#blue whale kin

[creatureofthe-creek]

Hi , I saw requests were open and wanted to ask for a moodboard on a blue whale ? Can it have dark water themes and alot of just deep blues ?maybe even some sunsets? Thank you!!

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[citizenoftmrrwlnd]

stimboard for : a whale shark with blue and slime, but a focus on gifs of the animal itself requested by @sp4c3-b0y-123

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[sh4rksnhe4rts]

🛁•» Sea moth stimboard with themes of sand slime, slime matching its colors, shiny blue stims, and bubbles for @randyfartmaster !!

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[targaryen-slut]

[Sketch by me]

Name: Graemyn Targaryen, known as the most beautiful Targaryen throughout the Seven Kingdoms during Aegon's (the first) reign. Nicknamed 'Graemyn the Beautiful.'

Title: Prince of Dragonstone, eventually becomes the General, and known as a power warlord.

Age: 17 years old just BC, around 20 when Aegon went to Old Town with Visenya and 26 when the conquest ended, a few months before Aegon's 28th name day.

Height: 5'5 (before the conquest)

Personality: Greedy, ego-filled and manipulative. He is sly and uses his charm and beauty to always get what he wants. Eventually becomes cruel when descending to madness. Respects women. Sees his House as superior and the closest to the Seven. Can be very grumpy when he doesn't get his way.

Brother: Aegon I, who is two years older than him.

Sisters: Rhaenys and Visenya.

Marriage status: none according to the maesters.

Sword name: Dragonbane (Valyrian steel).

Dragon: Moonryder, became known as 'the Silver Prince.'

Hates: The cold, the North and waiting (hates waiting is an understatement), but the North was the ultimate testament of his hatred when he once went with Visenya - he despised it.

Description by the maesters: The silver of his hair was believed to be so white, one would have ought it to be the very snow of the brazen North - the whiteness, a beauty unmatched, held an elegant glimmer that would shimmer beneath sun's glowing and golden warmth.

But his eyes...they were a different tale.

They were like violet, iridescent pearls, his pupils sharp and attentive, yet what laid beyond them was a mystery not even his own sisters could not fathom. Even as a young child, those eyes of his would stare out upon the storming sea, watching the waves cave inwards upon the blackened shores.

[Character Sheet Sketch]

[Moonryder, the Silver Prince]

Maesters' description of Moonryder within Fire & Blood: A beautiful silvery-scaled, male dragon, that spilled sounds a kin to a melody matching that of a whale's song.

The scales themselves were covered in a blue accent that would shimmer beneath the sungolden rays.

Moonryder is believed to be a species of dragon that could have once thrived upon Valyria before the doom, a species lost within the currents of time.

But the bond between Graemyn and his dragon was believed to be unbreakable.

[pommedepersephone]

007 Fest 2024 Master Post

NAME: Rin Rigg

PRIMARY DUTIES (Fics)

crimson touched by blue

Am I the ghost at the end of the song?

never did run smooth

A Quartermaster Bi Any Other Name

ON THE COMMS (Immersive)

Glass Animals ILYSFM Illustrated Lyrics series:

Lost in the Ocean

On the Run

Tear in Space (Airlock)

How I Learned to Love the Bomb

White Roses

Scavenger Hunt items featured in crimson touched by blue:

Report to the Quartermaster on MI6 employee social media accounts

Scavenger Hunt items featured in Am I the ghost at the end of the song?:

Double-0 Old Fashioned cocktail recipe

A garden for Madeleine

Black out poem from The Once and Future King

Bond for Children (sort of) in the style of Goodnight Moon

INTERDEPARTMENTAL COOPERATION (Social)

Joined the watch parties for The Fourth Protocol and Richard II

ADDITIONAL DUTIES (Making it a Family Affair)

Family Watch Party List:

Paddington, Paddington 2, Logan Lucky, Passages, Knives Out, Glass Onion, Bright Star, Bond movies from Dr. No to The World is Not Enough

Book List (with links):

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming

For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming + James Bond by Ben Macintyre

Quantum of Solace by Ian Fleming

Superspy Science: Science, Death and Tech in the World of James Bond by Kathryn Harkup

Bond Movies: A Retrospective by Ho Lin

This was my first Fest, and it was so awesome to stretch myself a bit, and spent time working with colleagues - thanks especially to @anyawen for all your support, and to @l219tj and @emiliasilverova for your contributions towards the Care and Feeding of Alec. A big thanks to my ETERNAL cheerleader @murphysscribe who I have forced to put up with my Bond obsession.

