeen #seventeen scenarios #seventeen imagines #seventeen fanfic #seventeen fic #seventeen x reader #choi seungcheol #jeon wonwoo #kim mingyu #vernon chwe #vernon choi #hansol chwe #scoups #scoups imagines #scoups x reader #jeon wonwoo imagines #wonwoo x reader #wonwoo fanfic #mingyu imagines #mingyu x reader #vernon x reader #mingyu fanfic #vernon imagines #scoups fanfic #hansol imagines #hansol fanfic #vernon fanfic #hansol x reader #seventeen halloween #halloween special

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Books of Sorrow Abridged: Part 5

The three sisters have now eaten from the Worm Gods, and have finally become immortal. The Worms offer each sister a new form once they have reached adulthood, and subsequently a new name.

Aurash is to become Auryx once she takes on the King morph

Sathona is to become Savathun once she takes on the Mother morph

Xi Ro is to become Xivu Arath once she takes on the Knight morph

The Worms then give their instruction;

The Worms tell Aurash to spread the news of the Worm gods and offer every living thing on Fundament the larvae. If any reject the opportunity, they are to be made an example of and killed. They are all going to die in the God- Wave anyways, there is no point in saving what cannot be saved.

The Worms tell Savathun that the Leviathan has kept the Worm God there for millions of years for the Sky, and that the Sky seeds civilizations based on the lie that good deeds can one day lead to the end of suffering. This, however, is the opposite of reality. as the Universe is built upon competition and scarcity, and that the war between the Sky and the Deep will one day consume all of Fundament. Because of this, Savathun is to search through the technologies of Fundament’s 511 species, and find one that has the capabilities to leave the wretched planet.

The Worms tell Xivu Arath that the God- Wave has passed, and will reach the three in two years. Taox and her Refusalists knwon to be fleeing to a place called Kaharn Atoll, which is presumably a metropolis that houses members of many, if not, all of the species of Fundament, in order to rally the species of Fundament against the Osmium Court. Since the agents of the Leviathan have been preventing the Worm Gods from building ships, Xivu Arath must go to Kaharn and slaughter everyone there. The collective amount of destruction will grant the Worm Gods the logic they require to tear a hole in reality itself and migrate to orbit.

And so the Osmium siblings do.

#destiny #destiny 2 #destiny taken king #book of sorrows #books of sorrow #destiny lore #destiny 2 lore #oryx the taken king #savathun #xivu arath #destiny warmind #hive #the hive #darkness #the traveler

[astrocards]

HORÁRIOS DE OCORRÊNCIA DO SOLSTÍCIO NO BRASIL

O horário de ocorrência do solstício de verão (hemisfério sul da Terra) está expresso em tempo universal coordenado (UTC). Como no Brasil há 4 fusos horários e em alguns estados está em vigor o horário de verão (que não é utilizado em Astronomia), resolvi detalhar para cada estado o horário local em que o solstício irá ocorrer, levando em conta os fatos acima:

REGIÃO NORDESTE (MA, PI, CE, RN, PB, PE, AL, SE e BA) às 13:29

REGIÃO NORTE (AP, PA e TO) às 13:29

REGIÃO NORTE (RO, maior parte do AM, RR)às 12:29

REGIÃO NORTE (AC e pequena parte do AM) às 11:29

REGIÃO SUL (RS, SC e PR) às 14:29

REGIÃO SUDESTE (SP, MG, RJ e ES) às 14:29

REGIÃO CENTRO-OESTE (DF e GO) às 14:29

REGIÃO CENTRO-OESTE (MS e MT) às 13:29

Por fim,  no Atol das Rocas (Rio Grande do Norte), Fernando de Noronha e São Pedro e São Paulo (Pernambuco), Trindade e Martim Vaz (Espírito Santo) às 14:29

Irineu Gomes Varella

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Anime Hour 8/21/19-WE’RE BACK

