#shrimp's lore

[shrimpwritings]

Fern Biological Industries Training

First bit of writing and lore on here, ain't that fun??? Anyway. Please heed the warnings, this is gonna get pretty whumpy. CW: Mentions of auctions, unethical training, nonhuman whumpees, conditioning, brainwashing, animal abuse, multiple whumpers.

There are three subclasses that Specimens are categorized in by FBI facilities: Guard Dog, Royal, and Enforcer.

Royals are typically auctioned off or bought by wealthy people after thirteen to fourteen years of brainwashing training techniques. They're brainwashed into being sophisticated, polite, and intelligent in mainly physics and mathematics, but also bear knowledge to how to run kingdoms or businesses in a professional and nonaggressive manner. Royals lucky enough to be naturally born rather than genetically created are raised alongside their parents in training, and are treated fairly well by staff and trainers.

Outside of this system, buyers can request extra training or include stuff they want their Royal to know. This is also used frequently for Guard Dogs, though not as frequently for Enforcers.

Royals are identified by a crown tattoo on their wrist; a special gold ink is used for Ophidians and Sireni, and a gold feather-and-fur dye is used for Harpees, Vrynirs, etc.

Guard Dogs are trained much more violently and aggressively on top of the brainwashing techniques used for Royals. Guard Dogs, or simply referred to as "Dogs", are assigned one to two trainers to do who-knows-what with. Conditioning and abuse are looked over by superiors in favor of keeping an eye on how Royals are treated. Dogs are mostly genetically created, but ones naturally born are instantly taken from still-nursing mothers to be held in testing tubes and fed nutrients through IVs until they reach two years of age. The mothers are only used three times to breed each year, and are then sold to auctions or private buyers.

Guard Dogs are always identified by a cattle tag in their ear given to them by those who purchase them in an auction or are pre-tagged by their trainer or trainers by a private buyer.

Enforcers are Specimens trained to uphold some form of brutal, twisted law that is always mob-controlled. Similar to Guard Dogs, Enforcers have a violent training regime, though they're also enrolled in specialized classes to test their durability against being shot, stabbed, and sprayed in the eyes and nose with bear mace. The physical training for Enforcers are always a requirement whether their buyer wants them to go through it or not, and it's probably the most humane training a non-Royal Specimen can receive. Enforcers, much like Guard Dogs, are either genetically created or bred, though the mothers are forced to nurse and wean their litters before having them taken away for training rather than having them taken when they're still newborns like Guard Dogs.

Any Specimen involved in Royal, Enforcer or Guard Dog training are always brainwashed to forget the trauma they went through, though trainers have a say in what they want their Specimens to remember. Some, mostly for Guard Dogs, is very fucked up and has a huge toll on their mental health.

Specimen parents are brainwashed into forgetting their cubs' training or forgetting their cubs in general depending on what their buyers or trainers want. If a Specimen is naturally born and never met their parents, brainwashing them to forget who truly raised them is unnecessary. However, Royals are usually forbidden to forget their parents unless the circumstance calls for it, though Guard Dogs are not as lucky.

[yuri-is-online]

Hey, Yuri, do you think Yuu would ever run the risk of being put in danger by having a romantic relationship with any of the more high-profile members of the cast? I mean, we’ve got royalty, nobility, celebrities, and the very wealthy attending this school. I’ve just been rotating my brain about how these relationships would work out and Yuu is a pretty vulnerable target without NRC’s security. - 🦐

Hmmmmmm. I have a bunch of thoughts about this actually... I tried ranking them from least to most dangerous if that makes sense? But don't read too deeply into the bullet point placements they were mostly just a stream of consciousness thing.

Not that Risky (surprisingly)

Leona- we don't really have details about his brother's marriage, but I don't think his family has been shown to be overly keen on forming alliances with outside countries, the Savannah seems more concerned with itself. I don't think his family would be too fussed with his partner being a magicless person from outerspace, if anything this might be seen as a plus to the councilors that are always mocking Leona behind his back as his partner's lack of royal blood makes him even less fit for the throne. Not to mention Leona himself is more than enough to protect Yuu, he's the only royal at the school without a proper retainer (which you could argue is because no one at home likes him) but I doubt his family would let him do that if he was genuinely in danger.

Rook- he's Rook. His family does sound rather sweet from the very very very little we know about him (he also seems like he was kind of sheltered as a kid, something I should chew on sometime) so I doubt they would allow anything too bad to happen to Yuu.