(and for those who shared, commented, etc thaaaank you @foxsoulcourt , @ato-the-bean , @luminiferocity @amongthejumbledheap @aching-arc-reactor @celandinebergerac @spiritofcamelot @tales-of-whales @boffin1710 @castillon02 @thestalwartheart @dude-watchin-with-the-brontes @crewman-penelope @bludelivers @tsubame17 @myndelling @kmk1701d @emerald-truth @cicerfics @tiny-tardis @phinniastuff @kitten-kin )

[naffeclipse]

I had a concept for a fic that plays off of an existing concept of yours, with a twist:

Two lost mates, far separated from their own kin barrel through the water to escape a ravenous orca mer with familiar, blood red flukes. The first mate, golden and flowering like a fresh bloom drags the second; a deep, speckled blue mer that shimmers like the night sky. A cloudy trail of blood is left from a sizable gash on the midnight mer, and it seems their pursuer will easily catch up in no time. In what feels like a split second, the ocean fills with the harmonic bellow of a whale. The two mates feel large arms grasp them as vertigo shifts them out of water and into safety. They're resting on the belly of not just a whale, but a mer whale. The mer snickers, waving at the orca before gliding back to their pod with the two in tow.

(I rarely see sun and moon as lovers rather than brothers, and I adore the idea of them being rescued by whale!mer!reader and slowly falling in love with them as well. Bonus points for a rivalry with orca!eclipse)

I don't ship s/u/n x mo///on--it's a really bad squick for me. Please don't send me asks about that ship.

[rippeanuts1950-2000]

OKAY SO, a while ago I had a very bizarre crossover idea while I was half asleep that seemed entertaining to me when i got more sleep. Anyway, the crossover is for Grojband and Murder Drones. Weird combo I know, but hear me out.

it would be a human au for md with Nori being Kin and Kon’s triplet. I feel like it works a little too well than it should.

She’d be super close to the band but wouldn’t be a part of it. She’s just hanging out, giving constructive criticism on their music, and helping them get the diary from Trina. I envision her as kinda like the band’s publicist and helps them stay out of too much trouble. However, my girl is a chill gremlin so she wouldn’t be above tormenting Trina.

Her relationship with each band member I like to believe would have some fun dynamics too. I think she would be great friends with Laney, constantly correcting the boys when they misgender her.(i.e Corey saying, “Boys and Nori” to get everyone’s attention and Nori responding with “Boys, Nori, and Laney.”) Nori would tell her, “The two brain cells gotta stick together.” She’d also hype Laney up when it comes to her crush on Corey and she’s definitely listened to Laney rant about Corey being oblivious.

Her dynamic with Corey would be chill gremlin and adhd gremlin. You cannot leave these two alone together because if you do Nori will hype up Corey into doing something stupid. She loses the brain cell when she hangs out Corey though, so she’ll also probably be doing something stupid. She would affectionately call Corey the blue haired idiot and he in turn would call her the purple haired nerd.

Her dynamic with Kin would be two geniuses who respect each other but also piss each other off repeatedly. She has to constantly tell him not to try and take over the world. He calls her a buzzkill for it. But the two do help each other a lot with projects. Kin would really care about his female triplet. He just would show it in weird ways, like giving her a cd of whale sounds and book to decode dream meanings after an argument. Nori would in turn go to the dump and get him the pieces he needs for his most recent project or just broken things people have thrown out that she thinks he would like to repair.

Kon is basically her best friend. The two are super close and Kon knows everything about her and she knows everything about him. She does find his obsession with cheese odd though while he finds her obsession with drones odder. Nori is totally against Kon’s crush on Trina but when he starts to like Konnie, she’s like “oh that makes sense.” More than once these two have pretended to be giants with the tiny soaps together.

