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belleyellsaboutturtles · 5 months ago

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The Wrong Side of the Portal Raph from cabin 10 was wondering if you have enough water before you do anything fun!

"Raph wanted to swim with his family and maybe some new friends if you want to, but it's important to have enough water first. I have some extra water bottles if you need them!"

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"Oh, cool!" Smokey gratefully accepted the water. It must have been refrigerated or had ice in it, because it felt cool in his hands. He smiled up at Wrong Side of the Portal Raph happily. "Thank you!"

Now for the...other part. Smokey nervously rolled the water bottle between his hands, but kept smiling. "And thank you for the offer, but I can't swim and don't really care for the ocean." And that was before he had a fire spirit take up residence in him. And before his cabin magically flooded. In the past, water had been okay, even when he couldn't swim, because he'd had his brothers with him. It'd been enough to quell his nerves. Plus, he had a big inner tube to hang out on!

Ever since Sparky had moved in, he'd gotten a lot less comfortable with it, even with his bros around. It'd taken his nerves and turned them into an outright aversion. Smokey did not like deep water or being submerged. He could handle shallows, but they were, well...shallow. No one could truly swim in them. He still had his inner tube, but floating around his with his bros had become a lot less relaxing and a lot more anxiety inducing.

The solution his family had found was letting him ride with one of them - normally Raph. It still made the box turtle nervous and Sparky hissed in his head like a cat being threatened with a bath, but being with someone he trusted wholeheartedly helped. It helped a lot too that if he was on Raph, he wasn't touching the water and had - in his mind, anyway - less of a chance of falling off. (He still clung to his brother like an octopus though.)

"Thanks though!"

#sparky = a fire spirit who dislikes water on principle. a giant cat.#mikey = never learned how to swim. scared of what could go wrong but trusted his bros enough to not worry about it.#sparky + mikey = fear is amplified into an anxiety and develops an outright aversion to any body of water deeper than his stomach #he honestly doesn't like the lazy river anymore but his bros tried so hard to find a way to make him comfortable #he doesn't have he heart to tell them #(the first time he rode the lazy river after sparky took him as a host he CLUNG to his inner tube like a scared cat)#(stiff as a board. staunchly refusing to look at the water. stared straight up the whole time. could NOT relax. nearly had an anxiety attac #sparky feels bad about it but they can't do anything about it. it's in their nature. they do NOT like water and they can't hide it #the bond gives away everything #the hissing thing was said as a joke but Mikey legit can feel how much Sparky does NOT like the water and it amplifies his own anxiety #now if sparky wasn't a fire spirit - he was just some random other spirit that didn't like water - it wouldn't effect mikey nearly as much #but hosting a FIRE spirit? causes changes #this is one of them #sparky au #cabin 15: fire nation #cabin 10 #tmnt fandom family reunion #sports event

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