Vil- his main issue is his contract, the Japanese Idol industry is cut throat and often sees things like bans on relationships as part of the contract. Vil doesn't want to risk his career or reputation, he mentions that he himself is a brand and I can't see him wanting to put that pressure on Yuu if they're not up for it. But... there are also celebrities who have really private personal lives and I sort of get the sense Vil is like that? And I don't think he would be too bothered if Yuu didn't want to be super public, it would certainly make it easier to keep you safe.

Idia- S.T.Y.X. might be a gloomy place but no one knows where it is

Medium Danger (danger is real but can be managed)

Jade and Floyd- we don't actually know what their family does, just that it's probably sketchy and that Mama Leech calls them every day, taught them self defense, and just generally seems to worry about them a lot. The danger is very real under the sea, but I also sort of get the sense that messing with the Leech family is skipping the fuck around and going straight to find out.

Azul- his business is going to make him enemies sooner or later, but at least during school Yuu should be more or less safe. Azul's able to keep on top of the students who mean Yuu harm, and Yuu is able to politely ignore their boyfriend's business (or maybe they have a knack for helping?) When you get older I can see Azul's need for a security team expanding, but he'll have money to get the best.

Riddle- ok so. I don't think his mom would try to kill you. But god she would be such a toxic person to manage. I'm actually working on a (very old) request atm that involves discussing what Riddle's mom might do if she finds Riddle with a partner instead of his studies (which I assume she's paying for) especially during his internship. She'd go full scorched earth and get very confused when Yuu doesn't back off like Trey did.

Huston We Have a Problem

Kalim- the amount of assassination attempts my poor boy has already canonically endured... I imagine there are probably going to be more in his future. I can see Yuu needing their own retainer (which could be a fun concept for an oc) to protect them and test their food. When Grim becomes a great mage I'm sure he could help with that actually, wouldn't that be cute?!

MALLEUS- acceptance of humans is virtually non existence in Briar Valley AND his mother hated humans so much she "blessed" her child to only be loved by fae. We don't actually know how the senate works but I imagine they would lose their ever loving shit if Malleus brought home a human as a friend and now he wants to make them his spouse? No. They say no. Time to show them what an absolute monarchy means I guess.

Assuming Yuu isn't in a relationship with Malleus I could see their friendship actually sort of being a boon to them, especially if Yuu was with Kalim or Azul. Pissing of the merchants is one thing, but the King of the Abyss? No thank you, they'll just take their losses and go.

[phosphophillight]

redesigned my batch of old cookie run ocs

[sugar-seals]

It's about time I went to show off characters kept in the rambles! Here we got Paprika and Arbol

A studying nurse to doctor in her field, Paprika was taken in by Ambrosia and their crew quite a few years ago now! Often having the compliment of being in relation to Giant Clam and Scallop, she boarded with the both of them to start off this new journey on land to try and take a refresh of life. With the caring and warm-hearted job she put herself in, her sarcastic and blunt demeanor shine through... However, she remains caring and soft in the heart, evident in her meticulous stitches and unwavering loyalty.

As for Arbol, a sudden new link to Paprika's family line, he's been so far claimed the technician parts of the crew ship! Shown up years later in the search of his former niece, now newly adopted daughter, upon hearing the situation where they were starting anew and out of the water. Now, here they both were stuck together! Giving Paprika and the rest of the crew, his much needed support and smarts... which of how he got to land immediately turns into a yap fest, so it's best to leave it to the imagination...

Captain Ambrosia, Giant Clam, and Scallop all belong to @rawdough as well as all of these rambles originate between us both! LOL

[yeetdasweet]

*sigh* I've gotten into the roblox game Pressure, I really like it, and with everything I like, I must draw it.

So enjoy these doodles of mine featuring my totally not lame avatar from 2018 that I'm too poor to change

I blame @cupophrogs for my newfound fixation

[salparadiselost]

Oh to be a shrimp living in a jungle

[nadas-dirthalen]

I cannot believe I am having this realization at 3am on a Tuesday.

Scout Lace Harding, at the end of her personal quest, has to choose between her compassion and her anger.

Compassion. and. Rage.

And if you choose Compassion, you talk her down from that Rage—a plot point that we have seen before.

They really put Down Among the Dead Men (Tevinter Nights) in Veilguard, welcome back Audric Dragonage, this sure is working overtime to prove that Titans function the same as spirits because they're the things that make spirits.

[quibbs126]

So I haven’t really seen talk of it here, but I know on the original Twitter post with the new Cookie’s silhouette I saw people thinking it’s a shrimp, which I mean, I think’d be cool

But also, now that I remember sea creatures are on the table for Cookies, I now want a Cookie based on the pistol shrimp, aka the shrimp with basically an actual gun for a claw

Basically they shoot bubbles from their claws that are nearly as hot as the surface of the sun and are also really loud

I don’t care which game this hypothetical Cookie would be in, either Ovenbreak because that’s where most of the sea creatures are, or Kingdom because its weapon can be properly utilized, I just want it

[landfilloftrash]

accidentally made Eno obsessed with shrimp. how did we get here.