Oh! And she would meet Khan at one of Grojband’s gigs! That would need to be another post though which I will probably do even if people don’t like this crossover. This is fun!

Hope this makes some sense and was slightly entertaining! You can send me asks about this, I’d be more than willing to explain more if you’re interested, I kinda want want to info dump about this crossover lol

[coyote-swims]

hullo! dive on in!!

hi!! my name's Grey, but you can also call me Ollie, Cetus, Ozzy, or Koda! this blog is revolving around my alterhumanity! i am queer, neurodivergent, and my pronouns are he/it.

alterhumanity stuff:

i am a therian, otherkin, and otherhearted. i've been in the community since about the middle of 2022, but i've identified as certain animals for much longer.

my kintypes/theriotypes/kithtypes are:

sea beast/monster, cryptid, coyote, vancouver coastal sea wolf, siberian tiger, amur leopard, iberian lynx, cross fox, north american river otter, nurse shark, leopard shark, some kind of hare, the void/some eldritch horror beyond human comprehension, whale shark, shapeshifter, german shepard

the blue ones are my therio/kin types, italicized ones are the strongest, and the green ones are strictly otherhearted.

if you are any of these or these are also any of your kintypes/theriotypes, please interact! i'm a very social puppy :3

more about me!

i am a trans guy and currently go by he/it. i like drawing, writing, reading, and doing things that help me connect to my kintypes/theriotypes :3

i love swimming in any way, like the pool, creek, or even ocean.

basic dni applies to this blog (racist, homophobic, transphobic, terf, radqueer, etc) nsfw blogs please dni, as i am a minor.

my canine focused alterhuman blog is @crazy-k9

i am also a pet regressor! i regress to a puppy, not sure what breed. my regression blog is @eepyollie

i keep my main separate from this blog for personal reasons, so if you know my main, only talk about alterhuman stuff with me on this blog, thanks!

that's all! have a lovely rest of your day :3

[wyverewings]

Leviathan (Lindworm magnummare)

Size: 100 feet long

Habitat: epipelagic zone, ocean abyss

Coloration: blue, gray, green (red markings)

Diet: large fish, dolphins, sharks, seals, small schooling fish and squids

Magical Abilities: necrotic breath, pseudo gills, pressure resistance

From Tiamat to Leviathan to Jormundgandr, sea serpents are some of my favorite dragons, but unfortunately, a lot of works seem portray them as the lesser kin of “true” dragons, if they’re related at all. Even Dragonology has them as separate from dragons, even when they have the obscure knucker and the entirety made up marsupial dragon. And I say that’s bullshit! Sea serpents are just as awesome as flying fire breathing dragons! In fact, I say they’re even more awesome, and that’s why I’m putting them in my fantasy setting!

The name Leviathan is specifically from the Biblical monster of the sea, but there’s traits from a lot of other sea serpents. Instead of the biblical Leviathan’s fire, their breath weapon is a black necrotic liquid which the Norse Jormundgandr would spit out. I believe I’ve seen stuff about how sea serpents have a single horn upon their forehead, but I don’t quite remember where.

Their ecology is pretty similar to toothed whales, being active predators in the open ocean. Unlike toothed whales, they’re able to indefinitely be underwater due to magic, and can even dive into the abyss completely fine. That’s part of why they have red markings (red is the first color to lose visibility underwater). I considered making them bioluminescent, but I scrapped that. They use glowing tools, though! As for design basis, a lot of it is pretty standard sea serpent, but the little legs are based on a lizard I saw in a tumblr post, since they wouldn’t use their legs for walking or anything.

[seasaltinmysoul]

you are an ocean wave, my love, crashing at the bows…

Hello darlings <3

My name is River. This is an otherkin blog, but im relatively new to the otherkin community. I’ve considered myself something like “otherkin” for a very long time but never had a word for it. Only recently did I begin to pick up the name for it and decided to join into the community.

I identify whole heartedly as a naiad/oceanid, not just kin. Technically the more accurate term is oceanid as I mainly associate myself with bodies of salt water, but the term naiad feels more euphoric and therefore I identify with naiad.