1. Sand Planet by HachiKenshi and Yonezu feat. Hatsune Miku

2. Alkali Underachiever by Kairiki Bear feat. Miku

3. Apparently There's A Cheat Code For Happiness by UtataP feat. Yukari Yuzuki, Cover by Jenny

4. Nothing Ever Changes by Nico Collins, Nightcored by UNDERDOGS

5. Epic Rap Battles of YANDERE - Yuno vs Ayano by Michaela Laws ft. Hayden Daviau, Natasha Laws, Austen Hively, and InfamousItaly

6. Ma Survival by Mothy feat. Megurine Luka, Nekomura Iroha, SF-A2 miki, and Lily

7. Chronophobia by 2進P feat. Kagamine Rin

8. Future Diary Opening - Kuusou Mesorogiwi by Yousei Teikoku

9. Impossible by Shontelle, Cover by I Am King, Nightcored by UNDERDOGS

10. Matryoshka Club Mix by Hachi feat. Hatsune Miku and Gumi, cover by JubyPhonic and rachie

11. Miku by Anamanaguchi feat. Hatsune Miku

12. Natsuki vs Nico Yazawa Rap Battle by SkeepTieel feat. bearandrocky1 and CookieSaurus

13. I know I'm a Wolf by Young Heretics, Nightcored by NightcorexForever

14. Future Diary OST - At the End of the Worst by Tatsuya Kato

15. Bad ∞ End ∞ Night by Hitoshizuku-P & Yama△ feat. Miku, Rin, Len, Luka, Meiko, Gumi, Kaito, and Gakupo

16. ORBITAL by Calla Soiled feat. Hatsune Miku and Kagamine Rin

17. Cancer (deeper) by My Chemical Romance, cover by twenty one pilots, Nightcored by Evil Rutabaga

18. The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku by cosMo feat. Hatsune Miku, cover by rachie

19. Ro$es by The Comedown, Nightcored by NightcoreTruth

20. MACARON by ATOLS feat. Hatsune Miku

21. Dream-Eating Monochrome Baku by Nem feat. Kagemine Len

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[samstroycom]

Для очистки воды могут использоваться различные методы,  такие как опреснение, дистилляция, ионный обмен и обратный осмос. Среди этих методов обратный осмос является особенно эффективным и экономичным. Применения для обратного осмоса включают в себя чистую питьевую воду для: дома и офиса, высококачественную воду для промышленных процессов, производства продуктов питания и напитков, воду  для  коммерческих  целей, и портативные системы очистки  воды  для военных.

Компания Filtr Мир делает воду чистой, менеджеры компании помогут правильно подобрать и установить промышленный осмос Первое, что спросят работники компании покупателя фильтра, что они пытаются удалить? попросят дать анализ воды. Для этого прежде всего нужно знать свое водоснабжение, ведь более половины химических веществ, входящих в состав воды, являются нерегулируемыми, законными в любом количестве. У нас есть традиция инноваций, которой более 20 лет.

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Гейзер RO2-4040 LW Промышленный осмос

Atoll RO 2540 A1 Промышленный осмос

Мы продаем высококачественные и высокопроизводительные  системы обратного осмоса различной производительности для любого применения а так же подбор фильтра по анализу воды.

Свяжитесь с нами и ваши потребности в приобретении промышленного обратного осмоса будут решены!

Выбор фильтра для воды

Как только вы узнаете, состав вашей воды, подумайте, какие фильтры удаляют какие ингредиенты. Хотя большинство из них будет варьироваться в зависимости от марки и производителя. Как мы ранее отмечали, что самым результативным методом очистки, является обратный осмос, попробуем кратко охарактеризовать его принцип работы.

Принципы работы систем водоснабжения обратного осмоса

Обратный осмос (RO) использует полупроницаемую мембрану для удаления растворенных загрязнений из воды. Когда питьевая вода протекает через одну сторону полупроницаемой мембраны под давлением, чистая вода проникает в другую сторону мембраны. Растворенные примеси улавливаются мембраной и остаются на стороне подачи воды фильтра.

Полупроницаемая мембрана и давление, прилагаемое к питьевой воде, являются важными компонентами промышленной системы  осмоса.

Системы водоснабжения RO могут также включать:

Этап предварительной фильтрации с использованием осадочного фильтра для удаления не растворенных  загрязнений.

