#thank you for joining me for this “selkie AU lore lesson”

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🎤 opportunity to talk more about your selkie AU if you want to? im curious about the dog selkies v the seal selkies, or are they variations on the same concept ? (ie. nedward is a husky in 1 version and a seal in another?)

Yay !!! I love talking about this AU, thank you so much for the ask !!!!!

So this is just one single AU and some characters are dogs, some are seals and some (actually just Silna and her dad) are bears :D

There are 3 types of selkies in the AU that all cohabit : dog-selkies, seal-selkies and bear-selkies. They all pretty much work the same (they have a pelt they can "put on" and turn into their animal form) but each with different animals.

The type of animal you are is genetic, meaning a family of seal-selkies can't have a bear-selkie baby.

Also I'm using your ask as an opportunity to share a list of "what kind of selkies each character is". If a character isn't included, it means I don't have any idea for them yet (and i'm open to suggestion)

Seal selkies : Goodsir, Irving, Jopson (half-selkie but can transform), Blanky, Peddie, JCR, Collins

Dog selkies : Gore, Little, Hartnell, Tozer, Peglar, Pilk, Manson, Young

Bear selkies : Silna, her dad

Humans : Crozier, Sir John, Fitzjames (half selkie but cannot transform), Dundy, Fairholme, Hodgson (but was raised by selkies), Stanley, Macdonald, Bridgen, Hickey, CDV

(most people in the Navy are humans but in Artic expeditions, it's useful to have dog-selkies and seal-selkies in the team to pull sleds/hunt)