The Fastest Little Sailfish

[doubled_speed]

WHO: Tommy Shepherd, You
WHERE: Around Temba
WHAT: Playing Around (Hide & Seek or Races), Collecting Pretty Baubles
WHEN: Mermay
WARNINGS: None

I. Play Every Day

The waters are a perfect temperature. The light from the sun is perfect for basking around the edges of the bubble. There was good food in the morning thanks to Tommy absolutely rocking up some great sushi and amazing kelpy salads. Even with new difficulties with cooking that he can't really explain (why does he wish the fish was warm?), today is perfect. It's always perfect. Life is fucking amazing.

And so it's no surprise that once Tommy has his chores for the day done he's doing the exact perfect thing to make him happy. So of course anyone heading to the center square will find a joyous mer waiting there. He's definitely more fishy in shape than the traditional mer, his body lines long and sleek, his tail more fish in lay out, like a shark.

Like a sailfish, the fastest damn fish in the oceans. Or one of them. His belly scales are a silvery white, grading up to a bright green until it faded into something darker and more evocative of his hero costume. Of course the scales don't end on his waist either, continuing up his whole spine and speckling the back of his neck and arms. The ones on the spine make sense, as they provide for the large, spined sail on his back, an iridescent purple-blue with faint black spots along it, a pattern replicated on all of his other fins. The sail is fully up in the moment, excited as he is. Because hey, he's just seen someone!

"Hey!"

He moves with a single powerful flick of his tail, and damn he's fast. Already there, swimming a tight spiral around whoever he's found.

"Hey, wanna play a game? Race? I promise not to go too fast. We can set a whole course. I could go twice as far if you want. Or how about hide and seek. Come on! Let's have some fun!"

II. Shiny Baubles Are Good

Well, if people won't play with him, and he has nothing to cook, clearly he needs a new hobby. Something to fill the hours with fun and excitement and adventure.

Yes, swimming to the bottom of the bubble and sifting through sand to find really pretty rocks, or cool abandoned shells is exciting. He even found a really shiny purple crystal earlier. Well, a fragment of one. Who broke an energy rod? Does it matter, not really. Because he loves the faint purple glow of it.

"Ooooh, what if I put it on a necklace? Or made a belt of them? They'd look wicked cool next to my sail."

You better believe he's now intent on making a really cool belt of pretty stones and shells. And other shiny things.

Strange that his reaction to being a merman was apparently corvid levels of 'shiny must have to look impressive'. Or maybe he's just trying to keep someone's attention.

"Man, I wish I had some gold to go with this."