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(( Honestly, I ought to talk about merfolk programming and how that aspect of their technology works... Including the fact that they have to make sure their computers have immune systems. And some other facts about neural interfacing into a purely sensational space and how that combines with merfolk hypersociality.

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for muses that are getting to know each other

❝ what's your favorite color and why? ❞

❝ can i come with you? ❞

❝ you have a nice smile, has anyone ever told you that before? ❞

❝ how do you take your coffee? ❞

❝ sorry, what was your name again? ❞

❝ it just occurred to me i never asked you what your last name is. ❞

❝ actually we've met before. ❞

❝ i've heard a few things about you. ❞

❝ care to join me? ❞

❝ i'm not really sure why i trust you. ❞

❝ i don't usually talk this much, it just feels easy to say stuff when you're listening. ❞

❝ i know we don't know each other that well but if you wanna talk about it... ❞

❝ could you help me with something? ❞

❝ do you like it here? ❞

❝ are you new around here? ❞

❝ you can ask me anything you want. i promise i'll answer truthfully except the things i feel like lying about. ❞

❝ i don't mean to be too forward, you just seem like you could use a friend right now. ❞

❝ you can come with me. i mean if you don't have anyone waiting for you. ❞

❝ we're friends now. you can ask me for help. ❞

❝ do you like this music? i can change it. ❞

❝ what are your favorite snacks? ❞

❝ really? i wouldn't have guessed that about you. ❞

❝ do you mind if i ask about it? ❞

ACTIONS:

VISIT: for sender to go to receiver's home for the first time

VISITED: for receiver to go to sender's home for the first time

CRYING: for sender to see receiver cry for the first time

CRIED: for receiver to see sender cry for the first time

BEGIN: sender and receiver are on their first date together

TRIP: our muses go on a group trip but end up stuck together, away from the rest of their friends.

SITUATION: our muses are acquainted because one of them is their friend's roommate. muse a shows up when their friend isn't there and ends up hanging out with muse b one on one.

GO: our muses go to a zoo or theme park together and get lost.

INVITE: sender cooks for receiver for the first time

INVITED: receiver cooks for sender for the first time

TOGETHER: our muses spend the night for the first time

TRY: our muses hooked up and are hanging out the next day

COMFORT: sender is going through a break up and receiver offers to cheer them up

COMFORTED: receiver is going through a break up and sender offers to cheer them up

OFFER: sender gives receiver a ride to the airport/picks them up

OFERED: receiver gives sender a ride to the airport/picks them up

AID: sender helps receiver redecorate

AIDING: receiver helps sender redecorate

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Fins flick before Miranda tilts her head up, a slow and measured swing of the chin that points her gaze like a missile, her eyes set at the center, too-blue and sharp and always strange, misplaced. What she finds earns Hex a blink, and another flick of her fins, one rising above the other, both switched back and pointed towards her shoulders. There's even a little cock of her head, a brief movement that sits almost birdlike, tilting sideways like she can make this make more sense at a better angle.

"Hex?" She wouldn't say she's been keeping up with them — Miranda's busy! She has a lot to pay attention to already, and it's not as though her and Hex specifically were particularly close, so it just slipped her mind! But now that she's seeing them again, memory strikes her of absence, and only now is she realizing that it's strange that she hasn't been spotting them around, or even hearing much about them, a note which has particular relevance.

Miranda even shifts a little in her seat, turning around to better face them, get a better look. Sight's never her strongest sense, but it'll have to do, and it beats nothing. Especially because she needs to make sure she's seeing this right, that nothing has changed in the meanwhile, while she hasn't been paying attention. That's important. It strikes Miranda as important, and so it is, and she's not questioning the how or why, let alone why her mind underlines the issue, adds a prescient weight to the topic, only that she's letting it be.

"Where have you been?" comes the first question, one that she adds emphasis by means of attaching a trill to the last word, a more curious thing than her company usually catches onto. "Aaravi stepped out for a moment — but is that really why you were gone? It has been... A while, since I saw you last! Are dogs truly capable of 'baja blasting' yourself into the future like that?"

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"Whoah. Whoah." Golden eyes dart around, wild, and Hex flicks a bead of spectral sweat from their cheek when their gaze settles on a familiar, fishy face. "Miri...? Wait—where's Aaravi? How long was I out? Two days? Two years? Oh my god, I KNEW I shouldn't have chased all those chili-cheese dogs with ten gallons of Baja Blast!"

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(( I really should make a list of the supporting characters for this blog, huh.

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i have no idea when i'm going to finish this but i do LOVE how miranda looks here without the linework.

