#protect orcas

[naffeclipse]

I've been musing over a few thoughts inspired by this ask about a mafia-ish style of Apex Polarity without it being too close to Pearl Eye, and after watching a few videos of Orcas hunting their prey (which included dolphins), landed on a sort of Mafia inspired Apex Polarity AU

Also not to add another Y/N to Orclipse's growing collection but this Y/N is a white-beaked dolphin. Look! They're so beautiful!

Sirens are cunning, brutal, and take everything with teeth and claws. The strongest kill and maim at a whim. As a siren who's not particularly strong, though incredibly agile, with a tail streamlined and dark gray with white patches, fins curved and mostly black, you're somewhere at the bottom. You're doing your best to survive and avoid trouble. You pick your battles and you pick your escapes, and most importantly, you stay alive.

But then you do something really stupid: you venture where you shouldn't have.

You don't usually swim so far up north but you're hungry, and the thought of a few tasty squids distracts you from the silent waters and vast, blue emptiness. You realize a bit too late that you're not the only one hunting.

You catch the first orca siren in the distance as a dark figure, and then another. Two who immediately cut through the water, charging straight for you like shadows. Though you turn tail and bolt, you quickly spot them in the corner of your vision. They easily keep pace, their size and strength overwhelming as they flank you on both sides, wide grins flashing their deadly teeth. You can hardly look at the mismatched color of their eyes as you dodge and weave, diving down only to be cut off by one with midnight blue colors at the tip of his flukes, and shooting off to the left just to almost be snatched by the black-bone claws of a siren with bright yellow fins framing his head.

They're toying with you. You know that for a fact in how they just barely keep back, corraling you onwards, draining your already spent energy, and picking at your panicking pulse. You have no choice but to avoid the edges of their jaws and the tips of their talons, and swim in the direction they want.

You near a field of ice floes floating on the water, and though you cut into the jagged structures dipping into the sea, the orca sirens never lose you. A desperate need for air pushes you onward. One small drop of hope still burns in your chest. Despite the aching of your muscles, you steal a gulp of oxygen and dip back down once more, charging away—

Only to run smack into a third orca siren.

This one grabs you, his burning red and orange colors filling your vision. The other two orcas join to help their kin keep you in place long enough for you to truly regret ever venturing here. Between the three of what you can only assume are brothers, hands hooked over you shoulders, claws clutching your wrists, and palms pressing into your hips, you're a fish caught in a net.

You brace for a voilent end. It never arrives. Instead of digging into your sweet meat, the sirens offer you a deal. The tips of sharp fingertips trace your jawline and the soft inside of your arms and down your slick tail while they explain.

You keep watch for human ships and report back when they're getting close, and in exchange, you get the best food you can imagine, the entire Arctic Ocean to swim, and anything else you'd like. The best benefit? You're under their protection. Of course, they expect utter loyalty from you. You are no one else's. Failure to devote yourself to this work and the brothers would mean a grisly fate, but hey, you're nothing if not eager to not be torn apart. So you agree.

You have a few questions about this whole arrangement, struggling to understand why they, powerful orca sirens, bother with a smaller fish like you when they could rip you limb from limb and be done. What's with the human ships? Why task you to this? Are you just fodder so they can keep their fins nice and unscabbed? They reassure you that they'll explain in due time (the sunny one booping your nose, much to your chagrin), but for now, all you know to know is that the human ships are a problem, and you are their solution for it. You've never really encountered humans before, but they've never really encountered sirens, or so you thought.

The burning red one lets you go, but you don't slip away too far before he tugs on your flukes and tells you to follow him. It's not a request. The darker blue one leaves for a moment, jetting away as the other two guide you to a nice resting place on an icy shore. They introduce themselves, and then their brother reappears with a squid in hand, half dead, and an insistence that you eat—they could tell during the chase that you didn't have all your energy.

And that's how you unwittingly join a very powerful pod of orca brothers who may or may not be teasing and taunting you simultaneously.

[tides-that-bind-us]

This is a personal and slow going little side story I wanted to do about how Cironus and Yona met. How did they get past this terrifying misunderstanding?👀

[muffinlevelchicanery]

@the_cumming_memesurrection on insta

[deep-sea-scholar]

Heya ya'll, here's maybe the best photo I am every going to take in my life.