Стадия удаления хлора с использованием угольного  блочного фильтра.

Этап постфильтрации для «полировки» воды, если она предназначена для питья. На этой стадии используется угольный фильтр для удаления любых мелких примесей,  которые могли просочиться через мембрану RO.

Как работает обратный осмос?

Мембрана RO по существу действует как фильтр, который пропускает только молекулы воды, предотвращая при этом растворенные примеси. Высокое давление применяется к нечистой воде, чтобы преодолеть осмотическое давление мембраны и протолкнуть через нее молекулы чистой воды.  RO  удаляет почти все растворенные химические вещества, минералы и соли, тяжелые металлы, высокомолекулярные органические загрязнители и микроорганизмы. Полученная вода имеет чистоту 95-99%.

Мощность промышленной системы обратного осмоса зависит от нескольких факторов, в том числе:

-Температура воды

-Концентрации растворенных твердых веществ в питательной воде

-Рабочего давления на питьевую воду.

Преимущества промышленной системы обратного

осмоса

Промышленные системы обратного осмоса предлагают множество преимуществ. Некоторые из наиболее заметных включают в себя:

-RO более рентабелен, чем другие методы очистки воды, особенно когда молекулярная масса растворенных твердых веществ превышает 200.

-RO более энергоэффективен, чем дистилляция, и не имеет проблем с коррозией, которые влияют на дистилляционные системы из-за их высоких рабочих температур.

-Простота в эксплуатации. Коммерческие системы осмоса легко устанавливаются и обслуживаются.

-Вода из систем водоснабжения RO более экологичен, чем  вода в бутылках.

Подбор и продажа фильтров по анализу воды от компании FiltroMir Для очистки воды могут использоваться различные методы,  такие как опреснение, дистилляция, ионный обмен и обратный осмос. Среди этих методов обратный осмос является особенно эффективным и экономичным.

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Chuyện gì xảy ra nếu Triều Tiên thử hạt nhân ở Thái Bình Dương?

Bom hạt nhân Mỹ thử nghiệm ở Thái Bình Dương năm 1962.

Theo CNN, bất chấp lời đe dọa “hủy diệt hoàn toàn” Triều Tiên của Tổng thống Mỹ Donald Trump, Bình Nhưỡng ngày 21.9 tuyên bố sẵn sàng thử bom nhiệt hạch cực mạnh ở Thái Bình Dương.

Theo các chuyên gia, Triều Tiên không ngừng đạt bước tiến trong chương trình hạt nhân, chế tạo tên lửa đạn đạo bắn tới Mỹ. Việc Triều Tiên tuyên bố sắp kích nổ bom hạt nhân trên biển là dấu hiệu phù hợp để kiểm tra khả năng thu nhỏ đầu đạn trước khi gắn vào tên lửa.

Trên lý thuyết, Triều Tiên có thể thả bom nhiệt hạch từ máy bay. Nhưng nhiều khả năng Bình Nhưỡng sẽ kết hợp thử tên lửa đạn đạo gắn đầu đạn hạt nhân, đánh dấu khả năng làm chủ công nghệ tên lửa  phức tạp bậc nhất thế giới.

“Trường hợp xấu nhất là việc Triều Tiên thử hạt nhân tương tự như Mỹ năm 1962”, Vipin Narang, giáo sư chính trị khoa học tại Viện Công nghệ Massachusetts, Mỹ và là chuyên gia về chính sách hạt nhân nói.

Nhà lãnh đạo Triều Tiên Kim Jong-un.

Theo chuyên gia này, Triều Tiên nhiều khả năng sé phóng tên lửa đạn đạo liên lục địa trước, rồi mới tính đến chuyện thử hạt nhân lần thứ 7. “Tôi sẽ hoàn toàn bất ngờ nếu họ thử hạt nhân trong tương lai gần”.