I heavily connect with Cetaceans and sharks, specifically whale sharks, but also with all aquatic/ marine animals. I love nature documentaries, specifically ocean-centric (Blue Planet II, Chasing Coral, Mission Blue, etc…) but also any nature docs. I LOVE anything narrated by David Attenborough.

Feel free to send me anything ocean related, or to ask about how I identify with the ocean. I have a lot to say about merfolk (maladaptive daydreaming) so feel free to ask for my personal merfolk lore.

So long, and until next time, darlings…

[thescraprat]

we were inseparable.

in years long passed, He was my best friend

He raised us when all we got from our "parental units" was scorn and abuse. stood up for us when our voices were too small to defend themselves.

long nights. screaming matches with father all but coming to blows. the shredding of the voice caused by strain it had not yet known. the quiet sobbing, heard through the walls of my distraught Neighbor's room.

i agreed with Him in these arguments, clung to Him and tried my best to comfort. He being my protector, and me being His favorite annoyance.

like many days in the summer it was hot in His room. mother and father never got around fixing the air conditioning duct in his room, so His window was open to let some semblance of a breeze in. He sat in a folding chair at His desk, His best friend close by His side with me attempting a glance at the screen that sit atop it. the device, though ancient even at this time, was new to Him and could run a select few games.

i remember seeing it for the first time. He was building a red koopa out of wool on a broken launcher. this friend convinced Him to light a fire inside the hollow shell because "the interior needed light!" they both laughed when the thing turned to ash.

my first video game. my first glimpse of this grand medium in all its voxelly glory.

i would proceed to spend sleepless nights in complete awe of this game. watching, but never playing. this experience. laughing and joking and only getting closer to Him every night i could afford.

He still would intermittently quarrel with them, desperately trying to make sense of the disruption. the ardent friction illustrating His attempts to communicate our needs and wants, albeit very loudly the next door over, just for our pleas to fall blank on those damnable deaf ears.

grandfather and grandmother had computers for us to play on. they so graciously lent them to us just about every friday, as long as we had no other plans. those days my kin and i spent playing our silly games. it took us ages to learn how to connect the one over LAN, but we managed it with His help. from this we branched out, expanded our horizons and came to appreciate other, new games.

there was a day, soon after the holiday season, that He appeared. He almost never came to our grandparents, but here He was! He offered me a card and i took it from Him, confused. when i truly saw it my jaw nearly dropped to the floor. after all these years of playing on a cracked launcher, i finally get my own account! He helped me set it up, using His own email address since i was deemed to young to have one for myself at that age.

regardless, some time passed with more of the same. His shouting at my parents and their irritated retorts back at Him became routine. it was almost comforting knowing that He would stick up for me if something happened. His fangs would bear at the slightest altercation, His claws extended in the face of the most infinitesimal affronts to our wellbeing.

i faintly recall taking a family trip out of state in the midst of the summer, the heat of their disagreements still being kindled every so often. it was cold there in the mountains. the air was crisp and fresh and memorable, and being out on vacation had me lulled into a sense of security. i believed that mother and father surely wouldn't be so bold as to inflict that dreaded agony on their children in the presence of their own parents.

poor, naïve, childish me.

this time of relaxation became swiftly interrupted like a whale had breached the serene surface of our sea. He and mother found themselves engaged in another dire verbal duel, the specifics of which i still cannot interpret. in the center of our encampment they stood, their voices raised to the high hells when, out of the blue came a new voice to the mix. the middling. he was typically passive in the Eldest's altercations with mother, but conniving behind our parents' backs in his young age. and for a reason yet unknown, he deigned now to be the time to speak up.

"why do you hate mother?"

the simple sentence put a momentary halt to the eruption. the Eldest was lost in a red haze, stammered, and stated His disagreement with that assessment to the middling. mother began crying, and He turned, and stormed off to the woods. Darkness enveloped Him as i watched his retreat to the foreign landscape, helpless and horrified.

i knew not where was He going, nor if a wild beast would maul Him with nobody around to call for help. we had already seen signs of bears in our area the night previous. these things raced through my mind, they turned minutes to hours and put the sun to rest all too quickly.

finally, i heard grandmother call out to Him through the canvas walls of our camper. He had returned! i exited our shelter and ran to him, ecstatic that he was alive and well. but for the first time in my lifetime, he did not return my affection. i figured him tired, exhausted from whatever trek he was returning from.

