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Today's Daily Degurechaff is… french fry

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Today's Daily Degurechaff is… dolls! which you can make!

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Today's Daily Degurechaff is… playing with dolls

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Today's Daily Degurechaff is… button designs (from a sketch i finally cleaned up)

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Today's Daily Degurechaff is… i wanna see her with freckles

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Well, since you've just drawn your mermaid Tanya, I gotta take advantage of the situation and ask what the others are like in this AU.

PS. I've said it once, and I'll say it again. Fantastic, beautiful art as always, my friend.

That is a very good question, what is everyone else up to? I'll try to be brief (failed).

So we know Tanya's a fish, but what about the rest of them? The general rule of thumb I went with for splitting up the characters is that the Staff officers (this includes Tanya) are all merfolk, and the rest of the 203rd are humans. There is one exception, but we’ll get to that.

Starting with the 203rd because they have less complicated things going on. Weiss, Koenig, Neumann, Grantz and Visha are all college students & friends. I haven’t actually decided what their majors are as it’s not the focus of the story, but I am taking suggestions if anyone has any. Otherwise it’s going to be left unspecified.

Grantz is the male lead, obviously. I’ve talked about it vaguely before, but he’s infatuated with Tanya and wants to see her again after she rescues him from drowning.

Grantz's current hobbies during the plot of the story include: Trying to learn Tanya's song (going poorly), Trying to learn to play a shell trumpet (also going poorly), and barely managing to pass his classes because he's too obsessed with the fish that almost got him killed.

As for the others, they're varying degrees of supportive. I don’t think Grantz tells them what happened immediately, but as each of them find out, their reactions range from “concerned for Grantz’s well-being” to “number one wingman”

As for the ones under the water, we'll start with Uger. I struggled a bit to come up with a good fish for him, but then it hit me and I refuse to change my mind now. He’s a sea horse. I don't think I have to explain this choice. He's literally a father. As for the specific species, it's hard to decide but I'm leaning toward the short-snouted seahorse. I'm not sold yet, but I'm considering.

Anyway, Tanya is an orphan in this life too (her parents being tragic losses to The War that occurs before the fic starts). While she was more communally raised by the other merfolk, she was mostly taken care of by Uger and his wife. After Tanya leaves the merfolk-equivalent to The Empire, he and his wife end up having a child.

Onto Lergen. I’m not sure how much it suits him, but the image in my head from the start has always been that he’s an atlantic sailfish. Something about the dark blue sail I think would be very majestic on him.

Similar to canon, he's worried about Tanya being weird, but it's less about how she's a monster, and more that she's A) far too curious about humans B) far too similar to Zettour.

And speaking of Zettour, I have decided he is an eel. I'm not fully set on what exact species, but I'm leaning toward a white ribbon eel.

Zettour doesn't live in The Empire during the time the fic takes place. To cut a long story short, he committed too many fish war crimes before the story starts and got exiled for it.

This is convenient for Tanya who doesn't want to be roped into fighting in one of The Empire's many territory disputes, so when she leaves The Empire, Zettour becomes her guardian, of sorts. (She would prefer to travel the seas alone, but Uger doesn't think she should on her own yet.) (Also, despite being exiled, Zettour is still in contact with at least Lergen and Uger and keeps them updated.)

And last is Rudersdorf. He’s my one exception to the guideline I set earlier. He’s actually human, but still very strongly associated with the sea. He’s former member of the navy, now retired as a sailor/fisherman. He meets Zettour and together they devise a plan to end the Empire’s war. Incidentally, getting humans (Rudersdorf) involved in the conflict is what gets Zettour exiled from the empire.

So that was everyone else, and I'll include a little bit extra about Tanya, despite this ask being about what everyone else is up to.

Tanya is still the reincarnation of the salaryman, but the circumstances of his death are slightly different from the original story. Instead of getting pushed in front of a train, he’s pushed off a bridge and drowns. As a result of this, his reincarnation is a mermaid (a bit of a mean joke for Being X to reincarnate the man who died in water as a creature that lives in water).

Anyway, her fish half is reminiscent of a betta fish (which is technically a freshwater fish, but Tanya lives in the ocean so ignore that), and I officially decided I’m going to disregard that poll I did a while ago. I really do prefer the white/blue color palette bc it fits my Artistic Vision (tm) more than the winning option does.

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Today's Daily Degurechaff is… happy first day of summer

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Today's Daily Degurechaff is… under the sea

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Today's Daily Degurechaff is… beach activities continued

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Today's Daily Degurechaff is… at the beach

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Today's Daily Degurechaff is… animal crossy 5

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Today's Daily Degurechaff is… animal crossy 4

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Today's Daily Degurechaff is… animal crossy 3

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Today's Daily Degurechaff is… animal crossy 2

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Today's Daily Degurechaff is… animal crossy

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Today's Daily Degurechaff is… peace and love on planet earth

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Today's Daily Degurechaff is… "tasha"