#and now i can't stop drawing him lmao i love you ripley

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oc[s] i've been cooking up this week. this is ripley and his pet betta finneas and between them they know what's going on about half of the time [scribbles and rough lore stuff under the cut]

they're both about two to three years old. ripley is for all intents and purposes an adult, but seems to have just kinda popped into existence fully formed a couple years ago. weird!

finneas is a blue and red veil-tail betta, nothing unusual. we don't know what ripley is.

usually finneas tags along when ripley is out, he likes the change in scenery and getting to meet people [because he is a cartoon fish, this does not apply to real fish]. the only usual exception is work, because he doesn't like some of ripley's coworkers and thus stubbornly refuses to jump in if ripley is in his uniform

ripley is a huge rambler, in the way that tends to indicate undiagnosed adhd. because his usual conversation partner is a fish, he tends to forget that he's supposed to pause and let the other person get a word in edgeways every few sentences

his head is kinda 'magnetised' to his body for lack of a better term. if he needs it somewhere other than above his shoulders [such as for cleaning - the water and substrate was manually added and needs to be cleaned out just as a normal fish tank would] he can pull it away and it'll behave in regards to gravity, but after a while it'll naturally try to reattach itself, complete with source engine-style aggressive loud vibrating against any walls that happen to be in the way

unfortunately ripley is a gamer. he has a respectable portion of the sa2b a ranks and mains mr. game and watch in smash. finneas can't hold a controller, on account of he is a fish, but he's one hell of a backseater