once we all greeted him and gathered to the center, he calmly explained to all of us that he does not hate mother. he claimed he would not argue with mother or father again and that he was wrong to do so in the first place. once i heard his assertions, my heart sank like a void had been forced to my core.

in all these years of protecting and helping and defending, i agreed with him wholeheartedly and now he was backtracking. this was unlike him. my head was spinning.

i had hoped the next day he would wake and return back to the one i know, but to no avail. i had hoped He would come back to me, at least before we left those mountains.

the rest of our retreat was executed relatively smoothly. he was distant and cold the whole way through. He never came back. only weeks after we had returned home he broke the news to us that he would be moving out.

in that moment, i fractured.

this step of becoming independent finalized his transformation. i rarely saw him after that. the occasional visit for dinner, family functions, so on. but never the same way. always fragmented and docile, keeping to himself and taking specific care to never open up. never the same.

these days, political discussions with him are sparse. he and i are down two, very different and separate paths. He taught me to bare my fangs, and i have maintained that, but he lost that skill in that wilderness.

the greatest betrayal was very recent and the wound is still fresh within. a handful of months ago, he whispered visceral rumors the ear of mother. rumors that i am some political adversary to be feared. he, being docile and amicable, is now her pet. he is on her side, every word, every look, every bit of minutiae in their interactions rends the flesh from my bones.

i crumble when i speak to him now, internally so that he does not obtain that ammunition. i see pieces of Him, splinters in my personality sometimes. when i play my games, He stands behind me ready to help at a moment's notice, i can feel Him. when i am dealing with a situation that requires fangs, i bare them. even his mannerisms and actions and tone when lost in an argumentative fog. His essence is there.

whatever He met out there, whatever found Him took Him from us. be it his own conscience or some ethereal being, His vigor and zeal were ripped from His soul. there's no believable way that he purposefully chose to pull his love from me. right?

nevertheless, we left those mountains. we left Him out there alone and returned with nothing more than a shell.

He was my Brother. Now, i am no more than an enemy to him.

and it kills me.

[citizenoftmrrwlnd]

stimboard for : an orca whale with ice and winter themed stim toys and gifs

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[explosivefins]

Sharks

Temporal range: Early Jurassic – Present

Clockwise from top left: spiny dogfish, Australian angelshark, whale shark, great white shark, horn shark, frilled shark, scalloped hammerhead and Japanese sawshark representing the orders Squaliformes, Squatiniformes, Orectolobiformes, Lamniformes, Heterodontiformes, Hexanchiformes, Carcharhiniformes and Pristiophoriformes respectively.

Scientific classification Edit this classification

Domain: Eukaryota

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Chondrichthyes

Infraclass: Euselachii

Clade: Neoselachii

Subdivision: Selachimorpha

Orders

Galeomorphii

Carcharhiniformes

Heterodontiformes

Orectolobiformes

Lamniformes

Squalomorphii

Hexanchiformes

Pristiophoriformes

Squaliformes

Squatiniformes

Synonyms

Pleurotremata

Selachii

Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head. Modern sharks are classified within the clade Selachimorpha (or Selachii) and are the sister group to the Batoidea (rays and kin). Some sources extend the term "shark" as an informal category including extinct members of Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) with a shark-like morphology, such as hybodonts. Shark-like chondrichthyans such as Cladoselache and Doliodus first appeared in the Devonian Period (419–359 million years), though some fossilized chondrichthyan-like scales are as old as the Late Ordovician (458–444 million years ago). The oldest modern sharks (selachimorphs) are known from the Early Jurassic, about 200 million years ago.[citation needed]

Sharks range in size from the small dwarf lanternshark (Etmopterus perryi), a deep sea species that is only 17 centimetres (6.7 in) in length, to the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), the largest fish in the world, which reaches approximately 12 metres (40 ft) in length. They are found in all seas and are common to depths up to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft). They generally do not live in freshwater, although there are a few known exceptions, such as the bull shark and the river shark, which can be found in both seawater and freshwater. Sharks have a covering of dermal denticles that protects their skin from damage and parasites in addition to improving their fluid dynamics. They have numerous sets of replaceable teeth.

