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merman Steve please and thank you 🙏
blows you a kiss, i would do anything for you
also im mixing a lot of lore here im so sorry
He grew up lonely. Nereides live solitary lives mostly, only gathering when called, when there is need. He spent many years roaming and exploring deep oceans, only seeing his kind in passing moments of trade and exchange. It is a very lonely life, and he never understands why he was so different from the resst, when all of his kind are perfectly happy in their solitude.
The ocean is vast, and there aren't many nereides in this part of the world. But there are a lot of humans—humans who are never alone, he finds, always accompanied by others in their boats and their swims.
He loves to watch them. They are fascinating, these land people who throw themselves into the ocean with excitement and joy and curiosity. He watches from a distance, filled with longing and envy, as these creatures leave the safety of their home to touch the sea.
It's how he finds Dustin, as its little body struggles as a rip tide pulls it from the shores. He knows he shouldn't, knows how dangerous humans are, but still, he rushes to it as the tiny thing wanes, stills, and brings it to the surface.
They float there together, the human and the nereid, just above the water, the human gasping for breath, trembling against him, until finally it speaks. Or screeches really. "HOLY SHIT!"
He doesn't understand the words, but he understands the meaning. "Holy shit," he says back to the human, because he's kind of feeling the same way.
The human begins to babble a whole lot of other things, and he has no idea what any of it means. He knows a little of human speech, things overheard, but he knows none of these words. This goes on for a long time, the two of them floating in the water alone, until finally the human points at itself and says, "Dustin."
"Dustin," he repeats.
"Dustin!" the human says again, gesturing at itself.
Ah, this is a Dustin. "Dustin," he says, agreeing, and uses his free hand to pat the human's head. Dustin then points, its little finger wagging in his face.
"You?"
"You?"
The Dustin says something again, but he doesn't understand it, distracted by a human boat shooting across the water towards them now. The Dustin is saying a lot of things still, but it's quickly approaching.
"Good-bye," he says to the Dustin, hoping that's the correct word. He ducks under the water and releases it, waiting a moment to make sure it floats, before darting back into the depths—only so far as to not be seen from the surface, even when the little human sticks its head underwater and looks around. Soon, the boat is beside it, and the Dustin is pulled from the sea.
He tries not to be sad about it. Dustin was wiggly and warm, and it was nice to hear it talk so loudly and so much. Nereides rarely speak like humans do, and he wishes that Dustin could teach him a few more of his words.
"Holy shit," he says, alone in the water, and decides to come back again tomorrow. Maybe he can see Dustin again.
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the reason why dhmis tv feels 'less scary' to most people than the webseries is because the stoplight trio are now aware of the pattern and are more or less resigned to it (minus the occasinal breakdown) and the teachers are way less powerful than the OG teachers.
in the original series, the trio only begin to expect a teacher showing up by episode four (in fact, harry deliberately seeks one out - turning to gilbert when they need to know what the biggest thing in the world is, only to be hijacked by colin), and in that same episode, his self-awareness is rewarded by the narrative with forcible removal from the house.
the original series is a theatre of helplessness, control, and punishment. the trio remember everything that's happened to them but are unable to stop it, and get put through agonizing lessons by teachers that warp reality around them and antagonize them when they toe out of line. when they become self-aware, they're immediately punished by the show (harry getting kicked out into the real world, robin getting canned and cannibalized), and the surviving members have to keep going despite it.
in the new series, their memories are spotty but they're resigned to the teachers showing up. they expect them to the point where it's routine. AND their teachers aren't as untouchable as the old ones, and the trio can toe out of line. the briefcase leaves halfway through the lesson, the coffin gets absolutely blasted to pieces by a shovel, the family gets eaten by roy, warren gets the living shit roasted out of him before getting speared, the train dies midway through before his corpse gets used as a car, and the meter gets her batteries stolen. the trio still are helpless regarding their situation with the house and the loop, but they're nowhere near as under the mercy of the teachers as they used to be.
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working on my carrd and copying my rules from my shipping section has completely baffled me so i am clearing up some points which i wanted to ensure made sense + just a little extra before i forget ...
as stated, i run my ships on a ship - exclusivity basis in the sense of, for canon muses, i only ship my muse with one version of a canon character, and that you return that notion. for eg, if i was to write muse a and you were to write muse b, i'd only ship with your version with muse b and you would only ship with my version of muse a. to extend this, because it was something that came to my mind, i also do this for if i write the other canon character on my muse roster. so in this example, if i also wrote muse b, i would not write with a different persons muse a because ... it simply wouldn't feel right to me. compared to the first part, it's not something i'd ask for my partners to do, but it's more of just personal preference! these versions of ships i have developed mean a lot to me and are pretty intertwined with my muses outlooks, so i wouldn't feel comfortable exploring the other way around in this instance.
i also do single ship, should you prefer to go down that route, all i need is a notification from you and/or for us to have a discussion about it! in terms of mains / exclusives / single ship muses - you can check them out on each characters pages on my desktop theme, i'll be implementing them into my current carr.d too.
a general thing i wanted to add but, as someone who is literally writing in a romance fronted industry, i am ... very hesitant(?) when it comes to ships. i love the dynamics i have, but with the rules i have above, i think its more than important to let people know that i am a slow replier, not as in just a few months slow, as in i have asks / drafts from 2021 onwards that i keep that i wish to reply to in a time frame, somehow. i also have tumblr open on two devices for both my blogs the majority of the time, so i am awful at having messages open without me even realising it or simply going silent because im focusing on writing; i am aware this doesn't make me the ideal shipping partner, or even writing partner in some instances! but i appreciate everyone who has been willing to explore and is shipping with me currently despite this. you guys rock and i will always try my best to make it up to you by whatever i write in responce - it's why you guys genuinely get the longest replies of all!
i say it time and time again, but you are also more than welcome to tell me if you have had enough or do not see the chemistry anymore, i just ask you do it before you go ahead and explore a romantic dynamic with another duplicate rather than after doing so!
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