MYSTIDMANOR

Gladia…save me Gladia…save me…

AU where Gripp is able to somewhat keep her sanity post-mermaid due to fully transitioning once leaving the Dearest Selena and not lying to Mortuga about knowing where Felicia went. However this time Mortuga actually does ask her to take the deeds and purchase the submarine in hopes of finding her, Gladia coming along as well thinking this is the best way to get herself close to the necklace and tongue again.

While she is generally much more pleasant and present, she still has moments of extreme dissociation and desperation for the tongue. However her much stronger relationship with Magnus makes this much easier to manage.

i wonder if mortuga ever apologized for kind of leaving gripp to die

like PRESUMABLY he (rightfully) thought gripp was a goner at that point, he literally fell overboard into the ocean with a gigantic lovecraftian beast so there's no confusion as to why he would've left as quickly as he did, and when gripp did eventually show up to the inn alive mortuga was in a stupor state and definitely not completely there to process what was happening in the moment his mind only on felicia and the mermaids tongue.