Theo CNN, một vụ thử hạt nhân ở Thái Bình Dương, dù chưa biết rõ địa điểm chính xác, chắc chắn sẽ tạo nên những hệ quả tiêu cực. Cư dân sống ở hòn đảo Bikini Atoll, gần nơi Mỹ nhiều lần thử hạt nhân vào giữa thế kỷ 20, cho đến nay vẫn phải đối mặt với nhiều vấn đề liên quan đến sức khỏe, như ung thư, dị tật bẩm sinh và rối loạn tuyến giáp.

Vụ nổ hạt nhân cũng sẽ hủy diệt các sinh vật đại dương trong bán kính rộng lớn xung quanh.

Theo các chuyên gia, Triều Tiên có thể hạn chế những rủi ro này nếu lựa chọn nơi thử hạt nhân hoang vắng, tách biệt với thế giới bên ngoài ở Thái Bình Dương.

“Thảm họa tồi tệ đến đâu còn phụ thuộc vào nơi họ kích nổ vũ khí hạt nhân và điều kiện thời tiết ở đó”, chuyên gia Melissa Hanham đến từ trung tâm giải trừ hạt nhân James Martin nói.

“Chúng ta học được từ các vụ thử hạt nhân trong quá khứ rằng, hoạt động đó sẽ tạo ra hiệu ứng tiêu cực với môi trường và con người trong thời gian dài”, bà Melissa Hanham nói.

Đây là tuyên bố chính thức đầu tiên của người đứng đầu Triều Tiên sau khi bị ông Trump dọa “hủy diệt hoàn toàn”.

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[aurelim]

Louis/Eloise

The Royal

❝I have to. It's my duty to serve the people of Oceanic.❞ ❝Listen to me. Ignore what everyone else will say. You are perfect the way you are. You are my everything, love.❞

Age: A month younger than MC

Race: Human

Gender: Male or female, depending on player choice

Pronouns: He/him or she/her, depending on player choice

Physical appearance: The Royal has slightly tanned skin due to intensive time spent in the sun, although their parents try their best to maintain the natural fair-pale shade. They have a heart shaped face framed by wavy red hair, either tamed or tied up in a bun with two small strands on the side. Soft brown eyes that can go cold at a poor choice of words and freckles dotting their cheeks. 5'7" no matter the gender.

Trope(s): Forbidden love, impossible love, royalty, [REDACTED]

As the heir to the throne of Oceanic, the Royal has a heavy weight on their shoulders that they cannot shake off—the expectations of the people and their parents often reminds them of their duty to deliver responsible decision for the betterment of the kingdom. For most of the week, they are cooped up within the castle walls, fulfilling their tasks as the one next in line. However, during a small portion of the day where their schedule is empty, the Royal will always go to visit their private shore by themself. A tradition they have upheld since they were young.

In public appearances, the Royal comes off as an understanding, charming, mature young adult—exactly what everyone expects from the heir. All warm smiles and dimples. But behind closed doors, the fake smiles drop and shoulders slacken. The fire in their eyes never goes out but they allow themself to be exhausted. Just once.

Their idea of relaxing is by standing in front of the waves, shoes off, and enjoying the smell of salty air and water. A servant usually has to come and fetch them, as they do not keep track of the time. And recently, they have been going more often due to undisclosed reasons... as well as sneaking off to town to do gods-know-what.

There have been rumors circulating around them, particularly involving [REDACTED]. Are they true? Are they not? You will have to wait until it is announced.

Chance encounters are life-changing. You don't think you would have ever noticed the Royal had it not been for Cordelia and K. And more importantly, you do not think you would have ever met them on the streets without your...unique circumstances. Little had you realized then the potential to gain a powerful ally, as well as a lifelong friend.

Fun Facts About the Royal:

There is so much lore I want to write down about them, but they would all be major spoilers for the game! So for now, take this condensed, somewhat short intro post for now. But expect to see some huge updates to this as further chapters are released!

