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rxttenfish · 5 months ago

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...... word-of-god saying that miranda sees freckles as very attractive. she's deeply into freckles. partially it might be because she's an abyssal and they look a little like her bioluminescence, partly because merfolk find striking patterns on the extremities and other particular parts of the body attractive, but mostly this is just part of her personal taste and something shes into.

its one of the things she likes very much about aaravi, and likes keeping track of where all the little freckles and dots are on her body.

#all the care guide says is 'biomass'#miravi.txt #monster prom #tbf flashing the bioluminescence on her face is mostly an expression of discomfort or upset #but also markings on the nose crest specifically for merfolk is seen as Attractive #(which is why a lot of shallow water species will have patterns on it or have it be differently colored)#and freckles are close enough to this #freckles on the ears shoulders and hips would be a lot. closer. to the kinds of bioluminescence that miri would be attracted to #honestly miri may or may not really really like aaravi's doofy ears #just because they ARE so similar to merfolk fins #and emote and move in a similar way. making it easier for miranda to read aaravi.#tbf this doesnt necessarily work in reverse aaravi had to learn just as much as everyone else #to read miri's earfins and what they Mean #and her ease in learning mostly had more to do with. well. to put it bluntly aaravi being autistic.#where she has trouble reading human facial expressions and did the thing a lot of people do #where animal expressions are simply taught MORE and in an accessible way that doesnt assume innate knowledge #on top of her job putting her in closer contact with wild animals than social situations and people #so she just picked it up quicker because she was better prepared to learn that #and it also helped miranda didnt immediately assume her own expressions were always mean or rude #because aaravi just. doesnt emote like allistic people and gets treated badly because of it.#but having some highly visual markers that she could keep track of helped! on top of how much of merfolk emoting is verbal!#aaravi appreciates it greatly. she wishes more people made noises to directly tell you what emotion they were experiencing.

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