#silver arowana

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #648

Silver arowana!

While all arowanas are excellent jumpers, the silver arowana in particular has earned the nickname monkey fish or silver monkey for its leaping prowess! They’re able to leap nearly two meters (under ~6’6’’) high and snatch animals off of branches of trees, even birds, bats or snakes.

[i-give-you-a-fish]

FISH FISH FISH could I have a cool freshwater fish pretty please

You get a Silver Arowana

Osteoglossum bicirrhosum

[aquatark]

King Ameru's Aqueduct - Cortica River Upstream

Endless Ocean: Blue World, Nintendo Wii

okay don't laugh... but for the longest time i thought king ameru was made up for eo, like prince valka....

what do you mean he's real???

[normal-with-adhd-is-a-joke]

One of my personal favorite creatures of all time are Silver Arowanas. Look at his grumpy face.

[neocurio]

sILVER AROWANA

[valkacastle]

Silver arowana - Osteoglossum bicirrhosum

Length: 3 feet 1 inch

This fish is covered with large, shiny silver scales. It doesn’t just hunt underwater but will also target prey close to the water and jump out to eat them in one bite.

*[Beauty for a price]

Arowanas live in the Amazon River, though some varieties are found in Australia and Indonesia. The Asian arowana, with its beautiful red or gold coloring, is prized as an aquarium fish and traded for a lot of money.

Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_arowana

[thefrogman2]

[instantarmageddon]

Working at the aquarium rules. Today I saw a fish bully another fish

[feather-bone]

[ID: a digital llustration of a silver Arowana fish facing to the right, on an orange background with a silver crescent moon above it. End.]

Arowana! Big feesh. It opens its huge mouth like a drawbridge near the surface of the water to catch crustaceans, snails, bugs, and smaller fish.

[prettyinaccurate]

mmmmmmm............... drawing fish

(in order: asian arowana, apistogramma macmasteri, black spotted topminnow, juvenile madagascar rainbowfish, alaskan silver coho salmon)

[agent-7-at-your-service]

The Squid from Point Nemo

(This is a closed RP w/ @hybrid-havoc-haven)

A strange small vessel of steel is floating its way toward the Inkopolis Harbor, coming from the south east. When it hit the seashore, a door ejects open and steam emits from the opening.

Coming out of the capsule is a young inkling woman with slightly beigeish white ink hair and greenish white eyes. She wore a white kimono with silver embroidery in the shape of trees and birds. She carried with her a strange backpack designed to look like a wooden treasure chest.

She leaves the vessel where it is before entering the city with little memory and no direction.

The first area she stumbles on is Arowana Mall

[fullfrontalfish]

went to the aquarium. thought you would enjoy this silver arowana

Arowanas are so Muppet coded

[kewpiekills]

silver arowana <3

[shinystealingbirb]

I wanted to figure out if Yona actually likes us.

Quick notice before we begin: It's extremely hard to figure out what Link's thinking, so I won't even try on that front. Sidon's perspective has been debated back and forth for the year or so that totk has been out, and for even longer during botw, so I'm only gonna skim over his. Yona is the one I'm most interested in.

Alright! everything else is below the cut!

Yona.

I care about two things with Yona, and they're the two things that motivate the Player's interactions with her. The first interaction (her style of speech) and the Zora armor.

So far, the basic things we know about Yona is that she's from a Domain outside of Hyrule. She looks like a moray, like Mizu, suggesting that Dorephan's wife might have also been from outside Hyrule, and Mizu just stuck around as an envoy. She wears gold instead of silver, as do her attendants. She speaks English- the only Zora we know of that speaks English.

What I find more interesting than this is the fact that we don't actually know when Link met her, or if he even knew of her existance before he arrived. I'm going to assume he's been to Zora's Domain plenty during the seven year gap between games, but when the Player first meets Yona, she doens't have a nametag. Link doesn't seem to recognize her.

She talks in a more formal way than most of the Zora, who talk to each other like they're extended family. She even talks to her attendants that way, so I'm assuming her Domain is a fair bit more political than ours, and she's used to double meanings and stuff. Which is interesting for worldbuilding, but just something to keep a note of for our interactions with Yona. Because cheerful does not mean interested in our interactions.

But despite Link not recognizing her at all, despite her being foreign to Hyrule, she has our damaged Zora armor. She knows where the rest of it is. She was trying to gift us the full set.