Also would you call them "Lou"? Been thinking about an easier nickname besides "The Royal" and it's pretty cute! Though they are accustomed to everyone calling them by their first name

Their original design was going to be heavily inspired by Prince Eric from the Little Mermaid. However, it was changed to an appearance similar to Ariel. Maybe your headcanon is that he's Ariel's son or grandson? That's what mine is lol

Has a very refined taste for red wine. Likes it especially from their own kingdom but imported tastes are good too

Loves drawing. And because they live right by the sea they have a lot of sunset sketches and swirls of water in their notebook

Has a diary where they write down about their day; if you romance them you'll probably find long romantic tirades about you

Actually likes wearing crowns if it is light and only in the castle

Sheltered kid growing up—while their parents may have exposed them to monarchy politics early in their life they remained relatively naive and unaware of certain...things

Things that will remain unmentionable

Knows some secret passageways within the kingdom due to safety reasons, but they may show it to you if you are lucky enough!

Stuffed animals creep them out and they are all over the walls of the castle thanks to their father's love for hunting

No, not stuffed animals. Like actual taxidermy

Deathly allergic to gossipy people and mice—physically wilts at the mention of either one

Would buy you anything you want just to please you. This will especially show during the crushing stage, but it will be a habit that never dies down *if* you get married

Can resist puppy eyes with a huge question mark. But usually not because they are a major people pleaser. It comes with their job

#As the Ocean Lures #atol #atol ros #ch: the royal #the royal #3/4 #ro info #atol ro info

[aurelim]

Kai/Kaia

The Best Merfriend

❝I'm not letting you go by yourself. We merfolk stick together.❞ ❝I love you. I loved you the moment I met you. I always have. And I always will.❞

Age: A few days older than MC

Race: Merfolk

Gender: Male or female, depending on player choice

Pronouns: He/him or she/her, depending on player choice

Physical appearance: As a Merfolk, K has a dark purple tail and matching violet eyes. Depending on if they are male or female, their hair style changes. If male, K has short light brown hair that can be best described as unruly. If female, K has the same shade of brown and it reaches to her waist, thus why she has to tie it up. Either way, K has a peach complexion. As a human, they are [REDACTED]

Trope(s): Friends-to-lovers, denial, belated love ephiphany

K has been your best friend since you were little. What started out as family friends strengthened into a closer, deeper bond. They know a lot about you—more than your family does. You can always trust them to keep secrets and tell stories that always makes you laugh. K is friendly, caring, and loyal to a fault; especially to you.

Besides being friendly, K is a ray of sunshine. They tend to view things with an optimistic view and is always willing to help out others. The only exception is with humans. If they notice someone sad, frowning, or in a bad mood, K would try everything to cheer that person up. They are naive and curious too, which some have said will be their downfall. They do not care.

It is no secret to you that K wants to go to the surface. Despite everything you had been told—that humans are bad—it has yet to deter them. It was all they ever talked about, and though you had told them to stop, you can still see the spark of determination in their bright purple eyes. It is just a matter of when.

Their intuition is their greatest talent. They do not have to turn around to notice someone—in fact, K already felt the presence before acknowledging them. This gives them an advantage during hunts, as they can sense humans and danger quickly. Can and will 100% sneak up on you, giving you the jumpscare of your life.

Fun Facts About K:

In a modern world, their nickname would be "Special K"

Best puppy eyes and the worst at resisting them

Least amount of slowburn, but they are in denial for a while. Reasonable, considering they have felt things for MC before but always pushed them down.

Oh yeah, they also used to have a crush on MC. Might still have it depending on how you feel about them...or might not

Favorite animal are jellyfishes

Purple magic signature and aura

Knowledgeable about human fashion. They are good at observing and taking information and using it to create their own line brand.

Acrobatic and can do backflips, somersaults, etc...underwater. You don't question the logic.

Against eating seafood—how could you not think about that lobster?? It could have been the mother of, like, 50,000 baby lobsters! You never know! Why? Because you ate it—

Intolerant to alcohol. Will get drunk by the first two sips

You have to keep your eye on K all the time when on land. They are likely running all over town looking at everything and trying everything and creating chaos with their hyperactive energy. Good luck to you and Maddox

#As the Ocean Lures #atol #atol ros #ch: k #kai/kaia #1/4 #ro info #atol ro info

[aurelim]

K's Opinion

Sorry this has taken so long, I had trouble trying to decide what I was going to write about but I finally settled on K's POV on multiple things. I also have an idea for a snippet but that will likely take longer.