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RP Trope Ranking Tier Maker.

Tagged by: Nabbed from dashboard. Tagging: Drive it like you stole it.

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" ..... A 'pirate' is a term for an organized sort of bandit, correct? I do know than many of my company tend to view such... petty inconveniences far too fondly, but I can hardly surmise why it is such an intriguing topic for tonight."

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Fish Lady Friday?

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Monster Prom RP Masterlist!

Reblog this post and add in the tags

your URL

if you’re a single muse or a multimuse

if they're canon or an OC

your muse’s name

EXAMPLE: scrunklyrpblog, single muse, animal crossing verse, Scrunkly the Mighty

to be added in the list!

NOTE: if you have a multimuse blog, write as many muses as you have; if you’d like, feel free to give your muse a “title” to describe them!

Characters in alphabetical order can be found HERE

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girl your body is absurd.

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Miranda "my creation was an act of hubris, but unfortunately the practice was standardized and systematized long before my birth so it's basically just normal now" Vanderbilt.

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vote now on what you said to piss them off.

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"Braitst-ese'at ush iaut nuut'seh b'rre'sk fuan bshui'll. Au ghsy'ai fuita-plra'iro vska'rre, dvuu'f baeh'sl zhe'se ja us faetrr'at?"

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sleepy whump prompts send a sentence, get a drabble. 

“ drink this. it’ll calm you right down. ”

“ your eyes look really heavy. ”

“ when you wake up, you’ll be in a nice soft bed. ”

“ don’t freak out or anything, but i drugged your food/drink. ” 

“ you’re falling asleep on your feet. ”

“ do you want a pillow? ”

“ shh, rest. ”

“ this always relaxes me. ”

“ now’s probably a good time to tell you that i crushed a sedative into your water. sweet dreams, (name). ”

“ lean on me, stop talking, and go to sleep. ”

“ it’s called lavender, and i think it’s starting to hit you. ”

“ i can see your eyes drooping and getting sleepy. ” 

“ hear that? when the sheets rustle together, it sounds like the ocean. ”

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It doesn't matter how many times Bellanda brings around a bowl of saltwater and of silvery bodies, sets it down and looks away or exits the room or even cuts one open and lets it bleed its ruddy clouds into the water: Miranda's not budging.

Bellanda's getting desperate now, a fact which comes distantly, errantly, pleases a part of Miranda's mind that she doesn't want to talk about or look at. She's not going to eat. She doesn't want to. She pushes the bowl in front of her, watches the water rock in place, a little earthquake wrought with only a touch of Miranda's claw, turns around or curls up and around herself so that her head is tucked back and against her tail. She pushes her head into her pillows, ignores the bowl, goes to the other side of the room, escapes out another door.

Her scales have started going grey again, muted instead of vibrant, an off-shade that doesn't look quite right on her frame, which has been sticking to Miranda's bones more often lately. Her mind feels distant, here and back again, lapses in place and in time as she fades from one only to realize she's appeared again in the next.

It's fine, she thinks. It doesn't bother her as much as it bothers Bellanda, whom has been considering the implications of forcing Miranda to eat, again. Miranda knows she has. It's obvious every time it happens, because it happens when she's like this, when she finally remembers how to be determined and assured and confident in her ways, and because Bellanda always starts looking at her more and more like a hurt animal, like something terrible has happened that she just can't make sense of, knows in the gut and not the brain.

Miranda passed out on her, yesterday, she thinks. Again — the days are blurring together, forming a wet smear of monotony and eternity that clearly doesn't need Miranda to occur anyways. She's been shaking more, having bad fits, falling fits, and it's scaring Bellanda. She knows it's been scaring Bellanda.

But she just doesn't want to. The thought, the implied action, is repulsive to her, vile, and anyways, she can wait. She has time. She's allowed this bit of control, isn't she? She's allowed to do these things, have these things. She's not supposed to evict, not yet, so she can keep her ward how she likes. It's nice to be able to demand that much, have that kind of immediate and severe results. It's nice, to know she's doing something, having some kind of effect in the world, and the actuality of that effect doesn't matter so much so long as it's real, as it's something Miranda can touch, can feel, can hold in her palm.

It's fine. It's just fine. She gets up and steps away from the bowl of saltwater, stained around the rim with blood and strands of entrails, and she goes back to bed. She's been very tired lately, of course.

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Mun dash game: Pick 4 of your favourite characters from fandoms and let your mutuals decide which one you’re most like, as the mun!

[royalreef]

Mun dash game: Pick 4 of your favourite characters from fandoms and let your mutuals decide which one you’re most like, as the mun!