Several species are apex predators, which are organisms that are at the top of their food chain. Select examples include the tiger shark, blue shark, great white shark, mako shark, thresher shark, and hammerhead shark.

Sharks are caught by humans for shark meat or shark fin soup. Many shark populations are threatened by human activities. Since 1970, shark populations have been reduced by 71%, mostly from overfishing. Sharks are spread across 512 described and 23 undescribed species in eight orders. The families and genera within the orders are listed in alphabetical order.

I LOVE YOU THANK YOU /P

[aeronics]

thank u for the tag @fizzy-watches-dps :)) this is the first time ive been tagged in one of these sorry about the wack formatting it needs to look good to appease my little monkey pea brain top 5 books: lord of the flies, wuthering heights, cant think of any others rn

top 5 shows/movies: dead poets society, midsommar, little miss sunshine, the batman [2022] [are you seeing the paul dano theme yet], there will be blood, dont hug me im scared

fav movie genre: idk the weird slice of life ones that have no point like little miss sunshine or just psychological horror

top fandoms you're in: dead poets society, south park ig, some of the og lets play youtubers (markiplier, jse, etc.), life is strange 1+2, metal family

top fandoms you’d like to join: scp foundation stuff, the welcome home arg

top artists you listen to: abba, ghost, gorillaz, la dispute, crywank, wilbur soot's old music, msi [i dont support their actions at all]

top songs currently: to be alone with you - sufjan stevens, voulez-vous - abba, tous les mêmes - stromae

a song that describes you perfectly: iris - goo goo dolls

top music genres currently: [according to spotify stats] rock, pop, permanent wave, indie, modern rock

favourite music genre: oh god idk uhhhh id just say rock if i had to pick

love language you're most comfortable giving: acts of service

love language you like receiving: physical touch, quality time

favourite aesthetics: liminalcore?? grunge, gross boyish boy things idk how else to word that [maybe transmasc-core]

characters you kin: stephen meeks [dead poets society], kinda charlie dalton [dead poets society], ches [metal family], richard cameron [dead poets society, listen i have my reasons], red guy [dhmis], nathan prescott [lis], max caulfield [lis], dwayne hoover [little miss sunshine], todd anderson [dead poets society], scott tenorman [south park, idc he listens to radiohead too], michael/tall goth [south park]

fav colour and why: grey, nice n neutral and chill or red bc it looks good on everything

interests i would like to talk about: just random obscure facts i have collected [..whales sometimes explode when they die], also the dark web, also morbid history things, also dead poets society and how we were robbed of the deleted scenes, also the 4th dimension, also philosophy and politics

fav animal/s: raccoons, cats, basking sharks

favourite season: summer or winter i can never decide

favourite weather: sunny with a breeze or violent thunder and lightning

sixteen personalities type: intp-t

mtg colour quiz results: planeswalker of the jeskai way, a combination of blue, red, and white apparently

kinda not serious fears: baby birds opening their mouths to be fed [its fucking horrific]

random tags [sry if u have already been tagged!]: @elistudies @springlikesmile @taciturnpoet @pinkobsessedfreak @dpsthinker and anyone else who wants to

[lumilasi]

Fun fact; "Laurent" is just the way his name is translated/written for the Universal Mirror world language; in his own Sea-serpent Tongue, it is actually "La'ruenn" (pronounced la-wrenn, roughly)

The reason he uses this "universal" name instead is that typically Sea serpents only give out their 'true name' to those very closest to them, typically their own kin/family/love interests. It is more symbolic thing, as often the universal name they choose sounds very similar to their real one.

Aaanyway, bio below:

Age: ~50 (human body/biology is that of someone around their thirties)

Nicknames: Big guy (his friends) Snek-chama (Youko, a kid he and Taiga babysit sometimes) Love, Big boy (Taiga, his GF) Renn/Rue (Caelan, his baby cousin)

True serpent name: La'ruenn

Family: Cousin Caelan (Kael' yn, pronounced kai-lynn)

Friends: Roman Bosco (A Grimmhound) Sebastian Kravchenko (A wyvern), Amalia Marek (A wyvern and aunt of Sebastian) Cecil and Quinn Blackthorne (two bakenekos adopted by the said family)

Love interest: Taiga, an arctic kitsune.