Thoughts on Nixie?

Scary. And nice. I have seen her in front of her family, but there is a sense of ruthlessness in her when it comes to humans. Don't tell Nixie but I'm kind of intimidated by her—

Thoughts on Marina?

Hilarious when she pushed Caspian into the ocean currents and subsequently into a school of fish, but scary as a goblin shark when she gets upset or angry. She also used to act weird around me and MC whenever we hung out, as if she knew something neither of us were aware about. Could she have...nah, never mind.

Thoughts on Caspian?

Caspian is really nice to me. He gave me tips and tricks on how to avoid attracting humans' attention and so far they have been working for me! Of course, this happened before the whole...incident.

Thoughts on Cordelia?

If MC was not my best friend, Cora would take that title. Of course, I don't think that would have ever happened unless our families did not know each other and we happened to meet—sorry, I'm getting distracted. Cora is basically my little sister and I love her so much. Sometimes I just want to protect her from everything but she's getting older and suddenly distant. I wonder what has changed with her? Maybe she found out I was the one who took that big conch of hers. I still have it, actually!

Thoughts on MC?

There's a lot you can say about them. I mean, obviously they are my best friend, and they have stuck with me for so long. We have been there for the other's ups and downs. Like, I cannot imagine a world where they don't become my best friend. I guess you can say that I really care for them. Honestly I have a lot to say about MC. They are my best friend, after all, so I guess I would feel really positive about them. And there are a couple of other things about how I truly feel about them but I'm going to move on before I say or do something I will definitely regret!

Thoughts on humans?

Humans are complex. There are so many things we as merfolks know and don't know about. I'm constantly told by my parents, any Merfolk, really, that humans are horrible and we are to keep them out of the ocean through some...extreme measures. We are meant to hate them, but...I can't deny that I also wonder about them. Is that really how all of them are? I really want to go to the surface, meet them, and ask if it is true or not. There's really so many unknown variables about humans that I can't help but feel there is more to them than what my parents, or anyone, says.

Thoughts on seafood?

Don't. No.

Thoughts on jellyfish?

Awesome, colorful, and my favorite animal! There is an elegance to them in the way they move around underwater. It is incredible to watch groups of them glowing in the middle of the night. And there are so many different species of jellyfish, with their own habits and characteristics and differences that make them special compared to others. I think, if I had to be any animal, that I would be a jellyfish.

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[aurelim]

Hi! How are you? I just discovered your game about mermaids and now I'm totally hooked (no puns intended) on this masterpiece! Can you do all of the ROs reaction to an incredibly beautiful mermaid MC? Like some kind of POV. My MC has gold tail, golden blonde long hair and captivating violet eyes which is complimented by pale skin. If that helps with content writing. If it's spoilery, then that's okay. Just wanted to share my appreciation for your work 😊!

Hi there! I am actually doing quite well; been working on a surprise but I'm not going to say what >:) Hope you're doing well too!

I saw a similar comment on my itch.io page and I ended up saying this and I'll repeat it here: Most, if not all merfolk get the good genes, which is why you see so many of them depicted as stunning and unnervingly captivating creatures in paintings and such.

And quite frankly, all merfolk are beautiful no matter what! It's just your view on beauty where this gets affected. But because I have no standards when it comes to beauty, I'll describe how the ROs would react to MC. [Note that when the Royal meets MC you will be in human form and thus look slightly different. Just slightly.]

K has known you your entire life. To them, you had been everything. Their lifeline, their savior, their best friend who never got tired of them. They always thought you were pretty. As the years moved on, their dedication and adoration for you never wavered. At some point, they developed a crush on you but K made sure to bury it in case you did not feel the same. But they have always seen you as beautiful, scales and all.

It takes Echo a long time to realize this. Perhaps they have noted your beauty in the past, but most merfolk are beautiful anyway, so it did not matter to them. But the more time they spend with you and your family, the more they begin to realize that you are different. It dawns on them that you are so, so much different than any other merfolk they have ever seen or met. You take care to spend more time with them than anyone else ever did. You're different. Unique. Special.

