#because the butterfly reminds me of her core crystal in that the piece in the middle is missing

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Disadvantage of being back at uni: means lessons are starting again which means the times I can be active to talk to friends is much more limited

Advantages of being back at uni: I can wear my Aqua and Pyra necklace again ^-^

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wait wait wait reading back over what I just said

My abalone butterfly necklace, that I mentioned in that last ask answer, is special to me for a lot of reasons. Outside of a selfshipping perspective, I'm pretty sure I bought it on the same holiday where I last saw my brother in-person, which was almost four and a half years ago now. The necklace itself makes me think of lovely warm summer days where I get to wear cute comfortable clothes, because that's what things were like on the day that I bought it!

However, from a selfshipping perspective, I've associated this necklace with Pyra for a while because its colour is similar to the colour of her Core Crystal while its shape resembles the X-shaped central piece that is missing from that Core Crystal. It makes me think of, like, an AU where I'm (or, rather, Sapphire is) her Driver instead of Rex or something. I do have one of those, actually, as well as a more fully-fledged swap AU where Sapphire is the Aegis Blade and Pyra is her Driver instead.

Additionally, though, it's also started reminding me of Clio! Specifically, this time it's for its resemblance to a real-life species of butterfly, the Queen Alexandra's birdwing. This is the largest species of butterfly in the world, and it has very similar colours of iridescence to my abalone butterfly!

See, here's a comparison! ..To the Animal Crossing version, specifically, since a) that's where I know the butterfly itself from and b) it means I'm avoiding posting any real-life bug pictures here that I understand people may wish to avoid.

Not too far off, right?

(It's perhaps worth noting that only the males of the real-life species actually have this iridescence pattern; females are more orange instead. So, in other words, trans Clio is canon now.)

That's all ^-^