she had been nothing but a beloved bauble

"Deciding to start my career wasn’t fun. Deciding to move was hard. I was and still am incredibly in love with North Carolina."

"—Strayed a bit far from the lake, haven’t you?"

     Lake? Was that supposed to      be an insult? Because she's      sort of taking it as one. A      lake is nothing compared to      the sea. Bright eyes narrow      just a smidge as she glowers      slightly at him.                "'M fr-from the sea."

"Tu no hables espanol?"

               "...wh-what is- is-                 that?"

“Hay algun problema?”

"… how do you steal seal skin?”

                "...'Ss like a- a-                  ca-. C-. Ca-pe?"

"Okay. So, not a seal. Got it— sorry if I’m being, like, supernaturally racist. But without the beastiary, it’s kind of hard to understand new… species. Do you mind telling me how it works? 

               "Oh. It's- it's al-...alright. Uhm.                 My- my skin, my s-seal skin,                 lets- lets me...be a seal. A-And                 some-. Someone stole i-it. So                 'M st-uck."

      “It’s this animated tv show from, like, 2001. There was this whole little song about a seal girl. I’m a little seal girl living in the real world and it’s so har— y’know, actually, the song isn’t that important, now that I think about it.”

               "I...I don't th-think that...                 no. 'Ss not like- like that.                 'M a Selkie, not just a s-seal."

      “I still don’t get this whole… seal person, thing. Is it like As Told By Ginger? Have you seen that? With the seal girl?”

               "As- As Told...? N...o? What's-                 What's th-that?"

                  ❝ Some may think your                   stumbling with words is                   quite a tell, kid. What’s                    your name again? ❞

               "Tell? Wh- What?! No, I                 just, uh...always talk like...                 th-this. Stiles'll t-tell you.                 I. Millicent?"      Her eyes look like a deer in      the headlights as she stares      at him, startled. She doesn't      want to get fired because of      something that's not even her      fault!

♛ Ask box is open at anytime for plotting and memes.

"I am a man upon the land, a selkie in the sea."

unlike her sister, the mermaid, she is never a half-anything; instead transforming on land, her true form visible only in the cold rushes of the sea. peaceful, tranquil, mysterious, she disappears into the depths of the ocean, both curious and cautious when encountering humans. her fable is often melancholy, for humankind fall in love with her beauty, and will keep her from her form. thus she remains entrapped, forever longing for the call of the sea, for her pinniped family. taken advantage of, the selkie mirrors the true depravity of humanity, her story whispered in the salt of the sea breeze, embellished in legend and myth.