#daelu

💧Character crying Fjord, based on a particular scene we talked about👀

👩‍👩‍👧‍👦Character with their family members Loqua and her daughters, perhaps?

🌼Character with symbolic flower(s) for Zalfe!

💧Character crying

Decades later and you still aren't capable of saving your friends from monsters, Fjord.

👩‍👩‍👧‍👦Character with their family members

(From left to right we have Daelu, Derle, Zalfe, Loqua, Caspia, Tilda, Ilnu, and Lyrova)

Loqua love's all her babies and grandbabies but her older two's gossipy nature drives her mad!

🌼Character with symbolic flower(s) for Zalfe!

(Featuring Cironus @tides-that-bind-us and Danmalaak @this-rock-floats) Once the sun had started to set, bathing the isles in beautiful pink light and purple shadows, Zalfe started to lead the group down the mountainside towards the beach they had first made landfall on. As they walked, she hummed a tune to herself absentmindedly.

The second her foot touched the soft sands, an idea seemed to click in her head as she snapped to a more alert attention, "Oh, right, since this is your first time visiting the Amphitheater, we should mark you guys!" She said with a snap of her fingers before darting into a nearby hut, only to quickly return moments later with several clay pots.

She eyed the two up and down, clearly thinking something over before opening two of the pots. She picked up one with her left hand and walked over to Cironus, where she proceeded to dunk her fingers into the paint inside before drawing a swirled pattern along his head, arms, back, and chest. Repeating the same patterns with a different color on Danmalaak.

"So with these markings, we're signaling to everyone in the Amphitheatre that we are there for friendly socialization and tonight's paint tag game and not looking for romantic advances since you are first timers. Paint tag is a team game where you are put on teams where your paint matches your glow. Usually, the goal of the game is to obscure others' patterns with paint. The team least covered in paint wins the prize! Since you two do not have biolum markings like us, we paint those on to make it a little fairer since the game's played at night! The patterns I drew on your arms and backs are to let everyone know you are first-time guests and to remind them to mind their manners!"

"Now I'll let you guys choose if you wanna paint your hips or legs and mark them as target zones. But if you don't want to participate in the game since it's your first night and you'd rather just chat and watch from the sidelines without someone running up to slap their paint-covered hands on you, just paint a big ol' X on your chest. I'd use a spiral if you wish to play, but wanna make it clear you are only here for the game and no romantic advances."

"Cironus, I chose blue for you because, based on what I've seen so far, you just read more like a Mi glow to me. And Danmalaak, you are yellow because your curiosity makes me see you more like a So glow! I'm on team La, which is those of us with Orange glows." She smiled as she handed them the pots. "There will be massive jugs of your team's paint already set up in the amphitheatre, but best to get painted up beforehand." She said, painting an orange spiral on her chest.

"Honestly, paint tag is one of the best ice breaker games we have. There's no pressure, just friendly competition and play! Plus a tasty treat and bragging rights if your team wins! Tonight's treat is Candied Titan Jellies. They are very chewy and very sweet! Kids usually go nuts for them. Anywho! Race you there!" Zalfe smiled as she sealed her paint pot and tied it to her hip before bolting off into the water, swimming toward Ampetheatre Rock.

As the trio approached the small circling island, one noticeable thing was that this Island of the Isles was entirely a sheer cliff face with no discernible way to climb up. But it seemed the outside wasn't the intended entrance as Zalfe led them to a low archway that was just barely visible above the water, with the rest sunken with the current tide.

The archway served as a doorway to a tunnel filled with glowing murals of Zorphins swimming and playing, and multiple pairs of handprints placed by what must have been couples or friends making hearts and other shapes and swirls on the rock. Clearly, it was constantly redone every generation or so, as some parts of the stone seemed stained from generations of paint being applied and eventually washed away with the tide.

Based on convos with friends I was thinking of how many kiddos each of my goons would want to have if they did have children or how many they wanted before having children even if they have them now.

Loqua & Kohv: originally they wanted 6 children. HOWEVER, due to how troublesome Zalfe was as a calf especially with her baby brother as her minion of chaos they decided 4 was more than plenty. Couldn't increase Zalfe's one evil minion to 2 or 3 after all.

Zalfe: she always wanted 5 even since she was young. She wanted her children to have lots of siblings to both play with and pester. Like how she had her brother and sisters to play with and pester. She's had 1 and even though there was that tragic loss and she fears going through it again. She still honestly desires a big family.

Fjord: When he was younger he wanted 2 or 3 kids as him being a twin he enjoyed having a sibling growing up. However due to the deep deep scar tissue he has from being electrocuted by the great eel causing his fertility to crash he'd be over the moon if he even has one.

Vrelu: he currently has 3 children from previous courtships and is fully open to the idea of more he just can't decide if he'd keep it low at like 4-5 total kids or if he'd have 10-12 like Scylla wants to.

Scylla: wants as many children as she can physically have as she was an only child and found it rather lonely. She also wants to hold the pod record of the largest family. She has 8 children currently and would happily have at least another 3-4.

Tyevi: the idea of children is a scary thought to Tyevi after everything that happened with Zalfe. She wouldn't mind 1-2 but...she thinks she's also content not having any.

