#dogma clone

Flashback to another very important reunion for Dogma when he first arrived on Pabu.

(This was way back before my sweet Hardcase got his lip tattoo and the rest of his piercings!

Also, for as long as I’ve known him, Case has never been clear on just how he survived….but all that matters to me is that he did 🥰💜💕)

For eveyone concerned about our sweet boy Dogma, he’s fine! In fact here’s a little flashback to when he first came to Pabu (moments before his life would change forever!)

Dogma & Eesha

||Caption written by my dear friend the lovely @eclec-tech, who also inspired a ton of Sirenian culture/lore!||

I was starting to wonder how long Eesha’s hair would have to be before Dogma figured it out! Let me explain…

Eesha is one of Pabu’s most talented artisans. She makes jewelry from the shells, pearls, and undersea treasures she and her people find while out swimming around Pabu and sells them at the bathhouse her parents run. Eesha and her people are Sirenia, Pabuan natives as at home on the island walking as they are in the water swimming. But Dogma wasn’t walking or swimming when they met.

He was sitting.

Dogma went through a lot before he came to Pabu. First that Umbara nightmare, then the time he spent in the labor camp before he and—well, that’s a story for later. When he came to Pabu, his brothers wanted him to know how much they appreciated everything he had done, so they commissioned Eesha to make him a special necklace. They wanted it to be a sort of medal for him. According to Jesse, Dogma’s face went through half the galaxy’s holoemojis before they were able to convince him that he deserved it.

So, when Eesha walked on the beach one afternoon to find the necklace she made being held by a trooper who could only be the one the boys all thought deserved a medal, she stopped to tell him, “That, uh, necklace you’ve got there is really quite striking.” She let him go on for a while about how exquisite it was and the dedication the artist must have for their craft, but she eventually confessed that she was the one who had made it. According to her, his jaw dropped. I wish I could have seen it!

Dogma and Eesha became instant friends after that. Somewhere between exploring the island together both in and out of the water, movie nights, sick days, being co-parents to Beaky the pterosaur, and talking about things neither of them ever thought they would share with another person, their friendship turned into something much deeper, like what Case and I have. Eesha even started growing her hair out, and that’s where their story gets funny!

Women in Eesha’s culture keep their hair short while they are romantically unattached and only grow it long when they are in a committed relationship to show that they are “off the menu.” My friend Aiko is also Sirenia, and I was there when she and Kix were talking about her hair being long because she grew it out for him. Dogma was there too! He even asked questions! But did he clue in when Eesha’s short and always goes-where-it-wants-to hair started becoming *long* goes-where-it-wants-to hair? No! He was completely oblivious!

It looks like he finally put two and two together and came up with…well, two! 🥰💜💕

💕♥️He’s a changed man♥️💕

He’s so shy 🤭💜💕