A Sea serpent with troubled past, who's slowly moving forward in life Currently works as a bartender/bouncer in a local popular pub.

Personality:

Laurent is blunt, and seems like a man of few words at first glance, not really one for small talk. Many find him very intimidating, not just due to his size but his general aura of "fuck around and find out."

He tends to be a bit suspicious towards anyone new, and is very protective and cautious over his loved ones well being, to the point he might sometimes come off as overprotective, especially when he's agitated. His tendency to go overboard is due to his past trauma.

Despite his kind of intimidating appearance and vibe, he's a kindhearted person deep down, and doesn't like the fact people are easily scared of him. He tends to try his best to not appear scary especially around kids, and is actually quite good with them, being bit of a dad material even if he doesn't necessarily realize it.

When he's relaxed he's quite fun to be around, as he has a good sense of humor and knows how to laugh at himself. He's also secretly bit of a romantic, though he'd never admit that out loud to anyone. He's the guy in their friend group that everyone had a crush on at some point, except Amalia who's a lesbian.

Powers:

Hydrokinesis; ability to control water. This is easiest in human and full sea-serpent form, where he is able to be much more precise with it rather than just using brute force of flooding tides.

Shapeshifting: He can change his size in sea-serpent form, from the average 2-3 blue whales up to the size of a cruise ship. Laurent also has 2 other hybrid forms with different strengths.

Humanoid form: This form is easily strongest out of the 3 non-dragon forms, and for a brief period even stronger than the full serpent itself. He can easily crush and tear apart metal and stone, and is generally bullet- and stab-proof; he can also really create a raging storm with his hydrokinesis that's on the level of a powerful hurricane. Laurent can also choose if he manifests his tail-fin in this form or not.

Merman form: This form gives him more precise control over hydrokinesis, meaning he's capable of affecting the water inside your body. He's also super speedy swimmer like this and has extremely sharp claws.

Water breathing: Regardless of his form, Laurent can always breathe underwater

Physical strength: Laurent is physically strong even among his peers, even in human form. Even as a human he's capable of punching rocks to pieces and bend metal.

Weaknesses:

He struggles to share how he is feeling, preferring to focus on taking care of others. (He does not find sharing your woes weak like some stereotypical toxic guy, he just feels like HIS issues specifically aren't worth sharing)

He suffers from bad nightmares, sometimes waking up in the middle of the night and pacing around for a while/having bouts of insomnia.

Being used to living in more vast open spaces, Laurent has slight claustrophobia, and gets twitchy and jittery in smaller, crowded spaces. His and Taiga's apartment therefore has fairly high ceilings and not too much clutter. (Since Taiga does like things more cluttered though as a fox, she has her own special room that's full of things, including an extra bed she's covered with bunch of pillows and blankets to nest and relax in.)

His humanoid monster form is VERY strong and durable, but he can't keep it up for long in a fight, only about an hour. After that it'll start draining his life force quite fast. He can only bring it out again after a full day's rest at minimum, but often given the situations that would require bringing it out, he'll have to rest at least a week.

Fun Facts

Laurent is Bi with slight preference towards women/feminine presenting folks.

The tattoo he has was made by Jurou, and it represents his girlfriend Taiga.

He doesn't have any particular fashion/style he follows, but he tends to prefer sportier/baggier clothing, and jackets with fluff/fur collars because they remind him of Taiga. Also beanies. Mainly because Taiga's family has knitted him so many of those.

Only people who know his Serpent name/how to say it are Caelan, Taiga, and Jurou.

His humanoid monster form loses his sea-serpent ears, because that form is all about durability and physical strength, and those bigger, thinner ears are an obvious weak spot.

His full serpent form has horns, as shown by his dragon mask in merman form, instead of glowing ear tips like with Caelan.

Unlike most sea-serpents, his sounds are more akin to typical dragonic growls rather than whale-like howls. This is due to him being the rarer, Big Boi type.