I'm gonna assume everyone knows the significance of Link's Zora armor, especially the chestpiece. Given that it seems Yona arrived just before the Upheaval, and that the Player had no idea who she was, I don't think Link gave it to her to repair. I think he gave it to Sidon, being the Zora Link has the best relationship with, to fix. And apparently, it found its way to Yona, probably because Sidon's been stuck at Mipha Court the entire time. Which means Link's probably immediately on guard, as I was, about the fact this random person has my really important armor.

Nevertheless, Yona treats it really well, and by extension, us. If she were being passive agressive, she could have replaced the damaged scales with another Zora's scales. Or, if she feared consequences from other Zora a bit more, replaced it with a lower-quality fish's scales. But she doesn't. She specifically asks for ancient arowana, which isn't easy to find. She acknowledges the armor as "treasured" and "precious" and says, "I'm honored to reunite you with this armor." Usually her language is pretty neutral, so her actual meaning can swing either way. This time, she's using only positive language, and it's clear that she respects the meaning of the armor, knows where it came from, and what it means to Link.

She had plenty of chances to be an ass when it came to the armor. She also didn't have to tell us where the Zora pants were, or instruct her attendants to get the Zora headpiece. But Yona did, so we can call the armor a decent show of goodwill.

Yona likes us. At the very least, she approves of us, because during the armor quests, she uses mostly positive language. Yippee. We got approval from the harder of the two Zora to read.

and now a quick note about sidon.

I'm not going to touch on the ambiguous will they/won't they relationship that nintendo may or may not be hanging over this. What I care about with Sidon is whether he cares about us as a friend or an idol.

I say idol as a person one might look up to, I should mention.

So in the first game, Link is recognized as Mipha's "friend", and thats enough for Sidon to trust us and hang around. I mean, if your big sister, who you absolutely adore, had a friend, what do you do? Steal said friend. By which I mean make friends with that friend. Link is kind of an object of mystery here, and when Sidon lets us ride on his back, it's more like riding a horse than anything. He's actively making himself a tool at our disposal- not an even partnership by any means, but it does require a significant degree of trust.

Tears of the Kingdom... well, it has the new statue, which shows this part of Botw. If Sidon still thinks of Link this way, by which I mean constantly looking up to Link and idolizing him, not as "miphas fiance" but "cool dude who did cool shit," it's a little more balanced, but still uneven.

However, he treats us more like a friend when we actually go talk to him. He lets us talk to him and break his concentration, which actually says a lot. The other Zora are posted far enough away that it sort of discourages conversation, because this guy is a hundred percent focused and definitely stressed and definitely tired, cause hes been up there since the Upheaval happened. But Sidon chats with us, he opens up the waterways, and he defends us. We're clearly included in people he cares about, but it's hard to say whether that category is friend, idol, or boyfriend.

i dunno, just thought itd be interesting to point some of these out idk.

[the-lonelyshepherd]

oh great wondrous fish expert shep, what fish do you think could make an interesting and scary sea monster if its size/characteristics were altered?

FISH QUESTION FISH QUESTION

Okay for some reason the first thing that came to mind was pygmy sunfish.

i don’t even know why but like now that i’m looking at him… the colors, the fin shape. could be cool.

the next one is kinda cheating, it’s literally called “dragon fish”. there’s different kinds, i have silver, asian etc here, but generally just look up arowana:

i mean look at it. it’s basically a sea monster already. all different cool colors as well

that’s for aquarium fish, which is what i’m good at. but some other guys came to mind.

such as: oarfish

these things live DEEP and are super rare. cool asf though

deep sea creatures are a whole nother level of cool i just thought of two more

barrelfish (could take smtn from the cool eye thing)

viperfish (just… look at it)

and if we wanna go PREHISTORIC… consider dunkleosteus

just… dunkleosteus.

now i’m thinking about sharks

this is a goblin shark. it looks goofy at first but

INSANELY cool jaw mechanism you could DEF do something with

bonus cookiecutter shark mention bc i’m horrified by them

if you have any more questions lmk!! i can talk more about each individual species. i’m more of an aquarium fish guy but i know some non aquarium fish (who tend to be more suited to monsterifying)

[somelonelywordmonger]

Scry-A-Day #235

February 25, 2024 | Day 7 of Stained Week

Meet Moose!

Silver Cinder | Hickory Marbled | Chartreuse Stained | Rare Nature Eyes

Skin is titled "agate arowana" ID: #48488 by Son