#(( and miri and bell are just taking this a step further in

[royalreef]

(( Hmmmmm.

In any case where another muse becomes especially close to Miranda, I feel like they will have to get used to the thought and the knowledge that Miranda will probably be pretty emotionally dependent for them for the rest of her life. It goes back to how merfolk are hypersocial — to them, these intense and extremely close and emotionally dependent relationships are normal and just a part of how their brains work, and Miranda's not any different from that.

Even moreso because she missed a lot of her crucial developmental milestones for relationships for merfolk, and that's just not something she's going to get back. Her and Bellanda are probably going to have lifelong preferences for smaller emotional circles and higher requirements for moving between them, and be especially dependent on very few people at a time.

In any good ending where she has a happier, better future, that's going to involve Bellanda and one or two other people who are a part of their miivt'ia, living and doing basically everything together, and it's going to be very hard to get any of them alone for very long. It's just a way of how their natures got impacted by their lifelong trauma, and more brief or impersonal relationships are just not going to be prioritized in the slightest.