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Octomer Baby Development: A guide for new parents (Part 3)
After a year taking care of your Octomer hatchling, you may notice how quickly they're developing and gaining independence. This may be a bit bittersweet, especially if yours was especially clingy, but this only means your hatchling is happy and healthy! After their 1st year of life, they also officially graduate from hatchling to a proper baby, and their growth will start slowing down to that of an average mer.
PHASE 3βTHE BABY:
12-14 Months:
Now that their chromatophores are fully developed, you may notice that your baby will start to mimic the colors of their enviroment. As they start experimenting with cammouflage, parents are encouraged to introduce more bright and vivid colors and a variety of textures to stimulate your child.
15-17 Months:
Teething! Like most caecalea, your baby's teeth will start growing, with one big frontal beak-like tooth always coming out first. this first tooth is made entirely of keratin and is slightly weaker than your regular baby teeth, which helps your octomer crack hard shells before their other, more specialized chitin teeth set start growing. Many parents choose to keep this first 'beak tooth' as a memento. Interestingly, mer-snakes (like the Naga subspecies) have a similar tooth that's used to pip out of their egg. This is the perfect time to introduce your baby to various types of shellfish. In fact, there's quite a large amount of toothing toys made out of shells to help with that annoying itch that comes with this phase.
18-20 Months:
As they grow up, your baby will not only start developing their personality, but will also start to babble and chirp. Especially as they start growing more teeth, it's imperative that parents start talking to their child more often and incentivise them to vocalize various sounds and words. Wonder what your baby's first word will be?
21-23 Months:
Now that your baby is starting to learn how to talk and communicate with others, their brain will start to develop a more complex memory and start to understand their relationships with others and the world. Socialization and play with other babies their age will help your child understand how to interact with others and develop their grasp on both body language and spoken words.
24 Months and Onwards β Toddler stage
Congratulations! Your baby has grown up to become a toddler, and now new and exciting developments will occur as they continue growing up! We hope this guide has helped you understand your baby's growth better, and that your newest family member continues growing up happy and healthy.
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bring back zooterkins, the best 17th-century swear word
I don't normally do Just Characters Swearing, but. ...this kind of wrote itself and then wouldn't leave my head. it comes from both a piece of character-writing advice that has always stuck with me, and also my conviction that Leona is 1000% funnier as a character if his dialogue has to stay G-rated. let Kalim say fuck, but don't let Leona say bastard.
AZUL, ACE, AND JAMIL HAS SNOW WHITE'S COLORS WHEN SHE WAS WEARING THE RAGS AND THEN WE HACE VIL OPENING THE CURTAIN LIKE THE EVIL QUEEN AND FUUUUUCK THAT MAKE UP'S GETTING ME πΆππ¦ππ§ AND THE DOME???? THE DOME???? IF I WAS BY THE SIDES I'D BE SCREAMING LIKE THAT KID SCREAMING CHARLES LECLER(?) OR SOMETHINGWJFJANCKAKFKKAJFKAKFKAJFOAJFKAJVAKICANJCNAJVKAJVKWJDJDK
(The last three April Foolsβ Days were magical wheel/blastcycle-themed! For information on those, please check out this post!)
Those year, you will be able to get βMagical Monitorsβ for the Guest Room from the in-game shop. It is a decoration item that depicts the VDC/SDC squad (Vil, Rook, Epel, Jamil, Kalim, and Adeuce) performing on a TV.
This new limited-time furniture item pairs with a new video (VPN required for regions outside of JP, I believe). It shows a newscast-style skit and then an MMD performance of the NRC group performing the full version Absolutely Beautiful. (Yes, it involves the dance routine, including some ballet-like moves, and Jamilβs rap!) If that first video link does not work, try this one (in 2 parts; see the comments for the second half).
Additionally, there are plans for Extra difficulty to be added to regular battles. Previously, Extra was only in limited situations such as Unified Exams and (Guest Room) Material Collection Battles.