#Anyway Happy Birthday Cecil 🎉 Feb. 12th is the day that I am posting this

[crystalkleure]

Hey everybody, meet Cecil. He is made entirely out of pun. As many puns as I could possibly cram into one guy.

Observe:

• There’s a team in Inazuma Eleven whose members’ names are all Marine Life Puns when said out loud with a Japanese accent. Big Waves is the Australian team from Ina11 GO Galaxy, comprised of people named things like Cole LaRuze [Kōru Rarūze] who is Coral [Kōraru], Marsha Ark [Māsha Āku] who is Shark [Shāku], Owen Easter [Ōwen Īsutā] who is an Oyster [Oisutā], etc., it’s so good. I stole the fuck out of that gimmick. So this is Cecil Ugura [Sisuru Ugura], who is a Sea Slug [Si Surugu]. [...I hope I romanized that right. Or at least got it close enough.]

• Slug Boy is based on a Glaucus atlanticus sea slug specifically. Everyone loves Glaucus atlanticus.

• He is Australian. This is both a further nod to the sakka team I snatched the name theme from, and also to the fact that G. atlanticus are found around the East coast of Australia. Also I just really like Australian accents.

• “Ugura” is the Japanese word for a group of thorny plants, which includes things like nettles and also cannabis. I liked the Prickly Connotations because G. atlanticus have all those pointy little stinging tentacle fingers and now I officially have an excuse to draw claws.

• The fringes on his hips are just rips in his jeans that he’s pulled a bunch of those white fluffy fibers through. His pockets actually still work fine, the holes are only in the denim. This is unnecessary trivia.

• He initially comes across as very relaxed and, one might say, almost sluggish, but he has a sharp eye and quick reflexes. The kind to shock you by casually recalling a huge number of tiny details that you would never have thought he’d even noticed in the first place, much less remembered. He doesn’t look like he’s paying attention, but he’s a good listener, and very observant.

• Very nice and easygoing until he’s not. He’s like 5’4’’ but can fuck up someone twice his size in a fight. He will casually step in if he sees somebody harming, or intending to harm, somebody else. He’s quick when you don’t expect him to be and he can take a lot of punishment without going down. Very sturdy, more like an immovable object than an unstoppable force. He’ll deliberately let someone land a blow or two on him if that’s what he has to do to get an opportunity to strike hard and fast at a weak spot, like their throat or solar plexus. This short, chill stoner can humiliate an angry gym bro in a fistfight.

• ^ That’s a joke on how G. atlanticus is sometimes called the Blue Angel Sea Slug vs. the Blue Dragon Sea Slug. People can’t decide on a common name for that thing because it’s little and it’s pretty and It’s A Fucking Slug, but it can fuck you up so hard if you touch it because it’s full of stingers it steals from the Portuguese Man ‘O Wars it eats. That’s its self-defense mechanism. It is small and squishy and very very pretty and it can sting you just as bad as a deadly bluebottle jellyfish.

• Another Contradicting Common Names joke: Part of the gradient in his hair is positioned to look like a halo. Specifically, it’s the black part.

• Has a Zippo lighter collection. He may be Sea Slug but he has a fascination with Fire and he will burn you. Because dragon. And also angel, actually -- aren’t those giant eyeball vortex things Perpetually On Fire?

• Slugs actually have sharp teeth! ...Sort of! The spikes are just rooted in the creatures’ tongues [radula] due to the lack of jawbone. Humans have jawbones though, so the sharp teeth can just be where teeth are supposed to be here.