He's sort of ended up as the "dad" figure of his friendship group (Roman, Sebastian, Amalia, Chouma, Max, Cecil & Quinn), because he has the tendency to be the responsible/mature one in many situations, and has leadership qualities. (Cecil in turn is the mom friend)

His closest friend out of the group are Roman and Sebastian, and Roman specifically is his best friend, given Sebastian is often busy with his rock band tours alongside Chouma and Max.

He is a hit with tiny kids wanting to ride his shoulders to see faaaar away. Especially a young chimera kid called Youko, whom he and Taiga often babysit.

He is very thankful for Jurou for helping him and his cousin out despite initially being complete strangers, and doesn't mind looking after his two younger kids whenever necessary.

While he works at a bar, Laurent doesn't drink alcohol, as he kind of had a drinking problem during his depressive, stuck-in-a-monster-form episode, where people often left him food and alcohol to "appease" his wrath. He refused to eat most of it out of spite, but did end up drinking the alcohol, which wasn't a good idea.

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His family died due to an oil-spill poisoning them, and he only managed to save his baby cousin Caelan, who had been accidentally fished out of the water by clueless fishermen shortly after the oil spill. Ironically, by removing him from the water the men actually gave him more time to be recovered, as he was removed from the poisonous environment.

Either way, Laurent managed to sniff out his whereabouts and invaded the boat in his monstrous form to rescue his only living family left. He ultimately did not hurt the fishermen, as Caelan requested him not to; the men had actually been trying to help, thinking he was just a shipwreck human child they'd managed to 'rescue' by accident as he had been in human form.

He used to live in the outskirts beach-side of Japan after bringing Caelan to Jurou. He did not initially want to move in to the mirror world, out of guilt over being unable to save rest of their family.

He was also too traumatized to go back to being a sea-serpent, but refused to use the full human form out of spite, leaving him mentally stuck in the more monstrous and draining merman form, which naturally helped driving people away from him and birthing a local legend in the area about a dangerous sea monster.

Being stuck in this form did also mean he felt very drained of energy a lot of times, but he was physically incapable of changing out of it due to mental blockade.

Things changed when he met Taiga, and helped her escape her abusive "owner" human with the help of some of the man's staff who were very fond of the kitsune and found her treatment unjust.

She convinced him to stay in the mirror world as well, and eventually managed to convince him to let go of his hate for his human shape, given it is a part of him and not inherently a bad thing just like how not all humans are inherently bad, as he saw through the staff members who were willing to help her escape. (not to mention the fishermen back then with Caelan)

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Brains, tools, language and big social groups make us the planet’s dominant species. Currently, there are 8 billion Homo sapiens across seven continents. By weight, there are more humans than all wild animals.

We’ve modified half of Earth’s land to feed ourselves. You could argue creatures like humans were bound to evolve.

In the 1980s, palaeontologist Dale Russell proposed a thought experiment in which a carnivorous dinosaur evolved into an intelligent tool user. This “dinosauroid” was big-brained with opposable thumbs and walked upright.

It’s not impossible but it’s unlikely. The biology of an animal constrains the direction of its evolution. Your starting point limits your endpoints.

There was something about Sauropods

Consider the size of dinosaurs. Beginning in the Jurassic, sauropod dinosaurs, Brontosaurus and kin evolved into 30-50 tonne giants up to 30 meters long – ten times the weight of an elephant and as long as a blue whale. This happened in multiple groups, including Diplodocidae, Brachiosauridae, Turiasauridae, Mamenchisauridae and Titanosauria.

This happened on different continents, at different times and in different climates, from deserts to rainforests. But other dinosaurs living in these environments didn’t become supergiants.

The common thread linking these animals was that they were sauropods. Something about sauropod anatomy – lungs, hollow bones with a high strength-to-weight ratio, metabolism or all these things – unlocked their evolutionary potential. It let them grow big in a way that no land animals had ever before, or have since.

Dinosaurs did enter new niches over time. Small herbivores became more common and birds diversified. Long-legged forms evolved later on, suggesting an arms race between fleet-footed predators and their prey.

Dinosaurs seem to have had increasingly complex social lives. They started living in herds and evolved elaborate horns for fighting and display. Yet dinosaurs mostly seem to repeat themselves, evolving giant herbivores and carnivores with small brains.