[ratzhatz14]

Hii!! Thanks for the reblog!!

I’m a huge fan of your sprouts world au!! Very fun angst >:D

Anyway your one of my fav blogs and that reblog made my morning, thank you!

I was gonna make a reference to that one meme which is like "You want colors? We got colors" but with angst instead

Until I read the last part

That made me just

all nice and round and whimsical

[nyaskitten]

Dudeee I went to the Chima wiki to find info on the Mother Sun, right>? And ALL that informastion is just lumped into the main article for Chima, so NO article about the actual Sun itself right? Y'all TELL ME WHY THE WIKI IS JUMPING THROUGH LOOPHOLES TO DENY THAT CHIMA'S IN THE WYLDNESS...

GIRL not to be That Guy but why are you THIS angry about this shit...

[chronicas]

I TAKE IT BACK HE'S JUST LIKE ME AGAIN

Also: Trichonephila clavata and unidentifiable salticidae

[hazbinsponsoredbyvee]

Alastor you could just stop answering asks about you x vox.

but this is where I get "But where's the fun in that" isn't it?

"Yes well, the point of this stupid blog is to answer questions, and every one of us pledged to do so. There's only so much we can refuse."

"He's right. These, uh... weren't exactly the kind of questions we were expecting when we all agreed to this."

[conkreetmonkey]

Splatoon OC idea no. 521: false cleaner wrasse, unknowingly adopted by a family of "true" cleaner species, who feels different and lonely as a child due to having violent instincts and a temper their contemporaries lack, and seemingly lacking cleaning instincts themselves. While receiving some sort of routine medical checkup as a teen, the doctor notices something amiss, and a DNA test proves that they are not the species they thought they were, and they have a Buddy The Elf moment. Their life is forever changed by this revelation, and they fear they will be shunned by all, even their own friends and family, if the truth is revealed.

They then go on to perhaps:

a) overcome their instincts and become a cleaner through sheer effort out of a genuine desire to reject predation and help others (although I'm never a fan of implying a whole species is inherently "bad," so this is probably my least favorite option listed), or

b) reject being a cleaner, and finally feel able to do their own thing, finally free from expectations, and potentially being disowned by their family (which in itself may be cathartic, bittersweet or tragic depending on their previous treatment of their adoptive child), choosing a hard but self-actualized life over one spent living a lie for the comfort of others, or

c) after months of agonizing, comes out to an accepting family who only wishes they knew sooner, connects with other members of their species, is largely accepted by society aside from the odd judgemental asshole and is finally able to truly Live, a weight lifted off their shoulders, understanding they were never "broken" or "evil," just an inherently different type of person.

Queer/neurodivergent allegory? Cuckoo motifs? Agony and self-hatred over something intrinsic to oneself, and then finally acceptance, and joy and community? Or perhaps the tale of a dyed-in-the-wool predator learning to temper their urges and be gentle?

(I'm not huge on the latter, tbh, because I always want to see characters like this just go apeshit and Carrie the haters, stop holding back and bottling up your rage at an unfair existence and MAIM. This is def due to me being an oft-bullied child who has had many abusive jobs, lol. Stop being nice to assholes who will never return the favor and instead eat their livers deep fried with lemon juice and a side of chips)

(HOWEVER, this potential glorious cathartic make-them-pay bridge-burning plot comes with the downside of implying certain species in this world are naturally violent, which would make logical sense in a world of anthro fish but unfortunately has strong parallels to real-world human racism and may send the wrong message... and also is just kind of depressing? You see this a lot in vampire and werewolf stories that manage to avoid racism and actually be great allegories for discrimination, though... it's definitely something that needs handled with a tact and grace I am unable to give it)

(whole thing is maybe or maybe not kind of Kris Dreemurr-core... I just love the trope of "adoptive child of different species to its parents grows up oblivious to the truth, always feeling alienated for reasons they can't articulate or fully understand, then finds out the truth and has a moment of great life-and-identity-redefining catharsis..." the queer/neurodivergent allegories... the personality-defining nature of inexplicable childhood social rejection... the ANGST...)

Thoughts? I was thinking about cleaner wrasse/shrimp in Splatoon world, and then thought "WAIT, WHAT ABOUT FALSE CLEANERS"

[ask-the-mcs]

shrimpy and sheep-chan have you ever swapped places with each other? if yes, how did it go?

[calamitydarcy]

so much for a break in the plot.