#btw obvs richie steals the seal coat and iykyk ...

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Ok what does everybody think about this

Syd is a selkie 🦭

while travelling across the Atlantic with her pod, a huge sea storm blows her off course, and she ends up washed up on some beach near a small fishing town in remote northern Scotland.

she's lost, disoriented, afraid, and alone. But worse than all that? Her seal coat is missing.

luckily, there's a pub nearby that Syd can run to for help. It's staffed by a few of our familiar faces, including the kind owner, Natalie, who helps her get some emergency accomodation and might be able to offer her a job in the kitchen!

unbeknownst to Syd, her seal coat washed up only a little way down the beach, getting tangled in some fishing net on the strand line. However, before she can find it and get back to her life in the sea, a certain local coke dealer/chip shop fry cook/general all-round loiterer & menace finds and steals it!!

Knowing exactly what it is (and more importantly, how much he can sell it for) Richie takes the coat back to his flat and stashes it away.

without her seal coat, Syd has no choice but to live amongst the local human community. If she wants to avoid being exposed for what she truly is, she'll need to stay under the radar, but since she's unable to explain where she comes from and how she got to be here, it's not going to be an easy task.

meanwhile, the crew of local fishing vessel The Bear are still reeling from the tragic death of their skipper, Mikey, who died only a year ago in a similar freak weather incident. Luckily, no-one's been hurt since, but the ship got nearly got wrecked on some nearby rocks in the recent storm.

One morning, new crewmate Carmy stops by the pub to deliver a shipment of fresh fish. He and Syd encounter one another for the first time, only Carmy's certain he's met Syd before.

Syd's trapped in this strange new world until she can get her seal coat back, but locating it is only the first worry. In order to get home free, she needs to succeed in stealing it back from Richie, all while keeping her true nature a secret. Sounds impossible, but Carmy might just be the one to help her...