Lyrova: her goal is 3 kiddos max. She has her 2 daughters and is hoping if she and Sahbi have a third that they have a lil boy but they'd also be happy if it was a third girl as well.

Dealu: he's got his little boy and he's perfectly content with that! But if Olka wanted a second he also wouldn't be against that. But he's more than pleased with his one.

Vrelu Future

"So she left?" Vrelu frowned, "Where the hell did she go?"

"You think I know that?" Daelu grumbled under his breath

"Me expecting her blood to know what goes on in her head?? Perish the thought!" He huffed, "What am I the only one in the Corals keeping an eye out?"

"You know what? Podmate or not...fuck you, Vrelu!" Dealu growled between clenched teeth, "It's your fault anyway."

"Beg your pardon?!" Vrelu said with an incredulous look on his face. "MY fault?! You're blaming me for her leaving?"

"You heard me! Kindly go fuck yourself! You are not some Zalfe expert! In fact if I had to spend countless seasons being heckled by you like a seagull who won't take the fucking hint I'd fucking leave for a fleeting moment of peace to!" Daelu barked while shoving a pointed finger into Vrelu's face, "You never take a fucking hint! You never just accept clear signs that someone wants to be left alone!"

"No. No you know what? You can go fuck YOURSELF Daelu! You don't get to blame me for her growing distant! Okay? What you think I'm some stupid meathead who wasn't looking? I know Zalfe wasn't a fan of me! But I was the only one trying! Everyone else in the pods gave Zalfe such a wide berth after she broke down returning Tilda, that they were basically excluding Zalfe from any fucking sense of NORMAL! YOU pussy footed around your own sister letting her wallow in her fucking head taking every "I'm fine" as a reason to back away, while I was the only one trying to show Zalfe her life doesn't have to end cause Rilvi's and Rivon's did! If she genuinely wanted to be alone forever she'd wear a black pearl and you know it! But she doesn't!"

He didn't wait for Daelu to respond before he continued his rant.

"Did I make an ass out of myself? YES! Fjord was the one who told me what displays to do, don't fucking forget that. But this isn't even about trying to court Zalfe! I could tell she was spiraling with each day she'd quite literally physically drift farther from us in Necluda. What you think she woulda stumbled across Cironus had she not been trying to force herself to be comfortable in isolation?" He screamed back into Daelu's face, "SO NO! YOU DONT GET TO BLAME ME!"

Daelu said nothing but his expression said everything as he mulled over Vrelu's words.

I revealed a couple of these in a stream a little while ago, but after seeing @tides-that-bind-us release the ones for their amazing characters, I was also reminded that I hadn't fully posted the list for my goobers! Fjord: (Asgore) Fun fact, this was the song that also inspired me to make Fjord and just his overall vibe ngl. So it's only fitting that this would be what he'd sound like. (Jonnathan Frizbee) is an extremely close second. Zalfe: (Annapantsu) Originally, I played this on stream as an example of Zalfe's voice, and while I think it really fits her bubbly side. But I am also leaning more towards Evan Rachel Wood for her performance as (Marianne) due to it fitting Zalfe's vibe a lil more I feel.

Loqua: (Plio) Honestly, Loqua was one of the hardest to narrow down, but after rewatching a favorite movie from my childhood, I settled on Plio because she sounds equally as sassy as she does motherly, and I think it best fits Loqua and her personality.

💬 - Caspia: Caspia was initially afraid to reveal to her family she had no interest in courtship or children, but only because she knew her mother wanted grandchildren. Her fears dashed with her mother's brilliantly playful "Don't want children??? Congrats you are the last to know!"

🤫 - Caspia: is keeping several major secrets about her family members from her family members. She loves gossip but she's been extremely tight lipped about some of the things her siblings have confessed, like how Lyrova is extremely jealous of Zalfe and how Zalfe hold some resentment towards Lyrova.

💬 - Lyrova: Wants 5-7 kids. She loves the idea of a big family and wants an army of lil bitties.

🤫 - Lyrova: Lyrova is extremely jealous about how much Tilda prefers Zalfe over her. She knows it's not Zalfe or Tilda's faults. Naturally Tilda would have a close bond with Zalfe because she nursed her as an infant. She's grateful for her sisters help, she saved Tilda's life! But it has been eating at Lyrova a bit, it just makes her feel like she failed as a mom with her firstborn.

💬 - Zalfe: Zalfe thinks that cool toned eyes are prettier than warm toned eyes. She sees so many people with beautiful blue, green, or purple eyes and she just thinks her yellow ones seem lack luster.

🤫 - Zalfe: she actually easily falls head over heels when it comes to things like poetry or flowery worded letters. Her late love was a poet and she used to sigh wistfully at he works.

💬 - Daelu: Has exquisite taste when it comes to designing fabrics. He can spot the difference in two similar color down to the exact tone of it. He will not accept any quality less than flawless.

I'll do him and both his parents!

📂 Derle: He is an itty bitty thing at just 2 weeks old. He does little else but eat, sleep, and be carried around by his family members. But, he's just starting to work on his vocalizations and it's the cutest thing to hear his little baby chirps and clicks trying to harmonize along with the pod.

📂 Daelu: Daelu isn't a very Playful for Zorphin at the present moment. In fact, he's quite serious and nastily aggressive towards many others. It's not their fault he's a new dad and takes his role protecting the nursery very seriously.