#tiny children

@jackthefibber

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“it hurts, prezzi-” he doesn’t normally whine when he’s injured, but something about a scraped knee makes the younger side well up with tears. perhaps it’s the normality of the injury; anything else, he can be fascinated by, interested in how his body works and why it does what it does. perhaps it’s the reminder that even brave dukes can get injuries that need more normal tending.

“let me take a look...” is all preservation says in response, hissing between his teeth in sympathy when he manages to peel the torn pants off of dark creativity. “you really did a number on your knee, re. alright, let me clean you up while you tell me what happened.”

prezzi knows that talking will keep the duke distracted while he works on cleaning out any dirt and bits of gravel stuck in the skin. it gives him something to focus on, and keeps him from thinking about how badly his knee hurts.

“me and roman were playing tag, but with frying pans-” he’s interrupted with a gentle snort, and re gives a watery smile. “and then he got me and i tripped, and i scraped my knEe!” voice cracks, and remus feels fat tears spill onto his face. “an’ roman said i was being a baby ‘cause it didn’t hurt that bad, but it does, it hurts a lot!”

“i know it does,” preservation soothes, having gotten the last bit of debris out of the wound. now he’s got to use alcohol to clean remus’s knee up, and he’s not looking forward to it. “alright, remus, will you tell me another story?”

keep him talking, and he’ll be fine, prezzi thinks. and sighs in relief when remus launches into the story of how they even got started playing tag with frying pans, only pausing to whimper when the alcohol soaked cotton ball presses against the raw skin. and before he knows it, there’s an octopus printed bandage being pressed to the ouchie, and a kiss on top.

“there now, all better. no more tag with frying pans, understand?”

Another movie to be converted to unconventional Gt status by my mind,

This one is easier since if all the fish were actually communities of Mer, the dentist aquarium and interactions with giant humans there come naturally. I was mainly thinking of Mr Ray as a large Ray merman, with the “wings” being like a sugar glider if you want him to have hands, or just full wings with no hands.

And all the baby Mer.