I was out with the Monterey Bay Whale Watch when we got a chance to observe the CA-150 Bigg's Killer Whale pod after a successful sea lion hunt. The pod consists of one adult male named Jimmy, an enormous adult matriarch named Andi, three other female killer whales, and a total of four calves. The pod was totally showboating, celebrating a successful hunt and engaging in a lot of play behavior like spectacular breaching and spy-hopping . At one point a mother/calf pair engaged in some kind of roll/cuddle behavior where the young calf perched on top of his mom and rolled along while their mother pushed them along upside down directly towards the boat. I was in the perfect spot to photograph the sequence and got this once in a lifetime shot.

[cookie-cuttles]

Au posting to become I need to get it out of my head or I'll explode

Here's the full image bc it looks better all together

[chocolate-cringymuffin]

You guys must be tired of my bullshit.

Basically I gave them two big giant… spirits/animal companions? I can’t tell for sure but they found them and stayed together since then.

Also NEW FRIENDS FOR NAGA

[mysticcomfort]

Day 7+8= Griff does what Griff wants

[whaleexpertsanonymous]

The best part? All of this was directed at one of Toki’s trainers.

(I don’t want to defend her pool, it’s atrocious, but it actually is chilled to the same temp as SeaWorld’s orca habitats. And contrary to popular belief, algae growth is a sign of healthy water and also helps reduce glare. Aquariums remove it only because it looks “dirty” to guests).

(Also… her teeth? Are beautiful? The best teeth of any geriatric orca in human care hands down. This lady doesn’t even know what whale she’s talking about).

[jumobear]

PINK! ORCA! POODLE!

[pluviophile-imagines]

Dating gang orca and getting a snide comment abt him being a heteromorph and getting So Mad and he’s standing there w his arm around ur waist staring down at u planning how to propose

[wildsidejazz]

Sagwan's and other seafolk's view of life makes so much more sense when you remember orcas terrorize the oceans, smacking seals in the air with such force that when they land their skin tears and the only ones who can do a thing about them are humpback whales.

[naffeclipse]

What if instead of baby orca sirens, sun and moon were harpies like penguin Y/N? How would Eclipse react?

The first thought that entered my mind was Eclipse holding a fluffball in each hand.

He's so thrilled you have little chicks with you! He knows that it's very difficult to tend to children, and you looked exhausted. You have two little mouths to feed and can't risk letting them go anywhere near the ice and snow without your warm and protective feathers keeping them safe from freezing, so he's more than delighted to help you. It's his new little family, too. It doesn't matter that they're not sirens, he'll raise them strong and take care of you.

You would be terrified at first, unable to move quickly with the chicks in your arms. You're trapped on the ice's edge, unable to move deeper inland with the siren threatening to sing a song to make sure you don't leave with your babies.

Slowly, however, Eclipse proves himself careful and delicate. You allow him to hold one chick while you hold the other, and it gives you a little break. Twins are unheard of in harpies, so it's taking all you can to keep them both safe and alive, and the orca siren is devoted. You still fear what he wants with you and your chicks, but between the many fish and pretty pebbles, you slowly start to trust him to protect your babies.

[cipher-the-sidhe]

I don’t mean to be dramatic, but if private boaters from the archipelago start harassing J40 and J60 I will. Drown them.

[valtoswife]

I think that when people talk about how bad the Purple Orcas is, instead of using the fact that Revchi and Rades are criminals as examples in of itself, it’s better to use the fact that they both got driven out for unjust reasons and the Purple Orcas put them into situations where they ended up becoming criminals as the examples

[endkillerwhalecaptivity]

“On Thursday, the owners of the Miami Seaquarium where Tokitae lives announced a “formal and binding agreement” with a group called the Friends of Lolita to begin the process of returning Tokitae to Puget Sound. A news release indicates that the joint effort is “working toward and hope the relocation will be possible in the next 18 to 24 months”...

Experts worry that if she were to encounter her kin, even through a sea pen, the infections Toki picked up in captivity could be spread to other southern resident killer whales, an already-endangered group that numbers only 74 individuals. Federal agencies will have to sign off on any plans to transport the whale. And of course, the stress of travel and a new, wild environment might be dangerous for an elderly whale”