A knows when beings are gorgeous. Of course they would—they have slept with a good portion of them. But when they meet you, there is suddenly a whole new meaning to the word stunning. Of course the merfolk species are captivating to look at, but you mesmerize them in a way that is different from humans. Is it your aura? Smile? Frown? Face? Body? A does not know. But there is something different to you compared to K.

The Royal does not remember it, but they have seen you before. They remember your eyes, to be exact. Eyes that haunt them in their daydreams. Unnatural, but hauntingly beautiful. When they meet you on land, they are taken by surprised by your looks. They feel as though they have met you, but they cannot quite remember when and where. But you definitely have taken them by surprise! Your face, along with your *merfolk* eyes will be circulating their head for a while. But you have captured the heir's interest, so now you must tread carefully.

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[aurelim]

Echo

The Siren

❝What is it? What do you want now?❞ ❝Ugh, Poseidon above, why do I love you?? You are such a idiot! Lovable, but an idiot all the same.❞

Age: ???

Race: Siren

Gender: Nonbinary

Pronouns: They/them

Physical Appearance: Echo has the wings and feet of a large bird. Their wings are brown and soft to the touch, and in addition to wings they also have arms. Skin is dark tanned and they have short black hair. Their most distinguished physical trait are their bright yellow eyes with slitted pupils. It's hard not to notice them. Height presumed short. Echo does not have a human appearance.

Trope(s): Oblivious to love, unrequited love, last to know, insecure

Echo has been helping your family with hunts for the past eight months, but despite this they have never talked about themself before. While you do not know much about them, you do know that they keep push away at any personal questions with a cold response. Echo acts as a spotter, looking out for ships and helping with luring humans off those ships during said hunts. They have really sharp eyes, able to see thousands of miles ahead.

Beyond the cold defense mechanisms is a sensitive siren who is afraid of getting close to others. They consider themself ugly—an abomination of a half-winged half-human creature. Nowhere is safe for them; not even a tree can protect them from the wrath of humans. Echo feels so much insecurity about everything and so they don't trust easily at all in case someone betrays them. That does not stop them from helping your family out, though.

You first met them during the worst hunt of your life. You were spotted by humans and our brother was injured in the process. Echo swooped in with a distraction, and you and your family were able to make a quick escape. In thanks for their service, your parents allowed them to join you on your future hunts in case trouble like that occurs again. In return, they would get a portion of the energy you collected.

Echo remains silent for the most part, speaking with a sharp tongue when they must. Siren wings are impossible to hear, so you never know if Echo is trailing behind you. Besides the faint noise of cutting air, their presence can remain largely unknown.

A trait they likely gained in their years alone; before they met you.

Fun Facts About Echo:

Your official unofficial guardian "spirit"

"Ancient guardian spirit" as K likes to call them

Echo is demisexual, so it will take them a very long time for them to realize they have feelings for you. Demi overall

This is why Echo's romantic route has the most slowburn. They likely won't realize it until the last second

tired. just tired.

Sirens sleep though! They get sleep, but Echo gets very little since they suffer from frequent nightmares and insomnia

Stonecold to a lot of things. This includes murder and puppy eyes

Their yellow eyes glow when they sing. It allures their prey and creates a cloud of confusion, allowing them to sweep in before their victim realizes what's coming next

Echo left their nest when [REDACTED]. They were alone for six years by themself before meeting your family

Has tried human food before when they managed to get a chance. Would eat fish and fruit, but vegetables are the ban of their existence. Do not even try to put it in front of them

Loves humming a tune about a depressed man whose lover was lost at sea, presumably dead. Awfully sad, but it is their favorite

Nervous tick of theirs is when their feathers ruffle up. Same tick if they are pissed. So really you never know if they are nervous or ticked off

Faster than any existing birds. Yes, this means Echo is faster than the peregrine falcon (who can reach up to 240 miles per hour). While sirens are fast, Echo is faster than most. Much faster

You will want to keep your eyes on this RO for...many reasons.

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